HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-01-31-PBC-min.pdf TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
PERMANENT BUILDING COMMITTEE
Minutes of Wednesday January 31 2001 meeting in the Construction Trailer on the high school
grounds, as approved November 12, 2002.
The meeting was called to order at 7.23 p.m. by Chairman Kelley with other PBC members
Himmel, Kennedy, Poinelli and Touart present. Also attending were Project Manager/Owner's
Representative Bill Kealy, Director of School Building Maintenance John Moynihan, and School
Committee members Robin DiGiammarino and Michelle Hutnick.
Distributed materials included the following.
1) Project Manager Kealy's written report summary
2) Eastern s Diamond Middle School CPM Update#3 forwarded by HMFH's Olga Kahn
3) Palmer &Dodge's Patricia DeAngelis' list of outstanding issues on Todd Lee Design
agreement
Kealv's report was supplemented by a recounting of improved relationships with Eastern whose
CPM update has just been received. Relationships with Diamond principal Hennessey and
HMFH and the partnering meeting all have gone very well. In order to install new windows,
Eastern is to have one classroom at a time.
At the high school Phase I is essentially done, with the library to be the last item to be completed.
Phase 2 will be accelerated. Phase 2A, the auditorium, will begin May 14 or as soon as possible.
Phase 4C will be the crunch schedule. Air conditioning in the auditorium has been bought.
Offices and interior spaces will also be air conditioned.
Roof problems at Diamond are to be worked out. The phasing plan for the Fall is to be begun in
the summer. Work in the science area is to begin in the Summer.
Plans for Elementary Schools were reviewed. Would it be possible to fashion a temporary
elementary school by gathering and grouping temporary classrooms on either the Estabrook or
Fiske school as swing space, thereby relieving the Fiske site of the stress of bearing two school
buildings? This may be a less costly alternative Poinelli foretold that the town may find that
future school construction costs may be an increased burden with construction costs rising, new
energy code going into effect and decreased state reimbursement rates projected.
For the new elementary design contract, the basis for design fees should be set according to scope
of work and not by construction cost. Both Himmel and Poinelli agreed to work on cost
implications as they would relate to A/E contract negotiations. Quorum evaporated at 9.42 and
the meeting ended shortly after that.
Respectfully submitted, // gym-�i� Erna S. Greene, Secretary