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Town of Nantucket -
Capital Program Committee 2019 JUV 29 P141 1:29
nantuckct-ma. gov
Members: Stephen Welch (Chair), Pete Kaizer (vice chair), Richard Hussey (Secretan-), Christv Kickham,
Peter McEachern, Jason Bridges, Nat Lowell
MINUTES
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Wannacomet Water Company, Conference Room — 4:00 p.m.
Called to order at 4:00 p.m. and announcements made.
Staff. Rebecca Woodley -Oliver, assistant Procurement Officer; Alexandria Penta, Financial
Analyst
Attending Members: Welch, Kaizer, Hussey, Bridges, Lowell
Absent Members: Kickham, McEachern
Documents used: Copy minutes nutes as listed below;
Agenda adopted by unanimous consent.
COMMENTS1. PUBLIC
1. December 13, 2018: approved by unanimous consent.
2. December 18, 2018: approved by unanimous consent.
3. January 10, 2019: approved by unanimous consent.
4. January 18, 2019: approved by unanimous consent.
5. June 61 2019 - Held
1. Review of FY2020 process & recommended changes
2. Review scheduling
3. RORI & database use
Discussion Welch — Suggested members think about what information they feel they need during the review
process.
Bridges — He wants to hear opinions and thoughts regarding presented information from other
members but if during discussion they get off track, it is up to the Chair to pull them back on
track.
Woodley -Oliver — Stated the vetting process is good but discussions tend to get "editorial." We
as the staff have the best understanding of the numbers and where funds will come from.
Guidelines would be very, helpful.
Welch — On the RORI guidelines, it would be useful. He's looking at the schedule; some changes
are necessary in respect to deadlines for requests and all the accompanying information. The
database and Finance Department will control that. We need to determine a date when ,ve except
to receive a request; he wants to give departments that are ready early deadlines. The other part of
the schedule is the time the committee will spend discussion the requests. He agrees more
discussion in general is necessary and his task is to ensure that discussion fits into the scheduled.
Asked comnuttee members to provide him their information which underlies their position.
Bridges — His concern is that there will not be time for members to have discussions and to
share positions and information.
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Welch — He is dealing with the problem that the CapCom has been told they are not submitting
their report in a timely manner. He has to balance that with information. The important part is
for a member to inform whN- theN- have the position they do and share supporting information.
Woodley -Oliver — asked how for guidelines on how the members want to use the RORI. 'Can't
understand what's said.)
Lowell —The department heads should be doing that alreadN-.
Welch — It is important to get clarification. His next point is A priman- goal with the RORI i>
that as other boards' plans become more ingrained and utilized will start to be reranked and the
Strategic Plan will be a high point hitter. The RORI will reinforce the plan and the ranking and
will become more important and successful.
Bridges — It would be a huge timesaver if even- member has reviewed the data before the
department presentation; there would be no presentation, just a Q&A followed b�- a discussion. If
we need to flip through the projects ahead of time and note their questions and informauun % e
need.
Woodley -Oliver —The Finance staff don't reaUN- care; she thinks the department heads «would be
good with that because it takes pressure off them. Theoretically, you should have all the
information necessan to discuss a project and reach a decision when you sit down at the table.
Welch — The idea -,\Ir. Bridges is suggesting is we are presented a full packet of information we
need, we have an opportunity to ask questions. Some larger projects will require more time and
information, but a lot of simple projects will fall into "consent." The big thing is we have to be
prepared for the meeting. The issue with not having all the information is addressed through the
data base. The next part is scheduling with an eye on being prepared; ,ye should have the packet
at least a week prior to the meeting to allow- sufficient time to review the packet. Suggested the
concept some departments have huge, expensive requests, some have small, simple requests, and
some have planned out years in advance; ,wants to give those departments that are read. -I ul,,-
review deadlines. The provides time to those departments that need it to plan and gather the
information. It might be helpful for staff in that they don't review even- department on July 3.
Penta — It would be easier for us to get the packets out if the department deadlines are staggered.
Bridges — Suggested this committee needs to adopt the culture of coming in prepared to
eliminate redundancy, i.e. asking questions about that are ans«-ered in the packets. On the bigger
dollar items, asked if we have cover sheets on the status of those projects.
Welch — With the database, we will be able to generate those report on the fly with respect to an�,
expense related to the project.
Hussey — We alread� have great documents that list that information.
Welch — We should be integrating fields in the database for re -asks of large projects: we have the
explanation, summarv, and detailed information field that could provide an explanation from the
perspective of the department, Town, and Finance; it would be for how a project relates to
previous work and how the moneN- was used or not used and perspectives. Members should also
have a field where each can make notes. One common goal for the season is to be able to
articulate in short what a project is about, its issues, and its benefits.
Kaizer — We need to work on how we interpret the three criteria; some listed criteria are vaguer
than others.
Welch — Some of that would be applied under the guidelines and part under practices. _agrees .% e
need to establish a common interpretation of the criteria; a big part of the deyiauon ma\ be what
docs, for example, "a scheduled replacement" mean. He doesn't know how much of the
suggested changes and discussion will be accomplished before the start of the budget season: he
will make an effort to do that. _asked if the members ,vould like a meeting to be used to go
through the RORI on how it's used and the definitions and suss out the guidelines and pracuces.
Kaizer — Over the past rears, he's gotten the most information from asking questions: thea- lead
to further discussion.
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Hussey — It would be helpful to review the RORI with a sample project and go through it step-
by-step.
Welch — Asked Mr. Hussey and Mr. Kaizer to get together and pick three projects from last
year's ROM list for use by the group. Suggested that meeting be next Thursday, June 20.
Woodley -Oliver — Asked when the member like to meet; her concern is finding a room.
Lowell — Thursdays at 10 are best for him.
Welch — The community- room would be handy because they use the big screen to project the
information, especially- for the larger projects.
Discussion about keeping the time and day consistent to make it easier to schedule the room.
Welch — He wants to touch on the common goal of being having an encapsulated version of the
project at the end of a meeting: importance, concern, related topics. The "green sheet" is a
concept to help integrate what other boards know; it will be an agenda item to discuss what
should be on it. It would helpful to inform the Select Board, other boards, and the Liaison about
what we know and would go into their packets. One suggestion was a Strategic Integration Plan
(SIP), the goal of this small group is that we are "integrating efforts to reconcile and achieve
current fiscal -year recommendations and near -future and longer -range plan based upon
community and values and including strategic and other formal plans with an eye on consistency-,
transparency- and integrity and an eye on appropriate frugalness." IvVe're tri'ng to integrate our
planning with the Select Board and Finance Committee.
Discussion about the meeting dates and times: July 11 & July 18.
OTHER
1. Committee Reports
2. Member Comments
a. None
3. Date of the next meeting
a. July 11 at 11:00 a.m. location to be determined.
:adjourned at 5:02 p.m.
Submitted by:
Tern- L. Norton
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