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Funding approved for new restrooms at Dr. Henry Park

 (Feb. 16, 2017) The Berlin Town Council, during a meeting on Monday, unanimously approved new permanent bathrooms for Dr. William Henry Park.
The town will pay $119,885 to winning bidder Green Flush Technologies for the prefabricated outdoor restroom building.
Administrative Services Director Mary Bohlen said the majority of funding for the project, about $96,000, would come from Community Parks and Playgrounds state grant. The total cost of the bathrooms, including hookups to town water, sewer and electric, was estimated at $135,035.
Green Flush Technologies won an earlier round of bidding, but an apparent error in the process led the town to resubmit a request for proposals, causing a delay of several months.
“The same vendor was again successful,” Bohlen said. “Several of the staff members have gone over the plans … and the unanimous decision was the Green Flush Technologies product was the superior product.”
Councilman Elroy Brittingham joked that he wanted a “Dean’s House” sign on the new building. Councilman Dean Burrell has been a proponent of installing permanent bathrooms and both Henry Park and Stephen Decatur Park.
“I have been pushing for these permanent restrooms,” he said. “It came about when I took my preschool age granddaughter to Stephen Decatur Park and, just like children do, she had to use the bathroom.”
The experience was apparently not pleasant.
“It ruined her day, trying to use the port-a-potty,” Burrell said. “This is for Henry Park, but we hope this time next year we will be doing the same thing for Stephen Decatur Park.”
Bohlen said a grant application for those restrooms had already been submitted to the state.
“We typically get the final word on those in August of every year,” she said.