The Brookfield Board of Selectmen is holding a Special Meeting tonight. 

They plan to discuss generators needed at the Police Department and Town Hall.  It's expected that the Selectmen will forward the request to the Board of Finance for funding.  The generator currently supplying power to the Police Department was installed in 1983.  First Selectman Steve Dunn says that one can then be used as an emergency backup.  He says the new generator installed at Center Fire in the past year worked very well in the latest outage. 

The Selectmen will also discuss a state grant to improve Town Hall in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.  The deadline to submit an application for a STEAP grant is August 28th so tonight's gathering is a special meeting to forward the request to the Board of Finance. 

Brookfield already approved the STEAP grant for the Still River Greenway Extension Project and discussed the three options for reducing the cost further. The redesign of town hall offices would also qualify for the grant and First Selectman Steve Dunn says the town could submit this project instead of the Greenway Extension due to the higher more immediate need to keep employees safe during the pandemic.