HomeMy WebLinkAbout201-10-8Minutes for October 8, 2014, adopted Oct. 22
Town of Nantucket
Capital Program Committee
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RECEIVED
Members: Phil Stambaugh (Chair), Peter Morrison (Vice - chair), Richard Hus, ,1yl(1°gcr�a�ry)m 1? -6
John Tiffany, Tobias Glidden, Nat Lowell, Peter McEachern
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
4 Fairgrounds Road, Training Room - 8:00 am
Called to order at 8:00 a.m.
Staff: Libby Gibson, Town Manager; Brian Turbitt, Finance Director; Martin Anguelov,
Assistant Finance Director; Heidi Bauer, Procurement Officer
Attending Members: Stambaugh, Morrison, Hussey, Tiffany, Lowell, McEachern
Absent Members: Glidden
Late arrival: None
Documents used: Departmental Capital Requests
I. APPROVE MINUTES
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Presentation Gibson - Updating the Long -term Capital Finance Plan; do have a true up of the request book.
Discussion Turbitt - Reviewed PowerPoint@ on the 10 -year capital plan. Have not decided how to use Free
Cash; waiting for it to be certified which should take 7 to 10 days. The estimate totals for
FY2016: bike paths and sidewalks $1.55M, town buildings $43.55M.
Gibson - Cobble stoning is very costly with $300,000 to $400,000 available for work; locations
are being identified. However, don't have enough to be able to do all of Main Street.
Turbitt - The non - building asset category increased by $1.85M from estimated last year. Road
improvements was reconfigured and as a result decreased by $13M. Have run the impact
projections on the tax rate based upon borrowing $64.5M; for a home valued at 500,000 the
impact would be $184 and for a home valued at 1.3M the impact would be $467. That was
estimated without adding Free Cash or bonding.
Gibson - Addressing the Project Sheet. Also not factored in are capital projects from prior years
which are complete and have funding left. There is money from sales of real estate; the account
presently has about $6M; however, there are policy issues associated with how these funds are
spent, which are somewhat restrictive. Reviewed the items on the sheet. The Town isn't looking
at many grants; the only possible one is a school building assistant grant.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Upgrade of the Uninterrupted Power System (UPS) for police: the original system was not
supposed to support the entire town. Police and Fire need server and PC replacements; this type
of replacement occurs every year.
Renovation of the Town Pier Office Building and Public Restrooms for $1.2M: there aren't
enough and these have been flooded out several times; the building needs to be raised. This needs
to be addressed soon so looking at the possibility of Finance moving out of 37 Washington and
converting that building into the Marine Department and public bathrooms; but that would need
substantial work.
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Town Pier timber repairs to be funded from the waterways improvement funds to get it up to
good condition, then establish an annual repair plan.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS (DPW)
Consue Springs Harbor Outfall Storm water Improvement is projected at $3.5M. This and the in-
town Consue Springs bike path are not tied together.
Storm water Master Plan will probably be taken out pending additional information.
Baxter Road Alternative Access Construction could be repaved through betterments by the
abutters who would benefit. The idea is to have money and plan in place for when Baxter Road
fails.
Boulevard Reconstruction is Phase I of reconstruction of several Surfside roads, which are
presently all private roads. Money was appropriated last year for the costs associated with taking
those roads, which is underway. This project would not begin until the Town owns those roads,
which should be accomplished by the end of this fiscal year.
Lowell - This has been a huge issue with the Surfside Area Plan Workgroup. In the original plan,
the split was 70/30. Feels this should not be done unless the abutters pay 30 %.
Gibson - In her discussions with the Workgroup, the abutters are no longer interested in doing
that.
Road Repairs and Maintenance is budgeted $900,000 and has been in the budget 3 or 4 years. A
2007 Pavement Management Study recommended $1.3M annual appropriations. With the DPW
Chapter 90 funds and the $900,000, the total is almost there. Most of the main road repairs have
been addressed and DPW has a list of roads to be addressed this year. Listed various projects
which were paid for using Chapter 90 funds.
Replacement Street sweeper, these take a lot of abuse due to the amount of sand on the road.
Replacement Pickup Truck with Plow there are two.
Replacement Wood chipper being used now is quite old and replacement parts are no longer
available.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Repair to Easy Street Bulkhead: had applied for a partial grant /loan of $1.2M; haven't yet signed
the agreement. The grant itself is $140,000; borrowing for the rest would have to be authorized in
Town Meeting though it could be funded through the operating budget. This work could not
start until next Fall.
Lowell - This is a 100 year fix.
Discussion about whether or not this could be funded through Chapter 90 and the sidewalk
widened.
PLANNING
Gibson — Multi-use Path, extension of the Hummock Road Bike Path to Mount Vernon Street
along Milk Street for $535,000, some of which might be offset by the Hummock Pond Bike Path
Gift account which still has about $145,000. Plans are already drawn up.
Prospect Sidewalk, from the end of the existing bike path to Quaker Road and through the
intersection to Vestal Street. This would not reach the cemetery. There are some right of way
issues on the side of the road where the bike path is.
ADA Improvements includes curb cuts and sidewalks around Town. Some of the curb cuts have
worn out.
Sparks Avenue Sidewalk Improvements is from the roundabout to the rotary; this is a Tier II
categorized project and could be deferred for a year or two. The sidewalk on the right is
crumbled and narrow and gets a lot of use.
