Police Building Committee Minutes

March 11, 2026

Peggy Pschirrer called the meeting of the Police Building committee to order at 6:30 pm in Walpole Town Hall.  Those present were Steve Dalessio, Jay Punt, Andrew Dey, Chief Justin Sanctuary present by Zoom, and Cheri Watson.  Trevor MacLachlan was absent.  

Ms. Pschirrer acknowledged the resignation of Davd Adams and thanked him for his service.  Mr. Adams will be kept remain on the email list for minutes and agendas.

The Committee received eight responses to the Committee’s Requests for Proposals.  Mr. Dey distribute a scoring matrix for those proposals and suggested we eliminate those proposals the Committee did not believe met our criteria.

Mr. Dey led the discussion citing the features which did not meet our criteria.

Four proposals were eliminated from consideration and four were selected to have more extensive discussion at the Committee’s next meeting.  

Each member of the committee will receive a by email a matrix for the remaining proposals to be completed and returned to Mr. Dalessio no later than March 18.

Because these are public minutes the firms will not be listed because no firm has been notified of the Committee’s decisions.

The Committee will meet March 25, 2026, at 6:30 PM at the Hooper Institute to further discuss the four remaining proposals in detail and decide whom to interview.

The group agreed we will need an Owner’s rep; we do not have the staff to handle all the details, grants etc.

At this point there is confusion in the NH USDA office because our federal grant is the same amount, $2,058,000, as the federal grant given to the Walpole Fire District. Mr. Dalessio is communicating with Rena Peck who is in the NH Office of the USDA.  The staff at USDA has been significantly reduced so Ms. Peck’s workload has been increased.

Attorney Hockensmith has written our appeal for a special Town Meeting for the purpose of presenting a Warran to the voters for an approval of a Bond for the cost of the new police station.  

The Committee will begin fundraising in mid-late April.

Peggy Pschirrer

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