• Weston-Today sums up where we are on January 24, 2022...
  
• Two each from major boards (P&Z, Education, Finance) and three from the community - former First Selectman, former Vice-Chair. of Board of Education (and one of my favorite people) plus a new name who has professional experience writing RFP's (final two appointed January 2, 2020).  I don't recall exactly, but I suppose that the First Selectman would be ex-officio and the Town Administrator will have a hand in too - just a thought!
• First meeting is now scheduled for February 12, 2020 at 8am in the Town Hall Commission Room - where Skype, Facetime, etc. and such has broadcast capability???  Two members on"speakerphone" at first meeting 2-12-20.
  
• We believe that they are charged with coming up with an RFP that rigorously describes tasks for a consultant to explore regarding use of existing Town and School facilities given population estimates showing declining enrollment.  We will not be attending any of this entities' meetings because we suspect that it will be divided into subcommittees and thus not have quorums of the larger group present.  When and if these have posted meetings, we will then look for minutes of the meetings on the Town of Weston website.
  

FACILITIES OPTIMIZATION COMMITTEE MEETING NOTES IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

MASTER PLAN FOR SCHOOL-TOWN FACILITIES

STEAM #2 on Wednesday March 2, 2022 at 7pm
Quick summary:

• 74 participants at 7:46pm
• 3 options reviewed
• 18 questions asked and answered
  
• scheduled for 2 hours, it ran over by 20 minutes.

..

F.O.C. PRESENTS THE BIG PICTURE:  School side of needs study.  Town side started, next up... 
The plus & minus of each alternative left standing (downsizing to 3 schools off the table) reviewed.

Special Facilities Optimization Committee Monday Feb. 28, 2022 at 7pm on Zoom until  9pm.

• Off the table - no way will they give up a school building.
• 4 options -
  
• one the do nothing;
  
• two is a new PreK-1, (WIS 2-5), renovate WMS 6-8.  And an add-on "2+".
  
• three is the biggest $$, the least disruption to daily activities of education.
  
• JMO - we are far, far away from any bond issue - and my question has never yet been answered, altho' it is lurking..."What can Weston afford to bond in the present market?"
  

• in red, the swing space of sorts -
  
• new K-1 (2nd grade to WIS)
  
• plus 2 new buildings and replacing Revson field and lighted soccer field

• Election of officers 2022 for F.O.C. Wednesday Jan. 26, 2022 at 5:30pm on Zoom
• With a quorum present including newest member David Felton (Bd of Ed), Rick Bertasi (Chair.), Steve Ezzes (Vice-Chair.) and Gayle Weinstein (Sec'y) re-elected;

January 19, 2022 FOC meeting reports the results of review of options for teaching Weston pupils for the future...


1-19-22 Facilities Optimization Committee - elections to be at Special Meeting January 25, 2022 at 5:30pm on Zoom

• Using Hurlbutt as the example, all items named by Silver-Petrocelli costed out in today's numbers;
• Question of how many options necessary to offer (old version above).
• Question of when they should start figuring out how to pay for various alternatives and when to explore this came up.

Adjourned at 8:41pm.

First meeting of 2022 for F.O.C. - January 4, 2022 at 7pm on Zoom

• Review of various meetings with school staff and public;
• 2022 meeting dates set - 1st Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday of each month;
• Next steps:  school tours, January public meeting to get more specific.
• Elections in January.
  

• Presentation about progress to date, baseline on school conditions,
• Seven questioners, 71 members of the public online;
• Superintendent announces two days for community to visit and see the facilities - no doubt guided by FOC and consultants.

FACILITIES OPTIMIZATION COMMITTEE, 7-8pm - Zoom Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021

Discussion reveals that there is much to do before spending $$millions...

FACILITIES OPTIMIZATION COMMITTEE
August 17, 2021 on Zoom

FACILITIES OPTIMIZATION COMMITTEE INTERVIEWS 

• This plan eliminates 2 ball fields and a playground (Gayle)? 
  
• Chris:  Did not discuss removing ball fields and playground when he was getting buy in on sidewalks.
  

• Jonathan reviewed RFQ outline and scope of work.  Companies other towns have used recommended.  Place in CT bid portal. 
  
• 2013 study to be sent to all applying for RFQ. 
  
• Discussion ensued:  Operating costs???  $20 million to get school buildings ok - PLUS. 
  
• Richard wants more about educational model - less square footage and classroom space.  "Expertise in Education."  
  
• Timing? (don't want to waste time) - BUT - FOI.  So Special Meeting in a week...or so. 
  
