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Aldermen approve series of appropriations for parks, schools, senior center and emergency repairs
Summary
The Board of Aldermen approved multiple appropriations and items including tax refunds ($4,968), parks equipment ($59,912), playground spinners ($25,516), a school boiler ($169,000), senior-center windows ($117,800), and an $800,000 turf field appropriation; the transcript records motions carried by voice vote but does not include individual roll-call tallies.
The Shelton Board of Aldermen on Tuesday approved a package of capital and maintenance items across departments and a number of administrative actions, taking voice votes on motions that the clerk recorded as "Motion carries." The transcript does not contain roll-call tallies for these items.
Approvals recorded in open session included:
- Tax refunds (Item 8.1): authorize payments totaling $4,968 to be paid from the statutory refunds account as certified by the tax collector.
- Parks & Recreation (Item 8.2): appropriate $59,912 (bid #2026-25) for lawn and landscape equipment with funding from bonding under the city charter.
- Playground equipment (Item 8.3): appropriate $25,516 for two playground "spinners" (bid #2026-07) for Pinebach Park and Nike Site Park.
- Board of Education boiler (Item 8.4): appropriate $169,000 for a two-unit boiler replacement at the Board of Education administrative offices (the existing boiler was described as about 36'37 years old).
- Neighborhood Assistance Act proposals (Item 8.5): authorize submission of a slate of nonprofit proposals to the state, including allocations such as $15,000 for the Economic Development Corporation community service program, $50,000 for Boys & Girls Club North Valley homework assistance, $50,000 for Junior Achievement programming, and $100,000 for theater lighting upgrades at Center Stage Theater, among others.
- Shelton Senior Center windows (Item 8.6): appropriate $117,800 from Community Development Block Grant funds for replacement windows and authorize the mayor to execute required documents.
- Shelton High School turf field (Item 8.7): appropriate $800,000 for a multi-purpose turf field to be located on the lower grass field at Shelton High School, to be funded from general fund surplus and to be reimbursed by previously awarded state grants.
- Emergency sewer repair (Item 8.12): waive competitive bidding and authorize emergency repair work on a sewer main on Foley Avenue due to pipe deterioration and operational failure; motion to waive bids carried on voice vote.
A separate item (Item 8.8, purchase of 276 Levenworth Road) was taken up in open session for discussion but not decided; the mayor said acquisition details would be discussed in executive session and returned for action. The transcript records the motions and "All those in favor?" followed by "Motion carries" in multiple places but does not provide names or numbers for individual votes except where a single 'opposed' was read for one appointment.
The board also appointed a resident to the Veterans Memorial Park Committee and approved minutes for previous meetings; specific vote tallies were not called into the public record in the transcript provided.
