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Whose project is it?
The Orion Fire Protection District’s. “We have a 10-year plan,” trustee Jerry Sheldon said. “We are trying to be progressive, thinking ‘What do we need for the future?’ It’s a vision to improve the community.”
Purpose it will serve
“The ideal plan is to give us meeting and training rooms, space that could double up as a community center, with access to house 150 people for get-togethers and receptions,” Sheldon said. “It could also double as a warming center with a generator system. We could cook, we could warm.”
The details
The expansion behind the existing station would be built with steel, and it would look like the existing station.
The plans do not include bunk rooms and showers, but they could be added if the village ever had emergency medical technicians on duty around the clock.
Cost
Fire district officials expected to spend about $600,000, but the estimates are coming in at $800,000, Sheldon said.
Who’s paying for it and how?
The fire district has been setting aside the money for years, Sheldon said.
“We’re not raising taxes,” he said. “We’re looking at what we have, what we can set aside, and what we can have in partnership with BankORION.”
The progress
Some details still have to be settled before construction can begin in the spring of 2012.
“We just hope it all comes about,” Sheldon said. “The trustees are looking at all the possibilities.”
Whose project is it?
The Orion Fire Protection District’s. “We have a 10-year plan,” trustee Jerry Sheldon said. “We are trying to be progressive, thinking ‘What do we need for the future?’ It’s a vision to improve the community.”
Purpose it will serve
“The ideal plan is to give us meeting and training rooms, space that could double up as a community center, with access to house 150 people for get-togethers and receptions,” Sheldon said. “It could also double as a warming center with a generator system. We could cook, we could warm.”
The details
The expansion behind the existing station would be built with steel, and it would look like the existing station.
The plans do not include bunk rooms and showers, but they could be added if the village ever had emergency medical technicians on duty around the clock.
Cost
Fire district officials expected to spend about $600,000, but the estimates are coming in at $800,000, Sheldon said.
Who’s paying for it and how?
The fire district has been setting aside the money for years, Sheldon said.
“We’re not raising taxes,” he said. “We’re looking at what we have, what we can set aside, and what we can have in partnership with BankORION.”
The progress
Some details still have to be settled before construction can begin in the spring of 2012.
“We just hope it all comes about,” Sheldon said. “The trustees are looking at all the possibilities.”