• Re-Use of Jarvis. 
  
• School, Town and public are the participants in this study. 
  
• 4 firms recommended by others already, some familiar names. 
  

• Steve points out no consultant can say anything.  Can't know what will be normal in 2023.  Rick agrees.  Physical capacity will change.  But there is a baseline that won't change.  Distancing, remote learning here to stay, future state???
• Pausing at sometime...Denise on projection - net in-migration;  Tony.  K - 115 kindergarten in May for next semester.
• Richard - Bd of Ed has to be able to tell them about:  Number of classrooms needed.  In light of remote learning.  Ken Craw - doing the best remote - but we will have to have more space.
• Ken Edgar - not fully educated.  No consultant yet.  What are the assumptions?  Is there a way to join Curriculum Committee (Denise)?
• Gayle - ventilation, air-conditioning?  Cleaning?
• Rick:  What we're seeing on impact - post vaccine no  problem?.  If you solve for intermediate point...bake in remote, combination reduces demand for space.  Don't have enough information.  More real estate/technology.  But how much optimization can it really have?  All occupied space.
• Communication plan:  How do you get public input?  Hillary - buy-in before do anything.  Gayle agrees.  Make sure Boards - Selectmen, Education, Finance agree.  Data sharing.  Strategy on public input and buy-in.  Ken - town survey - public meetings like what Board of Finance did.  Chris - early stage lots of learning.  What questions for a consultant if and when to get a consultant...completely different universe.  Two-way video room at Town Hall.  We can get public input.
• Master planning Timeline - have to revise it.  Reset timeline virus uncertainty.  Space utilization from Plan - but no time on repair and maintenance.  Cost perspective.  Numbers are staggering.  Operating costs?  Well beyond what we can afford.  Cost of maintain good repair.  Gayle asked Richard.  Silver Petrocelli.  Fired them remedial at intermediate school.  Don't have confidence.  Hire Zimmerman to check Middle School facade.  We don't have a comprehensive report.  Walk-thru.  Buildings that haven't been upgraded.  Hurlbutt most in need of work.   Collapsing buildings.  North House a disgrace from when it was built.  Rone - different grades?  What do we want from these buildings?  Larger picture.  More than classrooms.  What kind of image for the town.
• OPTIONS:  Assumptions to agree on.  DRAFT discussed but not attached to agenda.  Member comments:
  

• Safety & Security now with COVID. 
  
• One-time capital and other upkeep expenditures over time - costs. 
  
• Speaking of costs - as in value of time as a parameter of the whole discussion...55 minutes in we skipped to last 25 minutes.

• SKIPPING TO THE END...Ask BOE and administration to change school educational instruction - the only way to change things is to change standards.  Do not hire architect.  Need to bring in independent consultant.  Some think not yet not ready.  Independent consultant with credentials should be an.education consultant. 
  
• We still have to figure out how to best use a consultant.  Education or architect?  Or another kind of expert?  Clarity on anything?  RFQ first.
  

• Tonight's agenda:  Schools and future space needs.
• Will the COVID-19 experience change facility standards?
• Can we anticipate the future role (by grade) of the virtual learning experience?
  

• Tony:  Roll thru the 4-schools.  How space is utilized.  Barking in background.
• Ken.  Depth & breadth.
• Is North House still used? (Gayle)  Sounds like a yes.  What was the functional capacity?  36 classroom (minus Senior Center) in 2013.
• (Gayle) 7 classes per grade.  Would we have to take back Senior Center.

• Member of the public asked for document. 
  
• Weston-Today & About Town on their smartphones and who knows who else was on the line?
• The most significant page of all was the high-medium-low projections..
  

• March 2 meetings for reviewing schools data, and population estimates/projections for Town, too.
• April  2 meetings on facilities (education)
• May 2  meetings on facilities (Town)
  
• July, August, September decide by October (write the RFP for consultant).

Board of Education MMI consultant on population estimates and projections to  be asked to participate in March.  Is transfer Station part of the study?  We think we heard a "no" but this has been in the past a place where school bus storage has been suggested.

NEXT MEETING March 11, 2020 at 8am, Commission Room...how many live participants then???  Answer: 5 present, 4 on speakerphone (see minutes above).

• What can we afford to spend?
• Avoidance of "biases" necessary;
• What is utilization, ability to have underused school buildings reused by town?
• Prepare questions to be addressed.
  

  

       
 

CENTRAL WESTON BASE MAP.

