Kent Police officials are working to inform the public about a proposed new facility that would be paid for by an income tax increase on the November ballot.
Today the department is hosting public tours of the existing station, and safety officials also released these architectural renderings of what a new police station would look like at the corner of Summit and South Water streets.
The proposed income tax increase of 0.25 percent would increase Kent's tax rate to 2.25 percent. The roughly $1.3 million generated each year by the tax increase would be used for property acquisition, design, construction, maintenance and repairs, future expansion or replacement of a new police building.
The total estimate for replacing the aging police station is $18.36 million
The department also released a "Q&A" fact sheet about the proposed tax increase in relation to the new station. The document is attached to this article.
Editor's note: Look for more information on this issue in coming stories on Kent Patch.
Who designed the current PD? The outside still looks modern, not dated at all, and has held up great.
As far as the school levy I shall also vote against it. When the schools goes back to one principal and one assistant then they could save lots of money. All grades at RHS has one assist. per grade level and of course each of these people have secretaries and secretaries have assistants--oh give me a break!! Cut back on these things and the city schools could save even more money. Plus someone needs to stop the students at KSU from voting unless they own property or lives here 365 days a year. Students should never be able to vote on our issues in Kent.