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PW/School Transportation Facility Next Steps.
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The Council, staff, and representatives from RSU 14 will discuss the proposed public works/school transportation facility:
* To review the needs the proposed facility is designed to meet and determine whether those are the appropriate needs,
* If the sense is that alterations need to be made based on a different understanding of the mission for the facility, to identify a process for making those changes,
* With a design the town and RSU agree should be built to meet their respective needs, either the current or an alternate, then how to arrive at an appropriate and mutually acceptable cost-sharing arrangement, and
* To understand how best to work with the RSU board and administration so that both the town and RSU are speaking with the same voice about how a proposed facility will translate into benefit for the communities they serve.
From the meeting of October 18, 2016 (CD 16-353):
Following a process that spanned three years, the town systematically looked at the condition of its existing facilities, evaluated the ability of those facilities to meet the needs of the functions they house, developed options for addressing unmet needs, and set priorities for meeting those needs.
As it did following a similar effort in the late 1990s, the Council established the construction of a new combined town and school maintenance facility as its top priority. With Allied Engineering and Grant Hays Architects, the town and school district worked together to develop a design to meet both their needs, gain efficiencies, and reduce duplication of space and effort. The Council sent that design, at an estimated cost of slightly less than $7.7 million to the voters in November 2015. The referendum failed by 113 votes in an off-year election with light turnout.
In 2016 the town had the estimates for the same project re-done, this time by Great Falls Construction, which was the general contractor on the Westbrook Public...
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