Capital Planning Committee, December 28, 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.

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Present: Mr beardmore (member); Mr passios (member); Matthew Brenner (member); George Martin (member (joined late, initially muted)); the chair (speaker voting last, 'an eye for myself') (chair); Amanda (minute taker (mentioned)). 1 of 6 matched to the board’s posted roster; the rest, in italics, are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

1. ▶ 14:53Recommend the capital plan ranking (rev B composite rankings) as presented, superseding the recommendation made at the previous meeting — moved by unnamed member, as heardpassed unanimously (roll call; four members voting at the time)

And 2 procedural: approve minutes of november 30th and december 5th, 2022 (▶ 15:54); adjourn (▶ 24:25).

The money

1. ▶ 10:03Capital funding line cutoff

   A member estimated that if funded in proportion to last year, the funding line would fall around the mid-teens in the ranking, leaving the turf field study possibly below it.

   as heard:14 15 16

2. ▶ 11:04ARPA funding for ambulance

   A member said he has urged the select board to fund the ambulance with ARPA money, which would remove a large amount from the capital list and gain lead time ahead of town meeting.

   as heard:500 000five months

3. ▶ 12:46Ambulance alternative funding

   A member said the ambulance could instead be paid from the special purpose stabilization fund, which would let the capital list be funded further down.

4. ▶ 12:06Middle-ranked projects by dollar amount

   A member said some mid-list projects would be higher by cost but he could not rank them above school security upgrades.

   as heard:11 through about 20

Settled without a vote

• ▶ 13:53Final rev B composite ranking to be emailed to the town manager and to all members after the meeting
• ▶ 16:55At least one meeting to be held in January, date to be determined depending on the town manager's budget work
• ▶ 22:34George Martin's rankings were shifted (items 26-30 moved to 25-29) after Flat Hill removal; he raised no objection

Where the time went

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

• capital14 min · 55%
• facilities9 min · 36%
• budget6 min · 24%
• athletics6 min · 23%
• legal3 min · 13%
• warrant article3 min · 12%
• town meeting2 min · 7%

The whole meeting, in order

1. ▶ 0:01Call to order, open meeting law notice, roll callprocedural · 1:49 long
2. ▶ 1:50Review of individual rankings and revised composite capital rankinginformational · 6:06 long · capital, budget
3. ▶ 7:56Member comments: turf field study vs McNally Park, ARPA/ambulance fundingdiscussion · 5:54 long · capital, athletics, facilities
4. ▶ 13:50Motion to approve rev B ranking and supersede prior recommendationvoted, unanimous · 1:43 long · capital, town meeting
5. ▶ 15:33Minutes approval, next meeting, town report/warrant submissionsminutes approved; next meeting TBD in January · 3:06 long · warrant article
6. ▶ 18:39Waiting for George to unmute; Eagle house property boundary discussioninformational · 3:14 long · facilities, legal
7. ▶ 21:53Recap for George, final comments, adjournmentadjourned · 3:15 long

What the captions could not carry

• Which member made the motion at ~893 is not named
• Whether the first vote at 893 included George Martin: the chair said four of us voted, as he joined later
• Exact identity of the unnamed member making the turf field comments
• Rankings and project dollar amounts not stated in captions

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