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Capital Expenditures Committee Minutes 11-10-04 Town Offices Room 105, 7:30 p.m. All members present (Burnell, Edson, Lamb, Rosenberg, Stolz) Olga Guttag, School Committee, Dana Ham, School facilities, Susan Bottan, School finance David Kanter, Appropriation Committee liaison Discussion: Cary Hall use and facilities; no one in charge of hall per se Schools presentation: all materials draft (no vote by School Committee yet) 1. Prior projects •LHS auditorium lighting bids $45,000 over appropriation, so drafting new specs with FOLMADS consultant LHS and Diamond stages just rerigged (cables, etc.); rigging company could look at Cary needs and costs for theatrical use of stage, if wanted •Hastings stress crack engineered, to be bid Feb., work in spring •Hastings roof: bids requested three times, no bidders, because of timing; rebid in March for summer 2005 work •Harrington gym floor work done and under budget about $25k •Estabrook roof repairs: Weathershield fixed a lot of leaks, ongoing •LHS science building: whole roof stripped, new membrance, reflashed •LHS gym roof leakes fixed and seems okay now •LHS indoor track finished, ribbon cutting 11/27 2. Harrington/Fiske Harrington work ongoing, timing of move to be determined, possibly MLKing Day, February break, or later Fiske: siting issues still open; but new public construction laws, Ch. 193, also require prequalification process for general contractor and all subtrades, and no state procedures exist; have to check references, banks, insurer on all, prequalify all, and get 3 bids per subtrade, or rebid whole process; has slowedbidding from Sept. 2004 to February 2005; demolition could be separate, as Lexington structured it, or folded back into general contractor’s bid; steel and concrete costs are up, but given $32 mil. appropriation for the two schools, should be okay as of now