OUR MINUTES OF WHAT WE OBSERVED AT GLOBAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE:
"Picture stories" and meeting dates:  August 6, 2015;  MAY 4, 2015;  March 30, 2015;  November 4, 2014; October 30, 2014;  June 20, 2014;  March 20, 2014;  October 25, 2013;  June 21, 2013;  June 10, 2013.

• THE BIG MEETING MARCH 30, 2015...sound recorded here...and are we back to square one?
  
• More "secrets" (better known as meetings the public is excluded from) coming?  This observation does not apply to School Security.
  
• Selectmen/Finance meeting minutes now available ("no votes were taken"). Please note that at the Selectmen's meeting of Nov. 20, 2014, a study requested from Public Safety Complex architect was duly released upon request to About Town after it was discussed - read it here.  We note that at "Speak Up" the issue of no minutes on file was raised for "Global Facilities Committee."
  
• Attention:  Board of Finance televised.  Nov. 4th Joint Meeting and Special Selectmen's Meeting not televised...no minutes either (as of Nov. 20);
  
• About Town's observations, thru summer of 2014 on what may be coming down the pike...or running off down the pike...in the central part of town. 
  
• Unofficial minutes of Global Facilities Committee meetings.  Joint Committee (Selectmen/Finance) doings here as well.
  
• ELSEWHERE AND HISTORY:  Global Facilities Planning elsewhere in CT:  New London County news;
• Global Planning in the private sector can mean outsourcing or...in other states. 
  
• The first idea for the new W.C.C.O.G. to discuss?  Nope.  Ebola!
  
• And what's happening at other CT COGS...

H O W    M A N Y    M E E T I N G S    G O I N G    O N    H E R E   A T    O N E    T I M E ?
GLOBAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE expected to produce a report on their recommendations...NOT THERE YET AS OF AUGUST 2015.


SELECTMEN'S MEETING MAY 7, 2015
The crowd filtered in and out, as public hearings ended and the Board of Selectmen got underway late...And two power points began after two appointments and acceptance of a gift!


                 

FINANCE BOARD
Not so sure about Global Facilities' committee decision to plunge ahead...so it seemed to me.

  
"SHELL GAME" ABOUT SPACE NEEDS DID IN THE SCHOOL BUDGET BY DISTRACTING ATTENTION AND TIME OF STAFF, AS WELL AS PTO (JMO)
New member of the Board of Finance spoke strongly and frankly.  Did the Public Safety Complex roll out confuse voters ahead of ATBM and Referendum?  I have to say the "plan" to move ahead had a shallow look to it, but perhaps it was because there was discussion around a document I couldn't see until the topic was almost exhausted..

• Delayed until there is complete data on available land in town with reference to review;
• Reference made to this parcel as the "100 acre parcel adjacent to Meadow Ridge" - for Senior Housing, perhaps.
• Global Facilities Committee (link to FORUM report) to meet and discuss options...we did some calling around and this meeting will be on March 30, 2015 at 7:45am in Town Hall.
  

  

TRI-BOARD MEETINGS CAN LOOK LIKE THIS ABOVE.

, begin merging School-Town web presence and...buildings at Hurlbutt dates built.

NORTH HOUSE TO BE CLOSED IN 5 YEARS?  Selectmen pursue clarity on what they must do to meet town needs.  Hurlbutt second project (r).

• The truth;
• Accurate for more than the length of time it takes for you to leave the room or 'til sundown, whichever is closer;

Some things never change department and some truisms:

• The left had never knows what the right hand is doing;
  
• The Board of Education is more "powerful" than the Board of Selectmen if you equate money with power;
• The only people who will vote "yes" for spending ten million dollars on a new Public Safety Complex are the policemen (who can't vote because most don't live here) and members of the Fire Department, who do live here, and members of the Police Commission (maybe).  And About Town, who never has a problem supporting spending money for a good cause or good planning.
  

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING NOV. 7:
This meeting was very polite.  It was also videotaped and put on the screen the very next day (congratulations to Town staff working free overtime, no doubt, to make the "station" a "24-7" all news all the time 21st Century public access machine)...couldn't have happened without the Town of Weston volunteer-run GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL rising to the occasion.  BRAVO!
League Observer notes that the Weston Middle School Cafeteria was pretty full (not totally) - this means @170 persons - but maybe the number for eligible voters was considerably smaller because the real records kept are for "qualified voters" and does not include the people filling seats who are:  Education Staff or other Town Staff not residents of Weston, under-age residents sitting with parents and Weston residents who not citizens.  Both LWV Co-Presidents were present, along with other Board Members and general membership.  This was First Selectman Hal Shupack's last Town Meeting, and he introduced Woody Bliss, his successor.  Opening remarks were made by the Chair. of the Board of Education, the Superintendent (acting) of Schools, Chair. of the Parks and Recreation Commission.  Fletcher-Thompson, the architects, were present, but no one asked any questions of them.  It was noted that no one who spoke was in doubt about their position.  It was also noted that anyone who would like to take a tour of the proposed Parks and Recreation improvements was welcome to the League of Women Voters/Parks and Rec. event Friday, November 9 at 11am in Bisceglie Park.

