By Paul Crocetti\/Daily News staff<\/p>\n
MENDON –
\nThe town recently received about $19,000 in office furniture and equipment from an unlikely place: a jail.<\/p>\n
But it was not just any jail. In response to a request from Administrative Assistant Mike McCue, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office donated the new and used items to the Fire and Highway Departments.
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\nTown officials traveled to Worcester and found the items in storage at the jail’s warehouse.
\n“We were looking for decent furniture,” said Deputy Fire Chief Mark Poirier, who made the trip. “No junk.”
\nPoirier came away with 35 chairs, worth $7,000, to be used in the meeting room at the new Morrison Drive fire station. The Fire Department also got a decontamination sink and a portable sink.
\n“The chairs were in excellent shape,” Poirier said. “The decontamination sink was very nice. It was still in the crate, which was a pretty good score.”
\nThe Highway Department also received a new portable wash station, worth $4,300.
\nWorcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis said his office receives all kinds of donations, from food to furniture.
\n“(The furniture and equipment) were of no … (use) to the sheriff’s office,” Glodis said, adding that the donations are on their way to the town.
\nThe Fire Department would have used money from the override approved in March for those items, Poirier said.
\n“It was a great savings for the town,” he said.
\nPoirier said he does not know exactly how the funds will be used yet.
\n“For everything we save, we can try to purchase other items,” he said.
\nMcCue noted the financial struggles of the town.
\n“The sheriff’s help in saving the town money allows us to hopefully direct funds to services that have suffered as a result of fiscal 2015 budget cuts,” he said.
\nThe sheriff’s office helped out the town last year as well.
\nThrough the sheriff’s Community Service Program, inmates built a handicapped ramp and painted at the Council on Aging and did trash pickup through the Department of Public Works, according to Keith Mitchell, communications director in the sheriff’s office.
\nThat work saved the town $3,000.
\n“It’s part of an ongoing effort in making the sheriff’s office more community-committed,” Glodis said. “The sheriff’s department can and should be more than just a jail.”
\nPaul Crocetti can be reached at 508-634-7583 or pcrocett@cnc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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