HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-04-02-PBC-min.pdf TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
PERMANENT BUILDING COMMITTEE
Minutes of joint meeting with the School Committee Monday Anril 2. 2001 in the Farr
Conference Room, Museum of Our National Heritage, as approved December 13, 2001.
The meeting was began at about 7 15 p.m., following an executive session of the School
Committee with all five members of the School Committee, Acting Superintendent of Schools
Joanne Benton and Director of School Facilities John Moynihan and representatives of the TLCR
architectural firm Todd Lee, Nelson Hammer and Marianne Smith. Attending from the PBC
were Chairman Kelley with other members Cannalonga, Kennedy Poinelli and Touart. Several
members of the public also attended.
Following a brief public comment time, the architects displayed and explained alternative site
plans for the proposed new Fiske and Harrington schools. Each elementary school is to to be
planned for 500 students, each to contain 16 general classrooms, four Kindergartens and special
education spaces as well as dedicated spaces for science, technology music and art. The
Harrington School also must accommodate an early education program. The 16 classrooms are
planned for a central two-story block, with a one-story wing on each end accommodating the
more special spaces. For Harrington two orientations of the building on the same location were
shown. For Fiske three alternative plans were shown: (1) a temporary facility to be built
between the present Fiske and its open fields and a new school to be erected on top of where the
present Fiske now sits; (2) a new school in the middle of the site and (3) a school at the Adams
Street end of the site. The architects noted that political opposition to the last of these is likely
.Nearly enough portable classrooms already exist in town to make up one temporary elementary
school.
Poinelli advised that the education specifications be reviewed to make sure that they will fit in
the architects' plans.
Looking ahead, schematic plans for Bowman and Estabrook renovation and expansion will be
needed in time for appropriation of funds at an October 2001 Special Town Meeting to carry
these two schools through Design Development. It was pointed out that the public needs to be
kept informed all along and will want to know especially about plans for eventual reuse of
existing schools.
Meeting adjourned at 7:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Erna S. Greene, Secretary