BOARD OF SELECTMEN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
The regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen convened at 6:00 p.m. in the Conference Room at 29 Thompson Street. In attendance were Dr. Richard M. Smith, John F. Goodrich II and Edward A. Maia. Also present was Town Administrator Gretchen E. Neggers. Mr. Goodrich made a motion to adjourn from open session to go into executive session at 6:00 p.m. to conduct contract negotiations with nonunion personnel – MGL c. 30A, Section 21 (2) and to return to open session at 7:00 p.m. Mr. Maia seconded and it was so VOTED.
At 7:00 p.m., Mr. Goodrich made a motion to adjourn from executive session to return to open session. Mr. Maia seconded and it was so VOTED. The media was now present.
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
Acceptance of Meeting Minutes:
Mr. Goodrich made a motion to accept the meeting minutes for August 23, 2011 – open session. Mr. Maia seconded and it was so VOTED.
Pole Petition #10335467 – To Install JO Poles on Ely Road – 614 Feet Northeast of Centerline of Bogan Road continuing 476 Feet in Southwest Direction:
The public hearing on Pole Petition #10335467 opened at 7:05 p.m. National Grid representative Amanda Christian approached the Board of Selectmen.
Mr. Maia read the petition into the record to install JO poles on Ely Road 614’ northeast of the centerline of Bogan Road and continuing 476 feet in a southwest direction. It was noted both the Highway and the Water/Sewer Departments approved the pole locations.
Ms. Christian explained the petition is for one pole to be relocated across the street and the installation of three new poles.
There wasn’t anyone in the audience to speak for or against the petition.
Mr. Goodrich made a motion to approve Pole Petition #10335467 as presented. Mr. Maia seconded and it was so VOTED.
Community Development Block Grant Planning Process – Pioneer Valley Planning Commission:
Jim Mazik and Erica Johnson of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission approached the Board of Selectmen.
Ms. Neggers noted the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and their staff have been reaching out to Monson and working with us on a number of initiatives in terms of our rebuilding and recovery after the tornado; and Ms. Neggers said she wanted to extend her thanks to them for this; the Board of Selectmen thanked them as well.
Mr. Mazik stated the deadline for applying for the grant funds this year is December 16th. This grant would focus on activities that would benefit residents who were impacted by the tornado.
Mr. Mazik explained there are two potential programs. One program is “Focus on
Benefits Directed to the Residents of the Town” which has a requirement that it would be in a defined targeted area; the second program is “Standard Housing Rehab” which is one of the more priority type programs for the Community Development Block Grant, with a significant portion as a gap filler for those impacted by the tornado with private property homes.
Mr. Goodrich asked who pays for the PVPC doing all of this for us. Mr. Mazik responded basically they get funded through the administrative fees contained in each grant
Mr. Mazik explained the Housing Rehab Program is for low to moderate income families, and the typical Housing project’s intent is to go in and address code violations, health and safety issues. Just one issue cannot be addressed; they would have to correct all of the existing violations/issues. The PVPC has contractor lists for the different areas containing qualified contractors where the homeowner will pick three contractors from the list and the PVPC will choose two, the lowest bidder will get the job and the homeowner will sign the contract. Ms. Johnson noted the PVPC does a lot of the leg-work.
This is a fifteen year deferred payment loan, with a lean placed on the property, and with a percentage that decreases annually. If it is an investor owned property, there is also an affordability restriction that says they have to maintain the rent at a certain level and they have to maintain the rental for low to moderate income families.
Mr. Mazik said he would like to try to have a significant pool of money to assist residents impacted by the tornado who have a shortfall of funds and are unable to complete a full restoration to their homes.
Mr. Goodrich made a motion to authorize the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission to proceed. Mr. Maia seconded and it was so VOTED.
Ms. Johnson reiterated they will be working with the town tomorrow to do a Visioning Workshop at the High School at 6:30 p.m., and they will be looking for community input on how the town will move forward.
Changing Location for Elections – Discussion:
Town Clerk Nancy Morrell and Assistant Town Clerk Mary Watson approached the Board of Selectmen.
Ms. Neggers noted, due to the inaccessibility of the Town Office Building at 110 Main Street, a new location for holding the elections is needed.
Ms. Neggers explained the Board of Selectmen are responsible for choosing a polling place, and next year there are four elections that will be held: the Town Elections, State Primary Elections, Presidential Primary Elections and the Presidential Election.
