Capital Planning Committee, October 26, 2022

The town published an agenda for this meeting. No minutes have been published; the recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

athleticscapitaldebtfacilitieshigh schoolmsbaprimary schoolpublic commentpublic safetyroads and dpwtechnologyturkey hill

Present: Mr Martin (member); Mr passios (member); Mr beardmore (member); Matthew Brenner (member); Alonso (chair); Kate Burnham (superintendent); Steve busiteri (facility director); Mr Dearborn (member); Chief Gamble (police chief); Officer McNamara (police officer); Mrs archimbo (town manager (on the phone), remote). 1 of 11 matched to the board’s posted roster; the rest, in italics, are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

No substantive votes heard. 1 procedural.

The money

1. ▶ 11:26Safety window film, district-wide

   Project cost given for the film; a resident later noted it rose from the school committee figure, and staff said updated quotes came in after that meeting.

   as heard:160 000a hundred and thirty thousand dollarsa hundred and sixty thousand dollars

2. ▶ 1:53:35Turkey Hill exterior door replacement

   A resident said the cost rose between the school committee and this meeting; staff attributed it to pending quotes.

   as heard:a hundred and twenty thousand dollarstwo hundred and sixty thousand dollars

3. ▶ 9:00Athletic complex feasibility study

   Out-year repair cost is a guess with no engineer estimates; FY24 request is for a study.

   as heard:two million dollar figure

4. ▶ 35:18Turkey Hill long-term capital items and borrowing capacity

   A member said Turkey Hill placeholder items are more likely to be needed because limited borrowing capacity makes a replacement improbable soon.

   as heard:15 million dollars42 million dollars of borrowing capacity

5. ▶ 40:32State/federal school security funding

   Superintendent noted a state announcement of security funding but no details on competitiveness or matching; grants unlikely to cover much.

   as heard:40 million

6. ▶ 52:44Prior year capital plan spend

   A member compared the security requests to last year's capital plan total.

   as heard:three million dollars

7. ▶ 1:48:22Special purpose stabilization fund as capital funding source

   A member asked for guidance on likely use of the fund; the chair said funding is outside this committee's scope and town meeting needs a supermajority to take from it.

   as heard:90 percent vote

8. ▶ 1:58:39Total capital requests this year

   Town manager reported number of project requests and a total lower than last year, with a split by department.

   as heard:29 projects174 61030 school 28 Public Works 24 higher than 20 facilities

Settled without a vote

• ▶ 1:45:49Police questions on the proposals are to be routed through the chair to the superintendent or facilities director.
• ▶ 1:52:13Next meeting set (date garbled in captions) with minutes approval added to the agenda; members asked to take notes for prioritizing the requests.

Documents and exhibits

State law asks minutes to list the documents and exhibits used at a meeting (M.G.L. c.30A §22(a)). Names from the recording are the caption model’s hearing; the two sides are matched by name, by script, so a document named two different ways can be missed. A place to look, not a finding.

Public comment

1. ▶ 1:52:33Questioned cooling savings from first-floor-only film, asked why the film and Turkey Hill door costs rose from the school committee meeting, and stated opposition to the film in favor of expanding the resource officer program. — Rhonda Lucia, 181 Reservoir Road, as heard, resident
2. ▶ 1:56:47Same resident asked about an officer training program and preferred an officer in each building before building hardening; told to take it to the school committee.

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

• capital90 min · 75%
• public safety67 min · 56%
• turkey hill37 min · 31%
• facilities35 min · 29%
• technology17 min · 14%
• athletics13 min · 10%
• high school13 min · 10%
• debt8 min · 7%
• roads and dpw8 min · 6%
• public comment6 min · 5%

The whole meeting, in order

1. ▶ 0:13Call to order, roll call, public commentinformational · 2:55 long
2. ▶ 3:08School presentation: last year's projects and 10-year plan by buildinginformational · 8:18 long · capital, facilities, turkey hill
3. ▶ 11:26FY24 requests: window film, door replacement, access control, fire alarm presentedinformational · 22:49 long · capital, public safety, facilities
4. ▶ 34:15Opening comments: Turkey Hill future, borrowing capacity, security grantsinformational · 8:05 long · capital, turkey hill, debt
5. ▶ 42:20Safety window film discussiondiscussed only · 21:01 long · public safety, capital
6. ▶ 1:03:21Turkey Hill doors and access control/camerasdiscussed only · 16:53 long · turkey hill, public safety, technology
7. ▶ 1:20:14Fire alarm upgrade at Turkey Hilldiscussed only · 3:33 long · turkey hill, facilities
8. ▶ 1:23:47Athletic complex feasibility studydiscussed only · 12:33 long · athletics, high school, capital
9. ▶ 1:36:20Pickup truck with plow and sanderdiscussed only · 7:45 long · capital, roads and dpw
10. ▶ 1:44:05Closing remarks, action items, stabilization fund scopeinformational · 8:28 long · capital
11. ▶ 1:52:33Public comment on window film costs and school resource officersinformational · 6:06 long · public comment, public safety
12. ▶ 1:58:39Request totals and adjournmentvoted · 1:11 long · capital

What the captions could not carry

• Next meeting date is garbled (said Monday November 9th / November 7th; facilities mentioned earlier).
• Roll call vote count is not stated beyond ayes heard.
• Some speaker identities are unclear throughout.
• Several dollar figures are unreliable captions.

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