Special Town Meeting to Choose Date for Bethel Police Station Vote is Dec. 8

Bethel, CT- From the Town of Bethel Board of Selectmen Matthew S. Knickerbocker, First Selectman Richard C. Straiton, Selectman Paul R. Szatkowski, Selectman

The Legal Voters of the Town of Bethel, Connecticut, and those persons entitled to vote therein, are notified to assemble at a Special Town Meeting to be held in the Clifford J. Hurgin Municipal Center – General Purpose Room, 1 School Street, Bethel, Connecticut 06801 on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. for the following purposes, to wit:

1.) To consider and take action upon a recommendation of the Bethel Board of Selectmen and approved by the Bethel Board of Finance to appropriate a sum not to exceed Thirteen Million Four Hundred Ninety Two Thousand ($13,492,000) Dollars for the funding to complete the design and construction of a Police Station complex located at the corner of Judd Avenue and Dodgingtown Road (Route 302), Bethel, CT. Said funding shall come from bonding, bond anticipatory notes, temporary borrowing and/or other appropriation as recommended by the Comptroller of the Town of Bethel, to be reduced by any available grants obtained by the Town of Bethel, if any. Pursuant to Connecticut General Statute § 7-7, the Bethel Board of Selectmen by resolution on December 1, 2015 have removed this Item No. 1, funding to complete the design and construction of a Police Station complex from vote by the body of this Special Town Meeting and adjourned this vote to a Town wide machine vote to be held on the date as established by this body of the Special Town Meeting between the hours of twelve o’clock noon (12:00) PM and eight o’clock (8:00) PM unless the body of this Special Town Meeting approves earlier hours for the opening of the Town wide machine vote pursuant to Connecticut General Statute § 7-7. Design renderings of the “Police Station Project” are available for review during normal business hours at the Clifford J. Hurgin Municipal Center, 1 School Street, Bethel, CT.

2.) To take any and all action legally necessary or appropriate to accomplish the above intended results. Dated at Bethel, CT this 1st day of December 2015.