Panel Seeks Plan for Sixth Valley Police Station

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY — Flush with a $10.8-million windfall from the state, a City Council panel asked the Los Angeles Police Department on Friday to develop a detailed plan to use the money to create a sixth police station in the San Fernando Valley.

The Public Safety Committee asked that the plan evaluate a variety of locations, including the former campus of Alemany High School in Mission Hills, for the new station and a second administrative bureau for the Valley.

“The top priority is the north Valley police station, and we can accommodate that now,” said Councilman Alex Padilla of Pacoima.

However, council members Laura Chick and Mike Feuer overruled Padilla’s request to recommend Friday that the City Council commit $4 million out of a total of $6.3 million in surplus police bond funds to the project.

Chick and Feuer said they want to wait until their Aug. 2 meeting to get more details on the cost and feasibility of the north Valley station project.

“I am very supportive of wanting the station to happen,” Feuer said. “It seems to me we still don’t have some very basic information.”

Feuer said he would not want to commit money that is insufficient to do the job, especially given the history of the 1989 police bond measure that promised but did not deliver the sixth Valley station.