Ms. Morrell stated they will need access to a telephone, an extra room for the workers to have lunch and dinner, and at least two days to set up. Ms. Morrell noted one of the big problems would be who would move all of the equipment from this building to a different location. Ms. Morrell also said another big issue is if there is a problem with a voter, past practice shows they will not go to another building to get the answer, they will just leave; whereas if the voting were in this building they could just walk down to Ms. Morrell’s office. Ms. Morrell also said she is concerned with sign-in sheets at the schools.
Ms. Morrell said she spoke with the Police Chief who noted Monson has nine registered sex offenders, who all have the right to vote and therefore felt using a school building with children might be hard. Suggestions around this might be to ask the School and School Committee to schedule teaching training days for those days, or they could segregate an area just for elections which means the students would be nowhere near that area.
Ms. Neggers said she spoke with the State who wasn’t concerned with holding elections in a school; their big concern was with parking and being handicapped accessible. Ms. Neggers added Bridgett Simons from the State visits potential election sites across the Commonwealth to review all the issues needing to be addressed to see which is the best fit for cities and towns and has agreed to come to Monson. Ms. Neggers felt this would be our best option as well, as every building is going to have challenges and it’s just finding the best building to work with.
Mr. Goodrich felt we should reach out to the Superintendent of the Schools and the School Committee to get their opinion as they are just letting us use this building and added overall the School Department has been very accommodating as they understand the position we are in.
After a brief discussion noting pros and cons for the Hillside Building, Memorial Hall, Granite Valley Middle School, the High School and Quarry Hill Elementary School as possible alternative locations, the Board of Selectmen agreed to have Ms. Simons from the State meet with the Superintendent of the Schools and Ms. Morrell to tour each building to see which she thought would be the best location.
Ms. Morrell said all the residents will have to be notified at least 20 days prior to an election on the change once a place is decided upon. Ms. Morrell added to save on the mailing costs; notices could be inserted with the census forms which will be mailed out on January 2nd.
Long Term Recovery – Discussion of Need for Strategic Planning Committee:
Mortimer Smedley, Long Term Community Recovery Specialist with FEMA, approached the Board of Selectmen.
Mr. Smedley explained the visioning process and how to proceed, as attached, which is run by the town and the citizens. Mr. Smedley noted one of the biggest things is to get ideas from the residents, develop goals, and to prioritize the goals. Also an Implementation Coordinator should be appointed to represent and oversee this process.
Mr. Smedley also suggested a design workshop, rebuilding fair and economic development as other scenarios to consider. Mr. Smedley noted it’s important to remember long term recovery is a long process and you won’t see immediate results.
Mr. Maia asked if there are any funds or grants available to utilize to pay for an Implementation Coordinator as this sounds like a pretty lofty responsibility to ask a volunteer to do. Mr. Smedley replied no, not that he is aware of.
Ms. Neggers said whatever we look at doing, we will have to find funding for. Ms. Neggers added there are not a lot of grants out there, therefore finding funding is going to be very challenging, and it doesn’t look any better at the State and Federal levels in terms of making grant funding available at the local level.
Mr. Goodrich said he feels the town will be seeing construction on some level over the next two to three years, if not longer for things to be done correctly and to follow out a plan. Mr. Goodrich added, it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.
Ms. Neggers said we don’t have as good track record getting people from the community to volunteer to serve on committees, boards, etc. like we used to and added it’s very challenging, therefore this may or may not work depending on the level of commitment in terms of time and energy from people in the community. Ms. Neggers suggested putting out a sign-up sheet tomorrow at the Visioning meeting for anyone who might have a specific skill set they could bring to the table.
Mr. Goodrich encouraged anyone who is not happy with the current conditions of the street they live on and who doesn’t want it to remain that way after the new homes are built, to become part of the process and part of the solution.
Resident Michael Roescher of 8 Washington Street approached the Board of Selectmen. Mr. Roescher noted his mother is from Joplin, Missouri and said Missouri is currently going through the same thing with the tornado that touched down there. Mr. Roescher said if there are any questions the Board would like him to bring to them to get answers for, he would be willing to, and noted the surrounding communities of Joplin have gone through tornados before.
The Board of Selectmen thanked Mr. Smedley for coming in and agreed to have Ms. Neggers place a sign-up sheet out at the Visioning meeting.