A question about the Sheff decision vis a vis filling unused space in the public schools was discussed somewhat heatedly, with a standing ovation given to the person who had the nerve to bring up the issue of why people might be opposed to school expansion - asking if it was not a code position for not favoring an integrated society.  One after the other of some who had opposed the expansion returned to the microphine to recite reasons why they never intended to suggest that this was a racial issue.

The Town Meeting was adjourned to the machines--VOTE THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 2001, WESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL,  FROM 6am to 8pm --Schools will be open so...watch out for traffic and parking problems in the Middle School lot.

PREVIOUSLY

OF TOWN LINE W/WILTON AND PROXIMITY OF SCHOOL CAMPUS...WHY SO COMPLEX?

Fall 2014


After Election Night...and now Nov. 20, and no minutes in sight...but the requested survey of space use by other Police Departments IS DONE:

LINK TO PDF OF COMPARISON OF SPACE USE AT POLICE DEPARTMENTS

The joint meeting election night, after all, WAS NOT televised on Channel 79.  But...the Board of Finance meeting prior to it was!  Here is a secondary source report from the FORUM:



THE FIVE YEAR PLAN:  No video of Joint Meeting. 
Above left, the upper floor of new Police Station...part of the bigger picture.  New septic field under here...softball fields at Hurlbutt to get redo to allow parking, next. Onion Barn safe for now.

Not ready for prime time...yet.  But doing very nicely!
Weston finance board reviews police building project
Weston FORUM
By Kimberly Donnelly on November 12, 2014

The town will likely pursue a combination of bonding and appropriations from its reserve fund to finance a new public safety building and renovation of Weston Town Hall.  That was the consensus of the finance board and the Board of Selectmen after meeting in a joint session on Tuesday, Nov. 4, to discuss plans to build a new police station and to relocate several town offices...

The town is also looking at renovating the town hall once the police and communications center vacate it to move in to the new building. Cost estimates based on preliminary designs are about $1.8 million...

“We want to make sure we’re doing it right, so I’m willing to take the extra time,” she said...story from the FORUM in full:  http://www.thewestonforum.com/23049/weston-finance-board-reviews-police-building-project/

AND THE FOLLOW UP TO THE OCT. 30TH MEETING WILL BE...NOV. 4TH!  WHILE ABOUT TOWN IS AT THE WMS REPORTING TO AP ON ELECTION RESULTS!
Bonding to pay for the Emergency Services Complex and Expansion/Renovation of Town Hall (since the Annex is being phased out) will have to be the subject of a Town Meeting/Referendum.  Unless the powers that be would prefer to add it to the ATBM and never have discussion at town meeting at all!  Just a yes-no Referendum!  Would or should Weston be eligible for any funding from the State of CT?  As commented by the parties at the table discussing these matter, since it was reported that D.E.E.P. has a file on us from the town hall/school first expansion and also the second, I would think that we might well be back to moving or merging expansion to the schools complex and not changing the foot print of any structure.  Of course, some members of the Board of Finance have suggested similar things and been swept aside with the certainty that D.E.E.P. can be talked out of tgheir mission...below, the early plans presented for Town Hall part of the project.
 
Please note that the Town of Weston provided copies after the meeting of all items discussed.


PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY
GLOBAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE OCT. 30TH DISCUSSED WAYS TO REVISE PLAN.  DRAWINGS OF

At Special Board of Selectmen's meeting Aug. 18, 2014
C-PACE program explained.  The Town fits in as a "pass-thru" for funds from CT "Green Bank."  Lights Committee or whatever it is called, to meet soon.

