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For the next few months, the Rockport town’s police department is shifting into a 36 by 10 foot trailer adjacent to the public safety building on Main Street as some asbestos clean-up work is going on in the office.

The expense for this would be about $2,200 for the town. They have not included this in the project budget. The town manager said that they were going to find it somewhere.

Initial plan was to put the the police department into the Richardson Room meeting space at the town office just down the street for the time being, as the work is going on.

Asbestos is being removed from the office as a part of a $339,900 project to renovate the building which voters approved last June. On October 26, Catalano’s Construction of Thomaston was awarded a contract for $323,529 by the select board.

An addition to the back of the public safety building to allow for more room for the fire engines had been recommended by the building committee. They had suggested to remove the asbestos flooring in the police station and renovate that office space as well.

According to Town Manager Bob Peabody, there were some issues to provide the police department with a secure space. Richardson room is used by several committees which have keys to access the room and town voting is traditionally done in that room in June. The officials also considered the West Rockport Fire Station and the top floor of the Harbormaster’s building as temporary alternatives however, eventually decided to rent a trailer for three months.