Tornado Recovery Status
a. Update on Long Term Recovery Group
b. Update on Town Office Building
c. Visioning Meeting – September 14, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
d. Upcoming Events – Insurance Open House, 09/20/2011; Financial Recovery
Workshop – 10/22/2011
e. Report on Tornado Losses – Current Estimated Town Losses/Expenses
f. Any Other Updates
- (A) Hope Bodwell approached the Board of Selectmen. Ms. Bodwell said Monson has formed a Long-Term Recovery Group to address the individual needs in the community, which she has spoken about before, and noted they have started doing case work for the residents. The case workers are trying to figure out what the unmet needs are for the people who have been impacted by the tornado. This can be any type of unmet need but it must be tornado related, whether it’s clothes, insurance, emotional or mental needs, etc.
Ms. Bodwell noted residents aren’t coming forward like they had hoped. Ms.
Bodwell said any residents with needs that the local group can’t address, can be
addressed by the regional group, which consists of six towns from Wilbraham to
Charlton. There are also a lot of resources available.
Ms. Bodwell said they are working out of the Senior Center, however this is not
just for seniors. The telephone number is 267-4143 and only the case workers
manage this telephone. Everything is kept confidential. They do appointments on
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and they will do
evening appointments upon request.
- (D) Ms. Bodwell said an Insurance Open House will be held on Tuesday, September 20th from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Monson/Glendale United Methodist Church in the downstairs. This open house is non-denominational and everyone is invited to attend. FieldEddy Insurance Network has partnered with the Town of Monson to bring a variety of insurance experts to town to offer free advice. These experts will be available to meet one on one with individuals to discuss the claims process, insurance coverage and environmental clean-up and disposal issues. Consultations are free, open to the public and no appointments are necessary. There will be people representing FieldEddy Insurance, Safety Insurance, HAP Housing, Hanover Insurance, and Preferred Mutual, just to share their knowledge with you. They are urging people to bring
their policies with them and they will walk you through the process.
- (D) A Financial Recovery Workshop will be held on Saturday, October 22nd from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Keep Homestead Museum. People from Monson Savings Bank will be giving out information, speaking and answering any questions regarding tax issues, what to do if you had to use your retirement to fix your house or if you have no savings.
- Ms. Neggers said there is going to be a Tornado Relief Benefit Concert with the proceeds going to the impacted people. This is going to be a big concert starting at 3:00 p.m. in the Big E Coliseum on October 16th. The tickets are $10.00 donations for adults and $5.00 for children under the age of 12 years. This is all bag-pipe bands from all over the area. The web site is massbandtornadorelief.org for anyone who wishes to check it out.
- (C) Ms. Neggers reminded everyone of the Visioning Workshop tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. at the High School. Ms. Neggers noted Monson Parks and Recreation had nine public recreational facilities directly impacted by the tornado; the skate park, the tennis courts, playing fields, Flynt Park, their storage building, just to name a few.
- The Tornado Relief Funds application deadline is September 15th. Applications are available on-line, at the Library, Monson Savings Bank, here in the Town Office Building, etc. People are encouraged to get their applications in even if they don’t have all the documents together yet. Over seventy applications have been received so far.
- Ms. Bodwell said numerous people have been asking about the trees and what is going on downtown. Ms. Bodwell said she wanted to get everyone together as there were so many ideas going around. Ms. Bodwell submitted a letter to the Board of Selectmen requesting a Monson Tree Committee be formed. The Committee will be called Replanting Monson Tree Committee. Ms. Bodwell presented a list of people to be appointed to the Committee. Among the donations received one was from PeoplesBank in the amount of $10,000.00 for tree planting.
Mr. Goodrich made a motion to establish a Replanting Monson Committee and appoint Richard Anable, Nicholas Beaudoin, Valerie Beaudoin, Hope Bodwell, Leona Brahen, Evan Brassard, Bill Dominick, Kathy Dreyer, Leslie Duthie, Dave Johnson, Martha Prybylo, Michael Roescher, Audra Staples and Don Vacon effective immediately through June 30, 2012. Mr. Maia seconded and it was so VOTED.
- (E) Ms. Neggers said the town expenditures on tornado response and clean-up still hover right around $6 million. In terms of building permits since the tornado, the town has issued 104 residential building permits and 6 commercial building permits, for a total value of construction on the permits issues of $4,514,424.00. The Board of Selectmen and Ms. Neggers thanked Building Inspector Paul Tacy and Linda Hull for their hard work.
