Darien selectmen approve $475,402 revised bond for Great Island access

The Town of Darien Board of Selectmen approved a revised bond resolution for the Great Island access project at its Feb. 10, 2026 meeting, reducing the proposed amount to $475,402 and recommending the resolution to the Board of Finance for approval.

Jon Zagrodzky presented the revised figure, saying the board would remove contingency, construction management, town consultants and attorney’s fees from the bond estimate and, if needed later, request appropriations from the Board of Finance reserve account. Selectman Mike Burke moved to approve the revised bond resolution and Selectman Sarah Neumann seconded.

The board voted 4–1 in favor: Jon Zagrodzky, Mike Burke, Marcy Minnick and Sarah Neumann voted yea; Monica McNally voted nay. The motion language recorded in the minutes was to approve the revised bond resolution in the amount of $475,402 and to recommend that resolution to the Board of Finance for approval. The board recessed later in the meeting to present that resolution to the Board of Finance.

The transcript does not specify which line items were restored or how future requests to the Board of Finance would be structured; the board noted that appropriations for removed items could be requested from the Board of Finance reserve account if needed. No ordinance or statute was cited in the minutes for the bond procedure; the board treated the change as an internal budgetary and borrowing recommendation pending Board of Finance action.

Next steps: the Board of Finance will consider the recommended bond resolution; the selectmen did not record a formal funding source or schedule for construction in the meeting minutes.