Volume 19, Number 25
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
Voters to decide on revised charter By Ashley Kus Citizen staff
Residents will get to vote on several town charter changes in the November election. Deputy Chief John Klett says there’s a lot to be done if the current police facility ends up being renovated. The proposal for a new station was voted down by the Town Council. | Ashley Kus, The Berlin Citizen
The revised document passed with a 4-2 vote by the Town Council Tuesday night, Aug. 9.
Police look to renovate station
All councilors agreed to put it on the fall ballot.
The town is now looking at renovating its 40-year-old police department on Kensington Road, but the project is viewed as a “bandage” on a bigger problem. “At the end of the day we still need a bigger facility,” said Deputy Police Chief John Klett.
The charter revision commission and the council held several public hearings on the changes. The final draft was recently completed with further edits by the commission.
A public hearing was held beforehand in which police officials expressed the need for a new station. Police Chief Paul Fitzgerald said at the hearing that the See Police, A6
The lobby of the Berlin Police Department.
The most recent revisions included, keeping the Planning and Zoning Commission together and not separated as originally proposed, further duties between the council and Board of Finance, and the keeping of the proposal to make the Board of Education partisan.
| Ashley Kus, The Berlin Citizen
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The option of improving the current building came after a plan to build a new $16 million station was voted down by the Town Council last month.
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