Mount Kisco Ambulance corps members prepare for new building

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Mount Kisco: Ambulance corps members prepare for new building

PATRICK GORMAN 

THE PATENT TRADER 

(Original publication: July 15, 2004) 

The Mount Kisco Volunteer Ambulance Corps' new headquarters off Lexington Avenue is complete, and emergency service volunteers should be moving in by the end of the month. 

"We're almost ready to move into our new headquarters," Mount Kisco Volunteer Ambulance Corps President James Cuffe said this week. 

"If all goes well we should receive our certificate of occupancy soon," he said. 

Work on the two-story brick building began in June 2003. The corps decided to move forward with the new headquarters after it became clear their current facility was too small. 

Since the early 1960s, the corps has been housed in a 900-square-foot building next to the train station in Kirby Plaza. 

The new $1.2 million facility, off Lexington Avenue behind the Mount Kisco Independent Fire Company, will be 3,500 square feet. 

Both of the corps' ambulances will be housed in the new building's garages — a luxury the old facility lacked. The ambulances are currently parked outside the headquarters and at the Main Street firehouse. 

There will also be a kitchen area, meeting room and lounge for the corps' 30 or so active members and 15 nonriding members. 

The building is being financed through donations and a $750,000 loan, though there have been some additional, unforeseen costs, according to Mount Kisco Mayor J. Michael Cindrich. 

Earlier this month, the village board approved some additional funding to help finish the project. 

"We approved $80,000 to help pay some of the remaining costs," Cindrich said. 

The mayor said he has been to the new facility, and that it will be a benefit to the volunteer ambulance corps and the community. 

"It's more than adequate in size, and it's a vast improvement over their current facility," he said. 

There have been some problems at the site that have delayed the building's opening, however. Officials had hoped to open it in April. 

"The main issue has been a problem with the paving and drainage in front of the building," Cindrich said. 

There is an excessive amount of puddling in the parking lot when it rains, the mayor said, and the ambulance corps has been working hard to correct the condition. 

"I'm disappointed it's taken so long to get it up and running, but it should be opening soon," Cindrich said. 

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I'm sure that the mt kisco mutual fd will be happy to get the open space back in the rear of their house. With the ambulance going to their new hq, it frees up the space for training. Or maybe for a new rig to come with option of keeping that awsome MACK in the back row!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-P