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70 -2 Selectmen's Meeting — September 7, 2016 engineering work, legal closing costs and surveying so this would bring it to $4.5 Million. The Board supports this article and Ms. Barry will present to Town Meeting. Ms. Barry recognized Mr. Hurley, Chairman of the School Committee, and Mr. Goddard Public Facilities Director. Article 3 — Supplemental Appropriations for Middle Schools — Additions and Remodeling. Mr.Hurley indicated the School Committee took a vote and decided to indefinitely postpone. Article 4 — Supplemental Appropriation for School Facilities Capital Projects Mr. Hurley indicated this article leads to the bids for the larger classrooms and the way that it was bid was 5 classrooms with 6 as an alternate. The bids are based on the Special Town Meeting 1, Article 2, back in 2015. $3 Million Dollars was voted for the five classrooms or for the alternate 6 classrooms. The bids came in above the amount appropriated and the shortfall between the bids and the $3M leaves us $1,430,000 short for 6 modulars or, if 5 modulars, it would be $878,000 short. The Committee voted to request a supplement of $1.430,000 for the 6 modular classrooms: 2 at Bridge, 2 at Bowman, 2 at Fiske. The reason for 6 is that we need that much to decompress the spaces there now even without increased enrollment. Mr. Cohen asked if the $1,430,000 will be borrowed. Mr. Addelson answered yes. The question is how much of the supplemental appropriation will be sought at the Special Town Meeting. When Town Meeting approved $5,386,000 last December, it included $520,000 for design work on the Hastings School in the event the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) did not approve that project. It was also represented at that time if the MSBA were to approve funding of the Hastings project, that $520,000 would be available as a potential source of supplemental funds for the modulars if the bids came in higher than the estimates. We have a recommendation from the School Committee for 6 modulars at $1,430,000 to which we can apply the $520,000 that is no longer needed from the appropriation last December, to seek a net supplemental appropriation under this article of $910,000 in the final issuance of debt. Mr. Addelson is comfortable with the language in the motion last December that it is broad enough that it would allow the $520,000 to be used toward the financing of the modulars. Mr. Cohen indicated we do not have to mention the $520,000 at all in the motion. Mr. Addelson said if everyone agrees, that is the case. Mr. David Kanter, Capital Expenditures Committee, indicated the committee has voted to endorse this article. Because of the compression which already exists in the elementary schools, we need the 6 modulars to address that as well as the enrollment growth. Mr. Kelley joined the meeting.