Board says West Street still top choice for town garage as FEMA review delays action

The selectboard discussed the town’s need to relocate its garage and reiterated West Street as the preferred site, but members said progress depends on an engineering update and FEMA reclassification. “We’re still waiting on an engineering update from Frank Parent, and we’re waiting on reclassification of the site from FEMA,” a committee member said, adding that the town must vacate its current North Street site by next year.

Board members said the town plan and the town budget are not legally linked and clarified earlier confusion that had suggested otherwise. The chair noted the deadline for moving was about a year out and that, unless a better option appears, the intent remains to pursue the West Street property. No formal vote or funding allocation for design or construction was taken at the meeting; the board agreed to keep communicating with the engineer and to send a note to Steve Harrington, who had inquired about future plans.