St Johnsbury Select Board Approves Special Bond Vote to Fund Armory Project Completion

The St. Johnsbury Select Board gave the green light to hold a special bond vote in early June, seeking authorization to borrow over $3.78 million to close the funding gap for the armory project, which has seen escalating costs. The decision the board made at their meeting on Monday night was to start the bond vote process. While it is the board’s responsibility to start the process, it will be up to St. Johnsbury’s voters to approve the extra borrowing to complete the hoped-for project that would relocate the town’s police department and dispatch center into the historic armory that is currently undergoing a multi-million dollar remediation of a variety of hazardous building materials and partial demolition, work that was begun last fall.