Town of Black Mountain first responders will temporarily relocate from the public safety building at 106 Montreat Road to a residence hall in the Ridgecrest Conference Center, following a March 12 emergency special call meeting of the town council.
The board, with Ryan Stone and Alice Berry absent, unanimously approved the move, while directing town staff to pursue the purchase of a used modular unit and a lease for a secondary structure.
The decision came in response to a facility report, presented March 10, detailing structural deficiencies in the town’s public safety building. The assessment, performed by a team of architects and engineers, concluded the 12,000-square-foot facility, constructed in 1987, would require substantial capital improvement to strengthen the integrity of the structure…