7/26/1994 SCHOOL - HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes

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MASHPEE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE TUESDAY , JULY 26 , 1994 Towle HALL Members Present: Paul Griffin Bill Mart i ros , Peter D i n i z i o, Janice Mil1s Merry sue Ahlgren , Michael Pare , Joe Polito, Steve Greelish Also Present :4 Greg Taylor ,or , Tom F dal a, Dr ■ Lincoln DeMoura, Ian Aitchison , Tom Wren , Bill Cottrell , Shannon Scarlett, Tony Es Leve s , Pay Bo rdwe l l , Ed Frenette, Bob Fournier, Norris McCloud Meeting convened at 4 : 00 p . m. Bill hurt i ros had asked if the committee could start meeting , without any consultants , for 15-20 minutes t Merry sue rade a motion to accept the minutes of July 6 and July 12 . Paul seconded the motion . All members were in favor . ** Bill ia.rti ros said chartvie 1 l , at the last meeting , presented a lot of data and the committee only reviewed a couple of pages because we are on such a hurry-up course . The committee should try to figure where they are , before meeting with the consultants . The committee expects Chartwell will go over all that information , relative to the project at today ' s meetingl Paul said because there is so much information the committee can ' t go over it all at a Meeting . They should read it and be prepared to ask questions at the next meeting . B i 11 said the cuff peak roof the comm! ttee chose is the same as the h i ghwa.y department buiIding . if you look at that building you will see the whole roof l i ne . He does not like i t. Merry sue noted you will on] see that view fr m the football field . Peter explained he met with the selectmen on Monday night. Bill Jones was there saying there are educational problems with the building and financial i t respons i b i l i t . Bi l l Jones and Nancy caffn are definitely for reducing the size of the building . Bill said he spoke with school principals who agree with him that junior senior high together is educationally unsound . Selectmen Gaff n made a mot-ion to have the school committee prove the 1180 student figure is worthwhile for the town but it did not draw a second . Bill was told to bring any further questions to the School committee . Michael Fare said he has contacted people in Michigan about the work of Childs . He spoke with a few schools that had to hire someone else after Childs completed their work to clean up the mess . He d i d hear they were good at educational programming- software set up . Their expertise does not lie in designing infrastructure . Paul said that work is not under the scope of SMMA ' s contract , it ' sunder equ i pment. The Committee can use Tava res, who submitted a quote, or find someone else . Merry sue asked Michael i f there are people out there who do this and can he give the committee and SMMA names of firms to use Paul said Childs ' scope of services is to provide assistance to the Committee to be sure the building has the necessary options to provide for