First section of new temporary facility arrives at New Garden site
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
The first of three sections of a temporary police station is hauled onto the site that contains a mold-infested facility.
For months, the New Garden Township Police have been working in a mold-infested module that was supposed to be temporary some years back.
On Thursday, the first phase of a Band-Aid rumbled onto the site of the police station on Rt. 41: one of three sections of its new temporary headquarters.
“While not ideal, it’s certainly an improvement over our current condition,” said New Garden Township Police Chief Gerald Simpson.
In July, the board of supervisors reluctantly agreed that renting a temporary trailer was the best way to get the police out of an unsafe building quickly. Simpson told the board that officers have had to store equipment at home because so much space has been lost to the contamination.
The supervisors also agreed that a permanent solution is needed, and Supervisor Bob Norris volunteered to work with Simpson to devise a business plan, a process that will involve visiting other police facilities.
Possibilities under discussion: building at the current location, finding a new site, expanding the lower level of the township building, or moving the administrative operations downstairs and putting the police on the upper level of the township building.