- Ms. Neggers noted Adams Supermarket is planning on re-opening this Friday.
- (B) Ms. Neggers said there have been a series of meetings with the insurance company regarding the Office Building at 110 Main Street. The insurance company has engaged the services of a structural engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, code compliance person, and a cost estimator. Ms. Neggers added local resident Larry Tuttle, the Fire Chief, Building Inspector, and the Town Finance Director have also attended all or some of the meetings as well Ms. Neggers said we are now at a point where all of this has to be assessed.
Mr. Goodrich explained basically the consensus is the building is repairable and
noted there are different ways and different approaches the building can be
repaired. The cost estimator came into the meeting with some cost estimations
acknowledging it was a quick estimate and he knows there are things that should be
in the estimate that aren’t, also more things were brought up at that meeting which
should be in the estimate and aren’t. The estimate he brought in was for
approximately $5.2 million and Mr. Goodrich said he feels this could be rounded
off to $6 million safely and probably push it closer to $7 million by the time we get
done adding some more incidentals.
Mr. Goodrich said options from the insurance company’s point of view are, first of
all any damaged portions of the building have to be brought up to current code
which is a more stringent code than what the building was built to. What’s gray is
where does that stop. For example, the plumbing wasn’t necessarily damaged
because of the tornado, but the extent of the damage requires the plumbing to
become current ADA compliant. Mr. Goodrich explained therefore the plumbing
upgrade would be covered by the insurance, but not the pipes in the walls.
Mr. Goodrich said the pipes in the walls may or may not be code compliant, and
the question becomes do you spend $7 million on a building and have fifty year
old pipes in the walls that are bound and determined to give you issues within the
next foreseeable years.
Larry Tuttle approached the Board of Selectmen.
Mr. Goodrich explained the options the insurance company has. Under Mass. Law
the insurance company can act as the General Contractor. This would allow the
insurance company the ability to hire the contractors to work on the building to get
the building restored to a usable state, and the cost is whatever the cost is.
However the question is who controls the project, and who chooses the incidentals
such as lighting fixtures, etc.
Mr. Maia felt most general contractors wouldn’t want to attach new fixtures to
fifty year old pipes, however if the insurance company is controlling the process
they would say just do it.
Mr. Goodrich said the most problematic issues presented was with the ADA
compliancy and the solutions presented. Mr. Goodrich explained the set-up of the
building is going to require the front main entrance of the building facing Main
Street, to become an ADA accessible entrance and egress point. Right now, you go
down a hill and up a set of stairs to the doors and then up another set of stairs to the
first floor. The first floor level will have to be brought out to the doors and then the
proper grade ramping will have to be installed all the way out to the sidewalks.
Mr. Goodrich added the costing solution for this was basically backing up dump
trucks with gravel and filling in from Main Street to the front door with earth and
then paving a sidewalk to the front door and winging it down, creating a dike to the
front door. Structurally this meets the ADA compliance and it’s the least
expensive option, therefore the insurance company would advocate this. If the town
wanted to do something different, the town would have to pay for it.
Ms. Neggers said not necessarily as the insurance company is treating the
building as if it were not a historic building and this still remains to be seen as the
Historical Commission is going to weigh in on this, and FEMA required it be
treated as a historic building and they filed this.
Mr. Goodrich said option two is they go through and develop a formal bid of what
the repairs are and they write the town a check. The town accepts this check and it’s
done and if you have cost over-runs, you pay for them because you accepted the
check. For example if you open up a wall and you find a bigger problem then you
expected, you might be able to go back for additional funds, but it was pretty much
they write a check and you’re done.
Ms. Neggers said she thought it would require a change order and they would also
have design documents. Ms. Neggers said either way the insurance company will
pay for the increases if the damage is tornado related. Mr. Goodrich said she was
right.
Option three would be they write a check and we could walk away from the
building if we wanted to, or do whatever we wanted to with it.
Mr. Goodrich said he didn’t see how the Town Office Building at 110 Main Street
could be reconstructed without incurring some significant cost from the taxpayers.
Ms. Neggers replied if it weren’t for the tornado, the town wouldn’t be doing this
work or making any up-grades to this building. Therefore, any up-grades are due to
the tornado.
