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Lexington Permanent Building Committee Meeting Maria Hastings Elementary School Building Project SBC MEETING MINUTES DATE OF MEETING: June 5, 2017 at 7:00P.M. at 201 Bedford Street, Lexington MA PROJECT: Maria Hastings Elementary School Building Project Dore & Whittier Project #MP16-0112 SUBJECT: School Building Committee Meeting (D&W#11) ATTENDING: Jon Himmel Lexington PBC Chair Curt Barrentine Lexington PBC Charles Favazzo Lexington PBC Carl Oldenburg Lexington PBC Richard Perry Lexington PBC Howard Hobbs Lexington PBC Mark Barrett Lexington DPF Louise Lipsitz School Principal Trip Elmore DWMP Rachel Milaschewski DWMP Donna DiNisco DiNisco Design Ken DiNisco DiNisco Design Vivian Low DiNisco Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Call to order at 7:05 M. Barrett handed out the Meeting Minutes from the 5/5 and 5/11 PBC Meetings, which the Committee agreed to table until the next scheduled PBC Meeting on 6/14 for further review. 2. Review of Project Estimate D. DiNisco began by explaining that a good portion of last week was spent reviewing the estimates from both A. M. Fogarty (third party estimator), and Walsh Brothers, adding that they will be carrying building itself has not shifted from a cost perspective, but there are many characteristics to the site which create a challenge, and in turn increases cost; some of these characteristics being the topography, storm water management parameters, need for large retaining walls, etc. D. DiNisco went on to say that the estimates were close to a 7% difference at the end of the day Friday, adding that the project team has spent a lot of time reconciling. Furthermore, she stated that Walsh wanted a couple more days to fine-tune some of their numbers, and added that she is confident they will get to a number that is agreed upon. Additionally, D. DiNisco explained that the project team had begun to put together a VE Log to bring the number down; they had gone through a series of adjustments to simplify some areas of design to be more cost effective. One major adjustment that is currently being explored is a ~15% rotation of the building away from the abutter property lines, which could allow them to avoid any easements, perform a smaller amount of blasting, and less of a retaining wall on the north side of the property. The Committee then began to review the VE items, and D. DiNisco reassured that none of these items would affect the educational program, maintenance, operations, or function of the building; she added that most of them