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January 22, 2018
Minutes
Approved 02-05-2018 voted 4-0
CBC Members Present: Wakeman, Donohue, Franklin, Host, Redmann
Chair Wakeman opened the meeting at 1900 with the above quorum present.
Town Hall Building Committee, Mary McGoldrick & Mark Toomey
THBC Members presented their work to date addressing questions raised by CBC
members both orally and in writing. Reported that space had been discovered in the
library that can be used to store archival records currently located in town hall, thereby
reducing the square footage needed in the new or renovated TH. The members also
reported that their committee had filed for $4.4 million in grants but a schematic of the
proposed structure would be needed for in order to finalize this grant filing in March.
The members stated that the BOS had to decide whether the TH Administrative Building
and the now called "Arts Building" should be presented to Town Meeting are co-joined
or separate structures.
Members of the CBC were concerned that the research into alternatives was not
thorough and believed that the first step should be to establish a budget for the TH
project that the town can support and afford before any further design work is
undertaken. Members of the CBC expressed the financial obligation of the Town
should be solely related to the operational needs of Town government not civic desires.
IT, Ron Menard
Ron stated that the Town has moved $25,000 annual amount for the replacement of
technology to the operating budget, to allow IT to replace small items like printers and
pc's as they reached the end of their useful life. He also stated a firewall would be
swapped for two small units that we be more efficient and such swap will save the
Town $1 1 thousand annually.
Ron stated that the consulting part of the digital imaging project was about to
commence, and that Town would need to fund $44k for the software solution.
Minutes:
Minutes of 11/6/17 were approved by a vote of (5-0)
Minutes of 11/15/17 were approved by a vote of (5-0)
Minutes of 11/20/17 were approved by a vote of (5-0)
Minutes of 1 1/30/17 were approved by a vote of (5-0) and a copy of the letter
referenced therein were attached for posting with such minutes.
Next meeting were potentially with the Schools on 2/5 and 2/12 and Elder Affairs on
2/26.
There being no further business we voted to adjourn at 21 :20
Respectfully submitted
Susan Franklin