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Community Preservation Committee Monday, December 1, 2008 Legion Room 4:00 pm Present: Betsey Weiss, Chair; Marilyn Fenollosa, Vice Chair; Joel Adler, Norman Cohen, Jeanne Krieger, Wendy Manz, Leo McSweeney, Nathalie Rice, Admin. Asst.; Sandy Shaw and Dick Wolk. David Kanter, CEC liaison was also present. The meeting was called to order at 4:05 pm. The purpose of the meeting was to review three projects before the CPC for FY 2010. These included renovation and redesign work at the Fire Headquarters, renovations to the Stone Building, and the purchase of three properties by LexHAB. 1.Fire Headquarters Renovation and Redesign – Chief Middlemiss opened the discussion. He was joined by Pat Goddard and Mark Barrett of Facilities. The Chief explained that the planning consultants, the Maguire Group, had come up with three possible options; Option A, would include keeping the existing footprint, upgrading the existing building, and reconstructing four bays at the rear of the building , Option B would necessitate demolishing and completely rebuilding the building, and Option C, would include only minor upgrades to the interior of the existing building. These Options were anticipated to cost, 8 million, 10 million and 3 million respectively. Chief Middlemiss explained that Option A was the most feasible and reasonable option being considered. He said that it allowed for the station to remain in service during the renovations and allowed for the addition of greatly needed space for the fire trucks and for equipment storage. He said the Design and Engineering cost for this option was $568,254 of which he would be requesting approximately 29%. This would amount to approximately $168,154. (The percentage of 29% was determined by the square footage of the area in the existing building to be renovated compared to the square footage of the entire construction. The CPC can only fund work associated with renovating the existing structure, as opposed to new construction.) Similarly, the expected request for CPC funds for the construction phase of the project would be 29% of the total of $5,308,810, or approximately $1,539,554. The Chief showed the Committee the floor plan for Option A, and explained that under this option, the existing station would be salvaged, the construction of the bays could continue with fairly little interruption to operations, the façade of the building would remain intact, and there would be relatively little disturbance to the site. In response to a question from Ms. Fenollosa, he added that the upgraded Headquarters would be able to accommodate the East Lexington Station and its 1