Council Backs Airport Police HQ Site as P3 Price Tag Looms
City Council • HaywardOctober 7, 2026
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Hayward's City Council on Oct. 6, 2026, informally backed the former California Air National Guard site at Hayward Executive Airport for a new Public Safety Center. The center would replace a 1975 police building that staff called obsolete. The harder question came next: how to pay for a project estimated at $247 million when the city manager says no funding exists. An industry panel pitched a public-private partnership that staff estimate could cost $13 million to $15 million a year.
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The basics: Panelists from the Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure (AIAI) described a P3, or public-private partnership, as a design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) contract. Under that model, one private consortium designs, builds, finances and maintains a facility for 25–30 years. Hayward has always used design-bid-build and has never done a P3.
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