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County Warming Center, Waterfront Project on Council Oct. 22 agenda
posted on 10/20/2025
The City Council will hold a public hearing on a pending resolution to enter into an agreement with Strafford County and the cities of Rochester and Somersworth to build an emergency warming center on county land at the former humane society location. The City Council discussed the proposal at its Oct. 8 meeting, referring it to a public hearing at its Wednesday, Oct. 22 meeting.
The City Council will also hold public hearings on accepting and expending federal grants for two city infrastructure projects, and a public hearing on reprogramming a previously authorized sewer-related Capital Improvements Program project to a different sewer CIP project.
Also on the agenda is a resolution authorizing the City Manager to negotiate, finalize, and execute the Waterfront Development Project’s Phase II Public Improvements Completion Agreement. The agreement is needed as the city is currently working toward a real estate closing on the sale of the next set of Waterfront parcels with the private developer Cathartes.
The City Council will also consider resolutions for approving the employment agreement with newly hired Police Chief David Terlemezian, awarding the bid for a downtown pedestrian and vehicle improvement project utilizing federal Community Development Block Grant funds, and awarding a bid for the cleaning of two drinking water wells.
The City Council will begin the approval process for the Capital Improvements Program by referring three resolutions to public hearings at its Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, meeting, with a vote to occur at the Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, meeting. The CIP includes three resolutions: adopting the six-year document, approving FY27 capital reserve fund appropriations for non-debt financed projects, and authorizing appropriation and bonding for FY27 debt-financed projects. The CIP’s first-year projects and appropriations will become part of the FY27 municipal budget that the City Manager will present to the City Council in February 2026.
Find the complete agenda and materials online in the Oct. 22, 2025 meeting folder.
The meeting will be televised on DoverTV and online, where it will be available on demand.
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