Sevastopol Pays Last of Debt on Town Hall
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The Town of Sevastopol is debt free! At the town’s annual meeting on April 16, Chair Dan Woelfel announced that the final payment on the town-hall loan was made March 1. Back in 2008, with a population of 2,600, Sevastopol voters agreed that it was time for the town to regain a physical presence. Sevastopol had been without a town hall since the 1970s and was instead using space in Sevastopol School and in a hand-me-down modular unit behind the school. A vote of the electorate gave the go-ahead to purchase a parcel between the school and the town park in Institute – a perfect fit. Borrowing of up to $850,000 was also approved to plan and construct a new town hall. Payments of principal and interest were made in a 10-year period thanks to the use of room-tax collections. In conjunction with the town’s sesquicentennial celebration in August 2009, the building was dedicated and opened. The town hall’s architecture is a wonderful accompaniment to downtown Institute and provides accommodations for elections, meetings, the Sevastopol cable channel and private events.