SPORTS PERSON OF THE YEAR IN WESTON;  WESTON SPORTS COMMISSION MEMBERS

Vision Statement:
"Support the athletic energy of Weston's youth by providing leadership in upgrading and enhancing athletic facilities which benefit all participants."
Mission Statement:
"Create, and sustain, a 'Best in Class' Multi-functional athletic environment/facilities" is the idea!  "...Weston High School's medium longer term total land use, athletic infrastructure and development strategies" are on the line here.  Through mutual partnerships (individuals, families, public enterprises), the Committee states, "...we will focus our development efforts towards providing a multi-sports surfaced stadium and supporting equipment to enhance overall athletic excellence."

"FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS" (FOR ALMOST HALF THE CALENDAR YEAR) GOING UP...PHOTO ON RIGHT JULY 30th...
Summertime in Weston 2014 means School Road construction - "Hold that line" football cheer = watch those electric bills!  Read FORUM report here!  Did the M.O.U. include permission from the crows?

LET THERE BE LIGHTS AND THERE WERE LIGHTS - VISITOR'S SIDE HERE

• Project:  At the high school renovating rooms (windows and doors);
• Project:  And the Stadium Light project installation - is this related to the Executive Session;
  
• Project:  The tertiary treatment plant repairs plus...
• Project:  The Senior Center renovations and...
• New parking lot at East House - will it be here as shown (above right) or somewhere that is already impervious surface, and just repaved?  Perhaps an argument for justifying using Hurlbutt field for drainage (since impervious surfaces increased for more than just the Police Station, as it may turn out)?
  

UNOFFICIAL "MINUTES" TAKEN BY ABOUT TOWN OF GLOBAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE MEETINGS ATTENDED



LINK TO ITEMS DISTRIBUTED BELOW
GLOBAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE
Town Hall Meeting Room
August 6, 2015 - 7:45am to 9:30am approx.

This meeting was not recorded nor was the Weston FORUM present.  Nothing was decided except approval of previous meeting minutes. 



PRESENT:  Gayle Weinstein, First Selectman;  Brian Humes, architect;  Jerry Sargent, Board of Finance;  Allen Swerdlowe, Bob Soloff, Building Committee;  Elise Major, Bd of Ed (Facilities Committee);  Dr. Palmer;  Beth Gralnick, Police Commission;  Ellen Uzenoff, Bd of Ed;  IN THE AUDIENCE IN SUPPORT were Communications Center Director, Fire Department, EMS, Bd of Ed Facilities Director.



PUBLIC SAFETY COMPLEX
Materials distributed included latest architect's report, letters re:  possible use of Onion Barn Field (Hurlbutt) letter from engineer and DEEP;  formal estimator's numbers for hard and soft costs plus another copy of Dec. 24, 2014 review of projects for similar facilities, hard cost only, we think.  What if anything could be left out of final proposal?  Fire Department made a suggestion.  Attached also are drawings and documents distributed for the discussion of the two story Public Safety Complex.

    

DOCUMENTS
Building Committee Co-Chair makes case for not changing anything.  Board of Finance reminds those present that costs were requested to be reduced by some % - had this happened or had it actually increased?

Architect's report:  Included correspondence between Town Engineer and DEEP. 
Included also separate project cost estimate plus...

Drawings of plan:  These are scanned in and we apologize for their appearance - but all the information should be available.

Lower floor plan; 
Upper floor plan.

  

    

  

GLOBAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE
Town Hall Meeting Room
March 30, 2015 7:45am - @9:30am

About Town has the record:  SOUND FILE HERE

North is up on the Google map below.  These come from the 20 pages "report" with 21 more pp of maps, aerials and assorted material.  NO EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

      

The meeting went like this:  The First Selectman ably described the sporadic multi-year effort to take a "global" look at the Town's space needs to see if there could be joint use of structures, etc. with the schools.  Then came Sandy Hook School tragedy and rules for school safety all over the State of CT changed. 

Global Facilities and the Board of Selectmen have now clarified exactly what this Board of Education considers compatible uses of space - Senior Activity Center, Town departments that do not get outside visitors (and even their own business office!!!).

Who was there?  Representation from those parties with "skin in the game."  That would be Town, Education, Police,  Building Committee, Board of Finance.  Library not present and Commission on Aging in the audience as were Fire Department and EMS and Communication Center.   Global Facilities Committee members and those attending the meeting on Monday, 7:45am, Town Hall Meeting Room received (shared copies) presentation by administration of summary of 20 pp of text and 21 pages with tables, charts, Google aerial views. and explanation of what was "on the table" (we note that we found listening again to the Town Administrator in 3 minutes explained what had to be done [at @1hr15min into the sound file] was very helpful) - SOUND FILE HERE

        
It was a lot to absorb: By this time, speaking for myself, nothing was new - just clarified in print and in the verbal report.  Space planner from Massachusetts explained it took years to convince North Hampton, MASS. to approve a Police Station (we may have the name of the town wrong - it has 55,000 people and sidewalks everywhere (and sewers and public water, I'll bet!).


