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Capital Program Committee 2022 AUG 19 PM 3: 1
www.nantucket-ma.gov
Members: Stephen Welch (Chair),Jill Vieth (vice chair), Richard Hussey (Secretary),Jason Bridges,Kristie
Ferrantella,Pete Kai7er, Christy Kickham
MINUTES
Thursday,January 27, 2022
This meeting was held via remote participation using ZOOM and YouTube.
Called to order at 10:00 a.m. and announcements made by Mr.Welch
Staff: Richard Sears,Assistant Director Finance;Terry Norton,Town Minutes Taker
Attending Members: Welch,Vieth,Hussey,Bridges, Kaizer,Kickham
Absent Members: Ferrantella
Early Departure: Bridges, 11:16 am
Documents used: Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Requests; CapProCom FY22 Report and
Recommendation
Adoption of Agenda
Motion Motion to Approve. (made by: Hussey) (seconded)
Roll-call Vote Carried 5-0//Hussey,Bridges,Kickham,Vieth, and Welch-aye
I. PUBLIC COMMENTS
1. Bruce Mandel Part of Nantucket being a Green Community requires vehicles being retired should be
repurposed to another department.
Welch — Typically these vehicles are used for so long that they are pretty thoroughly depleted for Town
use;they go to auction.
II. DISCUSS FUNDING SOURCES
Discussion Welch — All funding sources are in keeping with CapCom review. TM is in agreement with
recommendations and has suggested changes.
TRAN-23-003,Decommission Fire Cisterns
FIRE-21-002,Technical Rescue Equip
Welch—Town Manager concurs this be an out-year project. -
FIRE-23-004,Administration Car Training/EMS Officer
Welch — The position for the EMS Officer is not resolved with the Union, so it would be
premature to approve a vehicle.
HHS-23-001,Vehicles-Replacement (1),Additional (2)
Welch—Town Manager has recommended this be reduced to 2 vehicles at a cost of$100,000
and the third vehicle pushed to an out year.
NRD-23-001,Vehicles-Replacement (1),New (1)
Welch — Town Manager recommend that this be voted through Town Meeting as a capital
exclusion.
PUBL-23-006,Replace and Upgrade Body Camera Video System
Welch—This will go to free cash.
DPW-23-004,Replace chain-link fence around the skate park
Welch—This is Town property the DPW maintains it. It is within our band of 10% average on
the RORIs.
Kickham — If the fence is compromised and dangerous, yes; if not he wants to know the
reason for the replacement.
Welch—It is compromised, and unauthorized access is available.
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DPW-23-012&-013, Fleet Mechanic's Truck and Fleet-Mini Sweeper
Welch—Town Manager recommends moving these into at least medium and are preferred for
the coming fiscal year; they are to be funded by capital exclusion.
Kickham —The mechanic's truck, he's never heard of a need to have someone fix something
in the field;wants to hear more about what the critical need is.
Sears — His understanding is there have been past requests for a "fancier" truck; this is scaled
back. DPW has said they have breakdowns in the field that could be repaired with equipment
that would be on this truck.
Bridges —He agrees with Mr. Kickham;in his mind$120,000 would cover 120 tows; he doubts
that many tows would be necessary. He feels differently about the sweeper.
Welch—There was some utility to having tools and equipment on board to fix breakdowns in
the field.This will stay where it is.
Sears —At the Select Board, the total for capital exclusion was approved and this was included
in that;you can choose not to support.
Welch — He'd prefer that opposed to having 2 sets of numbers between us and the Select
Board, a footnote could adjust the grand total.
Kickham — Questions it because it could sit for a long time without being used. He believes
the $120,000 should go to maintenance of vehicles.
Welch—We can add any preference to our footnotes.
Kaizer — He supports Mr. Bridges comments that this is a lot of money and there are other
ways to address breakdowns in the field.
Vieth — Asked if getting the truck would take away from local mechanics who repair Town
vehicles.
Kickham—There's still a lot of stuff a mechanic would have to do that this truck can't do.
Bridges—He wants to move the sweeper to the hopper;he thinks that is a safety issue.
Welch — He guesses local mechanics would be thrilled for the DPW to have the truck due to
the volume of service. Unless anyone objects, we'll leave the mechanic's truck in the outyear,
and the mini sweeper will go in the hopper.
ADMIN-22-005,Affordable Housing(Hussey&Kaizer recuse on this.)
Welch — Town Manager has recommended doing this through borrowing. This does fall into
our margin and will go into the hopper.
ADMIN-23-003,New Vehicle-Parks and Rec Manager
Welch—Town Manager suggested a capital exclusion. When we reviewed this,we didn't have a
Parks &Rec Manager.
Kickham — They just hired someone; he doesn't know if that person has a vehicle; thinks it
would be good to consider this.
Welch—This will go into the hopper.
ADMIN-23-005, Coastal Resiliency Planning
Welch — This is a late request through the Select Board; it's a soft cost. Town Manager
recommends Free Cash.
Bridges—This is an additional$500,000;we think this will be needed for the next fiscal year.
Sears —This is the initial $500,000; the additional $500,000 is not included here. This came in
as a request after discussion with the Select Board.
Welch—Asked where the funding for the other$500,000 will come from.
Sears—We will be adjusting to $1m.
Welch — Suggested we determine if it should go into the hopper with comments on the
funding sources — each $500,000 will come from a different funding source. This is an
emergent funding need; he has no objection to annual funding but wants planning in what
categories the money will be used.
