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Minutes of the Community Preservation Committee Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Parker Room, Town Office Building 1625 Massachusetts Avenue 3:30 pm Committee Members Present: Marilyn Fenollosa, Chair; Richard Canale, Norman Cohen, David Horton, Jeanne Krieger, Bob Pressman, Sandy Shaw and Richard Wolk, Vice Chair. Absent: Leo McSweeney Administrative Assistant : Nathalie Rice Also in attendance were Carl Valente, Town Manager; Rob Addelson, Assistant Town Manager for Finance; Glenn Parker, Chair of the Appropriation Committee; David Kanter, Vice Chair of the Capital Expenditures Committee; and Karen Mullins, Director of Community Development. The meeting was called to order at 3:31 pm. by Ms. Fenollosa. 1.Community Center Request for Supplemental CPA Funding Mr. Patrick Goddard, Director of Public Facilities met with the CPC to present a request for $500,000 in additional CPA funding for the Community Center. He explained that the project was now at a 90% design and document stage, and that as a result, there was a differential of $1.5M for the budget approved in the 2014 March Special Town Meeting. He presented a spreadsheet which detailed the hard and soft costs. He noted that the cost increase had caused the Ad Hoc Community Center Advisory Committee to reduce the scope of the project. He said items such as a handicapped ramp in the front of the building and renovations to the Building Envelope, would be added to the scope on an add alternate basis. (This would involve adding back these items if the bids came in lower than expected.) Mr. Pressman inquired about the Historic Preservation Restriction on the Community Center property. Ms. Fenollosa said she believed that the Restriction had remained unchanged since it had been submitted to the Board of Selectmen with comments from the Historical Commission. Mr. Kanter agreed, stating that the Restriction had not yet, been put to bed. Mr. Pressman stated that he was concerned that the potential for affordable housing had been eliminated from the Restriction. Ms. Fenollosa asked Mr. Pressman if he wished to postpone the vote on additional funding because of his housing objections to which he replied that he did not. Ms. Fenollosa called for a vote on Mr. Goddards request for $500,000 in additional CPA funding for the Community Center. After a motions duly made and seconded, the CPC voted (7-1) to recommend to the June 2014 Special Town Meeting the appropriation of $500,000 in cash from the Community Preservation Fund for supplemental funding for renovations to the Community Center. 1