2001-2005-SENIOR CENTER BUILDING COMMITTEE

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TOWN OF MASHPEE SENIOR CENTER BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes of the Meeting of January 30, 2002 Attendees: Also Present: Iry Goldberg Irene Farwell Ed Adams Louise McNutt Betty Nichols Aurora Bird Jean Noussee James Long Marty Henry Mart Sapers Art Weinstein Mike Bailey(Mashpee Enterprise) Chairman Irving Goldberg called the meeting to order at 1:40 PM. A correction to the 1/09/02 minutes was noted: page 2, item 7, last line should read"Access by the Fire Station". The minutes were then approved as corrected. OLD BUSINESS Iry Goldberg stated that on 01/15/02, the Committee visited several available building sites. As a result of these visits,the Committee selected two sites for final consideration: the land behind the Fire Station, and the existing Senior Center location. Layouts of these two sites were distributed to the meeting attendees. Discussion followed concerning the pros and cons of each. Selectman Wayne Taylor, who was unable to attend this meeting, recommended the Fire Station site as a preferable choice over the existing Senior Center site. The existing site is cramped, and does not allow adequate room for future expansion. After considering all points brought up, the Chairman took a poll from the Committee. The vote was five to two in favor of selecting the site behind the Fire Station. It was agreed by the Committee that the site behind the Fire Station would be the new location for the Senior Center. The Committee offered comments on their visits to the Orleans, Yarmouth and Hyannis Senior Centers on 01/23/02. It was noted that all the reception areas had a high noise level. The Yarmouth Center reception area had a unique feature of a dividing wall, which had the effect of creating a small meeting area set apart from the rest of the room, for use by individuals, or a small group. The Committee agreed to meet on 02/04/02 at the Mashpee Senior Center at 12:30 PM to travel to the Middleboro and Duxbury Senior Centers. It was decided to exclude the Westwood Center from the list of Centers to be visited,,citing the long distance as well as small size of the Center. NEW BUSINESS RFP. The Town has provided a standard RFP (attachment 1)for our use. It was modified to include space requirements as well as a layout of the site. The RFP will be given to the Mashpee Town Administrator to put through Legal, then to the Selectmen's meeting for review and approval on Monday, Feb. 4th. Bidders'Conference is targeted for Tuesday, Feb. 12th to respond to any and all questions from Bidders to the RFP if required. Abutters Meeting. A letter will be sent to all Abutters to our selected site requesting a meeting to discuss any issues that may surface as a result of the new Senior Center locale. Iry Goldberg will coordinate with the Selectmen's Office to prepare this letter.