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July 21, 2008 - 9:00 am
Call to order
Bob Miller called to order the regular meeting of the Town of Brewster: Building
Needs & Assessment Committee at 9:15 am on July 21, 2008 in Brewster Town Hall.
Roll call
The following people were present: Bob Miller, Herb Montgomery, Don Poole, Paul
Bradford, Omer Dumais, Charlie Sumner, Lynn Stapleton, Peter Morrison, Fabrizio
Caruso
This is the first meeting of the Maguire Group and the purpose of this meeting is to set
up programming and time lines for the Fire Station.
Lynn Stapleton stated that they would map out everything. They would identify needs
and setup sub-meetings. Lynn asked who the point of contact is.
Herb stated for the meeting he is the contact person.
Charlie stated that the site visit to the Fire Station should be coordinated with Chief Roy
Jones and Herb will need to know.
Omer stated he did not feel comfortable with the schedule.
Lynn said her goal is to be ready by September 15, 2008 and she will gather information
and submit the draft report.
Omer said that is a tight schedule, that being 2 months.
Lynn replied that they would start at the Fire Station and analyze issues of the existing
building and see what they can revise, modify and rework. When everything is
accumulated then we can meet.
Omer stated it is important to establish what is needed.
Charlie stated we have many forces and opinions but we need to focus on the needs.
We have time to talk about programming and this will be educational and there is value
in more meetings.
Lynn stated we will setup standards and a schedule and can meet every 2 weeks or every
week and put the draft off until the end of August. Basically we figure out how the
department operates and go room by room, personnel/staffing, volume metrically.
Peter Morrison said we need to find out the needs for the call and career fire personnel.
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Charlie said there is value in the group visiting other fire stations.
Bob Miller stated he is sensitive to all the comments; he has been through this process
and was beaten up on the agreement. He suggested gathering the data; conduct
interviews keep the BNAC, Fire Chief and the Board of Selectmen informed on an
ongoing basis. It is a political process and we need assistance to convince the taxpayers.
This was missed in the last process.
Charlie stated that the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee voted against it
last time.
Bob stated 10 years ago only option was to renovate. We did not have good
communication with the Board of Selectmen, this time we will.
Lynn stated before we finalize we will go to the Selectmen with a new versus renovate
proposal and give them a visual review.
Bob said the BOS meetings are televised. More information is better. We will invite the
Finance Committee to the BOS meeting.
Omer stated that we need to identify key points and provide a summary. Give key points
and comparison and costs by August 25, 2008.
Lynn said we will have bullets to show the residents.
Adjournment
Bob Miller adjourned the meeting at 10:10 am.
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