Essential Facilities and Measure E

Our new and improved essential facilities make San Rafael a safe place for our emergency personnel and for the community overall. Building from over a decade of community efforts to address San Rafael's aging essential public safety facilities, the Essential Facilities project consists of a total of seven projects, including a new public safety center across the street from City Hall. This project was funded through the voter-approved Measure E sales-tax.

These new, state-of-the-art buildings are seismically-safe and modern facilities for our firefighters, police officers, paramedics and dispatchers. Improvements include an upgraded dispatch and communications center, and a new classroom and training tower for emergency preparedness.

Here are the seven projects:

1.      New Public Safety Center (completed August 2020)
2.      Replacement of Fire Station 52 (completed November 2019)
3.      Replacement of Fire Station 57 (completed May 2019)
4.      Replacement of Fire Station 54 (construction phase - early 2023)
5.      Replacement of Fire Station 55 (construction phase - early 2023)
6.      Re-purpose of the first floor of City Hall vacated by SRPD
7.      Improvements to Fire Station 56

Moreover, Fire Station 52, Fire Station 57, and the Public Safety Center achieved LEED Gold-certification!