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Should Swansea spend $16M to renovate Town Hall Annex? What's at stake for Town Meeting.

With two public information sessions held earlier this month, the decision to renovate the historic Town Hall Annex at 68 Stevens Road will come to a vote on Monday, Oct. 28, at a Special Town Meeting in the Joseph Case High School auditorium at 70 School St. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

 

Talk of renovating and adding an addition to the Town Hall Annex has revved up recently due to project’s proposed price tag of nearly $16 million. Additionally, an architectural firm and a consulting firm have been selected to oversee renovations, providing solutions to a variety of shortcomings and challenges the current building faces, including air quality concerns.

 

This latest renovation proposal and renderings is an alternative to the proposed "municipal complex" that was vetoed by a landslide last November. 

 

“We heard what people wanted,” Town Administrator Mallory Aronstein said. “We’re ready to move forward.”

 

Read more at heraldnews.com.

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