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Capital Expenditures Committee Minutes 11-17-04
LHS Commons II, 6:45 p.m.
All members present (Burnell, Edson, Lamb, Rosenberg, Stolz)
attended the Budget Collaboration Group [Summit] meeting I
for the fiscal year.
Following that meeting, the committee remained in
session to meet with Department of Public Works Personnel:
Bill Hadley (director), Peter Chalpin (engineer), Wayne
Brooks (operations/highway), Kelly Zeoli (mgt. analyst),
Wayne Medlin (building maintenance), and Dennis Meehan
(water/sewer)
Also attending: David Kanter, Appropriation Committee
liaison
All materials from DPW are draft (not through Town Manager
process yet)
1. Prior projects
•Hadley to give update on ’04-’05 project status
•Chalpin to provide update on building envelope spending
and reallocations
2. Priorities for this year (out-year detail where provided;
usually not provided)
•DPW building complex and scheduled equipment replacement
(discussed last)
•Building envelope: $100,000: $50,000 for ADA
accessibility (Cary and police doors?), remainder for
structural analysis of floor settling at fire HQ;
subsquent years, $1 million annually
•Annual street appropriation of $1 million from Town
funds and Ch. 90 funds; $7 mil neighborhood street
program second year completed except Loring and Basking
(2005); southeastern quadrant scheduled for next year
•$150,000 storm sewer improvements associated with road
reconstruction
•Traffic safety improvements (same requests as last year,
driven by neighborhood priorities, not Traffic Safety
Advisory Committee or Selectmen priorities: Maple and
Mass Ave., Concord and Waltham [where Met State
mitigation money may be involved]; but Maple and Lowell,
high School Committee priority, NOT on list)
•Sidewalks; $50,000 to rebrick sidewalk on Edison Way and
other projects [need to inspect!]; cannot do along
Bedford St. in north end of town, because is state right
of way
•Water distributions improvements—relining and repair
program; $0 requested because understaffed to handle
work, backlogged; need to explain this, risk of derailing
program? Much larger request pending in 2007 and after;
same for sanitary sewer improvements
•201 Bedford St. complex: highest priority; opportunity
for Hadley to meet with Building Finance Advisory
Committee, spell out need, get to Selectmen for
presentation to Town Meeting for architect/engineering
fees
•Equipment schedule: approx. $500,000 annually: envision
recycling relatively lower-mileage cars to other users
sooner; being affected by steel prices on sander bodies,
but did acquire, acquired pothole patch equipment with
delivery pending
Kanter: request funds to update street conditions
software?
Meeting concluded 10:15 p.m.
John S. Rosenberg, Clerk