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To: Members of the Lexington School Committee <br />From: Ad Hoc Facilities Committee (AHFC) <br />Re: Final Report to the School Committee <br />Date: October 16, 2009 <br />The Ad Hoc Facilities Committee is pleased to make its report to the School Committee. <br />Background <br />This past June, the Lexington School Committee established the Ad Hoc Facilities Committee <br />(AHFC) to advise it concerning the Design Partnership Facilities Master Plan. The School <br />Committee charge asked the AHFC to include, but not be limited to, the following areas: <br />1. Review the Design Partnership Master Plan and its recommendations; <br />2. Assess the impact of the deficiencies identified in the Master Plan on the educational <br />process and then prioritize the recommendations; <br />3. Propose options for addressing the deficiencies, including timing; <br />4. Make a Final Report to the School Committee. <br />The membership of the Ad Hoc Facilities Committee included two members appointed by the <br />School Committee, two members appointed by the Board of Selectmen, and three members <br />appointed by the Permanent Building Committee. Also in attendance were liaisons from the <br />Appropriation Committee and the Capital Expenditures Committee. Individual School <br />Committee members attended some meetings. Please refer to the end of this report for a list of <br />participants. The Ad Hoc Facilities Committee met seven times from June through September. <br />Considerations <br />The AHFC evaluated the Design Partnership Master Plan and deemed it to be a commendable <br />analysis of the current condition of the high school and elementary schools, complete with <br />recommendations for further maintenance, renovation, and new construction. The Committee <br />spoke about a number of issues. Here are the most important ones: <br />The AHFC viewed the report as a snapshot in time and realizes that the Master Plan will <br />be provided to the Architectural /Engineering firms hired for the various projects as a <br />starting point. The Committee further realizes that the costs presented in the Master Plan <br />are 1) provisional, 2) inextricably tied to the scope embodied in the Master Plan, and 3) <br />possibly subject to escalation outside the bounds anticipated in the Master Plan. The <br />Committee wants to warn all who extract costs from the Master Plan to extract the costs <br />along with all "markups" and "qualifiers" contained in the Master Plan. <br />• The Committee reflected on the former Commonwealth school construction <br />reimbursement program (known simply as "School Building Assistance" or "SBA ") that <br />favored new construction and provided the Town of Lexington reimbursement values just <br />below 60% for the parts of the Fiske, Harrington, Diamond, Clarke and Lexington High <br />School projects that met SBA criteria. Under the auspices of the former SBA program, <br />
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