LIVONIA – City officials have developed a plan to build a new police station, one that does not require voter approval like the failed $150 million “Livonia Built” bond proposal last year, but would still increase taxes and use money previously planned to build a new city hall.
“After the millage failed, the city was still facing old crumbling buildings,” Council President Kayleigh Kavanagh Reid said. “The police station dates to 1961, and is just a hodgepodge, it’s not conducive to a police force. We have to start somewhere. We want to start with police.”
The failed $150 million bond proposal would have included funding for a new police headquarters, fire station renovations, a new library, a gathering plaza and bike and walking pathways…