Residents push council to use city-owned site for police station as council OKs financing resolution

Residents urged the Seabrook City Council on Jan. 7 to put a new police station on city-owned land at the traffic circle and to prioritize hiring more officers rather than building a new facility, while the council approved a resolution expressing intent to finance pre-design expenses related to a police station and the Pelican Bay pool.

Public commenters described rising traffic and safety concerns on neighborhood streets near the proposed sites and argued the city-owned traffic-circle parcel would avoid land-purchase debt. "The land at the traffic circle is already owned by the city of Seabrook and is debt free," resident Gary Johnson told the council, arguing that using already-owned property would be a more prudent use of taxpayer funds.

The council’s action matters because it advances early financing steps tied to a potential bond…