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Meeting of the Appropriation Committee held on Tuesday, May 27, 1969, at 7:45 P.M., in the Comptroller' s Office, Town Office Building . Members present: R. Gary, Chairman; J. Blaisdell; L. Burnell; F. Furash; J. Mitchell; H. B. Moore; D. White; L. Zehner, E. Flynn The Chairman advised that 5 bids had been received for the Junior High School and that the Permanent Building Committee was recommending that the low bid of $5,515,000. be accepted. There was a spread of 8650,000. between the low and high bid. The Chairman also advised that the Select- men and Mr. Douglass had agreed verbally on a price of $55,000. and that it was hoped that an option would be had by the time of Town Meeting . �.� Meeting was held at 8:00 P.M. with Robert Cataldo, Chairman of the Board 1.0 of Selectmen and John McSweeney, Town Engineer. Discussion was held as +.-a to the proposed new addition to the Town Office Building. Preliminary scale drawings of the addition and the interior renovation of the Police Building and its addition of a new garage were presented. R. Cataldo advised that $750,000., of which 5100,000. would be applied to the Police Building, would be needed. The criteria of 100 Square feet per desk space and 320 Square feet per office was used in anticipation of a future town population of 45,000 in approximately 15 years. Of the $8,000. approved at the Town Meeting in March $5,000. has been spent and the balance of 83,000. plus the 940,000. requested at the June Town Meeting will be applied to the drawing up of final specifications. The question of a separate section of the new addition for Civil Defense purposes to secure Federal funds was discussed but was not generally approved. R. Cataldo stated that no new departments have been added but that room for expan- sion was built into the plans . R. Cataldo questionned progress on an appointment and recommendations for the Salary Study Committee . R. Gary expressed his feeling that a member of the Appropriation Committee did not properly belong on this Committee . E. Furash will complete his draft of the strurture of the Salary Study Committee and present it to the Selectmen for review. The meeting with Mr. Cataldo and Mr. McSweeney was closed at 9:20 P.M. Recommendations for the June Special Town Meeting: Article 1 - Committee Reports - No recommendation Article 2 - Favorable action - junior High School - $5,515,000. $ 41,607.85 transferred from previous Artic les 23,392.15 transferred from E & D 65,000.00 5,450,000.00 to be bonded over 20 years Article 3 - Favorable action - Town Office Building - to be raised on the tax levy - X40,000. Article 4 - Favorable action - Job trainees - to be raised on the tax levy - 810,000.