The city of West Palm Beach said it cannot afford to finance a new police station, which it estimated would cost $100 million at a meeting earlier this week.
City Administrator Faye Johnson said the city doesn’t have the “financial wherewithal” to afford the expense.
West Palm Beach can’t afford $100M for new police station amid mold issues
City commissioners started discussing the possibility of buying a new police station after Commissioner Christy Fox proposed in November to sell the downtown police station rather than spending more than $6 million to repair and refurbish the building.
The city said it’s spending the money after WPTV reported in August that a contractor found about 41 different areas of the building needing mold or malodor remediation…