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02/08/2016 11:00 PMThe town’s electors agree that it’s time to spend $48,000 to fix the flaws at the Youth & Family Services’ Kirtland House on Main Street.
Funds approved on Jan. 27 at the Town Meeting will pay for the town’s costs to repair and upgrade the building and to replace certain furniture and fixtures. Among these tasks are the removal of unneeded chimneys, repair of the roof where the chimneys rested, electrical upgrades, work to widen the interior staircase, and other life-safety code driven tasks.
Costs to remediate the building’s mold contamination and to restore areas that had mold contamination were covered by CIRMA, the town’s insurance carrier. The insurance company claim’s value to the Town is around $50,000.
Also approved by the Town Meeting was a $20,000 appropriation from the Town’s Municipal Reserve Fund toward the town’s 10 percent grant match for a $200,000 state Brownfield Area-wide Revitalization Planning grant. The grant from the State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development is to develop a plan for the properties along the town’s Route One East.
The third approval was of a request for the town to accept as a gift land at 40 Old Post Road. The land is described as an undeveloped parcel of about one-quarter of one acre, consisting primarily of tidal wetlands, that could be used as a passage way to the marsh.