Voters will decide in November whether to borrow an additional $4 million for a scaled-back renovation and expansion of the three village fire stations.
In 2017, they approved $10.25 million to cover the cost, but this year the design firm discovered it had miscalculated the square footage and that sent the proposed expense soaring.
Design firm H2M architects + engineers told the village Board of Trustees the cost had been based on 9,345 square feet of renovations and additions when it should have been 13,000 square feet. To do everything that was proposed would require an additional $8 million. But fire officials have decided to seek half of that by cutting training and office space they had sought.