Live reporting - DPW Upcoming Projects

DPW Director – Brutus Cantoreggi 

Mike Maglio - Asst Town Engineer

2013 water system improvements

Lincoln St

Daniels St

about a mile and half of water line, will be disruptive, part of appropriation 2 years ago

Note: the document used was added later
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2013/04/franklin-public-works-upcoming-projects.html

Replace waterline

(see photo of slide to be added)

probably not start until the Fall

updating the master plan for the water line, will tie to the road condition report

Crecent and Garfield, East and West (see photos from weekend walk)

Grove St

Ledge St

Beaver st Recycling Center

highway improvements

Miller St, Green St, Wylie Rd

Prospect St

culvert repair

Panther Way - construct the sidewalk, needed for the high school

Near Parmenter School on King St (recently approved)

Crack, chip and seal

listing of roads, about $250K 

Sewer system improvements

new grinder pumps at Jefferson Rd and Miliken Rd

'swifter's' stuff up the pumps

please properly dispose of these, do not put down the toilet

Downtown construction project

going out to bid this fall, most work next year

DelCarte dam project

going pretty dam good!

Lincoln St, shares bridge with Medway

phase 1, should save both towns lots of money

New DPW entrance on Hayward

sign inventory, 

improve and create turning lane at Panther Way coming out to RT 140

construct new building for DPW storage, design is out for bid right now

Earth Day- Beaver St 9:00 to 1:00 on Satu Apr 27th

If you give me the money, I'll spend it

Dellorco - Panther Way, sidewalks on both sides?

Miglio - on one side, on the side of the Police Station

Street signs, standard from Federal government, now upper and lower case, so it seems lower

We have a sign shop and we save a lot of money that way

it is truly a good staff down there, it is a pretty substantial list

Adjusting hours at the recycling center is labor cost, I could put some numbers together

in the next 60 days, we'll do some patching there

one of the reasons we did the outside engineer firm to do our road condition report, so we would not have our 'inside' view. It is on the website so you can see what your rating

I have plans for other roads up there but I don't have funding for Regent Circle

I have focused on the major reconstructions on the wagon wheel roads, Chestnut street we overlay-ed it, was it the best plan, no but it works.

We don't just through darts on the wall, we have a plan

everybody in this town works with limited funds

Live reporting - Facilities

G. LICENSE TRANSACTIONS
none

H. PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS
Facilities Director – Michael D’Angelo
The old municipal building now housing the Recreation Department
built in 1894, added to in 1968
consultants came in to see what the conditions are, what the options would be to use or re-use
ramp system is in poor condition, masonry of original building in need of re-pointing
metal doors require replacement
ballaster on the railings going up the stairs don't meet current code
HVAC needs updates
cost estimates provided don't include paint, paper, etc.
$2.2 M price tag

relocate the Recreation Dept.
Could the Town lease?

Many items are maintenance items, who has not been taking care of this?
The council tried to sell this six years ago and didn't get a buyer

Nutting - We didn't want to spend the money to fix

Pfeffer - You haven't done anything with this building
D'Angelo - I wouldn't recommend anything other than selling it
Pfeffer- you never reported to use what the costs are for repairing this building

Bissanti - I am confused. perhaps it needs to be demolished, I don't know why we are trying to hang on to it

Nutting - We have been using the building with other departments there, now there is only one
We've been twiddling our thumbs since 2007 since the market tanked
Was priced at $1M, offered at $700K and the council didn't want to take it
The land is more valuable than the building
this is prime space downtown

Jones - does it or not include asbestos/
D'Angelo - hard to tell without testing, it was built along time ago so there may not be much as one built in the 40's or 50's
Jones - is there mold?
D'Angelo - I don't know, for some reason the building has never had a real ventilation issue
Jones - I think it needs to go, something needs to be done with the corner

Powderly - the question is whether we want to hold, it sell it or raze it
this is an exorbitant amount of money, I would like to see what we could get for it
there are lot of safety questions and we have people going in there regularly, if we don't know what is there, then we would need to get out of there

Nutting - I think you're jumping the gun, you need to replace the parking for the Post Office, 

Kelly - if this building should be knocked down, and we have the recreation dept in there, we need to get the family and kids out

Nutting - these are safety issues only if you re-do the building

Kelly - countless meetings of the capital  committee over the years, we need the details, we make the decisions. 

Bissanti - if we want to sell the building, we can craft the RFP to provide us coverage during the downtown project. Developers would be more than willing to make that concession. 

