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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-03-30-PBC-min.pdf TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS PERMANENT BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes of Tuesday March 30. 1999 meeting in the Conference Room, School Administration Building, as approved April 28, 1999 The meeting was called to order by Chairman Kelley at 7.30 p.m. when a quorum was attained with other PBC members Cannalonga, Himmel, Poinelli and Touart present. Also attending were School Committee Chairman Peltz, Director of School Building Operations John Moynihan III and John Miller and Philip Lewis of HMFH. Minutes of March 10. 1999 were approved as amended and corrected. Minutes of March 17 1999 were approved as amended and corrected. Comments on candidates interviewed March 22 and 23 included reports from Moynihan and Miller on their checking candidates' references as well as impressions gathered at the interview sessions of last week. Agreed after brief discussion to pare down to two - Kealy and Melnick- the applicants to consider. Moynihan will call each of them asking them to submit salary or pay expectations as employee or consultant, a request to be specified in writing in a letter to follow It is hoped that these will arrive in time for consideration at next week's meeting. Before contacting the candidates, Moynihan will ascertain the Town's benefit package for employees. After considering the applicants' responses, the committee will decide whether another interview is needed. Applicant Aiello will be told that the committee is still deliberating about candidates. Architects' Agenda High School site plan around LABB van drop-off and narking areas now shows a bowed out area as the vans swing around ABC building on their way to and from the morning check-in with LABB students. The radius of the curve going around the building has been increased so that vans and high school students walking from where they have been dropped off can see each other better This plan change was endorsed unanimously by the committee. High School library fenestration choices A through E were shown, with committee preference expressed for plan "E" with note that the windows should be made as safe as possible not to hit students walking close to the building when windows are open. Accessibility for high school auditorium and science lecture hall can be arranged fairly easily by removing seats in the rear of the auditorium orchestra and balcony rear, making room for six wheelchairs and their companions each. The stage will be accessible from the orchestra via the hallway to the right of the auditorium. However the orchestra pit is two feet down; the committee favored applying for a portable lift to be made available to accommodate a handicapped person who may need to get to the pit. Also shown that seats could be removed at the front of the Science Lecture Hall for accommodating wheel chairs. PBC Minutes of 3/30/99 -page 2 Accessibility of Clarke auditorium and two unser level lecture/classrooms presents a challenge due to the steepness down from the first floor toward the stage. The solution recommended was to provide four platform areas to accommodate four wheel chair and their companions. The state access board code requires provision for four wheel chairs in each of the two lecture/classrooms that can be walled off from the main auditorium. These are not currently being used because the movable walls do not work, but plans call for their repair and the classrooms would be needed during school renovation and thereafter. Although providing the "audience/student" wheelchair spaces is not difficult at the rear of each walled-off room,providing accessibility to the front of each lecture area would require a special inclined wheelchair lift from the main first floor entrance to the auditorium. Diamond accessibility at auditorium is almost up to code as now exists. A handrail on one or both sides of the rightmost aisle would be needed. Four wheelchair accessible seats could be provided in the front and two in the rear. A chair lift would be required at the lower end of the ramp to get up to the stage. Architects were advised to go for a variance at that school. HMFH said they would like to prepare a package of the schools' problems and proposed solutions for the three auditoriums to present to the state architectural barrier board. Middle School libraries meetings are yet to be set up. Lewis reviewed with the committee HMFH's proposed space use plan, which the committee accepted. Discussion of plans for the Clarke library postponed to next week's PBC meeting. Approval to nay on account three invoices from HMFH was VOTED for the architects' work during February at Clarke $27,882.50, the high school $27 797.50 and Diamond Middle School $20,040.00. Meeting adjourned at 10:23 p.m. until Tuesday April 6 at 8 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Erna S. Greene, Secretary