Middletown Springs Building Committee
Middletown Springs Library
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
APPROVED MINUTES
Present: Michael Beattie, Fred Bradley, Kimberly Bushnell – Clerk, Kristal Hier – Vice Chair, Patty Kenyon - Chair, Maureen McCormack; Herb Childress (selectboard)
Absent: Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, Tom Hurcomb, David Munyak, David Wright
1. Call to Order: Meeting was called to order by P Kenyon at 7:10 pm.
2. November Vote: H Childress attended the meeting to provide information from the selectboard regarding the bond vote, tentatively scheduled for November 19. The selectboard will hold a working meeting tomorrow to work on the budget for the ballot item and will sign the warning at their regular Oct 10 meeting if they deem it ready to go to the voters. There will be at least one public meeting, and a number of other efforts to get the information out to the voters, including a possible “field day” when voters will have a chance to visit each of the sites and ask questions of the people involved in the various projects (firehouse, West Street property, town building/library, town garage). H Childress reiterated that this vote is to sanction the selectboard to go for bonds on the individual projects (up to various certain amounts for each) once the projects are deemed ready to start and will sunset in five years for any of the projects which have not been started.
3. Approval of Minutes: M McCormack moved to approve the Unapproved Minutes of 9/19/2019 with corrections. M Beattie seconded. Motion carried.
4. Public Comment: none
5. Feasibility Study Final Report
a. BC Response to Feasibility Study: Letters are being drafted to the individual interviewees and the general public. They will include the executive summary as well as the BC’s response to the various recommendations made by the consultants. Care is being taken to protect the privacy of the interviewees which was a condition of their participation in the study.
b. Next Steps In-Kind Preliminary Campaign: D Wright is away. M McCormack and he will work on next steps in ascertaining potential donations of inkind labor.
c. Reports on Other Homework post study: Bensonwood: M Beattie made contact with gentleman who gave presentation to BC. He is working in different part of the company now and will connect us to someone else. M Beattie to follow up.
6. Building & Design
a. Renderings – tabled
7. Other Business
a. Property Value of St Margaret’s/Library building: H Childress reported that he has been unable to reach property appraiser. The listers are able to do an evaluation with the program they use as if it were a private property. H Childress also reported that insurance replacement value is currently $230,000.
8. Next meeting scheduled: Thursday, October 17, 2019
9. Adjournment: F Bradley moved to adjourn at 8:10 pm. K Hier seconded. Motion carried.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kimberly Bushnell, clerk
Middletown Springs Building Committee
Middletown Springs Library
Thursday, September 19, 2019
APPROVED MINUTES
Attendance: Fred Bradley, Kristal Hier – Vice Chair, Tom Hurcomb, Patty Kenyon - Chair, Maureen McCormack, David Munyak
Absent: Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, Michael Beattie, Kimberly Bushnell – Clerk, David Wright
1. Call to Order The meeting was called to order by P Kenyon at 7:07 pm.
2. Approval of Minutes – Unapproved Minutes of 9/4/2019 M McCormack moved to accept the minutes of September 4, 2019 as written, T Hurcomb seconded. Motion carried.
3. Public Comment: none
4. Feasibility Study Final Report
a. BC Response to feasibility study
i. Discussion of the drafted response to the feasibility study and what information needs to be included in that response when it is made available to the public in the next few weeks.
ii. BC response will go out to the public with a link to the parts of the feasibility study that do not include identifying information. P. Kenyon will work with the SB to work on a preliminary schedule for informational meetings, to include in the public response.
b. Guiding Doc for In-Kind Preliminary Campaign
i. BC reviewed the document for in kind donation campaign prepared by P. Kenyon. Next meeting, we will finalize commitments for connecting with our individual networks.
ii. M. McCormack and D. Wright shared their brainstormed list of potential people to approach for in kind donations.
c. Reports on Other Homework post study
i. P. Kenyon updated on “homework” that members had last meeting. Connections were made with Bensonwood, Colin re: renderings, a grant administrator re: grant application assistance.
5. Building Design
a. Renderings
i. Still waiting to hear back from Colin
6. November Vote
a. Report on Meeting with Herb re: path to Vote
i. P. Kenyon discussed with H. Childress about haw the SB and BC can disseminate info regarding all the town building projects prior to the anticipated November 19th vote.
7. Other Business none
8. Next meeting scheduled: Wednesday Oct 2, 2019
9. Adjournment – M McCormack moved to adjourn. K. Hier seconded. Motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm
Respectfully submitted,
Kristal Hier, Sub-Clerk