Pfeffer - this is an asset that we are not taking care of, are there any others that we are not taking care of

D'Angelo - the old museum, we moved out of

Nutting - we are doing a study on the library, we did the outside, we are updating the inside with the new set of plans

Jones - I have concerns about the building and with community working and coming to it, we should relocate the Recreation Dept as soon as possible. I would tear the building down and use it for parking during the construction

Nutting - you can lease, sell, lots of options that you could explore before the Council makes a decision

Jefferson School
Design on replacement of roof system, bids due back on May 9th, hope to bring the project to you on the 15th

Pfeffer - the last time you came you said there was no mold, it was tested in one spot where it was leaking
D'Angelo - tested in one spot with the ceiling tile, no other visible spots where it would likely be, currently 2 areas where water comes in

Pfeffer - we brought this up last year nothing has been done since then 

Kelly - I was told there were 26 tiles replaced during the vacation
D'Angelo - mostly in those two main areas

D'Angelo - with single ply roofing, we are always chasing leaks and always fixing leaks

Kelly - we asked to see a listing of work orders, we still haven't seen it
Mercer - I asked for it
D'Angelo - what time frame would you like the report for?
Mercer - last year
D'Angelo - I'll get Mr Nutting the report to distribute it to you

D'Angelo - the engineer that came out did the checks, he does it for a living, it is a metal deck system, mostly mold needs something to grow on. Just change the tile, it is the easiest way to go. Even the best roofer in the world doesn't find every leak on every trip

Mercer - during the Horace Mann project we became very mold aware, we kept records on that for 5 years, I received a report every 90 days. That was part of the contractor report that we should be doing at Jefferson?

D'Angelo - we had a leak at Horace Mann that had never showed up before, we patched, it leaked again, it did do more damage, we replace sheet rock, dried out the cavity and it has rained since then with nothing else happening

Mercer - do we go back and test?
D'Angelo - yes, right away

Cerel - there are hundreds of thousands of species of mold, some are more common than others, some are more dangerous than others

Mercer - that was not a hard thing to do, to get the report every 90 days
D'Angelo - you are in a priority spot right now, there is no big secret that there is mold up there, at least out in the rumor mill right now

Live reporting: Hearings

F. HEARINGS - 7:10 PM
1. Zoning Bylaw Amendment 13-701: Changes to Chapter 185, Section 3. Definitions 
2. Zoning Bylaw Amendment 13-702: Changes to Chapter 185, Section 36. Impervious Surfaces
3. Zoning Bylaw Amendment 13-703: Changes to Chapter 185, Section 40. Water Resource District
4. Zoning Bylaw Amendment 13-704: Changes to Chapter 185, Attachment 9. Schedule of Lot, Area, Frontage, Yard and Height Requirements
motion to move these items to another meeting.
reason, the Planning Board has these under discussion but hasn't completed their hearing yet to make a recommendation to the Town Council. Moving the items out to another meeting gives them the time to do so

5. Zoning Bylaw Amendment 13-705: Changes to Chapter 185, Section 5. Zoning Map

This came through the Economic Development Council

motion to close hearing, passed 8-0
motion to move to first reading, passed 8-0

Live reporting: Town Council - Apr 24, 2013

Present: Mercer, Dellorco, Kelly, Powderly, Vallee, Pfeffer, Jones, Bissanti
Absent: Roy


A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
February 13, 2013, March 27, 2012 
adjust March 27, 2012 to 2013
motion to approve, passed 8-0

B. ANNOUNCEMENTS
This meeting is being recorded by Franklin TV and shown on Comcast channel 11 and Verizon channel 29. This meeting may be recorded by Franklin Matters.

C. PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS
none

D. CITIZEN COMMENTS 
Steve Derdierian
Regent Circle resident

brings the road condition back to the discussion, did a separate survey and analysis of the worst conditions roads, Regent came out 7th in this listing so as bad as it is there are worse roads

Earl Martin
Regent Circle


E. APPOINTMENTS
none

Parmenter Book Fair

The Parmenter School sign on Weds morning. A dreary start to the day but one that should brighten and warm up, assuming the weather forecast holds true.

The Book Fair starts Thursday and runs through May 1 when the "Night of the Arts" is held at the school.

Boston Strong Spirit Day Friday 4/26/13

A message from FRANKLIN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

Join the Franklin Public Schools in a "Boston Strong" Spirit Day! Wear your favorite Boston team's spirit wear or red, white and blue this Friday, April 26th. The suggested donation for participation is $1 dollar. All proceeds will be donated to the One Fund Boston, Inc. Checks can be made out to the Town of Franklin. Thank you! This e-mail has been sent to you by FRANKLIN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. To maximize their communication with you, you may be receiving this e-mail in addition to a phone call with the same message. If you wish to discontinue this service, please inform FRANKLIN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PERSON, by US MAIL, or by TELEPHONE at (508) 613-1777.

MassBudget: Children & Public Health - the House Ways & Means Budget

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