What was said

TCP Building Design Committee, December 18, 2019

the recording · 0:39 long, about 4,874 words spoken · captions carried this meeting poorly

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The short version

  1. ▶ 15:39The committee agreed on a plan for reviewing design RFQ responses: a completeness review on January 8, then individual scoring by each member.
  2. ▶ 20:41Members will combine their individual scores into a composite score at a later meeting, and may interview more than three firms.
  3. ▶ 21:42The committee will ask the procurement officer to confirm that proposals are complete and to take part in interviews.
  4. ▶ 12:52The committee will check with the procurement officer in early January on how many proposals have arrived before it fixes the review schedule.
  5. ▶ 38:44Members discussed ideas for the vacated buildings, then tabled the meeting to continue at the TCP tour; the vote count was not audible.

Why it matters — our reading

  • The scoring method and schedule set here decide how the design firm for the TCP building project is chosen, and that choice shapes a project residents will be asked to pay for.
  • A member raised the effect on the tax bill of maintaining two more empty buildings, a cost that depends on what happens to the vacated buildings and was not resolved.

Watch next

  • January 8 (2020): packets distributed and a completeness review of the design RFQ responses, then a decision on whether to meet again on the 22nd.
  • The committee's continuation at the TCP tour, where the tabled meeting was to resume.

capitalcontracts and unionsfacilitiestown departments

Votes

No substantive votes heard. 2 procedural.

The money

  1. ▶ 3:45Design RFQ responses

    The RFQ was advertised the prior week and about thirty packets went out in the first 24 hours, suggesting good interest.

    as heard:30

  2. ▶ 29:00Tax impact of vacated buildings

    A member worried about the tax bill rising while two more empty buildings must be maintained.

    as heard:another 50 bucks

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 12:52Check in with the procurement officer in the first week of January to see how many proposals have arrived before fixing the review schedule.
  • ▶ 15:39Distribute packets and begin with a completeness review on January 8; decide then whether to meet again on the 22nd.
  • ▶ 20:41Members will review and score proposals individually and combine into a composite score at a later meeting.
  • ▶ 21:42Ask the procurement officer to confirm completeness of proposals and to take part in interviews.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

The town has not published minutes for this meeting.

Heard in the recording

  • ▶ 5:29the draft RFQother, shown
  • ▶ 1:05minutes from November 13thprior minutes, shown

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.

Where the time went

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

The whole meeting, in order

  1. ▶ 0:02Call to order and public commentinformational · 1:03 long
  2. ▶ 1:05Minutes of November 13threview; vote not audible · 1:58 long
  3. ▶ 3:03Evaluating RFQ responses: scoring, schedule, completeness review, role of procurement officerplan agreed informally · 23:01 long · facilities, contracts and unions
  4. ▶ 26:04Ideas for vacated buildings and tax concernsno resolution · 5:01 long · facilities, capital
  5. ▶ 31:05Member comments: Teen Center, building uses, school securityinformational · 7:39 long · facilities, town departments
  6. ▶ 38:44Table meeting to continue at TCP tourmotion made and seconded; count not audible · 0:56 long

What the captions could not carry

  • Votes on minutes and tabling not audible
  • Names of members not identifiable
  • Stretch around 101-157 is music/applause

Reports this meeting suggests

Our reading of the discussion: questions where numbers were in play and a page laying them out would have helped. Every meeting’s suggestions are merged into one register.

  • ▶ 5:50TCP design procurementHow will design firms be scored and chosen for the TCP project?

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