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noted that the consultant had presented the study committee with two alternatives, with cost estimates of 1.3 and 1.9 million. He said Mr. Valente, the Town Manager, would be reviewing the alternatives, and might delay the construction project for this year, in favor of additional study. In that case, the request before the CPC would be lowered to approximately $25,000 to cover additional study monies. There was considerable discussion on this project from a policy standpoint. Ms. Sally Zimmerman (of the Historical Commission) spoke as a private citizen, and expressed her concern that CPC funds were being used for what she would interpret as “routine maintenance and restructuring”. She delivered a letter to the Committee outlining her concerns. The letter was entered in the public record. She said it was her experience that in other communities CPA funds were used to further “preservation” goals. She also questioned whether the Committee had involved the HDC in their review process for the Town Offices Building and Police Station projects. She felt the CPC was in a position to leverage funds in difficult economic times, not only for preservation projects, but for housing and conservation purposes as well. Ms. Weiss addressed Ms. Zimmerman’s concern regarding open space acquisitions, noting that the Committee was only able to fund projects that came to the CPC. She reminded Ms. Zimmerman that the Town had recently voted at Fall Town Meeting to accept a CPC approved project for open space – the Goodwin land. She also noted that the inclusion of the Town Office and the Police Station buildings in the HDC was what brought the projects before the CPC. In response to Ms. Zimmerman’s concern that the CPC was not attentive enough to conservation acquisitions, Mr. Cohen informed Ms. Zimmerman that the CPC was currently considering a significant conservation acquisition for Spring Town Meeting. Mr. Mehr suggested that the CPC should be “building up stores” for future conservation and housing purchases and said he felt that a 50-100 year planning horizon would be appropriate. He added that he felt Town employees were important, but that the CPC needed to select projects according to a set of definable guidelines with long-term goals. Police Station Space Needs Study 7. – Captain Mark Corr presented this request for $45,000 and commenced by updating the hearing on the history of the Police Station renovations in 1956, 1970, 1994 and most recently in 2006. He discussed the various floors in the Police Station and itemized the difficulties with each one. The most notable is the access issue on the basement floor, where prisoners must be walked into the building through the mechanical room, and where female officers must exit through the men’s locker room to get to their cruisers. Mr. Edward Olsen questioned whether the improvements to the station and the needs study qualified for CPA funding. Ms. Weiss explained that the building is in a 4