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<br />Capital Expenditures Committee Minutes 10-27-04 <br /> <br />All members present (Burnell, Edson, Lamb, Rosenberg, Stolz) <br />Karen Simmons, Recreation Director, and Sandra Shaw, <br />Recreation Committee <br />David Kanter, Appropriation Committee <br /> <br />Recreation presentation: all materials draft (no guidelines <br />from Town Manager yet, no vote by Recreation Committee yet) <br /> <br />Prior projects: Kineen underway, will be finished; Adams <br />tennis courts not bid because DPW engineering work needed <br />and understaffed/not available, hope to bid next spring for <br />work next summer <br /> <br />Neighborhood facilities: <br />•Center Tennis Court backboard: patched and wearing; <br />noisy for neighbors. Propose to replace with new, more <br />sound-absorbent material (not on prior-year priority list). <br />$30,000 enterprise including material, surface work, <br />installation. Only apparent maintenance need: restriping <br />lines annually <br />•Rindge neighborhood playground (also not on prior-year <br />priority list; would jump over Franklin playground, which is <br />less used): replace deteriorated fence and gates $14,000) <br />and replace swing set, install absorbent surface (work not <br />done when rest of playground rebuilt). Total cost $35,000, <br />tax levy <br /> questions on fence maintenance (rely on DPW, with <br />Recreation operational funds; DPW monthly surveys of <br />conditions now reduced to quarterly), and on whether $35,000 <br />estimate for neighborhood playground work is enough; don’t <br />want to have to go back in and redo partial jobs, tear up <br />landscaping again <br /> need to raise, generally, issue of inadequate <br />operating funds for routine maintenance and upkeep of <br />facilities, perhaps even dedicated staff—emphasize in CEC <br />report <br /> question on how do equipment depreciation for <br />enterprise equipment (and where that depreciation cash is <br />held, and what called and how explain it properly so funds <br />not diverted to other uses), but NOT doing depreciation for <br />recreation equipment in tax levy (i.e., lighting for <br />softball fields, scheduled for costly replacement later in <br />decade)—obviously inconsistent accounting treatment <br /> <br /> <br />