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February 29. 2012 necessary scope of the project. The Appropriation Committee will be asked to render an opinion on reducing the $550,000 request to $75,000. Extraordinary School Repair Projects — ($610,000) — The individual projects within this article will be voted together as a single line item to allow the DPF to smooth out unexpectedly higher or lower bids. Department of Public Facility Bid Documents — ($75,000) — The Public Facilities Department is requesting an appropriation to cover the cost of bid documents for projects it believes will likely be approved at Town Meeting. This will speed up the process of getting the work done and enable the work to be done between the end of school in June and the beginning of the following school year in August. Hastings Natural Gas Conversion — ($45,000) — Conversion of the Hastings School heating system to use natural gas instead of oil, which is projected to save between $9,000 and $20,000 per year depending on the price of natural gas Town Wide Facility Master Plan — ($65,000) — To appropriate money for an architect to take individual facility plans previously done and integrate them into one Town wide Master Plan Grounds Vehicle Replacement — ($80,000) LHS Overcrowding — Phase 11 Renovations — ($400,000) — These renovations will move information technology staff to the Central Office and convert space at the high school to educational space. Other opportunities are being reviewed to identify more classroom space to relieve overcrowding. School Paving Program — Work would be concentrated on Harrington Additional details about these projects can be found in the Brown Book in Section XI. Capital. Minutes. Minutes of meetings held on 12/7/11 and 1/26/12 were approved with minor edits by a vote of 7 -0 -0. Adjourn. The meeting was adjourned at 10:29 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Jonina Schonfeld Approved September 20, 2012 M