Politics & Government

DPW Hoping for New Facility

The Department of Public Works is hoping to get a new facility to replace the 70-year-old building on Route 106 where they currently work. 

Project Engineer Jeff Albertini of Weston and Sampson presented plans to the Board of Selectmen Wednesday night for a new 38,000-square-foot, $13.6 million building. 

"We need to do something," said Board of Selectmen Chair Jess Aptowitz. "There’s no heat half the time. We have human beings working down there and it's awful."

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Some of the other problems with the existing facility include undersized maintenance bays and a lack of storage for equipment, which ends up getting left outside. Town-owned property off of Fruit Street is being considered as a new location.  

"We wouldn’t see an increase in taxes to finance this building," said Town Manager Bill Ross, explaining that a large portion of school renovation bond issues will come off the tax roll in the spring and that voters could authorize a new debt exclusion to pay the facility at Town Meeting.


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