Dartmouth’s youths may have a new place to shoot hoops, but there are some legal loops to jump through first.

Steve Burgo, president of the Burgo Basketball Association, is looking to build an indoor facility, but before they can start construction, Colorado Property Partners, the group providing $3.2 million to fund the project, required the association to secure a 30-year lease on the land.

The Dartmouth Joseph Burgo Southeastern Regional Basketball Complex, located on municipal land on 101 Slocum Road, currently has outdoor basketball and volleyball courts.

If the 30-year lease is granted, it would enable the association to construct a 57,000 square-foot facility on the property that would house classrooms for a tutoring program, a training facility and a basketball court with bleachers. The estimated cost of the building is $4.2 million, with $1 million coming from the group’s own fundraising.

“Earlier, we had been given a request for documentation regarding why we were looking for a 30-year lease, however that may be created. We have all the documentation requested,” said Michael Kehoe, a New Bedford-based attorney representing Burgo Basketball Association.

“We have proposed plans showing the exact location of the building. We also have the estimated costs associated with the construction of this building, what has been donated, what we already have and the equity we put into it,” he said, adding that he also had five years’ worth of tax information.

Kehoe had intended to deliver the documents last week, but was unable to do so due to a scheduling conflict. The documents were available the night of the Select Board meeting, an inadequate amount of time for town counsel to review them.

Despite this setback, Kehoe called the proposal exciting, giving the town “an opportunity to have an indoor facility with classrooms and training rooms as well as the basketballs courts to be constructed at no cost to the town.”

“We service about 1,200 youth a year, and this will give us an opportunity to expand that. Our goal is to enhance the ability for this area to have recreational activities,” said Kehoe.

Chairman Shawn McDonald wished to review the documents to ensure that everything was in order from a legal perspective before making any further decisions. This meant that the board’s decision on the proposal would have to wait until the next Select Board meeting on June 29.

“Legally, we want to make sure that — whatever we decide as a board and as a town — that everything is spot-on and there’s no issues,” said McDonald.

About 20 citizens showed up to hear the Select Board’s decision on the matter, and McDonald said he understood their eagerness to discuss the proposed recreational facility.

“Trust me, I appreciate you being here, but we need to take a look at these documents first,” he said.

“Because we are requesting different documentation — especially financial information — I am going to make a suggestion for this board, in the future as we renew our fields to different organizations, that those organizations submit to us financial reports on a yearly basis,” said McDonald.

Steve Burgo, the president of Burgo Basketball Association, also addressed the Select Board.

“We’ve been in existence for 21 years — 10 years at my house, 11 years at the complex. In those 21 years, we’ve never had one incident,” said Burgo.

He also said that his association approached Bristol Community College about the possibility of leasing the new indoor basketball court in the future.

“Please, really think about what you’re considering here and be proud to set an example for the rest of the area of what is possible in the town of Dartmouth. I’m proud of what we’ve done, and I’m proud of all the kids that have participated for the 11 years that they’ve been here,” said Burgo.

“We’re going to do our best to get through this and do the right thing for everybody,” said Select Board member Frank Gracie.

While Kehoe couldn’t say when the project would be completed, he said the goal would be to have the facility available by next spring.