Reminder: Next meeting 11/7 at 11:30 in the Fire House
OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK
PO Box 342
38 Union Street
Lyme, NH 03768
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Phone~795-2535~~~~~~~~ Fax~795-4637
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TOWN OFFICE FACILITIES COMMITTEE MEETING
Minutes 10-31-05
11:30 am Lyme Fire House Conference Room
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Present:~ Peter Bleyler, Don Metz, Jane Fant, Freda Swan, Patty Jenks, Carole Bont and Tish Smith.
Michael Woodard and Tony Pippin Sr. were unable to attend this meeting.
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Pete opened the meeting and asked Carole to present the informational details she had provided.~ They included:
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--A grouping of tax maps detailing the properties being considered for Town Office/Police Dept. sites.~ The detail Carole outlined on these maps was especially helpful in determining acreage, location and abutters.
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--She also provided a detailed outline of existing issues/problems/concerns with the current space and a briefer summary sheet of the same.
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Carole will continue researching the town’s ability to have a mortgage and other financing issues such as lease/purchase arrangements.~ She’ll also copy assessment cards on all the considered properties.~ Placing a call to Elise she learned that the current assessments on the properties we’re discussing are as follows:
--Mather: $259,500
--Green Mountain Studios $805,300
--Clark: $339,400
--Jenks-$36,300
--UVLT-$87,000
--VanVleck-$244,800
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Michael reported via Carole and Patty that his conversation with the Mather’s was positive.~ They are willing to consider a lease/purchase arrangement; however the deal would have to be within the next year or so.~ They want to move ahead with a transaction with someone, one way or the other as soon as possible.
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Don talked again with Ray Clark who is also willing to discuss further the Recreate site and maybe help with options on other sites as well.
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Freda will try to touch base with UVLT representatives to get a firmer idea of what kind of deal they would look for if agreeing to work with the town on the Dartmouth College Highway site.
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There was a discussion covering many of the basics needed to proceed in an informed and accurate manner for some sort of presentation at Town Meeting 2006.~ The group continues to look at each site carefully and confirmed that while the Green Mountain Studio hasn’t been discussed lately, it remains an option to be considered.
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Pete confirmed that the Board of Selectmen has asked Carole to put $10,000 in the budget for a feasibility study; however concerns were expressed that perhaps more should be considered.~
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Because Pete has to be away the next couple of weeks, Freda has agreed to be the Vice-Chair of the committee and will chair the next meetings until Pete returns.~ Next meeting is on November 7th at 11:30 am in the Fire House.
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This meeting adjourned at 12:30 pm.
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Patty Jenks
Recorder
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