Tyngsborough Select Board reorganizes, orders scaled-back fire station proposal for fall vote

Select Board · Meeting of June 1, 2026

Tyngsborough Select Board reorganizes and resets fire station project after May ballot defeat. The newly seated board unanimously elected Jackie Geilfuss as chair, Eric C. Eldridge as vice chair, and Adele Coughlin as clerk at its June 1 reorganization meeting, then voted 5-0 to direct the fire station building committee to develop a lower-cost alternative to the 20,000-square-foot, roughly $24.8 million headquarters that voters rejected on May 19.

Town Manager Colin Loiselle told the board the failed ballot produced clear guidance: "We heard loud and clear that there were residents that couldn't afford that $347 increase." Loiselle cautioned that any reduced building will not meet the 70-year planning horizon of the original design and argued a combined public safety building would carry a minimum average annual tax impact of $583, making it "simply too high." The committee is slated to hold listening sessions over the next four weeks and complete program-reduction work by September 1, targeting an October town meeting article. The board also approved a Class 3 road-opening permit for the Dracut Water Supply District to replace a deteriorated 1980-era pump station and extend a transmission main through roughly 7,700 linear feet of town roadway, at no direct cost to Tyngsborough.

In the full story:

• Loiselle covered a broad set of operational updates. Among the notable items
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report — 3,967 words

Source: the Select Board meeting of June 1, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.