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Community Preservation Committee Thursday, February 26, 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.; and Sandy Shaw. Dick Kanter and Charles Lamb of the CEC were also present. Absent: Dick Wolk The meeting was called to order at 4:04 pm. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the projects before the CPC which have not yet been finalized. This included the Center Fields Project, the acquisition of open space, and the Stone Building. 1.Stone Building Update – Ms. Fenollosa updated the Committee on the progress the Stone Building project, stating that the Library had met with the Permanent Building Committee and that the Historical Commission had subsequently met with Pat Goddard of Facilities. She said there was still some disagreement about how much funding was needed for the building, but that there was general agreement that a Historic Structures report was the proper place to start. She said the Report would probably take $30-40,000 to complete, and that another $5- 6,000 might be needed to assess the condition of the building. She said beyond this initial phase of the project, the remainder of the requested $180,000 could be used to stabilize the building. The stabilization might include work on the walls and roof, or removing the aluminum siding on the building and putting on new clapboards. She said the information in the HSR would be helpful in deciding how to move forward, but that the two processes could conceivably be carried on concurrently. Ms. Fenollosa added that Ms. Hooper, Town Clerk was heading a Committee for the Heritage Center and that in addition to deciding on how best to proceed, the Committee would also be to developing a plan to make the Center self-supporting in the long term. Ms. Krieger expressed her opinion that approval for the renovations to the Stone Building would still have to go through the Library Trustees, and that it would be a Trustee issue as to how to proceed. She was concerned that the CPC had voted on a $180,000 project for design and schematics, which in the absence of Trustee review had evolved potentially into a construction project. 2.Center Playfields Project – Dave Pinsonneault, Superintendent of Public Grounds met with the Committee to update them on the Center Fields Project. He distributed a summary of Tutela Engineering’s findings on the existing drainage 1