The Board of Finance has postponed until July 20 its decision on whether to approve a request to bond an additional $2.17 million to complete plans to renovate and remodel the town’s future public safety building. Now that the decision has been postponed, town registrars also have postponed a potential referendum date for voters to weigh in on the decision from July 23 to July 30. The Board of Finance, as well as voters at a referendum in early 2019, approved bonding up to $5 million to purchase and fully renovate the former Honeywell building at 277 West Main St. to consolidate the town’s police force, dispatch center and fire marshal’s office after the Board of Selectmen had requested $6 million to complete the project. But after the vision committee, which was appointed in early 2019 and is made up of police Chief Mike Finkelstein, selectmen, former members from the Board of Finance and members of the public, determined in May an additional $2.17 million would be needed to fully complete the building, the finance board now must approve the request before voters are given final say on the matter.
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