The $65 million project will be a state-of-the-art new facility for the police and fire departments, and will have administrative and operational space for all divisions.
It will include an operation center, a community meeting room, communication center, indoor firing range, crime laboratory, property processing and storage area, short-term custody area and a central data center.
The public safety center will total five-stories at 119,40 square feet and will have a three level 212,750-square-foot parking garage.
It will be located adjacent to City Hall on a 5.7-acre site at 100 Civic Center Way.
The city purchased the land, where old office buildings stood and demolished them to make way for the new city facility.
The public safety center is being built based on necessity and to centralize police and fire safety crews.
"Right now police offices are scattered around town in three areas," said Nancy Palm, deputy city manager and director of finance, of the buildings built in the 1960s. "We have outgrown these facilities and need to (merge) all of them to better serve our residents."
Two of the three police building are owned by the city and the city is leasing the third one, where the lease ends in September 2011.
"It has not been decided what will happen to the two owned city buildings," Palm said, but added that the building being leased will probably be taken up by the city’s Boys and Girls Club for expansion.