A special workshop will be held with the Bowmanstown Fire Department later this month.

Borough council agreed on Tuesday to meet with the fire department at 7 p.m. July 27.

Councilwoman Kara Scott said the purpose of the workshop would be to discuss grants for the proposed new building.

It was announced at last month’s council meeting that the LSA Program did not fund the request for fire station improvements.

Scott said at that time the fire department was looking for borough involvement to participate and move their office to a new facility, and that they were reapplying.

Borough fire Chief Michael Spairana Jr. said at that time they were talking to their fire committee about the possibility of the borough and the fire company going into the same building.

Spairana said in May that the only grant the fire department has applied for so far to help fund the project is the Monroe County LSA grant.

In April, council authorized submittal of a redevelopment assistance capital budget program grant for the fire company.

That came after the fire company in September requested council’s approval to apply for an LSA grant to build a new fire station with the possibility of an attached social hall.

The proposed plan would be for the new station to be located above the picnic grove on Lime Street.

The existing fire station would be torn down and made into a parking lot.

The estimated cost of the project is between $1.5 million and $1.6 million, and wouldn’t reach completion for about three to five years.

The plan is to build one large fire station, and to apply for an LSA grant to fund the entire project.

Spairana has stressed that the fire company would not go forward with a new fire station unless it receives 100% funding.