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Kittredge School Building Committee
Meeting Minutes
August 7, 2024
Present: Laura Bates, Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues, Laurie Burzlaff, Pamela Lathrop, Kathleen
Colwell, Steve Foster, Dave Brown, Diana Beckley, Phil Palumbo, Trey Logie and Brady Doyle from Colliers Project
Leaders, Jeffry Burchard from Machado Silvetti.
Absent: Richard Cushing, Maureen Sakakeeny, Eva Hamori and Jim Mealey,
Meeting was called to order by Laura Bates at 4:05PM in the Select Board Meeting Room at Town Hall.
Vote to approve minutes of June 25, 2024
made a motion, seconded by Dave Brown, to approve the minutes of June 25, 2024. Motion
approved 8-0.
Pam Lathrop arrived.
Budget update
Phil Palumbo explained that we are carrying $525K for A&E basic services and want to move $25K to
Environmental and Site Budget line item.
to move $25,000 from A&E Feasibility to
Environmental and Site. Motion approve 9-0.
Schedule update
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Jeffry explained that the Preliminary Design Program (PDP) will be submitted on August 8 and we will have seven
months to complete the Preferred Schematic Report. Several meetings need to be scheduled with working groups
and committee.
Feasibility Study Update
Jeffrey provided the look ahead through Preferred Schematic Report (PSR). We will continue to evaluate
alternatives and look for ways to right size them for our needs and budget. There will be a community meeting in
October. In November we will need to determine the preferred alternate. February 27, 2025 is the due date for
the PSR submission.
PDP Submission approval
Jeffry gave an overview of the PDP which was provided to all members prior to the meeting for review. A lot of it is
assessments of existing conditions. The baseline for MSBA is 58,660 square feet. If we could have everything
requested, the square footage would be 76,936. Most of the additional areas are extra special education
classrooms (one per grade) and one break out room per grade. The makerspace room, motor room and lunch
breakout room are extra spaces and outside of MSBA. The committee discussed the need for all these extra rooms
and agreed there is room to decrease the overall square footage. Kara Larcome, the Special Education Director
stated it would be helpful to have a language based classroom. 3 flexible spaces would be requested. Jeffry
presented the scoring chart and option 3a.2 (all new construction outside of current footprint) scored the highest.
A question was raised about moving the gym. The Town Manager suggested it should be moved to the ABECC
since that is something they need. Jeffry will look at whether that is feasible and what the estimated cost would
be.
The estimated costs for the alternatives was shown. Phil explained that approving the PDP is not approving the
numbers. It will be a 70/30 split with MSBA.
motion, seconded by David Brown to approve the Preliminary Design Program for
submission to the MSBA. Motion approved 9-0.
Review and approve invoices
Machado as presented. Motion approved 9-0.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion made by David Brown, seconded by , to adjourn the meeting at 5:30PM. Motion
approved 9-0.
Documents used at meeting:
Machado presentation
Invoices
Minutes of June 25, 2024