Completion Date of New North Branford Senior/Community Center Pushed Back to Fall

The project to turn Stanley T. Williams School into a new senior center, community center and offices for the parks and recreation department is now expected to be completed in the fall, instead of the spring as originally planned.

The New Haven Register reports that the building still needs work on its parking lot and handicapped-access ramp and door, among other projects. Town Manager Michael Paulhus said the changes at his position are to blame for the delay.

“You had a town manager (Richard Branigan) who left last summer, (the Town Council) trying to find an interim, you had the interim (Bonnie Therrien) come in, and then a permanent (manager), myself, come in to take the position," Paulhus told the newspaper. "The town manager has that oversight responsibility. I don’t want to say that it fell through the cracks, but if there’s not someone watching this full-time, concentrating their efforts on it, these projects tend to drift, if you will, or to get off-track.”