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Capital Expenditures Committee & Joint Meeting with Appropriation Committee Proposed Minutes March 7th, 2000 1. Meeting was called to order by the Chairmen in the Bird Room in Cary Hall at 7:00pm. Members present: Narain Bhatia, Tom Griffiths, Charles Hornig, and Shirley Stolz. 2. Charles reported on gang-of-8 meeting: ?? Still worried about high high school bids. ?? When all elementary bids taken into account, project will likely be $2.5M- to-$3.5M over budget. th 3. Tom reported on the March 7 School Committee Meeting: ?? The School Committee decided to adopt Option III: build two schools and renovate 4. ?? Not clear was whether the School Committee believed the aggressive start date of mid-2001 could be met. ?? Tom had urged the School Committee to move aggressively. ?? The School Committee announced its FY2001, FY2002, and FY2003 small ticket budgets of $2.1M, $300K, and $300K, respectively. This agrees with the Scenario 1 budget. 4. The Committee worked on its final Town Meeting positions prior to meeting with the Appropriation Committee, agreeing to conform to the Appropriation Committee positions where the Committees did not already conform: ?? The Committee noted that the $1M amount for elementary school design and development still needed a description and justification. Tom is meeting with John Moynihan tomorrow to learn what has happened along those lines. ?? The Committee voted unanimously to support the Appropriation Committee’s recommendation to raise the General Fund amount for DPW equipment from $72,864 to $97,000 to allow the DPW to purchase a sander/dumptruck, it’s highest priority purchase. ?? The Committee voted unanimously to support the Town Manager’s recommendation that $125,505 be added to road maintenance. This conforms with the Appropriation Committee position. ?? The Committee agreed to adopt a $30K item for FY2001 for work on playgrounds. (3 in favor, 1 abstention) ?? The Committee agreed unanimously to recommend $25K for a needs study for the Senior Center. 5. At about 8:10pm the Committee joined the Appropriation Committee at a joint meeting in the Civil Room of Cary Hall with the following results: ?? The Appropriation Committee declined to revisit the issue of providing money out of the general fund for playgrounds. Its position was that there is a $300K-to-$400K surplus in Recreation Commission funds, and that it believes the Recreation Enterprise Fund should be tapped for such things, despite the playground’s not being a revenue-generating activity. Appropriation indicated it would support Enterprise-Fund money for playground work. ?? The Appropriation Committee was unwilling to reconsider its recommendation against any funding for a Senior Center study.