        
MAIN CONCERN OF THOSE AROUND THE TABLE IS NOT HAVING TOWN MEETING VOTE DOWN THEIR PROJECT - JMO.
(R) Town Administrator, near the end - one-hour and 15 minutes in for three minutes - explains why you have to start with the Public Safety Complex. 

Next best part of the meeting was when Police Commissioner and Boards of Finance and Education members all agreed what was needed was to hire a planning consultant like Westport has done for their downtown planning - which is earlier on the sound file. 

Which is always nice to do but...putting off what is really not a complicated decision, IMHO.

It is a political decision to be made, yes.  But why should it be considered just a local one?  Forces in Hartford beyond our control are changing and shifting the ground under our feet in the 169 towns in CT as we write this... 

• Numbers for this 2014 project are nowhere near the Schools/Fields Referendum bottom line (About Town will not mention the numbers for this new endeavor because we have no desire to complicate the process - when the numbers are finalized, we'll use them);
  
• Considering that it will take three years from the time bonding is approved to build the new "Emergency" Services Complex, an estimate made at this meeting, it is time to start the process;
• Then and only then would work be able to begin on space presently occupied at Town Hall for other uses, to bring back the Land Use departments (to a renovated basement space with separate entrance, unlinked to the present Fire/Police/EMS/Communications space), expand for a First Selectman's suite, and move Social Services to the present Police Department offices on the main floor of Town Hall. 
  
• The study for EMS emergency lodging ties in here (EMS would fund the construction).

• Technological developments:   data storage/access in school and town;  security of that data to protect population.
• Implications (physical) for coordination with town-school;  work force changes go hand in hand with technology;
• Security for town data, security for general population's data - yet appropriate availability and integration into everyday life making it better, and still respecting privacy - making it easy use, too;
• Emergencies - weather and otherwise;  be prepared!
• Infrastructure protection;  redundancy.

• The Onion Barn Field taken (NOT the Onion Barn, which is in the firstl Historic District) and I would expect a lot of drainage work and redo of  Hurlbutt fields (nobody mentioned this) to come. 
  
• Shouldn't the Planning and Zoning Commission help out this process, wearing their planning hat? 
  
• And our Town Engineer designed the soft drainage (drainage terminology here) between the Onion Barn and Fire Department to hold back the overflow onto Route 57 and into the Shopping Center...the problem was, previously, that the State of CT catch basins and storm drains were designed for 25 year flood and would overflow too frequently and run off onto private property. 
  
• Because the water table is so high in the center of town, basements flood and this should be recognized as one reason why the new proposed "Police Station" might have to be two stories above ground???.
• Fuel Cell or other ideas for grants more possible now than before, and the First Selectman is exploring all kinds of possibilities re:  LEEDS platinum and its benefits.
  

OCT. 25, 2013 GLOBAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE:  WE STAY FOR TOWN HALL- POLICE EXPANSION OF TOWN HALL COMPLEX STRUCTURES

WHAT HAPPENED AT OCT. 25, 2013 EARLY MORNING MEETING?
Great stuff!, well run.  Police and safety issues vis a vis communications center and bringing town hall employees back to town hall.

  And they did.

First step, access and parking for each of the three alternatives.  Very different ideas - no change to shared parking in two, access from Weston Road addded for two, new P.D. building and separate parking an access only for P.D. emergencies for the third.  JMO.

Pictures of the meeting below, too.

• Next meeting planned for the end of June...oops, Special Town Meeting approves lower amount, deal falls through for former Guidera law office.
  
• Close Annex, move staff;
  
• Jarvis - sell? EMS/Communications Center?
• 48 Norfield - Town/School officies? - will know by end of June if there is interest in buying it.
• Sell previous purchased town open space?
• Declining enrollment in schools (?);  space available study (by same consultant as Board of Police Commissioners); 
  
• First Selectwoman reported...at Planning & Development Committee in Hartford: "'Lady, you need to change your infrastructure." 
  
• East House Town Use?
  
• Re purpose space.
• There might be reuse of school buildings for pre-K (regional???) use.
• How is our enrollment picture similar or not to other systems?
• On the "Town side" of facilities report implementation (Kaestel Boos) - town has not done as well as the Board of Ed (see first Committee work) - Police and Fire and Communications next step