The current Fredonia police station is “woefully outdated.”

Fredonia is exploring a move of its police department to a new building next to the fire department.

“I do want to let the public know that I am investigating a proposal that was given to a past board many years ago,” Mayor Michael Ferguson said at Monday’s Fredonia Board of Trustees meeting. “Apparently … there was an opportunity for them to add on to the current fire department to include the police department, for an expansion for a police department.”

Ferguson continued, “We’ve been talking about consolidation of services, we’ve been talking about consolidation for police, but we still need a headquarters. And our police station downstairs (in the Village Hall basement) is woefully, woefully outdated. This has been going on for many, many a year,

“I had met with a former trustee late last year and… he showed me the plans that, in fact, his father had presented to the board years ago, that showed the structure. When you’re looking at the front of the police department, the police department would have been added where currently everybody parks on the side…they would have divided up use of the building.”

Ferguson said he asked both Fire Chief Josh Myers and Police Chief Gregory Myers “to take these things into consideration.” The mayor said they have been discussing the plan with Trustees Jon Espersen and LeeAnn Lazarony.

“Obviously I will include them in those discussions and those findings. I’ve got a meeting that is going to be scheduled for next week to bring that up, so I’ll bring you both up to speed on that as well,” Ferguson said to Espersen and Lazarony.

Ferguson then commented generally on “continued discussions at the county level about possible consolidation of services, of communities, those types of things.” He said that “it’s all very very early in the discussion process — introduction of the people who happened to be in the room at the time.”

Lazarony also noted the police building discussions during her own report.

“We have a meeting scheduled for the end of March to talk about a grant that might be available to us,” she said. “I don’t know if you want to attend that mayor, or what, but… Jon and I were kind of rolling into this project with the fire chief and the police chief.”