Town Meeting Voters to Decide $3.3M Highway Garage Bond

The Merrimack Department of Public Works Highway Garage was built in 1978 and for the past few years it has been showing its age.

This is why the Town Council wants Merrimack voters to approve a $3.3 million bond issue to construct a new Public Works Highway Garage right behind the one located on Turkey Hill Road.

Cabanel said a special study committee that consisted of Town Councilors and members of the Public Works Department spent a great deal of time looking at the current facility to see if it could be rehabilitated and concluded that it could not. She said town officials would like to retain the current facility as a place where Public Works vehicles and equipment could be stored.

“The committee seriously considered not tearing down the existing structure because the existing structure is not unsound, the working conditions are," Cabanel said.

She said public works employees have done all they can to effect patchwork repairs to keep the current Highway Garage operational.

“I can’t say enough about what the DPW employees have done to keep that building going,” Cabanel said, “But it has kind of reached the end of its useful life.”