Bartlett Road Multi-use Path Improvements from Surfside Road to Mizzenmast Road; this path is
heavily used and is very narrow with too many areas where dirt and sand gets onto the path.
TOWN ADMINISTRATION
Repairs to Town Building, has a list of problems ranging from lighting replacement to window
replacements, brick work, and HVAC. There is also an asbestos issue in the ceiling; this is fine as
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long as it is not disturbed. In replacing lighting, mostly have LED throughout now but the
building's lights are not recessed and covers are hard to get. However, to recess the lighting
would require asbestos removal.
Design for Replacement Admin. Building at Two Fairgrounds Road: the idea would be to
demolish the existing building and build a new office building to make better use of the property;
might have basement storage. The $400,000 is for design /construction drawings.
Tiffany - Is concerned about allocation for construction drawings before the project is approved
at Town Meeting.
Gibson - The $400,000 includes conceptual drawings that would go to Town Meeting as there
would have to be something to be presented at the meeting. Once the project is approved, that
construction drawings are already allotted for.
20 South Water Street Renovation and Expansion, this has been under discussion for 2 or 3 years
now. Something has got to be done with this building; it is in poor shape, cannot be used by the
public, houses only the Sherriffs Department, the roof is in disrepair, drainage is bad inside and
the brickwork needs work. People want to keep municipal offices downtown; to that end, this
building needs to be made useable.
Discussion about the increased cost of renovating an existing old building downtown versus out
of Town and the cost of demolishing and rebuilding versus renovating.
Electronic Data Management System Continuation, have engaged a scanner and will do two or
three departments this year and another three next year. Some departments have their own
scanners. This will take a while as it is not only records going forward but also going back.
Facilities Security Upgrade this review began as a recommendation in the FY2013 audit that the
37 Washington building should be reviewed for security upgrades. It has been expanded to
include all Town buildings that have the public going in and out including the Town Building.
Contribution toward Pond Harvester, have been approached by the Nantucket Pond Coalition
and other groups active in pond management, specifically the quality of the water. The original
idea would be for a Pond Harvester to be operated by some organization other than the Town to
remove all vegetation from ponds. Internally the discussion was about hiring someone to do this
rather than buy the equipment.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
New Fire Station, the cost has risen to $14.7 up from $13- something. The Fire Station
Workgroup is close to wrapping up its discussion: currently looks like the new station being
constructed at 4 Fairgrounds Road and selling the current property.
Replacement of Scott Air packs for firefighters; the replacement of these is phased.
IT /GIS
Desktop Printer Replacement is an annual amount of $50,000; also this is phased
NPS
New Elementary School, $30M is a number Town Management has come up with for a new
school for the plan; it could be higher. The school administration has been reluctant to come up
with a cost.
Airport Enterprise Fund, have a new snow blower, ramp, equipment replacement.
Our Island Home, have put in $500,000 for design of a new facility; probably talking about
putting it out at Sherburne Commons per recommendation of the Our Island Home Long -term
Planning Workgroup.
Discussion about whether or not the current land should be sold for development or to
Nantucket Islands Land Bank for public use and access to the water. The latter would keep the
land off the tax rolls.
Building Maintenance has to be accomplished or the building will start failing state compliance.
SEWER
The big -ticket item of $8.8M will have to be explained by DPW Director Kara Buzanoski
Baxter Road Sewer, when the road fails, sewer will have to be redone.
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Wastewater Management Update, the draft is out and the Board of Selectmen is reviewing it then
it will be published. The Sewer Planning Workgroup will then review it; one of their charges is to
come up with recommendations and options on financing the sewer projects.
SOLID WASTE
Continuation of Landfill Mining is 6 -years into the program will continue to come out of the
operating budget.
Line Land -fill Engineering and Construction started out at $1.4M but after many discussions with
Waste Option, our engineer and our consultant, have brought it down to $1M and will have to be
funded for FY2016. This is for a new cell for some residuals. Retained earnings might potentially
cover this.
WANNACOMET WATER COMPANY
Mr. Gardner will explain these.
About half the $50M worth of projects is for full items. Real Estate sales will help off -set that.
Potentially will have the fire station sale to off -set the cost of a new station. The debt service
from operating of approved; haven't put in if there would be a capital override for one year. Free
Cash will be certified very soon; do not want to discuss a number now; should have that by the
end of October.
Tiffany — Feels this group needs to keep in mind that everything is being presented as "Tier 1"
and some things will have to be moved to a lower priority.
Stambaugh — Cinder McNerney, First Southwest, can do modeling so if there are different ways
to look at projects, she can create models to help review those possibilities and their impacts on
the tax rate.
Gibson — We now have a long -term capital plan that needs to be talked about; right now the tax
impact isn't huge.
Further discussion about modeling future "big- ticket" projects to analyze their effects on the tax
rate and review alternate /additional sources of funding in order to help prioritize projects.
1. Chair — Tiffany nominated Mr. Stambaugh, who accepted; no further nominations. Elected unanimously
2. Vice Chair — Lowell nominated Mr. Morrison, who accepted; no further nominations. Elected unanimously
3. Secretary — Tiffany nominated Mr. Hussey, who accepted; no further nominations. Elected unanimously
1. Natural Resources is coming off the schedule with IT moving to November 5.
2. Fire and Police /Marine
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 8:00 a.m. at 4 Fairgrounds Road, Training Room
Adjourned: 9:48 p.m.
Submitted by:
Terry L. Norton
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