7/19/1995 TOWN HALL BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes

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u- 1A HPEE TOWN HALL BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes for July 1 , 1995 Page • The project was currently at the final schematics stage and going out to bid; • They felt that Roger Hoit was at their site a tremendous amount of the time; • A different architect is doing their school project and it is not going as well; • They were much more happy with Strekalov ky and Holt; 0 Felt that Roger Hoit was particularly good with room adjacencies; • Mr. Williams stated " o far, so good;" • They would recommend Strekalovky and Hoit. Bob 1l hritenour reported he had spoken to Roger Feed regarding the $175,000 Westport project that Strep al ovsky and Hoit is doing. He stated he was told the following: They had only been on the job 6 - 8 weeks and he thought the project was coring along slowly but stated that some of the delay right be the Town's fault; • Stated that Strekalov ky and Hoit had done a project years ago in Westport that the Town had not been happy with; • Stated that they are also doing a Senior Center project for them; Stated that they are very accessible, Jiro reported that he had spoken with the Building Committee Chairman in Webster and he was told the following: • Their project had involved handicap accessibility with an elevator and that they were not too happy with the way it had come out; • Their project had involved working with an old, ornate building; • Strekalovsky and Hoit had put in trailers as temporary office space during their project and stated there had been a lot of complaining but that it had all worked out; • Stated that they had a lot of problems with the elevator and that the actual elevator was still not working right; They thought that Stre alov ky and Hoit were not very imaginative but that they were very practicable} Their change orders were minimal with the exception of the handicap accessibility and the elevator; • Stated they would probably use therm again. Jim reported he had called the Chairman of the Building Committee for the Mashpee Middle School project and stated he was told that the Chairman had nothing but praise for Strekalovky and Holt, Jiro stated he had called Roger Hoit to ask him if his design would preclude doing something with the roof of the 1960's building. He stated Mr. Hoit stated that it would not preclude this and that something could be done with it. Jim stated he had received several calls from Tadhg Sweeney. Jim stated that both of these firms had reiterated that they wanted very much to get this project.