MEXICO – At Wednesday night’s board meeting, Mexico selectmen voted to move the police station into a section of the former Mexico High School off Mitchell Street.
The large brick building is also the town’s Recreation Center.
Town Manager John Madigan said Thursday morning that police officers would have to do work inside the building to convert two vacant rooms and a handicapped-accessible first-floor room into the new station. A few windows would also be added.
For many years, police have had their headquarters in cramped basement space underneath the public library and adjacent to the municipal building.
In other business, after an executive session with Police Chief Jim Theriault regarding a Police Department personnel issue, selectmen OK’d the chief’s recommended promotion of Patrolman Roy Hodsdon to sergeant, Madigan said.
The board also voted to remove three parking spaces on Main Street directly across from the fire station and to create two new parking spaces nearby.
Prior to the board’s 7 p.m. meeting, selectmen held a public hearing in front of the fire station. Madigan said a firetruck was pulled out to turn left and then right to show how close it comes to parked cars.
“Their ladder truck is so long, that cars parked there could slow them down if they had to pull out in a hurry,” he said.
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