By Bobby Gates / Beverly Citizen
On Tuesday, Mayor Bill Scanlon presented a plan to the City Council to spend $140,00 to upgrade the floor and supporting structure of the waterfront building in the city park off Ober Street.
Scanlon said the money to fund the improvements will come from three sources — $20,00 from fundraising efforts to go towards park improvements, $75,000 from the Recreation Department fund, “which has sufficient reserves,” and $45,000 from the Trustees of Lynch Park, who are expected to approve the spending soon, Scanlon said.
The co-leaders of the building’s restoration efforts, Paul Lanzikos and Denise Deshamps, plan to explain more details about the work during a public hearing Monday, Sept. 21 at 7:15 p.m. in City Council chambers in City Hall.
The latest round of work is part of an ongoing effort to repair and improve the building that is being led by a volunteer committee. The work is being done in phases and “as each phase is complete the carriage house will be able to accommodate more varied clients thus raising its income potential,” Scanlon said in his written request to the City Council to approve using the recreation fund money.
“As mentioned above, once these improvements are made, the income expected from rentals of the facility will grow and fund further improvements,” Scanlon wrote.
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