Kickham— Nou.ually he likes to know the funds are being used; thinks in this case, however,
we should commit to allocate the amount going forward.
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Welch—He will move both$500;000s to the hopper.
Sears —The funding source is likely to be Free Cash,which was certified at$19m.
ADMIN-23-006,Baxter Road Relocation Planning
Welch—This has been reviewed and falls within the category of being in RORI band;will go in
hopper. .
ADMIN-24-001, Island-wide Underground Wiring Feasibility Study
Welch—This is moved to an outyear. .
NMA-23-003,TSA Flooring Replacement
Welch—Town Manager has suggested.a borrowing to do it this year.
Vieth—She feels this is important.
Welch — Agrees it's important. Also, it's a low cost and the Airport is typically frugal. He'll
move this to the hopper.
NMA-23-001,Nobadeet Farm Road Housing Development-Design and OPM
Welch— Our concerns were scope and cost and the Airport having a facility restricted to who
could use it.
Vieth—It seems the Town would be on the hook to rent this if the Airport doesn't use it. She
wanted more clarification on what was being proposed.
Kaizer—Agrees;he's not in favor of pushing this forward.
Bridges He disagrees; anything we can do for housing is vital. He wants it to go in the
hopper.
Welch—His concern was the overall cost on a per unit basis;also,if the Airport does this, they
are subject to regulation on the work and who it can be rented to. If the Town were to do this,
there would be nothing to preclude the Airport from having priority on rentals. He feels this
isn't the best approach for$6m.
Vieth—Some lots came on for$1.5m so a person could have a house built for them.
Welch—We'll come back and vote this as part of the Hopper process.
NMA-23-006, South Apron Noise Berm Construction
Welch-Town Manager has recommended this for this year as a borrowing.
Vieth—There is no data showing this would work;it's sort of an experiment. A berm was used
only once before at another airport.
Kickham—He's content to have it,remain in and outyear.
Welch—Will remain where it is.
NMA-23-008, Gate 8/Hangar&Paving
Welch — This was within, our band for acceptable; Town Manager recommend this be a
borrowing out of the Retained Earnings.
Sears —The Town Manager has seen that the funding source is typical for such requests.
Welch — This is kind of a placeholder request with respect to an existing open project that
might have a cost change.
Vieth—She thought this was a requirement to meet the needs of the airlines.
Welch It wasn't noted as legal or safety but as infrastructure. The paving is at the end of its
useful life.This will go to the hopper.
SWEF-23-004,Vehicles-Staff(2)
SWEF-23-019,Replacement Vehicle-Staff
Welch — Town Manager recommends 2 go into an outyear and one go forward this coming • ,
fiscal year.Town Manager recommends borrowing for the 3'vehicle. To go to hopper.
III. GROUP RORIs DISCUSSION AND VOTE
Motion Motion to add Airport housing to the hopper. (made by: Hussey) (seconded)
Roll-call Vote Not carried 2-4 //Hussey&Bridges -aye;Kaizer,Vieth,Kickham,and Welch-nay
Discussion about comments regarding this vote.
Motion Motion to Make a positive recommendation for hopper items. (made by: Hussey)
(seconded)
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Roll-call Vote Carried 5-0//Hussey,Bridges,Kaizer,Vieth, and Kickham-nay
IV. PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF REPORT
Discussion Welch — With this in hand, he can put the report together. A solution to projects coming in
late is to come up with infrastructure independent of departments so we can uphold our end in
respect to reporting to the Town.
Kickham — Often FinCom asks about past year recommendations follow up and status; it
might be nice at the beginning of a departmental review they provide a short recap of previous-
year recommendations.-
Welch — He agrees with Mr. Kickham on that. That could be part of our report linked to the
Town website. Also, the biennial procedures would be an update every 5 years on the 10-year
plan.
Vieth—It's nice to see the status of projects we didn't necessarily support.
Kickham — Often outyears are placeholders; knowing past year project status would still as
valuable for our process
Welch—Biannually looking at expenditures to date would be helpful in identifying, within our
process and Town planning, any capital planning shortfalls. Suggest we reaffirm and update
these processes and come up with a discussion on how to implement them.
We need to focus on planning for the next budget season as soon as February — changes to
smooth and normalize the process. Based upon our experience, we need to be doing RORIs
during the meeting in which we discuss requests. We haven't had time to discuss RORIs after
the fact.
Kickham — He agrees; he thinks it's very unfair to the process to delay doing that part of the
work.
Kaizer—He agrees as well. If we don't do them immediately, they back up and become a more
cumbersome task. In the past we've struggled with getting missing back-up information from
departments.
Sears —We did slide back this year on getting supplemental documentation; hopes to correct
that next year. Having started in Augusts, he's been amazed that it has taken us as long as it has
this year; fortunately,Town Meeting is in May.
Welch —We have a good process that's come a long way over the past decade. He thinks we
can continue to make it better in terms of data availability and timeliness.
V. OTHER BUSINESS
1. Green Sheet/Committee Reports
a. None
2. Good of the Order
a. NOne
3. Date of the next meeting
a. Thursday, February 3,2022, 10:00 am.
Adjourned at
Motion Motion to adjourn 11:19 am. (made by: Kickham) (seconded)
Roll-call Vote Carried 4-0//Kickham,Kaizer,Vieth,and Welch-aye
Submitted by:
Terry L. Norton
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