11/30/1993 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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MASHPEE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES NOVEMBER 30, 1993 MEETING COMMENCED AT 7:OOPM Members Present. Dan Goggin, Chairman; Deirdre Greelish; John Ferriday; Denise Sullivan; Tony Gallo and Marcia King. Roger Dunivan was unable to attend. Guests who were in attendance at this meeting were as follows: Paul Griffith, School Building Committee; Peter DiNizio, School Building Committee; Bill Hauck, Building Inspector; Joe Polito, Janice Mills, Bill Jones and Bill Matiros, School Building Committee. Please note that the taping of this meeting was for the transcription of the Minutes only. The tape will be reused once the Minutes are approved. John Ferriday MOTIONED to accept the Minutes of November 16, 1993 as written. Tony Gallo seconded the Motion and members approved the Minutes by a vote of 6-0. Paul Griffith and Peter DiNizio were present at the meeting to answer any questions that the Finance Committee may have still had in regard to the proposed high school . The Marstons Mills Middle School, which was just recently built was a topic for discussion. The Finance Committee felt that this was a good comparison for the town to use. The Finance Committee couldn't understand why it was going to cost double what it cost to build that Middle School . The total. had been for that project $14,569,981 which was a total square foot cost of $113 . 83 . The proposed high school was going to cost to build approximately $27.7 million. The Finance Committee was aware of the fact that everything would need to be bigger in a high school and there would also be other things needed like an auditorium, larger cafeteria, more parking, etc, but they did not think the town needed to appropriate $27.7 million to have a decent school designed and built. Their feeling was that the high school could be built at around $25 million. The Finance Committee questioned Mr. Griffith as to why the Means Square Foot ratio could not be used? Mr. Hauck answered that usually Means is only used as a guide and that a professional company would probably have their own system for computing square foot costs. A company would not solely rely on the Means. Mr. Hauck also felt that by using the Means it would put you in the ballpark, but that it could be higher or lower square footage than needed. It could not give you an exact square footage amount for what the town needed. The Building Committee explained that they were using the state's requirements for computing their square footage costs. Mr. Griffith explained to the Finance Committee that using the State regulation for 1,350 students the square foot cost would be $210.00. The town was only asking to house 1,000 at a cost of $195.00 per square foot. Ms.