Mr. Goodrich noted there is approximately 6,000 sq. ft. of space at 110 Main Street
and added it’s not all necessarily utilized to the best of its abilities. Mr. Goodrich
said if a new Town Hall needed to be built, to make efficient office space and utilize
what we currently house there, probably a 4,500 sq. ft. building give or take a few
sq. ft. and excluding the Police Department, would suffice.
Ms. Mahar said an area is needed for the elections.
Mr. Goodrich noted a lot of the wasted space is the large hallways, etc. Mr. Goodrich
said these are rough numbers. He has spoken with a contractor and a building like
that is approximately $200 a sq. ft. because you have to pay prevailing wages.
Therefore you are talking about an $8 million building to build from scratch, from the
ground up, town offices only. Mr. Goodrich said then you are looking at about $5
million for a new Police facility because the Police facility has to be built to higher
standards because of the higher codes required as this is an essential facility.
Therefore, you are looking in the vicinity of $13 million to demo the building and
build something brand new from scratch..
Mr. Maia asked if this is basically not a gut.
Mr. Goodrich replied when people open the door and walk into the building, it would
be looking very much like a new building, but you are going to have things behind
the scene you don’t see as there isn’t anything in there to replace the 30 year old
boilers. There were mechanical upgrades recommended and there are some
mechanical systems that need to be updated.
Ms. Neggers said there are environmental issues as well as the building continues to
take on large amounts on water through the roof every time it rains, and it’s been
pretty rainy. Ms. Neggers added we had ten commercial dehumidifiers running in the
basement trying to dry it out, meanwhile the water is pouring in.
Mr. Goodrich said there is a100% mold mitigation and all that would have to be
taken care of. Mr. Goodrich explained if you have one office with mold on the
bottom of the wall but the top of the wall is fine, half of the wall would stay so you
would have an office with half of a new wall and half of an old wall as the insurance
company said it would stay if it’s fine. There will be new flooring, new paint, new
ceiling tiles, and a lot of new doors.
Ms. Neggers said the insurance company said it would take nine months to develop
the design specifications and probably another year for the construction.
Mr. Maia asked Mr. Tuttle if the insurance company is saying no matter what, they
are going to control the change orders.
Mr. Tuttle replied time and material will be as they’re encountering it. The scope will
flex.
Mr. Goodrich noted there wasn’t anything in the preliminary estimate for the radio
tower for the Police station. Also the insurance company is looking at approximately
$400,000.00 worth of additional work to fully make the building weather tight which
should be done before the freeze starts. Mr. Goodrich added if the decision is to
authorize the insurance company to button up the roof, they are chipping away at the
$5.2 million number.
Ms. Neggers said we are working with the insurance company on heating costs for
the building as we are going to have to heat the building even though it’s vacant and
there isn’t any insulation. Ms. Neggers noted the town could easily spend $45,000.00
to heat it for the winter, and she is going to have to find someone to go in and check it
all the time. Mr. Goodrich said the only decision this board could make at this time is
whether or not to authorize the insurance company to go forward with buttoning up
the building and he didn’t recommend making the decision tonight.
Ms. Neggers wondered how you go to Town Meeting and ask for an unknown amount
of money for unknown items, and didn’t think this was even legal. Ms. Neggers added
back when the building was renovated there were many, many, many items that had to
be overlooked as the town was on a very strict budget, such as leaving radiators in the
building, having windows that couldn’t open and not installing HVAC in the
bathrooms.
Mr. Goodrich said he thought it was wrong to approach it pretending we’re aren’t
going to have to make those decisions and felt it is important to be open. He feels it’s
the taxpayers building and if the taxpayers say fix what the insurance company’s
willing to fix and we’ll live with the building however it is, then that’s the taxpayer’s
decision. What he doesn’t want to hear is somebody making that decision and two
years from now when it comes forward that we need $200,000 for a new boiler, but
we just spent this money and why didn’t we fix it then.
Mr. Maia said he feels this is information that needs to come out at the visioning
process, and Mr. Goodrich and Dr. Smith agreed.
Mr. Goodrich stated he has no problems with fixing the building, but if the building is
fixed it should be fixed to last another one hundred years, and to put that kind of
money into a building trying to get five to eight years out of it is foolish. Mr. Goodrich
noted cities and town receive zero reimbursement from the State on Town Halls and
public safety buildings and zero reimbursement on the Federal level, so you could look
at it like you are getting 50% reimbursement which you would never get otherwise.
