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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1955-11-22-ATOBC-min ADDITIONAL TOWN OPPIsF BUIsDING COMMITTEE November 22, 19. A meeting or the Additional Town Office Building Committee was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building. on Tues. day. Novemb4r 22. 19% at 8:20 P. M. Chairman Brooks, Xere. Reed, Johnson and Hunter were present, The Seeretary was also present. Chief John W, Rycroft met with the Committee and disoussed set of plans delivered to the ChairMbnis house* Chairman: Mr. Crealey talked with you? Rycroft: Yes, Chairman: I think he was interested in this door* Rycroft: I don't know What the reason for it is, but if you recall our aeeond last noting told him I wanted. the Clerk over trora next to the Chief's Office, In order to get in the Chief's office you had togo to the Clerk. Ha has left the Assistanta in. I don't ears for the Chiefts office being so large. If the Clerkla office is here, the files will be here. If we are figuring on sixty men, the files will increase all the time. Reed: The Chief's room could be out and you could put the Clerk in there, Rycroft: That would be all right. They have a door in the detention room and a stairway here, I would like this partition brought backs to here, If wø move the Assistants back over here and by cuttin4 part of mine up, there is the Clerk's orate and this used for a file room only, it will be fine. They will have more room. Then when you bring a man into the detention room you will go to the Assist4.nts1 room* Therefore you eliminate a stairway. Chairman: If we put the detention there can we have thetricky glass? Ryoroft: Yes. Chairman: What is the function of the Assistants? Rycroft: Your Lieutenants and Sergeants. They will have a de.4,k in there. Your Inspectors will be in there too. Chairman: Doing that, would you have enough room? Rycroft: It you moved the partition b“)k here I think ,.!vou would. You could cut down the 12t x 281 which would not hurt too much. I don't think you will have to, This room is going to be 121 z 101 and this one 121 x 121. Chairman: I am tninking now of how much juggling he will have to do with the windows. Why is this necessary? Rycroft: As I remember talking about that safe, it was just going to be a small thing. Chairman: Can you see a need for *Watt? Ryoroft: X can see a need for a safe, but not to that extent of takine, up that much room* Johnson: You could have something under the counter* Hunter: That would make more room, Johnson: He has those vents. here, I don't like to sop that teletype in such a prominent place* Hunters It won't be seen from the door. 7, .2. Johnson; it is a nice space there. It seems to mo Mr, Greeley kept speaking of this as Assistants' room, but it is labelad (WrItts room. OhairmAn: How many mon would you, have in there? Ryoroft: At the moment oneor two. In the future not more than more than four on a shift. There might be four, six, or eight In there for fifteen minutes at a change of shift, Chairman: With this door, that door and this wind:* you are not vine tohave much wall apace for dAsks. All you have is three foot from the partition to the door -:14 this way you have four fest from, the door to the wall. Tt is not much more than a one*man office. Rycrott; He has it set up as a Clerk's office. If you could move this back and mak?-- the detention room that big it woad give us some more room. Hunter: That door could be anywhere. Chairman: If you take it from here then you spoil down there. Aetually, how much space do you need here? Rycroft: We could eat that down. Johnson: If you took two feet off that room you would still have a window and that would giv 4 you 12' z 12' . Rycroft: You could take four feet off this one. Does anyone recall if we go direct from the garage into this area here? It you have someone who has to be assisted into the plac , this door hero is oat on the main street. johnson: You could have the ear stop here and bring him right in there. Rycroft: My shooting gentlemen woald like to get more room, They' would- like to have it come to hero to give more shooting positions. Hunter: Ben Day said he would 111“ to se room for four men at four feet to a man, Chairman: We wen't have that much room, Johnson: I think- throe foot to a man would, be enough. Rycroft: I don't think you nod as much as roar fest. They Object to the length of time it takes with two shooting. Chairman: Ftth the wall out and run it, straight down, You gain four feet in width. Johnson: The looker room looked all right did it? Rycroftt Yes. I think it is marvelous, Chairman: How many men are there on a shift? Rycroft: Around seen or sight, Chairman: For the future we will say that would double? Rycraft: Yes. The Chief rt,ised the question of using the old cells and the Chairman agreed to discuss the subject with. Mr, Oreoley. Chairman: I am not quite clear on the separate filing space. Ryoroft: The Clerk can be right in there with the tilos around her and still act as a buMr. Chairman: The way this operates, someone comes in and asks for the Chief and he communicates with her'? a3a, Rycroft: He can say, stop in and see the secretary. I don't object to the line going back beause I don't think we need 4o much room in the Chief's office, but I do want to keep in mind that tlu filing cabinets will be increasing all the time. Wo are now storing aloe in the vault which We ehouldn't be doing as w have to refer to them* Johnson: The communications could not go in the Clerk's office? Ryoroft: Vo„ That would have to be in the main offite* Chairman: Do you think, with the future increano of the departments there will be rw,d for another Clerk? Rycroft: That could be. In other departments they move her into the Assistants, Chairman: There is a lot ofspace there for Mee and if you use the wall space there is still arca to service two desks, It really is going to be a. very largo room, You don't think it is too large? Rycroft: It is for the presents but not for the P,ature. The detention room is where you want to question someone. Reed: I thought it was booking, Hycroft: We would not need that so big, Chairman: What is the prone on booking? riyorott: A man is brought in and questioned, Manytimes you bring someone in who is not under arrest so you don't look them up, but you can put them in the dltention room and then decide whether he ehould be booked or not. Reed: Why couldn't oneahalf of the Assistant ' room he a dotention room? Rycroft: A small part for detention room and use this room for what? Reed: Booking, Rycroft* You would not need it so big, Reed Shouldn't booking be somewhere in the area of the Officer of the day? Rycroft: Yee, but you would not be hiding them if you brought them in bore. Hunter, The booking room should be somewhere near the cells, Chairman: Couldn't that still double as a booking room and a detention room? Rycroft: It could, Chairman: Do you think 17 x 121 is big enough for your Assistants? Johnson: That is a largo room, Rycroft: I would rather eliminate the escape door than to sacrifice preventing noise. I would like to eliminate this door and pat one in hero. Chairman I think that would be better. Hunter: This door would be almost private. Rycroft: The only way you can get in is by. a key* Johnson: You can be on the job and the force will not know you are in the, building, Rycroft: I don't know of anything else to change now until we et another look* I would like a window here so the matron can nee her prisoner. Chairman: The changes we have made are agreeablo to you and we will let him work from there? ayoroft; Yes, Let' s see how that works out, Johnson: Could you put the fingerprinting and dark room in the basement and use the room on this floor to more ad. vantage? Ryerofti It Could be and for the moment we could use this as utility space. I think it is a good suggestion to put that downstairs, When we have the facilities we will take more fingerprints and more pictures will 1:14 taken, , Ohairman: I will take the plan to Mr. Greeleyto office and Show it to him. Our n-ixt more would be to talk to some of the other de partments and I suppose Burnt would be the next in line, Mr. Reed agreed to speak to Mr, Burns re checking the contours, It vas apxoed to hold a meeting next Wednesday evening at which time Mr. Burns is to be present. The meeting adjourned at 9: P. mi A true record, Attest; -•-,047„.!,• , . •. !3ecr7ry