Public Safety Building is top draw at town meeting
Patricia Roy
Special to The Landmark
PRINCETON Whether the town moves to take yet another first step toward building a new Public Safety Building will be decided by voters at the annual town meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 15, under a tent on the playing field at Thomas Prince School.
The Advisory Committee will make its recommendation on the town meeting floor.
Studies on whether to construct a police/fire/emergency services complex at the site of the old Princeton Center School on Boylston Avenue to replace the building on the town hall campus have been ongoing since 2017.
Danielle Ray
Special to The Landmark
PRINCETON Fire and police department personnel and other public safety and town officials are urging residents to vote in support of Article 6 on the May 15 annual town meeting warrant. The item will help fund the creation of design and construction documents for a new public safety building.
“The current public safety building is 20 years beyond its useful life,” said Fire Chief John Bennett. “We can no longer tolerate the current facility that is dangerous to our personnel and an embarrassment to Princeton.”
Select Board Chair Karen Cruise is part of the team working on the public safety building proposal along with Bennett, Police Chief Michele Powers, Advisory Committee member Rick McCowan, and resident Ian Catlow. Cruise said the building team recommended to Town Administrator Sherry Patch in late April that the town move forward with option B, a totally new public safety building, which is projected to cost just under $12