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Seabrook officials outline $15M police station proposal as residents raise flood and school-safety concerns
Summary
City staff described serious space and safety shortcomings at the current Seabrook Police Department and presented two potential new-site options that would be paid by a bond if voters approve; residents and staff disputed building-in-a-floodplain trade-offs and asked the city to study renovation and alternatives.
City Manager Gail Cook and Police Chief Ralph Nelson told a Seabrook town-hall audience that the existing police station is cramped, medically and operationally outdated and vulnerable to storm surge, and staff presented two potential sites and a preliminary $15,000,000 construction estimate for a new facility.
Chief Nelson described cramped evidence and property storage, a booking area with inadequate separation between arrestees and officers, small locker rooms and a dispatch area with only two consoles that sometimes fails down to one. "A lot of the evidence is mandated that we keep it for 100 years in some cases," Nelson said, adding that current circulation and interview-room acoustics create operational and safety problems.
The city presented two candidate locations: a city-owned Lakeside site near Lighthouse Daycare and Ed White Elementary ("Site 1") and a privately owned lot at Bayport/Meyer Road across from a Meijer and McDonald’s ("Site 2"). City staff said the Lakeside parcel would require no land purchase; the Bayport/Meyer site would require acquisition and…
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