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Capital Expenditures Committee
Meeting Notes 10-6-04
The Committee met 10-6-04 at Town Office room 111, 7:30-9:25
p.m.
Present: Burnell, Edson, Lamb, Rosenberg, Stolz, Kanter
(Appropriation liaison)
Likely meeting dates: October 27, November 10,November 17,
to be scheduled as schools,
fire/recreation/library/conservation (DCAM land near
Brookhaven/Met State? Wright farm?), schools can get their
agendas in order. Traffic Safety (see below, Lamb to check)
NOTE to CEC liaisons: in addition to requests for next
year (DPW equipment, water and sewer, roads, Recreation,
etc.), ask presenters also to update us on status of
projects approved last year (Adams tennis courts and
basketball court, Kineen play equipment; fire truck and East
Lexington fire station reopening; DPW equipment, roads,
water and sewer, building envelope —among other issues how
is town office new radiator project being funded?; schools
from gym floors and roofs to stress crack repair, etc.)
SUMMIT SCHEDULE: Burnell to check and circulate
Discussion on Cary Hall space use for community access cable
facilities (rooms now used for DPW maintenance
supplies/staging), sound system for larger hall, etc.
Recreation: not yet ready to report on capital needs (golf
course pond retaining wall being the largest outstanding
item)
Per Stolz, no money left over from Lincoln Fields
reconstruction for construction of bathroom facilities (DEP
involvement requires wells, annual methane monitoring);
design for bathroom and storage space for athletic equipment
(pro bono, Bill Erickson) would have cost about $220,000
est. Lincoln Park endowment trustees would possibly put
forward $75,000 toward a design they liked
Stolz to talk to Recreation's Sandra Shaw about
starging an effort to involve Recreation (Karen, committee
members), Selectmen liaison, Appropriation, Lincoln Park
trustees, DPW (equipment storage needs for field
maintenance), Town Manager, maybe the citizen group that
moved the field reconstruction, with goal of bringing
bathroom/storage project forward for spring 2005 Town
Meeting
Fire: public safety staffing advisory committee report now
available on-line; examine for capital implications
(Same for water and sewer rate report, rel. to capital
reserve funds; link to preliminary report forwarded by Lamb
10-7 a.m.)
Harrington: move-in now likely over Christmas, Fiske
relocation over February vacation; construction there
depending on steel and concrete costs when bid, other items
White House: Schools doing a needs analysis for space,
rooms, etc. PBC then (mid Oct.) to draw down funds for study
scope of work, bid it out; SC to go to Town Meeting for
architectural/engineering funds at Town Meeting spring 2005
DPW facilities: PBS study perhaps not needed, given
endorsement by Building Finance Advisory Committee (BFAC) of
Camp Dresser McKee scheme for entire replacement; DPW to
bring request for A/E funds to Town Meeting spring 2005?
Hadley? Selectman Kelley?
Traffic: SC wants $56,000 for new traffic controller/left
turn at Harrington: Lamb to ask TSAC chair about how that is
prioritized, and any other possible items, such as Spring
Street, for which we should have a separate presentation
BFAC: to do preliminary report by year-end, mostly updating
old facilities study, for future action; CEC ought to meet
with them as a whole before final report issued
Edson notes, from BFAC site visits, deplorable state of
maintenance of public buildings (not painted, gables rotting
out) such as center playground storage building, cemetary
building; make a point of this in our next report text and
photo demonstration, call on town to finance given recent
wave of new capital spending; coordinate with Appropriation
Selectmen intend to "review' cash-capital policy: Burnell to
follow
Appropriation: Rosenberg to be liaison, first and third
Thursdays; Kanter to provide meeting notes to CEC
Kanter also notes open item of Library trustees repayment
obligation to town given that fundraising exceeded $4 mil
goal?
John Rosenberg, Clerk