94 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 10 Edgewater Park’s schools go only from kindergarten through the eighth grade. The city’s older kids go elsewhere for high school, so this makes the concerns the Mayor points out rather more significant. Trainor adds that as mayor, he simply wants to make Edgewater Park an even better place to live. It is, he says, a great place to raise a family, possessed of attractive parks, fun recreational opportunities, and a whole lot more. Also of significant news in the city is a brand-new facility for police and courts. Congress awarded Edgewater Park almost $4.5 million for this complex. It is a muchneeded improvement, as Pullion points out, as the Edgewater Park Police Department has spent the past 50 years in the basement of the City’s administrative building. “They’re very eager to get out of there,” he adds. Trainor notes that this new law-enforcement facility will feature many improvements. They will include better accommodations for the incarcerated and new facilities specific to the needs of female police officers. As well, police staffers will benefit from new and bigger conference rooms and even an on-site gymnasium. “We’ll have plenty of room for all the officers to handle all their business,” as the Mayor reveals, “and it will be very much nicer to look at––much more aesthetically pleasing.” Further, there’s a new community center in the works that will be the first of its kind for the
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