Newburgh residents approve funds for brand spanking new hearth station

About 40 Newburgh residents who attended the annual city assembly on Thursday voted to approve funds to construct a brand new station for the city’s hearth division.

The brand new $2.3 million hearth station will exchange the growing older one on Western Avenue that wants in depth and costly renovations and upkeep, in keeping with an inspector.

The brand new station might be constructed within the entrance portion of the shuttered Newburgh Elementary College on Western Avenue, which the city purchased from Regional College Unit 22 for $1 earlier this 12 months, in keeping with the annual city report.  

Will probably be a part of a municipal complicated that already homes Newburgh’s municipal places of work and is residence to an RSU 22 pre-kindergarten program.

In a Fb submit following the assembly, the hearth division wrote the present station was constructed by volunteers and has “served the city properly, however the time has come for us to maneuver onward and upward.”

Newburgh selectmen wrote within the city report that they’ve a preliminary design and flooring plan for the brand new station and are looking for mission estimates. They hope development can start in spring 2023.

The $2.3 million Newburgh residents authorised comes from a mortgage of as much as $1.7 million and as much as $600,000 from its undesignated fund steadiness.

Keith Brown, an engineer from Washburn-based Criterium Brown Engineers, performed a  structural and mechanical inspection of the present hearth station in March 2017 and located the constructing to be in “beneath common situation.”

Although Brown famous the constructing “was a commendable mission” for the volunteers who constructed it, doubtless with donated supplies, constructing requirements have modified, and the station must be up to date to fulfill them.