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Jonsen said that while employees have been tolerating the cramped conditions in the existing police headquarters with few complaints, he is concerned that their tolerance is based on a shared assumption that their workplace would be improved once the new public safety building is approved. The new structure would be a three-story, 56,000-square-foot building with a two-level garage. Our current building does not represent Palo Alto, Jonsen said. Our community demands excellence from our public safety team and we need to provide adequate work facilities for the men and women who come here to serve.
Tanaka had served on the infrastructure committee that identified the public safety building as the city s highest priority. On Monday, however, he criticized the plan to sell certificates of participation to pay for the new police building, a financing structure that he argued seems to be circumventing the voters. He contrasted the mechanism with the type of process that the city u