Council Awards Contract for New Police Station
Conversion of old post office expected to cost about $8.6 million.
The city’s police department is a step closer to moving out of City Hall. The Rockville City Council voted unanimously—and without debate—on Monday to award a $6.4 million construction contract for converting the old post office in the Town Center into a new police station to Costello Construction of Maryland from Columbia. The vote on the contract was part of the meeting’s consent agenda. The council had already approved moving forward with the project as part of the fiscal 2011 budget, city manager Scott Ullery said. The city has already spent about $700,000 on the design of the new station, said Burt Hall, who as the city’s director of recreation and parks also oversees facilities. The total cost of the project, including design, …
Piotr Gajewski
10:17 am on Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A brief explanation of why I posed the question as to whether the project could be paid for with cash (i.e. without any financing): On November 15, 2010, Mayor Marcuccio and Councilmember Newton voted against issuing bonds to finance the City’s capital projects. Without issuing bonds (and mind you, the City has a AAA bond rating, so that the interest that the City pays is extraordinary low) the … more ›