The Board of Selectmen unanimously agreed to move forward with plans to renovate and remodel the town’s future public safety building at a meeting Wednesday, while also approving a request to bond an additional $2.17 million needed to complete the project. Voters had approved bonding up to $5 million to purchase and renovate the former Honeywell building at 277 West Main St. at a referendum in early 2019. But now that the committee overseeing the project determined an additional $2.17 million will be needed to complete the renovations, voters will weigh in on whether to finish the project. Exact dates for a referendum have not been planned yet. The selectmen on Wednesday hailed the plan as urgent and necessary, as well as the best deal for the town, after they described years of placing the town’s police force on “the back burner” to make way for pressing school projects.
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