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<br />Minutes of the Community Preservation Committee <br />May 6, 2010 <br />2:30 pm <br />Room 207 <br />Town Office Building <br /> <br />Present: <br />Board Members: <br />Betsey Weiss, Chair; Marilyn Fenollosa, Vice Chair; Joel Adler, <br /> <br />Norman Cohen, Jeanne Krieger, Wendy Manz, Leo McSweeney and Sandy Shaw. <br />Administrative Assistant: <br />Nathalie Rice <br />Absent: <br /> Dick Wolk <br /> <br />Also in attendance were Selectman, Hank Manz; David Kanter and Shirley Stoltz of the <br />Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC); John Bartenstein of the Appropriations <br />Committee and Dawn McKenna, Chair of the Tourism Committee. <br /> <br /> <br />Ms. Weiss called the meeting to order at 2:35 pm. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1.CPC Review of Municipal Projects – <br />Ms. Weiss opened the discussion and <br />explained the need for deadlines for the receipt of information on municipal <br />st <br />projects. She suggested that the November 1 deadline should apply to <br />th <br />municipal application submission, and offered the date of December 15 for <br />the final receipt of any addenda. <br /> <br />There was a lengthy discussion of the Town Office Building (TOB) project, <br />with many members agreeing that the process had been difficult. There was a <br />sentiment among some members that the Town should be held to the same <br />standard as all other applicants, and that if information was not received in a <br />timely fashion, a municipal project should be either turned down or postponed <br />to the following fiscal year. Ms. Weiss recalled the timeline of the TOB <br />project and said she did not receive requested additional information in a <br />timely fashion. There was some question among members whether the receipt <br />of the information would have changed the ultimate CPC vote, and others <br />questioned exactly how much information was appropriate for the CPC to <br />request. Mr. Kanter stated that the Capital Expenditures Committee did not <br />ask for an additional breakdown beyond the 6-page report received by the <br />th <br />CPC on March 11. He said it was not the role of his committee to analyze the <br />details of the project and that CEC members did not have the expertise to do <br />so. Ms. Manz stated her belief that the CPC needed to decide upon the level of <br />detail needed for its decision-making. She supported Mr. Kanter’s opinion that <br />committee members do not have the expertise to make decisions on detailed <br />elements of proposed projects. <br /> <br /> 1 <br /> <br />