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Hamden voters clear debt-exclusion question to fund $8.3 million fire station project; ballot vote next
Summary
Hamden voters at annual town meeting voted to send an $8.3 million borrowing question to the June ballot to renovate and expand the town’s lone fire station, citing cramped bays, no dedicated decontamination space and inadequate training and administrative area.
Hamden voters at their annual town meeting voted to send a question to the ballot that would allow the town to borrow $8,300,000 to renovate and expand the town’s single fire station on North Road.
Supporters said the 1964-era building is undersized for modern fire apparatus and lacks separate decontamination space, training capacity and ADA-compliant facilities. The select board and the volunteer fire department asked voters to approve a debt-exclusion ballot measure on June 23 that would fund construction if the ballot question passes.
Planning the project grew out of condition studies completed in 2020 and a follow-up design process. Building committee chair Mark Barba told town meeting, “We have one station in town. … Our current station is about 5,000 square feet” and that modern…
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