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Stone Park trustees approve police station redesign that removes courtroom, adds records room
Summary
Trustees voted to proceed with a revised police station design that removes a courtroom in favor of a records room, changes the roof to a square profile to reduce costs and will shift court functions to Village Hall; construction is expected to begin in late October.
Stone Park trustees at a committee meeting on April 22 voted to move forward with a revised design for the village's new police station that removes a courtroom and repurposes the space as a records room.
Engineer Gary Lira of Lira & Associates presented the modifications, telling the board the change allowed the roof to be redesigned from an angular to a square profile, a revision he said would save money for the village. "We will be utilizing our Village Hall to have court moving forward," Mayor Beniamino Mazzulla added when the board discussed where municipal court would be held after the courtroom removal.
Lira addressed a clerk query about windows in the records room, saying the exterior windows would be look‑alike panels and that, from the records room interior, panels would appear rather than operable windows. Trustees raised no formal objections and approved the design by a show of hands, recorded in the meeting minutes as five ayes with one absence.
The mayor and the civil engineer noted the redesign allows other layout efficiencies; construction was described as tentatively scheduled to begin in late October. The committee recorded no formal motion text in the minutes beyond the show‑of‑hands approval to proceed.
What’s next: village staff will continue design work with Lira & Associates and report status to the board at future meetings. The decision to hold court at Village Hall was stated in the meeting and will be implemented as plans progress.
