What was said

TCP Building Design Committee, October 22, 2020

the recording · 3:04 long, about 22,828 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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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.

The short version

  1. ▶ 2:45:18The committee set a Monday, November 2 meeting at 5:30 pm to review department sign-offs on the revised floor plan; no budget votes were taken.
  2. ▶ 2:24:09The architect is to submit a new plan by mid next week as the schematic design, to go to town departments with a sign-off sheet.
  3. ▶ 2:10:37Boys and Girls Club space was put on a future agenda, and the architects continue on the prior direction.
  4. ▶ 2:27:57The committee agreed by consensus to leave meeting room three as shown.
  5. ▶ 2:33:28After sign-off, the design team moves to design documents and a cost estimator prices total construction; a town meeting prep meeting was set for November 9.

Why it matters — our reading

  • The sign-off step and the later cost estimate are what will set the price of the building that voters are asked to fund at Town Meeting, so the space choices made now feed into a future tax commitment.
  • Space for extended day and the Boys and Girls Club is not settled; the superintendent said less space would mean a lower extended day enrollment cap, which touches families who use that program.
  • State school-building reimbursement leaves out ancillary spaces, so the share the state pays is lower than the headline rate, and more of the cost falls on the town budget, mostly taxes.

Watch next

  • The revised plan and sign-off sheet going to town departments, with the chair and a member reviewing it first and reporting back by Wednesday morning.
  • The committee meeting on Monday, November 2, and the Town Meeting prep meeting on Monday, November 9.

capitalfacilitiesmsbapersonnelplanning and zoningpublic commentsuperintendent reporttown departments

Present: dave flatt (member); dave pacios (member); brian leighton (member); michael ray jeffries (member); mr roy (chair); dr burnham (superintendent); tom (architect); david kelly (presenter (Meridian Associates engineer)); heather (town manager). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

No substantive votes heard. 2 procedural.

The money

  1. ▶ 58:20Town and school records storage

    Storage need discussed in floor area and linear feet; a count of boxes was suggested.

    as heard:2 000 square feet1300

  2. ▶ 2:33:28Construction cost estimating

    After sign-off the design team will move to design documents and a cost estimator will price total construction.

  3. ▶ 1:47:43MSBA reimbursement on school projects

    A member explained the state excludes ancillary spaces from its share, so effective reimbursement is lower than the headline rate.

    as heard:6050

  4. ▶ 28:10Extended day enrollment

    The superintendent said less space would mean reducing the enrollment cap.

    as heard:125 students

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 2:45:18Next meeting set for Monday November 2 at 5:30 pm to review sign-offs.
  • ▶ 2:48:53A town meeting prep meeting set for Monday November 9.
  • ▶ 2:10:37Boys and Girls Club space to be put on a future agenda; architects continue on the prior direction.
  • ▶ 2:27:57Consensus to leave meeting room three as shown.
  • ▶ 2:55:45Chair and Dave Blatt will review the revised plan before it goes to departments, reporting back by Wednesday morning.
  • ▶ 2:24:09Architect to submit a new plan by mid next week as the schematic design, sent to departments with a sign-off sheet.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

The town has not published minutes for this meeting.

Heard in the recording

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. ▶ 4:01Dr Burnham thanked the architect for improved diagrams, especially office space, and noted remaining difficulty with space for extended day. — a speaker, superintendent

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. ▶ 0:14Opening, roll call, public commentinformational · 3:46 long
  2. ▶ 4:01Community comment, site and parking update from engineerinformational · 18:09 long · facilities, planning and zoning
  3. ▶ 22:10Superintendent on school space needsinformational · 33:20 long · facilities, enrollment
  4. ▶ 55:30Archival storageno resolution · 6:00 long · facilities
  5. ▶ 1:01:30Floor plan review: meeting rooms, toilets, conference roomsinformational · 30:40 long · facilities, town departments
  6. ▶ 1:32:10Room to grow and Boys and Girls Club spacereferred to a future agenda · 38:50 long · facilities, msba
  7. ▶ 2:11:00Meeting room layout, occupancy, studies updateconsensus · 25:00 long · facilities
  8. ▶ 2:36:00Sign-off process, meeting schedule, town meeting presentationdates set · 20:00 long · town meeting
  9. ▶ 2:56:00Outreach, minutes, closing, adjournmentvoted · 8:29 long

What the captions could not carry

  • Michael Ray's first public comment was lost to connection problems.
  • Parts of the exchange on town clerk space were garbled.

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.

  • ▶ 2:33:28TCP design costsWhat will the TCP renovation cost and which departments fit?
  • ▶ 45:51Extended day spaceHow many rooms does extended day need?

These are ours, and they are not the record

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What changed

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