11/01/2005 PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE Minutes

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_ Page Capital Improvement Requests Please note that a capital request must be submitted for all capital outlays, even those which were apl2roved under lastyear's prouam,but still require funding. A "capital outlay" is a major, non-routin'e.expenditure for new construction major equipment purchase, or improvement to existing buildings, facilities, land or infrastructure, with an estimated useful life of five 5 gears or more, and a cost of$25,000 or more. Among the items properly classified as capital-improvements are: New public buildings, or additions to existing buildim' including land acquisition costs and equipment needed to famish the.nevi building or addition for the first time; • Major alterations, renovations, or improvements to existing buildings which extend the useful life of the existing buildings by five years; • Land acquisition and/or improvement, unrelated to a public building, but necessary for conservation or pans and recreation purposes; Major'or equipment acquisition, replacement or refurbishment, with a cost of at least $25,000, and a useful life of at least five gears; New construction or major improvements to the Town's physical infrastructure, including streets, sidewalks, stonn v ter drains, the water distribution system, and the sanitary sever system, which extend the useful life of the infrastructure by at least five 5 years; and • A feasibility study or engineering design services which are related to a fature capital improvement. separate Project Request Form is required for each capital outlay, and a single Summary Form is required to list all projects-requested. As an example, if you are requesting three separate capital outlays, you should submit three individual Project Request Forms and one single Summary Form. Please note that the dad is 'or completing all request,forms and submittingthen to . fr c ayem ,-2005, The Project bequest Form and Summary Form are available in electronic format. If you would like the forms e-mailed to you,please contact Kathleen Moore at Extension 51.2 or bos@ci.mashpee.ma.us. As always, I invite you to see me any time for assistance or to address concerns. Also,be sure to be as complete as possible with your requests and do not leave out projects which -you feel will be required for the Town. It is very important that our decisions are based on an understanding of all of the Ton's needs, I thank you for your continued cooperation in reaching our goal of providing the best service to 1ashpee and its residents,