Sacheen Lake Staton Construction News

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LOCAL helps fire districts make sound business decisions about the acquisition of new equipment. The LOCAL program, combined with good local management, allows fire districts to make risk-analysis decisions to replace equipment, rather than budget-based decisions..

Of course, fire districts have access to the bond markets at low costs when they use our well-established, efficient LOCAL program.

"Local appeals to fire districts because of the customer service and ease of using the program," says Roger Ferris, executive director of the Washington Fire Commissioners Association and long-time member of the of the LOCAL advisory committee...

By Mike Murphy, State Treasurer

Note: Local Option Capital Asset Lending was utilized to fund the construction of the new Sacheen Lake Station.

Published in The LOCAL View newsletter- Fall 2006 Return to Top

» JUNE NEWS ARTICLES

Ground Breaking for the New Sacheen Lake Station
SACHEEN LAKE – Pend Oreille County Fire District 3 recently held a ground breaking for the new Sacheen Fire Station. The Fire District Commissioners and the Contractor, Ramminger Construction dug the first shovels of dirt.

Twenty-eight people were in attendance and had coffee and doughnuts that were provided by Commissioner Gary Wilkey and Store and More. County Commissioners Mitch Brown and Dean Cummings and Pend Oreille County Prosecutor Tom Metzger also were in attendance. Representatives from Fire District No. 3 current and past also took part in the activities.

The new fire station site will have a steady stream of activity throughout the summer. Timber was harvested from the site this past weekend and the excavators moved equipment to the site this past week. Construction of the new 6,600 square foot station will take approximately 150 days and Fire District 3 expects to be in the station by December 1, 2006.

The new Sacheen Lake Fire Station will provide better access for the volunteers to the Sacheen Lake community, the northern part of Fire District No. 3 on highway 211, and the west end of Deer Valley Rd. The station will also be able to provide a better facility for firefighter and EMS training and more comfortable surroundings for our volunteers in the future.

Additional information will be available on the Fire District Web site at www.pofd3.org as the project progresses. In the picture from L to R Commissioner Leonard Pielli, Gary Wilkey, Wes Bailey and Contractor, Mike Ramminger. Photo by POFD 3 Photographers Dennis and Cindy Merritt.
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» MAY NEWS ARTICLES

Fire District 3 Hires Contractor for New Building
DIAMOND LAKE – Fire District 3 has accepted a bid from Rammager Construction Inc. of Spokane to build their new Sacheen Lake station over the next 150 days. They hope to sign the contract next week, Chief Mark Havener said, and to begin construction in June.

Rammager has a lot of fire structure building experience, Havener said, having built buildings for two Spokane fire districts.

The contract price is $600,000, within the $650,000 range the district had budgeted for the project.

“We’re real pleased with the contract price,” Havener said.

The new station will be located at Highway 211 near the west end of Deer Valley Road and, at 8,800 square feet, will have the capability of storing up to five fire apparatus. This will improve response times to Sacheen Lake and the surrounding community, Havener said.

The new fire station will be constructed using financing from the Local Option Capital Asset Lending program (LOCAL), a low-interest loan program offered by Washington State, and be repaid over a period of 20 years from the general operating budget. There will be no increase in taxes to pay for the new building. The property was purchased a number of years ago for this purpose.

The current Sacheen Lake station is for sale, and Havener said they might already have an offer .
Published in the Newport Miner - May 24, 2006 Return to Top

» APRIL NEWS ARTICLES

Fire District 3 to Replace Sacheen Fire Station
SACHEEN LAKE – Pend Oreille Fire District No. 3 plans to break ground on a new fire station at Sacheen Lake by June 1. The new station, currently out for bids, will be located at Highway 211 near the west end of Deer Valley Road and, at 8,800 square feet, will have the capability of storing up to five fire apparatus. This will improve response times to Sacheen Lake and the surrounding community, Fire Chief Mark Havener said in a press release.

In 2003 Pend Oreille County Fire District 4 got a LOCAL loan to build a fire station at 4 percent interest, and in 2002, Pend Oreille County Fire District 2 purchased an ambulance using a LOCAL loan, at 4.38 percent interest. Rates for land purchases and construction were running about 4.5 percent as of September, according to LOCAL’s Web site.

“We just got word the other day that that was approved,” Havener said. The building will be pre-engineered steel.

“It comes in on a truck already built, just in pieces, and they assemble the steel frame onsite. It makes for a pretty efficient building process, and has some flexibility as well — in the future if we need more space we can adapt it pretty easily.” The taxpayers of the fire district will incur no additional costs for the new station, Havener said. The property was purchased a number of years ago and is finally being put to its intended use.

The old station, which is located on Sacheen Terrace Drive, has created challenges for the district in meeting storage and training space, access difficulties because of its location, and lack of ability to expand for the future, Havener said. The new fire station will include a larger meeting and training area. The old station and property will be offered for sale to offset the cost of the new construction.

“The bid process is primarily so we can identify a manufacturer and a contractor,” Havener said. Bids are due April 18 at 4 p.m. with a contract award scheduled for later in the month. Updates on the progress of the new station will be available at www.pofd3.org. Return to Top

» MARCH NEWS ARTICLES

Notice of Surplus Property

Pend Oreille County Fire District No. 3 is in the process of constructing a new Fire Station in the community of Sacheen Lake, thereby causing the existing station and property on Terrace Drive surplus.

The legal description of the existing property is as follows: a tract of land in Harter Division, all in Government Lot 1, Section 31, Township 31, North Range 44, East of the Willamette Meridian, Pend Oreille County, Washington.

As surplus the property is deemed saleable. The Fire District Commissioners will hear comments from the public on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, during the regular scheduled Commissioners Meeting at 7:00 p.m. Diamond Lake Station, 325272 Hwy 2.Return to Top

Request for Proposals - Project Sacheen Lake Station

Pend Oreille Fire District No. 3 is in the process of accepting proposals for the construction of a new fire station. The new fire station will be approximately 8,800 sq. feet to house apparatus and a training/meeting area. All prospective contractor may request preliminary construction documents and guidance documents from Pend Oreille County fire district No. 3. Return to Top

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