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Amenia Town Board approvesbond issue for new town garage

AMENIA — An important step in the project to construct a new town garage occurred at the regular meeting of the Town Board on Thursday, Oct. 17, with a unanimous vote to authorize issuance of bonds to cover the estimated cost of construction.

The town has agreed to a 30-year bond issue in the amount of $6,333,449 to construct the town garage and salt storage shed on town-owned land situated along the east side of Route 22 between Sinpatch Road and Tower Hill Road.

“This is a project dear to the heart of Victoria Perotti (former Town Supervisor), who will be happy to see this move along,” said current Town Supervisor Leo Blackman after the vote.

Councilmember Paul Winters repeated his concern that the bond issue was not to be put to a town-wide vote, rather than being decided by the Town Board. He spoke directly to video viewers advising them that they have 20 days in which to obtain signatures from 5% of voters, if those voters would prefer to have a town-wide vote on the decision.

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