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HomeMy WebLinkAboutFCMeetingMinutes_05.03.12 1 TOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER FINANCE COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: May 3, 2012 Meeting Location: Town Hall, First Floor Meeting called to order: 6:45 Conference Room Alan LeBovidge AL, Chairman Ramsey Bahrawy- RB X Tom Dugan TD, Vice Chairman Robert Norbedo-RN Ben Osgood-BO Matthew Remis-MRem X Dan Leary -DL X Peter Besen-PB Pat Sifferlen, PS, Admin X X Donald Elliot DE X Non FinCom Members in Attendance OTHERS: - - Note: All FINCOM votes are subject to change upon receipt of new information. Note: Documents used in this meeting are listed in Document Table, herein. II. Previous Minutes Approved DATE III. New Business 2 AGENDA ITEM: A. Discussion: -AL discussion on warrant also would like to talk about Facilities Master Plan. Would like to have a discussion on the new plan. Would like to have Mr. Nardella to come back to the meeting to discuss new plan. Article in warrant about selling of Bradstreet School that was in the facilities plan to become the new senior center. Discussed the Facilities plan and the new amount including the new police station and the new gym for the Atkinson School. Need to have new presentation because there are new amounts, new plans, and new priorities. BO we should also have school Dept come in to discuss these changes also. AL would like to send a note to Tracy Watson that the Finance Committee has issues we would like to get some backup before Town Meeting. BO Discussed CIP plans there are 3 items that we need more information on 1)General IT (40K) 2)Building Maintenance (50K) 3)School Dept IT (165K) AL School Dept needs to come back in to discuss the School Dept IT again. BO Is the Atkinson the only school w/out Gym? I am in favor of doing a gym but do not like it together with Police station DL what if we were in favor of one and not other? They should be separated so we can vote separately. Al My concern is that they are lumped together would like to see it separated. BO my concern is that when it was scheduled for 2016 it was 500k now it is 900K these numbers are crazy PB I think we should have the new Town Moderator to come to discuss his position. Al What I would like to find out tonight is what areas we need more information on reasonable. We need to get school dept back in. and to have Facilities Committee back in, would like town manager back in to discuss 317K CIP item. Concern with the police station is they should we tear it down or rebuild and rebuild a new building. BO I think it should be torn down. Should cost town around 50K to tear down. AL talked about the Ameresco Contract concerns are 1) not fully understand how they make money 2)lighting payback 3) some items and their payback. This is a way of financing without going thru town. What would be a better way to do DL Peregrine Energy is representing North Andover. Steve Weisman is our Rep spoke to him asked him a few questions. We know this contracts work, how does this contract compare to other towns Asked him to come in and speak to committee. He again. This is a financing mechanism to do capital improvement projects. There are other ways to do a bunch of energy projects like MGL149 gs done by the Facilities Manager? We should have Steve Foster in to discuss this. BO we should amend Article C because if town meeting does not approve the Esco they can still go with according to this article we need to amend to not recommend or to amend to state excluding Esco Contracts. 3 AGENDA ITEM: D. New Business Discussion: No new items. IV. Next Meetings V. Adjournment- Motion: DE Unanimous Seconded: DL Time: 8:25 ITEM # ACTION ITEM INDIVID. COMPL. STATUS DATE Town Moderator to come in Ps Rick Nardella to come in PS DOCUMENTS PROVIDED AT MEETING TYPE FROM TO SUBJECT COMMENTS ITEM # 1 2 3 4