Mr. Goodrich said it’s just information people need to digest and let the Board of
Selectmen know how they feel and give them some direction to work in.
Mr. Maia said everyone should attend the Visioning Workshop tomorrow night at the
High School at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Smith felt if the building was going to be fixed, it should be fixed correctly and the
best time to do that is when everything is opened up.
Mr. Maia said if the Board authorizes to fix the building and it costs $6 million to do
that and we decide to change the boiler for example, do we do things as they come up
that the insurance company is not willing to pay for even if it costs $1.5 million, he felt
this would be a much easier sell to the taxpayers rather than saying we are looking for
$8 million to pay for building the other half of the brand new Town Hall and Police
Station. Mr. Goodrich felt this was a very valid point.
Ms. Neggers said the frustration is how can you ask when you don’t know? How can
you fund it; you can’t authorize work if you can’t pay for it and you can’t pay for it
if you don’t know what it is.
Mr. Goodrich felt some reasonable estimates could be decided on the mechanical
systems, insulation, dry wall work, ripping out to old floor, leveled the floor and
replacing the floor, etc.
Ms. Neggers suggested all three Selectmen meet with Tom Donaldson from the
insurance company to ask how does it work out with the floor, how does it work when
you rip out a wall and what should we be looking at.
Mr. Tuttle said there are solutions that are code compliant that are not necessarily
community compliant. Mr. Tuttle explained residents need to attend the Visioning
Workshop as the Town Office Building is going to be transformed and questioned
which parts of this are going to be essential to the town’s continuation or the image of
the town. The front ramping or accessibility is going to be a dramatic change and noted
there are going to be changes externally as well as internally and wondered what
guidelines the town will have to direct this with the insurance company, as the solution
made by the insurance company didn’t sit well with anyone in attendance at that
meeting for various reasons. Mr. Tuttle said the first floor changes will have ripple
effects that have not been investigated and are not in the estimates.
Mr. Goodrich noted at the meeting with the insurance company when assessing the
damage and classifying the building as a repair or an alteration, a comment was made
by the insurance company that’s why they approached it as a repair, because it’s more
cost effective. Mr. Goodrich said the other option would be the town could hire, at our
own expense, our own engineer and code compliance person to go in and do a whole
new re-evaluation, but after paying six figures, there’s no guarantee you will get
anything different. If they come back with a different figure you would enter into the
battle stage.
Ms. Neggers said a lot of it is analysis of what was pre-existing structural damage and
what was structural damage caused by the tornado, as the insurance company isn’t
responsible for pre-existing damage.
Mr. Goodrich said he feels you are going to be spending taxpayer’s dollars no matter
what process you go down, and this could easily be a quarter of a million dollars and
approaching a half a million dollars without really struggling and more if you really
want to get into doing significant mechanical system up-grades, and felt this is
information people need to hear and be made aware of, digest it and bring their
comments forward.
Ms. Neggers added meanwhile the boilers are sitting in the wet damp environment and
even though they aren’t emerged in water, they are suffering damage because of the
conditions caused by the tornado. Ms. Neggers noted every mechanical and electrical
system in the 110 Main Street building is deteriorating more rapidly now from
conditions caused by the tornado. When you enter the building now you can hear the
water running down the chimney, down the elevator shaft and this isn’t good.
Mr. Goodrich stated regardless of what avenue the town chooses to go down with the
building at 110 Main Street, when the doors open up to the public the next time it will
be a very structurally sound building, it will have the appearance of a new building, it
will have the smell of a new building, it will be clean, it will be bright, it will be
welcoming and it will be safe for everybody. How we get to that point is the road ahead
of us right now.
Ms. Neggers suggested talking to the DOER regarding the $8 million in energy
programs and some funding.
Mr. Goodrich added if a new Police facility were built there are funds to put in for
from the Regional Dispatch Center and alleviate some potential conditions we currently
have.
It was unanimously agreed this is something that should not be decided tonight and
to defer this until the next meeting in two weeks.
Mr. Goodrich thanked Mr. Tuttle for all of the time he has put into this and the
meetings he has attended.
Correspondence was read and completed.
At 9:20 p.m., Mr. Goodrich made a motion to adjourn from open session. Mr. Maia seconded and it was so VOTED.
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Edward A., Maia, Clerk
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