11/14/1995 SCHOOL - HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes

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Alan Scott said they will have a very good sense in May where this project is . Stone is committed to fulfilling their obligation here . Peter said Selectmen Caffyn told him there is an estimate for utilities for the high school to be $600 ,000 per year and the town only estimated $100 , 000 . Paul said it is true there is a letter from SMMA with that figure but the estimate is definitely in error. Paul has not seen the details of how they got to that number; they released it before he reviewed it. SMMA is re calculating it . TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATION Michael Kirwin from CCR was present to discuss the status of technology design development. In the base building there is: - voice cabling for telephone system, to a main equipment room. - data cabling, from room to room back to main equipment room. - video cabling system, 1 main equipment location. - fixtures and furnishing package - the equipment we will bring to the site to meet the educational and administration requirements of the building. Voice : will include telephone system with voice mail system, auto attendant system. The auto attendant can access an extension when there is no receptionist on site and shed some of the load from the receptionist. Voice Mail will have a 2 tiered approach, 1 public message box and 1 to leave a message . They propose a Centrex system for the high school , which can transfer between the two schools . Data system: computer and software for students , administration and public areas - library. It will be a PC platform with state of the art machines and real work software . Schedule of purchase: they propose a second and third buy, since the building will not be fully occupied immediately. Specialty software : library card catalog , access to card catalog over network. Tech education- CAD drafting software. Some software does not have to go out to bid, you can choose what best suits your needs . Paul asked, to get the best pricing for the product, would we bid it to a third party vendors? At what pint do you get a better price with a licensing agent -- Microsoft. Mr. Kirwin said the school is not near the scale to deal directly with Microsoft . The vendors get the deep discounts and therefore you are better off using vendors . Bill said AT&T recently announced the will be providing $100 million for education, how can we participate? Steve said they have just started deciding what they are going to do with those funds , it was intended to provide internet access . Mr. Kirwin said CCR can make that connection (with AT&T) but if anyone on the Committee wants to, go ahead. Janice thinks CCR should be the one running to make that connection for the 2