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Board - Committee - Commission - council: 2021 APR - 09
Permanent Building Committee
Date: 2021-03-01 Time: 6:00 PM
Building: Location:
Address: Session:
Purpose: General Business Version:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Patrick Tompkins, John Coote, Kirk McCormick, Nancy Twomey, Mike Bean,
Brad Congdon, Greg Stepler
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Joe Huggins, Facilities Director, Kevin Cabuzzi, Assistant Facilities Director,
Jane Kinsella, DPW Director, Ryan Percival, Town Engineer, Mark Dockser,
Select Board Chair, Chris Cole, Assistant DPW Director, Vanessa Alvarado,
Select Board, Mark Delaney, Resident
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By:
Topics of Discussion:
This meeting was held remotely on Zoom. Meeting called to order at 6:02 PM.
The meeting minutes from the 2-01-2021 were approved as submitted.
The Permanent Building Committee (PBC) received the application for the Water Tower
Project.
Ryan Percival reported that he'd met with Community Planning and Development
Commission (CPDC) last week and it went well. Residents also attended and good questions
were asked.
Ryan Percival mentioned that he has Geotechnical Reports that he is willing to share.
Design is 50-75% complete.
PBC acknowledged they are coming into the process later than they would normally do.
Vanessa Alvarado expressed the concerns of neighbors with the land contamination in the
soil. Neighbors questioned using some space near the Water Tower for park benches. Ryan
Percival noted that this would change the use and trigger different requirements in the
remediation process of lead in the soil and potential loss of tree cover due to greater
mitigation measures required.
Pat Tompkins cautioned because of this not being a new building project would the
expectation be that PBC would be involved in other DPW projects.
A conversation on how the PBC would get updates was explained by Ryan Percival.
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Pat also talked about the expectations for meetings on the Water Tower Project and what
that would look like. It was decided by PBC that they would be getting monthly updates
from DPW and disseminating the information to the Select Board. The Group continued to
talk about what their role would be in this type of project.
The Committee voted 5-0 to accept the Water Tower Project Application.
The Committee began discussing the Fire Station Narrative done by John Coote and
reviewed the comments.
No new business.
Meeting adjourned at 7:48 PM.
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