Select Board votes 5-0 to back $16 million fire station rebuild

Select Board · Meeting of February 10, 2026

Milton Select Board backs $16 million Atherton Street fire station rebuild, holds off on override timeline. The board voted 5-0 to support a warrant article funding the final $1 million in design work for the century-old Atherton Street firehouse, which Fire Chief Christopher Madden said needs new bays because the town currently has only one spare engine and one ladder truck, with backup apparatus from other towns left outside "covered in snow and ice." Town Administrator Nicholas Milano reported a fiscal 2027 budget gap of about $1,049,000 between town and school requests. Warrant Committee Chair Jay Fundling pushed the board to commit to a 2028 or 2029 override date and adopt a formal withdrawal policy for the town's Operating Budget Stabilization Fund; members declined to endorse his plan, with Fundling himself cautioning, "I don't like shooting from the hip." The board also approved a Massachusetts School Building Authority feasibility study worth up to $670,000 in grant funding and four warrant articles enabling solar power-purchase agreements on town land.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of February 10, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.