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<br />Hi: Immediately following are the proposed minutes of the October 26th <br />meeting of the Capital Expenditures Committee. If you find any errors, <br />please let me know. <br /> <br />Following the proposed minutes is a schedule of upcoming meetings. -Tom <br />G- <br /> <br />Capital Expenditures Committee <br />Minutes October 26, 1999 Meeting <br /> <br />1) Meeting was called to order by the Vice-Chairman at approximately <br /> 7:40pm. Members present: Shirley Stolz, Karen Dooks, Narain Bhatia, <br /> and Tom Griffiths. Prospective member George Burnell was present. <br /> The Appropriation Committee was represented by its liaison members, <br /> Deborah Brown and Sheldon Spector. The Schools were represented at <br /> the Meeting by Robin DiGiammarino and John Moynihan. <br /> <br />2) The Clerk passed out minutes of the October 14th meeting to those <br /> who hadn't received them by e-mail. He also passed out a list of <br /> future meetings. <br /> <br />3) School Task Force for the Elementary Schools: Robin DiGiammarino <br />said <br /> that a school task force was about to begin meeting concerning <br />plans <br /> for the elementary schools. The task force will deal only with <br /> educational policy, like whether there should be separate rooms for <br /> art and music. These decisions will lead to a recommendation <br /> concerning the desirability of a seventh school. The task force <br />will <br /> complete its work by February, 2000. <br /> <br />4) Status of the Elementary School Renovation Plan: John Moynihan <br /> estimated the following states of completion of the plans: <br /> <br /> Hastings---100% <br /> Harrington-100% <br /> Estabrook-- 42% <br /> Bridge----- 25% <br /> Bowman----- 25% <br /> Fiske------ 0% <br /> <br /> He also noted that a decision to add a seventh elementary school <br /> would necessitate a rework of the plans. <br /> <br />5) Cost of Completing the Elementary School Renovation Planning: John <br /> Moynihan estimated the cost to complete the current plans as <br />follows: <br /> <br /> six schools if we know whether or not to add seventh-$1 million <br /> six schools with addition of seventh left open-------$1.25 million <br /> seven schools----------------------------------------$2 million <br /> <br /> This would provide plans with sufficient specificity to allow <br />hiring <br /> a contractor. (The middle figure, above, did not include any <br />planning <br /> <br />