Torrington officials outline $millions in repairs, weigh new public-safety complex

Torrington officials on Feb. 5 released facility-condition assessments showing urgent and long-term repair needs at the city’s police department, fire headquarters and North End fire station, and discussed using planning funds and a building committee to study a combined public-safety complex.

Facilities Manager Jamie Sikora told the Board of Public Safety that Silver Petrucelli & Associates rated building needs on a 1–4 scale and flagged immediate (priority 1) and near-term (priority 2) repairs. “If you look at just the totals alone for the major upgrades of what they say is urgent priority, we’re at, based on two-year-old data, $680,000 just to get the basics fixed,” Sikora said. He added that priority-2 items push the police building’s needs to about $7.2 million and that, overall, bringing the police building to baseline could cost roughly $10 million.

The report described multiple problems at the police department: sidewalks and access routes not…