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Community Preservation Committee Thursday, January 22, 2009 Legion Room 4:00 pm Present: Betsey Weiss, Chair; Marilyn Fenollosa, Vice Chair; Joel Adler, Norman Cohen, Jeanne Krieger, Wendy Manz, Leo McSweeney, Nathalie Rice, Admin. Asst.; Sandy Shaw and Dick Wolk. Mr. David Kanter of the CEC was also present. The meeting was called to order at 4:05 pm. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Stone Building project, and to update the Committee on other projects which are being finalized. 1.Stone Building – Pat Goddard of Facilities, Connie Rawson, Director of the Library and Susan Bennett, Director of the Historical Society were in attendance for the discussion. Mr. Goddard commenced the discussion by stating there had been a meeting of the PBC, (Permanent Building Committee) to discuss the Stone Building project and to make recommendations about moving forward. After a great deal of discussion, the PBC decided it would make sense to scale back the costs of the project to $180,000. This was based upon the Historical Society’s experience with the Hancock-Clarke House, and the general agreement that the Library should use a less expensive firm and slow the process down. It had been decided at the PBC meeting that the project would not include the preparation of construction documents, but would include the preparation of an Historic Structures Report and an evaluation of the suitability of the site for constructing the “ell” on the back of the building. Mr. Goddard explained that a possible scenario for the project was that in FY 2010, the Historic Structures Report and Design Drawings could be completed; FY 2011, Construction Drawings could be done; and then in FY2012, construction could take place. Ms. Bennett shared her experience with the Hancock-Clark House, and stressed that she believed the lowered cost of $180,000 was still high. She said $43K had already been spent on a building analysis report, and that she felt $30-35K would carry the project through design schematics. She also compared the Stone project to the renovations at the Old Town Hall in 2000-2001. The area of the Old Town Hall was approximately the same at 7,000 sq.ft, and the renovations were comparable. In that project, she stated, 35K brought the project all the way through pre-construction drawings. Mr. Kanter raised the point that it was a leap of faith to go all the way to construction documents with so little Town review of the concept of a Heritage 1