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CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO OCTOBER 16,2017, STMs 2017-2&-3 Article 4:APPROPRIATE Fund Funding DESIGN FUNDS FOR Authorization Source Committee Recommends FIRE Requested HEADQUARTERS $676,300 GF (Debt) Approval(7-0) (Expected to be included in a subsequent Debt- Exclusion Referendum) "To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for design, engineering and architectural services, including production of construction documents, for a new Fire Headquarters; determine whether the money will be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto." "DESCRIPTION: These funds will permit the design work for the new fire station at the original Fire Headquarters site to proceed through the construction document development stage. Subsequent funding for construction will likely be requested at a Town Meeting in the Spring of 2018." (Town Warrant, 18 Sep 2017) Lexington's main Fire Station and Fire Department Headquarters (LFDHQ) opened in 1947, when the Town's population was approximately half what it is today, and the role and equipment of the fire department were quite different. LFDHQ's shortcomings have been chronicled and evaluated in several reports over the past decade'. Town Meeting approved appropriations to study alternative locations and the facility requirements for a renovation or replacement. Based on those reports, Town Meeting approved the purchase of 171/173 Bedford Street(now identified as 173 Bedford Street.) for use as swing space during construction of a replacement facility at the current 45 Bedford Street facility(STM 2016-5). Subsequently, TM approved$450,000 to bring the replacement project through design development, with the expectation that this STM would be asked to approve funding through Construction Documents, with a debt-exclusion referendum to follow, for construction funding approval. ATM 2014,Article 14K Design Study IP HQ Requirements STM 2015-2,Article 6 Study $20,000 Potential Site Evaluation STM 2016-5,Article 2 Land Acquisition and $4,443,000 Swing Space Designer/Traffic Study STM 2017-1,Article 2 Design Development $450,000 45 Bedford Street STM 2017-1,Article 3 Design Development $50,000 Swing Space For analysis on the decision to replace the current LFDHQ, please see CEC report to STM 2016-5 released September 14 2016 (and the Errata, released October 26,2016), and the AC report to that same Special Town Meeting released September 14 2016. The appropriation requested in this article will provide funds to bring the current design through construction documents. It is anticipated that there will be a debt exclusion referendum in November or December, 2017, for the project, including the associated swing-space costs covered under Article 5. The design,by Tecton Architects, is for a 26,000 square foot facility (the current facility is 11,800 square feet) on the site of the current LFDHQ and providing: ' See: Donham&Sweeney Public Safety Building Feasibility Study July 9,2010 (Donham Sweeney Report)Cecil Group Final Report of the Lexington Ad Hoc Townwide Facilities Master Planning Committee August 30,2013 (Cecil Group Report);Final Report Town of Lexington Fire Dept. Staffing Study June 2012(Municipal Resources Report). 6