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Minutes of the Community Preservation Committee
Monday, March 20, 2017
Dawes Meeting Room
Town Office Building
1625 Massachusetts Avenue
7:15 PM
Committee Members Present: Marilyn Fenollosa (Chair), Norman Cohen, Charles Hornig, David
Horton, Jeanne Krieger, Robert Pressman.
Committee Members Absent: Dick Wolk (Vice Chair), Sandra Shaw, Melinda Walker
Ms. Fenollosa called the meeting to order at 7:16 PM.
1) Judges Road/Pine Grove- Ms. Fenollosa advised that Carl Valente had requested an
additional $16,000 to the $1,032,000 amount the CPC previously approved on March 10,
to cover the Town's legal expenses for the transaction. She noted that the amount
could be taken out of the Administrative Expense account or added to the project cost,
which the Committee has done in the past. The Committee agreed that this latter option
was preferable, and after a motion duly made and seconded, voted (6-0) to approve a
new project cost for the Judges Road/Pine Grove project at $1,048,000.
2) Community Center Sidewalk- Ms. Fenollosa noted that the Town and the Scottish Rite
have tentatively agreed to locate the proposed sidewalk adjacent to the driveway on
the left side, connecting to the existing sidewalk closer to the Community Center. Such
relocation would require additional funds because of the cut through the existing stone
wall and other design issues, raising the project cost from the previously approved
$220,000 to $250,000. After a motion duly made and seconded the Committee voted
(6-0) to approve this higher project cost of $250,000.
3) CPC Report to 2017 Annual Town Meeting - Ms. Fenollosa described the changes to the
Annual Report from the latest draft circulated on March 17: some minor typos and
corrections suggested by Mr. Horton, the addition of a minority statement to the Stone
Building project write-up, and the corrected amounts just voted on. Mr. Hornig asked
that the text on page 1 describing the number of projects being recommended to Town
Meeting be reduced to reflect the one Indefinitely Postponed project (Center
Streetscape), and the Committee agreed that this was appropriate. Corresponding
changes would be made throughout the text box on that page. After a motion duly
made and seconded, the Committee then voted (6-0) to approve the 2017 Report to
Annual Town Meeting as so corrected and modified.
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There being no other business, after a motion duly made and seconded, the meeting
was adjourned at 7:23 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Fenollosa
Chair
Community Preservation Committee
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