Bill Barlow

OCEAN CITY — City Council faces a $64,000 question Thursday, with a resolution approving a new contract to design a police building at 801 Asbury Ave.

On the agenda for the meeting, 6 p.m. at City Hall, 861 Asbury Ave., is a new $64,000 contract with architect William McLees of Somers Point.

First, council will vote on the introduction of an amended bond ordinance funding the purchase of the building for $12.6 million, “which the city hereby deems reasonable,” the ordinance reads.

That’s close to double the purchase price of the building in 2023.

Thursday will be the first council vote on a proposed pivot from renovating the current public safety building at 835 Central Ave. to relocating the department to the high-rise office building formerly known as the Crown Bank Buil

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