As a follow-up engagement to Citygate’s 2021 feasibility analysis regarding City-provided police services, Citygate is currently conducting a study of hybrid public safety models for the City of Jurupa Valley, California. This study will examine hybrid models of public safety services the City may consider in addition to the current contracting model of law enforcement services being provided by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. This will entail reviewing with City staff the existing Sheriff’s Department quality of life service requests and services delivered to determine how the Sheriff’s Department is meeting the City’s current needs, as well as providing five alternative service delivery models, including two mental health response models and three community policing models.

Citygate performed an animal care feasibility study for Davis County, Utah. This assessment reviewed Animal Care of Davis County’s ability to meet the County’s current and growing animal care needs, evaluated and described a range of options to provide animal shelter services, and estimated the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of alternatives. This review included an in-depth operational assessment of Animal Care of Davis County to provide the foundation for recommendations on the needs of a new animal shelter facility.

Citygate is currently conducting a Standards of Coverage Assessment for the City of Costa Mesa, California, to include a full fire department deployment study and an assessment of response time and service capacity coverage for the One Metro West project application in northwest Costa Mesa for inclusion into the project environmental impact report.

Citygate conducted a public safety risk and operational needs assessment of the Queen Mary as presently configured in Long Beach Harbor. Due to the various fire, emergency medical, and law enforcement safety systems that have been installed over the decades to protect tourists, special event attendees, and hotel guests, the City of Long Beach contracted Citygate to perform an updated assessment of the risks and the City’s public safety agencies’ ability to respond adequately.

Citygate completed a Police Department Strategic Plan for the City of Pasco, Washington, to review current and future service delivery, quality of service, service delivery expectations, community engagement, community priorities, Departmental organization, and staffing and deployment feasibility to maintain current and future organizational efficiency. This review examined current service delivery models; staffing levels; programming; management structure; operational efficiency; and sustainability of mission, vision, and values.

Citygate completed a police staffing and efficiency study for the City of Elk Grove, California. This study determined an optimal staffing model, appropriately considering workload, performance measures, service delivery expectations, operating budgets, community priorities, and Departmental organization. In addition, this study forecast future needs, taking into consideration both short- and long-term objectives, community growth, and any other factors that could impact staffing requirements.

Citygate assisted Mackenzie architectural and engineering firm with a capital facilities plan for the Camas-Washougal Fire Department. For this fire station location study, Citygate evaluated and completed a diagnostic assessment of an existing response time study, taking into account zoning and growth rate that may have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially changing or enacting the trigger point for when a new station would need to be constructed to maintain targeted response time.

Citygate conducted a feasibility analysis for the City of Jurupa Valley, California, to determine the viability of separating from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and directly providing polices services. Using as a foundation Citygate’s recent police services JPA feasibility assessment, which included the City, Citygate conducted a more in-depth analysis of policing needs in the City, the risks to be protected, and the likely growth, leading to a refined police department size estimation and allowing for a close model of early years operating costs and capital and start-up expense needs. This study also provided a likely conversion-of-services timeline. The end result, in effect, provided the City Council and the community with a police services Master Plan and cost model.

Citygate completed a Police Department facilities review and headquarters/facilities siting study for the City of Riverside, California, with the goal of developing a new police headquarters facility within the City that optimizes operational services to the community. Citygate provided an evaluation of the three existing policing facilities’ functions, operations, and physical locations, related to the community they serve. Based on the evaluation of the facilities, Citygate determined what, if any, adjustments to policing operations are recommended to meet both current and projected future needs of the City. We also prepared an analysis of what policing functions the proposed new police headquarters, and potential sub-station(s), should provide and the approximate size of both sworn and professional workforce needed within the proposed police facilities. To determine this, Citygate evaluated the adequacy of staffing levels for current workload and meeting Department command staff’s goals and objectives related to staffing and community service level expectations.

Citygate developed a Fire Services Master Plan for the City of Lancaster, Texas to assist the City and Fire Department in determining the timing and location of a fourth fire station and developing a longer-term master plan that provides a safe, effective, and appropriately sized response force for fires, medical emergencies, and other events requiring a specialized emergency fire response. The core methodology used by Citygate for this master plan was the Standards of Coverage systems approach to fire department deployment, with a community risk assessment to determine the level of protection best fitting the needs of the communities served.