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CEC minutes - 21 November 2000 (approved) The meeting was called to order at 7:34 PM by the chairman. All members of the committee was present: Tom Griffths (TG), Shirley Stolz (SS), George Burnell (GB), Narain Bhatia (NB), and Charles Hornig (CH). Visiting were Bill Hadley, Peter Chalpin, David Charbonneau, and Brian Gilbert of the DPW. The minutes of the meeting of 7 November 2000 were approved as corrected. The bulk of the meeting was devoted to presentation and discussion of the DPW capital budget. We took these up in NB's priority order. These notes should be read with the DPW capital requests. Roads: DPW proposes spending $1.0M-$1.2M/year on road maintenance. They believe (hope) this is enough to keep the average road quality where it is now. There will be more focus on arterial streets than in the past few years. They expect to resurface some streets which they would have considered to need reconstruction in the past. DPW proposes spending $3.5M/year on street reconstruction. The $3.5M figure is pretty arbitrary (enough to do all the reconstruction over 5 years). The catch-up resurfacing seems to not be in the plan anywhere. After much discussion, we determined that this should be considered the "street improvement" program to go with the "street maintenance" program above. The committee explained its proposal from last year to do both the catch-up resurfacing and reconstruction over 9 years, with resurfacing happining first. DPW will come back with a proposal containing both components over a more reasonable period of time. DPW Facility: DPW proposes $1M in FY02 for design, $12M in FY04 for construction. This assumes using the Hartwell Ave. site. The new facility would be ~80K sq. ft., about twice as big as what they have now. DPW is redoing the study funded 2 years ago and expects something to show in a month or so. The committee expressed some feeling that $12M was an unreasonable amount to spend. The committee explained its proposal from last year to replace the barn and renovate and slightly expand the newer building. DPW will come back with an estimate of what a plan like this might cost. Sewer I/I: DPW has determined that the I/I program as most recently proposed will not