Hampton Township Council approves police station renovation funding, community center sidewalk and multiple contracts

Hampton Township Council on Wednesday approved a set of capital and contracting actions, including a $70,000 release from the capital improvement budget for police station renovations and a $117,180 contract to replace deteriorated sidewalks at the community center.

The council voted to authorize Facilities Director (staff member) to proceed with interior lighting upgrades and conversion to LED, and to convert a small garage into an EMS day room for a not-to-exceed total of $70,000. The Facilities Director told the council the lighting portion is estimated at about $31,008, the EMS day room about $32,004 and a roughly 10 percent contingency of about $5,007 to reach the $70,000 total. The motion passed on roll call with Miss Blackburn, Miss Fritch, Mr. Midgley, Mr. Scholey and Dr. Johnson voting in favor.

Council also awarded the low bid for concrete repairs at the community center to Shields Paving in an amount not to exceed $117,180. The public works project…