Police-Town Hall Building Committee

The Police HQ-Town Hall Campus Study Committee is a temporary appointed committee charged with exploring a new or renovated/expanded building for the Wilton Police Department.  The committee was tasked with studying the deficiencies and needs of the Police Department HQ and two other town buildings, Town Hall and Town Annex, as well as assessing the unfinished and underutilized space at Comstock Community Center. 

In February 2020, the Committee recommended the construction of a new police headquarters in front of the existing headquarters at an estimated cost of $14.5 million. In October 2021, following a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Selectmen authorized the development of design documents and an updated cost to be presented to the voters at a special town meeting in 2022.  In early February 2022, Tecton Architects presented the final proposed design with a cost of $16,700,000, for which $16,000,000 in new bonds would be required.  The Board of Selectmen is expected to vote in March to put the bonding referendum question to the May Annual Town Meeting. 

The history of the Committee and the Project is as follows:

On December 19, 2016, the Board of Selectmen appointed the initial members of the Committee.

In February 2018, the study committee transitioned to a building committee to make recommendations to the Board of Selectmen to improve the functionality of the Police Department, Town Hall, Town Annex and optimize space at Comstock Community Center.

On October 21, 2019, the Committee recommended and the Board of Selectmen approved the selection of Tecton Architects as the design development firm.

On December 12, 2019, following consideration of new construction versus expansion/renovation, the Committee determined new construction was most cost effective. 

On February 3, 2020, the Committee and Tecton Architects presented their recommendation for a new Police Headquarters to the Board of Selectmen.

On February 10, 2020, the Police Commission adopted a revised Recommended Statement of Requirements based on recommendations by the Committee.

The project was put on hold during the pandemic.  

On October 4, 2021, the Board of Selectmen approved a final Statement of Requirements and Authorized Tecton to produce designs and costs for a Special Town Meeting.

On February 7, 2022, Tecton Architects presented the final design and cost for the proposed new headquarters.  Watch here beginning at 32:00.

On April 6, 2022, the Board of Selectmen approved requesting $16,400,000 at the May Annual Town Meeting for the Police Headquarters project.  The amount is based on an approximate cost to construct of $17,000,000 less remaining monies from the 2017 Annual Town Meeting approval of funds for study and design development.  

On April 25, 2022, the First Selectwoman, the Police Building Committee, and the Tecton Architects presented the proposed project to the Board of Finance. Video is available here.
 
On May 7th, the voters approved bonding of $16,400,000 to fund the project. Watch the meeting here.

Board member information (seats, terms, etc) is available here.  To contact a Board member, click on a name below.