North Stonington — An updated presentation by the Emergency Services committee on their additional funding request for the emergency services building was received by the Board of Selectmen and sent to a public hearing on Jan. 23 at 9 a.m.

The Emergency Services Committee passed a resolution at their meeting Monday night and sent a letter to the Board of Selectmen requesting the additional $2,254,000 needed to complete the project.

“We should go to a public hearing, probably the sooner the better,” Selectman Mark Donahue said. "I think the committee has put together a good package; we have had a chance to look at it before, and we’re probably as prepared as we could be."

Joe Cassata of the Emergency Services Committee noted that the committee would like to present the updated proposal and invite Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, so they could field questions about the state funding as well.

The exact number that the Emergency Services Committee requested had been discussed at previous meetings.

At the Jan. 4 meeting of the Emergency Services committee, Chairman Mark Perkins asked First Selectman Shawn Murphy whether or not the additional funding request would include the $300,000 grant that the state bond commission announced in December for the building.

Murphy said in a phone interview that the funding needed to include the entire sum necessary.

At the prior Board of Selectmen meeting, Selectman Nick Mullane had suggested dropping the highest bid among those that were received in August; however Project Manager Peter Springsteel said that they “didn’t want to go through this again” and should likely factor all of the bids into the additional funding request.

Selectmen debated how to frame the impact on the mill rate to residents at the town meeting.

Mullane pointed out that a revaluation that was recently completed, as well as uncertainties in state aid to the town, made the ongoing impact to the mill rate difficult to determine.

He said the ongoing discussions about the school renovation project would have an impact if it passed. Mullane also noted that it would be useful to include the distinction between USDA funding and a commercial bond.

Selectman Murphy added that ongoing discussions about the school renovation project would have an impact if it passed.

“We can’t complicate it by guessing what the mill rate is going to do,” Murphy said.

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