TCP Building Design Committee, March 11, 2020

The town has published neither minutes nor an agenda for this meeting. The recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

capitalcontracts and unionsfacilitieshousingplanning and zoningpublic safetytown departmentstown meetingturkey hill

Present: Rick Roy (chair); Dave black (vice chair); Mike (secretary); Dave Castillo (member (Finance Committee)); Tanner Cole (planning board representative); Bradley (School Committee member); McQuade (Board of Selectmen member); Heather (procurement officer); John (building facilities staff); Salvage Giorgio (presenter, project manager and lead structural engineer); Tom Lee DiGiorgio (presenter, principal and project architect). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

No substantive votes heard. 1 procedural.

The money

1. ▶ 11:48Preliminary pricing of options

   Architects will attach high-level dollar ranges to options in the pre-schematic phase and refine them as design advances.

   as heard:five to seven millionfive point five six

2. ▶ 16:41Architect contract appendix

   An appendix with a more detailed scope of services was sent and the contract would be executed once the committee is satisfied; contract and invoicing go to the procurement officer.

3. ▶ 34:37Budget discipline for the project

   A member said the project depends on keeping the budget in mind, with town offices the focus of spending.

4. ▶ 1:04:43Long-term maintenance capital

   A member asked that the building not require heavy capital investment over twenty years.

   as heard:20 years

5. ▶ 1:07:11Carrying cost of vacant buildings

   A member said a vacant building costs the town money every year, citing another town's old school.

   as heard:a couple hundred thousand dollars a year

6. ▶ 1:36:37Contract scope additions

   Members discussed optional additions to the scope such as hazardous materials and geotechnical work; phase one environmental is included.

7. ▶ 1:37:19Advertising and outreach costs

   Members suggested outreach materials and printing be done by the architect within the contract.

Settled without a vote

• ▶ 1:34:39Tentatively set committee meetings for April 8 and April 22 ahead of spring Town Meeting.
• ▶ 32:11Architects will schedule a joint walkthrough and survey with all engineers, coordinating through the procurement officer and John.
• ▶ 56:03Stakeholders such as the Senior Center, Teen Center and Boys and Girls Club to be consulted in visioning sessions.
• ▶ 1:31:35Committee communication with the architects will flow through the procurement officer because of Open Meeting Law limits.

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.

Where the time went

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

• facilities67 min · 68%
• town departments28 min · 29%
• contracts and unions22 min · 22%
• capital15 min · 15%
• roads and dpw14 min · 14%
• public safety14 min · 14%
• town meeting10 min · 10%
• budget5 min · 5%
• recreation4 min · 4%
• legal4 min · 4%

The whole meeting, in order

1. ▶ 0:02Opening, Open Meeting Law notice, public commentinformational · 1:27 long · public comment
2. ▶ 1:29Architect kickoff: team, site survey, schedule, contractinformational · 16:40 long · facilities, contracts and unions
3. ▶ 18:09Schedule, town meetings and community outreachinformational · 10:11 long · town meeting, facilities
4. ▶ 28:01Plot plan, land survey and scanning logisticsinformational · 4:09 long · planning and zoning, facilities
5. ▶ 32:11Visioning: uses, offices, meeting spaces, securityinformational · 21:09 long · facilities, town departments
6. ▶ 53:21Stakeholder involvement and which departments to includeinformational · 6:59 long · town departments
7. ▶ 1:00:20Priorities, barriers, Brooks House and unknown conditionsinformational · 14:40 long · facilities, capital
8. ▶ 1:15:00Public questionnaire, traffic study and site accessinformational · 13:50 long · roads and dpw, public safety
9. ▶ 1:28:50Boys and Girls Club use and communication rulesinformational · 4:20 long · recreation, legal
10. ▶ 1:33:10Committee business: meeting dates, contract scope, outreach costs, adjournmentdates tentatively set; adjourned · 5:10 long · contracts and unions, budget

What the captions could not carry

• Result of the adjournment vote is not in the captions.
• Captions are heavily garbled in places, with mangled names, so speaker identity is often unclear.
• Details of contract scope additions were unclear.

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.

• ▶ 11:48TC Passios costsWhat will converting the TC Passios building to town offices and community space cost, and how will it be priced?already answered: thread:tc-passios-site
• ▶ 56:44Town office spaceWhich town departments will move into the building and how much space do they need?already answered: thread:town-offices
• ▶ 1:06:50Brooks House costsWhat does the vacant Brooks House cost the town each year?already answered: thread:brooks-house

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