FARMINGTON – Selectmen plan to hold a public hearing Tuesday on what town officials are calling a “dangerous building” at 145 North St., which are the Blueberry Hill apartments.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Municipal Building.

Managers of Blueberry Hill apartments have been working to make repairs to apartment No. 22 but have not completed them, said both Town Manager Richard Davis and Code Enforcement Officer Steve Kaiser.

One of the issues in the apartment is a toilet keeps backing up. Some revisions need to be made to the complex’s pump station that pumps the sewage to the town’s sewer line, Kaiser said.

The board will also hear a proposal to make an indoor skatepark at the Community Center.

Recreation directors Steve Shible and Aaron Keegan are proposing to convert the stage at the Community Center into a skateboarding area.

The stage that is adjacent to the gym has been used for storage for several years, Keegan said. To restore the area to a stage there is a definite for a “major face-lift,” he said.

The two started thinking about making the area usable for more recreation activities after people complained about skateboarders.

The proposal is estimated to cost between $5,000 to $7,000, which could be reduced by about $2,000 if a decision was made early enough to have it built by students at Foster Regional Applied Technology Center in spring 2005, Keegan said.

The stage area is 43-feet long by 16-feet wide.

It would be enclosed with safety glass, which would allow people outside of the area watch boarders do their tricks.

The numbers of middle and high school students using the center have increased, Keegan said.

The directors even have a name for the area: The Chamber.

It would include a 6-foot half pipe, a quarter pipe and a mini-launcher for boarders.

Directors will present proposed hours, rules, material costs and differences from the defunct skateboard park built near Hippach Park in the early 1990s.

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