Groundbreaking on a new municipal complex in Weatherly is set to take place early next year.

Right now, the project includes a new police station and a new office for Magisterial District Judge Joseph Homanko.It could also end up including a new municipal building for the borough, depending on the success of a grant application currently held up in the state budget stalemate.Borough council voted at the November meeting to take out $750,000 in "interim financing" for the project.The funds are necessary because nearly all of the project is funded with grant money that won't be available until the work is done, borough manager Harold Pudliner said.Weatherly borough officials have been working for about two years to find a new location for the borough's police department.The current station, located in the Weatherly Train Station, is about 250 square feet.That is not a lot of space for three full-time officers, evidence storage and a holding area.Pudliner said the borough has successfully secured $594,000 in grants from the county's Local Share Account, which Is funded by gambling revenues.They also have another $475,000 in grants from the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.The project was temporarily delayed to see if the borough could leverage that funding into more grants.Pudliner said that he has applied three times for a Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant from the state, which requires at least a $1 million matching contribution from the applicant.The RCAP funds would be used to build a new municipal building at the site. The borough has been in its current offices, also located in the train station, since 1977.Two previous applications were denied. The most recent round of funding was supposed to be announced earlier this year, but has been held up by the state budget stalemate."I would be remiss not to, " Pudliner said. "When are we ever going to get a match like that again?"But with the project already in the works for two-plus years, Pudliner said that the borough must move forward in the spring, whether it receives the RCAP grant or not.