‘It just makes no sense’ – Fits, starts on police, DPW HQs

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Hall building.

“It just makes no sense,” Sears said, noting councilors previously discussed reducing conference room size to accommodate on-site police operations.

Sears said the new jail and a sally port for securely escorting and processing potential bad actors was discussed for the Town Hall site. “I just want to see us moving forward (on DPW),” he said.

Members said they were more interested in upgrading police facilities at town hall than in seeking options for co-housing police and DPW operations.

Calamari again advised them to wait two months until Arcari Iovino presents final DPW and police department options. He said the architect will determine whether the police departmentʼs needs can be satisfied in their expanded town hall space.

“I give the architect credit for thinking outside the box,” Calamari said, noting that previously

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Calamari said the architect had talked to police officials “many times” before coming up with designs. He said DPW workers would not have been housed by this winter in a new facility so the wait would be worthwhile.

Swimclub site update

DiCarlo told council they are awaiting a proposal for a survey of the site of the former private Washington Towship Swim Club, Ridgewood Boulevard North, from Boswell Engineering to determine what public rec activities are possible there.

DiCarlo said the survey would cost approximately $48,000. Calamari said the survey, once completed this fall, would be reviewed by himself, DiCarlo and Recreation Advisory Board members. Calamari said the board would make recommendations to the mayor and council based on the Boswell survey.

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Morgan noted that only the council has funding power on the recommendations. She previously asked Calamari to add the engineering survey to project tracker updates at regular council sessions.

DiCarlo said the study should take roughly two months to complete. He said he anticipated renovation/improvement costs to be “significantly more” than the $438,750 county Open Space land acquisition grant received last year for the property. Costs for acquiring the swim club were $800,000, including $750,000 for the site.

Once the site engineering survey is complete, the swim club site will likely be eligible for park improvement grants, officials said.

DiCarlo said that electric and gas hookups were removed from the club, which cost approximately $6,000 over 10 months while still there. Calamari said the Recreation Advisory Board and Boswell had recommended that the pool and building on site be demolished — as renovation costs library will announce the winners of the Adult Summer Reading Program.

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would be enormous — and that would eventually occur. He said the council had approved the recommendation.

DiCarlo said they have not yet received the $438,750 grant from the county Open Space acquisition program, with one more piece to be approved by county counsel.

DiCarlo said once a survey is complete, then Boswell will esti- mate costs for recommended improvements and based on council decisions, they would move forward or not.

Councilwoman Daisy Velez noted that the grant writer said he could apply for more grants for property improvements once a survey is done. Calamari said a first round of improvement grants was submitted by GLD Associates.