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The Long and Winding Road… TOWARDS A NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING continued the building only, they did not take in to account the cost to procure These space estimates are not yet set in stone and can be suitable property: adjusted. There has also been another option presented which • 5,000 sf (4,000 for Police and 1,000 for mechanical / involves building a ONE story building at 3735 Brownsville Road circulation) approximately $2,100,000 (Snee Dairy) for Police and EMS and converts the Civic Center in • 7,000 sf (6,000 for Police and 1,000 for mechanical / to office space for the Borough administration and a meeting area circulation) approximately $2,900,000 for Council which will also be made available as a community 6,000 sf was the latest preferred option to accommodate meeting room. The total for this option is estimated at $6,414,900. the Police I imagine that at this point, your head is spinning from all of the • 9,500 sf (6,000 for Police and 1,000 for mechanical/ numbers in this article. As we strive to provide transparency to circulation AND 2,500 Sq. feet for EMS) approximately the public, we have a responsibility to give honest and truthful $4,000,000 information. These are the actual numbers provided to us by the “And still they lead me back to the long, winding road” architect, not made up figures like some that are floating around - I In early 2017, the current owner of the Snee Dairy and the implore you to not take my word for it, and these are numbers that Borough of Brentwood began a conversation that brought the Snee we are happy to share if you would like to come to the next council Dairy site back on the table, only this time as an outright purchase meeting to talk about our next steps on this road – or if you would by the Borough with much of the cost to remediate environmental like to attend my next Coffee with a Councilman at The Crack’d problems with the site to be picked up by the seller; this drastically Egg. This is a decision that we must make as well informed as we reduced the purchase price of the property and led to a motion possibly can. made and passed 5-0 on the floor at the February 27th, 2017 Regular “How do we pay for this?” Council Meeting: This total will be paid in part by a $1,000,000 transfer from Consider adopting Resolution No. 2017-21; Entering into an the Sanitary Sewer fund due to the fact the Borough operates Agreement for the Sale of Real Estate [ACTION ITEM] Mr. President, a Sanitary Sewer Department (§ 167-22-D of the Borough I move to adopt Resolution No. 2017-21, authoring the Borough to code allows payment of all or part of any other costs, expenses enter into an agreement with Green Development Trust #7003735 or charges related to administration of this article and/or to for the purchase of real property at 3735 Brownsville Road. the sanitary sewer systems located within the Borough and Motion By: Rich Schubert discharging into the ALCOSAN sewer system.) The remaining funds Second By: Harold Smith would be via a $5 million Bond that would have an estimated Ayes: Carnevale, Doyle, Frombach, Schubert, Smith annual payment of $220,000 but the Borough will both own the Absent: Pasquantonio, Fox building after 23 years and if the Civic Center option is chosen, After remediation costs were factored in, the final purchase price much needed improvements to this structure will have been made. of the property at 3735 Brownsville Road will be between $70,000 I would be remiss if I did not mention

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