3/22/1994 SCHOOL - HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes

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frequent meetings , as regular as possible. Steve ree1ih asked if they would consider their services to pay for themselves , in a project like this? M r. T i shoran sa i d the i r cu r rent p roj et w i th BMMA the cost sav i ng s f rom the schematic design to GMP was over $4 . 5 million , in 6 weeks. Some of that the owners decided not to take, much of It the did , It i s fairly typical that the services would pay for themselves as long as the budget can be preserved once you start construction , It is important to maintain a level of consistency , What was the total project cost for that $4. 5 million av i ns? 56 million construction, 67 million total project cost. Merry Sue asked if they had ever worked with a school committee group like this before? M r, Tishman has worked with a few school groups like this, in New Jersey and Portland Maine , but not in Mass. Paul asked if the BMMA/Tishman project care in under budget? M r . Tishman said it is still under construction , they negotiated the GMP after the value design was completed Paul asked what they see their role to be after the pre-construction , i f the Committee en gages you for that portion of the project? Mr . Tishman said they wQu l d provide the Committee with a small staff, 1 - full time people , part time clerical and we would be the project administrator - bookkeeping , processing of paperwork, negotiations of claims, w will be the construction department for the 1 i fe of the p roj et i Peter asked if they were under contract with BMMA? Mr. Tishman said they are both under contract to the State , for the MA Info Tech Center in Chelsea. COMMITTEE DISCUSSION Bill Martiros told the Committee he had talked with Jim Vaca r ro about converting our 2 schools to dual fuel use. Maybe the architect could look into that. Janice said we should let someone else do it on their budget Steve Greelish said it will be very expensive to convert, Peter explained we are not funded to look at those issues. Town Counsel would have to be asked if it could be included i n their services . Project Mian agm n t Firms : Seaman B ra.tko - the Committee agreed they were not interest i n this firm Hanscomb - they are not interested , especially after seeing these two firms interviewed today. Leher McGovern Bovis - Peter thought they were very professional . He suspects they may be adversarial with BMiMA. Paul said the Committee must first think about what we want. what we need is a professional gopher. He read the selection criteria from the RFP. Merry Sue thinks LMB is a very big firm. They were beyond us , above us, more that we need . She likes Tishman better . Bill Jones said we have a fine and very capable architect who are capable of much of what these two firms said they would be doing .