Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Officers donation of time and labor for new police building - 1�Iore hotos inside! ink;to Hedges. I
P `rhe arnazing thing about
Martin," said Hedges, "is his
liy LLSA ALEXANDERcapability of growing with the de-
partment over the past 25
ve.irs.
EAGAN -- The Fagan police . An open house for the public to
department, after outgrowing its tour the new police building will
headquarters of the past years in �, scheduled «Rhin the next two
city- hill, moved into its new week:
building, (located across Pilot
Knob Rd. i Oct. 28.
The construction of the approx-
imately X00,000 building took one
year. Thu estimated completion
date was .June, 1978 but the dela*
was due to construction strikes
and shortages.
"Delays occurred because of
sub-contractors striking and
because it was a union negotiat-
ing year," said Torn I ledges, city
administrator.
The single-story brick building
spans 8,000 square feet on the
main floor and has 8,000 square
feet in the full basement which
included the garage area. "rhe
'.facility includes police ad-
ministration offices, booking and
ecording rooms, evidence pro-
s cessing and garage storage and '
-four holding cells . 1'tie
furnishings for the new police
'headquarters cost $7,000, accord-
ing to Hedges.
Police employees donated their
tirne .Saturday to help clean.
,.move and arrange the new
facility so that it would be in full
operation Oct. 30. In addition the
clandscaping was done by
pc►iicer��en.
The police building is being
funded by federal revenue shar-
ing funds from 1976 through 1979. !
Eagan purchased the 20-acre
parcel, on which the police build-'
ing is located, in 1974 for future
construction of public: facilities.
The Eagan police department
building was the first constructed
lx,,cause of its growth.
Chief Martin I)esLauriers has
been a major part of Eagan's!
police depar-tinent growth from a
one-man operation (just himself)
to the present staff of 25. accord-