CASCO – Selectmen will meet July 10 to decide what to do after residents narrowly defeated a measure to renovate the Casco Community Center on Tuesday.
By 158-148, voters in Tuesday’s referendum rejected a plan to renovate, rehabilitate and equip the Casco Community Center at 940 Meadow Road for use as a gym and town offices.
The project would be bonded at a cost of $1.9 million.
Selectman James Gerry said Thursday that he is not sure what will happen now. “We’ll discuss it then,” he said Thursday of the upcoming meeting.
The old Town Hall, built onto the former high school gymnasium in 1954 to become the Casco Community Center, was shut down about 18 months ago when structural problems were found in the gym’s roof and mold was found throughout the town office section.
At one point, a nine-foot bow was discovered in the wall of the gym where children played.
The town offices have been temporarily housed into a building attached to the Casco Fire and Rescue Department at 635 Meadow Road.
The gym was shut down.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
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