What was said

TCP Building Design Committee, October 6, 2021

the recording · 1:53 long, about 15,351 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. ▶ 34:22The committee voted 5-0 by roll call to approve the building layout with the discussed modifications.
  2. ▶ 1:19:17A motion on the parking layout was withdrawn after members reached consensus on guidance to the architect.
  3. ▶ 1:19:17The parking guidance moves the bay and building back, adds spaces on the left side and removes the front island spaces.
  4. ▶ 1:26:10Members found the design schedule runs up against the deadline for a Special Town Meeting, and no resolution was reached.
  5. ▶ 1:41:02The public forum date was deferred until the architect gives a firmer schedule, likely about a week before town meeting.

Why it matters — our reading

  • The layout now fixed for the shared Town Offices and school building sets what the architect prices, and that price is what residents will be asked to fund at a Special Town Meeting.
  • With the public forum not yet scheduled and the timeline tight, residents may have little time to weigh in before they are asked to vote.

Watch next

  • The architect's firmer schedule, which sets the public forum date, likely the second week of November.
  • The Wednesday meetings in October, where the deferred prior minutes and the November schedule come up.

capitalfacilitiesplanning and zoningtown departmentstown meetingwarrant article

Present: Dave Pacios (member); Michael Ray Jeffries (member); Brian Leighton (member); Dave Blatt (member); Christina (member); Greg (Mr. Roy) (chair); John (presenter); Matthew Allison (member (absent)). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

  1. ▶ 34:22Approve the design layout as presented with the discussed modifications.passed 5-0 (roll call: Pacios, Jeffries, Blatt, Leighton, Christina and the chair aye as heard)
  2. ▶ 1:06:27Adopt the red parking layout, removing front island spaces and adding them on the access road behind the wing.not audible
  3. ▶ 1:19:17Motion on parking withdrawn after consensus on guidance to the architect.withdrawn

And 1 procedural: adjourn, by roll call. (▶ 1:52:40).

The money

  1. ▶ 1:28:57Article L construction documents funding

    A member said the article is only for funding of construction documents, and the Finance Committee would consider that amount.

    as heard:200 and whatever thousand dollars250

  2. ▶ 1:34:09Cost estimate per square foot

    The architect's thoughtful estimate is being sought rather than a simple square-foot multiplication.

    as heard:three hundred dollars a square footfifty eight thousand

  3. ▶ 1:16:30Parking cost

    The architect said total parking cost would be about the same wherever it is placed.

    as heard:155 spaces

  4. ▶ 1:26:10Design contract schedule

    The contract was said to be for 60 days, with a deadline for special town meeting.

    as heard:60 days

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 1:19:17Parking guidance: slide the parking bay and building back about 15-20 feet, add roughly 20-30 spaces on the left side, remove the 15 front island spaces and the spaces near the island; chair to email sketch to architect.
  • ▶ 30:52Remove kitchen door to the primary meeting room, add corridor doors, and plan a range hood; kitchen to be infrastructure only.
  • ▶ 1:41:02Public forum date deferred until the architect gives a firmer schedule; likely second week of November, one week before town meeting.
  • ▶ 1:38:36Approval of prior minutes pushed to next week.
  • ▶ 1:52:40Meetings continue every Wednesday in October at 5:30 by Zoom; November schedule to be set next week.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

The town has not published minutes for this meeting.

Heard in the recording

  • ▶ 3:29the plan that he has given to usplan or drawing, shown
  • ▶ 35:25site plan from the previous submissionplan or drawing, shown
  • ▶ 40:15a parking sketch overlaid on the old rendered planplan or drawing, shown
  • ▶ 1:38:36prior minutesprior minutes

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. ▶ 0:05Opening, open meeting law, roll callinformational · 3:03 long
  2. ▶ 3:08Revised building plan review and votevoted · 31:54 long · facilities, capital
  3. ▶ 35:02Site and parking layoutconsensus guidance; motion withdrawn · 45:59 long · facilities, planning and zoning
  4. ▶ 1:21:01Door placement between school and town sidesinformational · 3:59 long · facilities
  5. ▶ 1:25:00Schedule, estimator timeline, Special Town Meeting and Finance Committeeno resolution · 13:20 long · town meeting, warrant article, capital
  6. ▶ 1:38:20Minutes, public outreach, committee report to Select Boarddeferred · 13:20 long · town meeting
  7. ▶ 1:51:40Meeting schedule and adjournmentvoted · 1:35 long

What the captions could not carry

  • Result of the first parking motion vote was not stated.
  • Matthew Allison absent; roll call names are mangled by captions.

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.

  • ▶ 1:34:09Town office spaceWhat would a new combined town offices and school-program building cost compared with renovating the old school?already answered: thread:town-offices
  • ▶ 1:28:57Special town meeting articlesWhat does Article L fund, and will the Finance Committee have comparable cost numbers before town meeting?

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