The Tulsa County Sheriff’s longtime headquarters could go on the market.
County commissioners have approved an appraisal for the Dave Faulkner building at First Street and Denver Avenue. If it’s sold, TCSO would use the money to finish the north Tulsa training center and move there. Sheriff Vic Regalado said having both seems unfeasible.
"It's about the future, and you have to look ahead and say, 'Can you sustain this moving forward?' and I don't believe we're on solvent enough ground to do that," Regalado said.
The training center was started under former Sheriff Stanley Glanz and isn’t finished because funding for it was used to cover jail budget shortages.
The training center could take around $4 million to complete, and rough estimates put the Faulkner building’s value around $6.5 million. The training center is less than half the size of the Faulkner building and would likely need a second floor and an additional building.
TCSO is also putting its 911 dispatch center on hold. Regalado rejected three bids for its completion, saying the funding for the work and subsequent operation just isn’t there.
"For now, we'll stick with the city as we have been for awhile, and while we continue to look at other options to move forward in the most cost-effective way possible," Regalado said.
TCSO rents dispatch space in the City of Tulsa’s center.
Decisions on the Faulkner building's potential sale and the dispatch center's status should be made before the start of next fiscal year.
