In the wake of millions of proposed spending, the Ocean City Council has opted to pump the brakes on a new fire station. On Tuesday, March 28, the Ocean City Council voted 4-3 to not go forward in spending $30,000 on preliminary designs for a new Station 3 building.
Citing a lack of immediate need and past spending, including a proposed $25 million public works campus master plan at 66th Street and $2 million on the purchase of a lot on St. Louis Avenue, the council decided to suspend the discussion on the property until an immediate need is found.
This delay in the process could save the city $3.3 million in expenditures in the short term, with the council using Station 4, completed in 2014, as a benchmark.