After receiving construction bids and tallying additional costs in recent weeks, the committee overseeing renovations for the town’s new police building unanimously voted Tuesday to move forward with a $7.17 million plan to complete the project. The Board of Finance agreed in early 2019 to allot $5 million toward the current project, which voters later approved at referendum, to purchase and renovate the former 30,000-square-foot Honeywell office building at 277 West Main St. into a consolidated space that would host a new police facility, as well as the town’s dispatch center, fire marshal’s office and emergency operations center. After factoring in the $2.7 million the town has paid to purchase the 277 West Main St. building, and the $3 million construction bid from Noble Construction & Management of Centerbrook — the lowest of nine bids submitted to the town late last month for the project — the Public Safety Vision Committee decided last week it also would recommend that an elevator cab be installed during renovations, adding approximately $200,000 to the bottom line.
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