Police/Fire Project
Town Meeting Members will be asked to vote on a question that asks if they are willing to spend $4,500,000 on the relocation of the police station to Black Mountain Road. The vote will in fact authorize the spending of about $13,000,000 above the five million dollar loan already taken out.
The actual loan, which will include work on the West B. fire station, is in fact anticipated to be $7,760,000. Interest on the loan, for a twenty year option, is an additional $2,740,000. What is not calculated into the final figure is the cost of having the station on the far north end of town. Nearly all the police business and activity occurs in the central, south and west end of town. Not surprising. There is almost no residential population at all in the north end.
Consequent to that location it is therefore necessary for every town vehicle that either originates from or is destined to the police station (every cop on duty, every administrator going to a meeting from or to there, every DPW trip etc etc) is traveling four extra miles and ten minutes every roundtrip. Take out a pencil and paper.
