Were site work complexities not known up front? Please provide some hard numbers and facts.
Kind Regards, Scott Clary 617-968-5769 Sent from a mobile device - please excuse typos and errors On Thu, Jun 5, 2025, 12:21 PM Margaret Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > David Cuetos said: > <snip> > >> Anyone who has followed the CCBC’s process knows there were certain >> “luxuries” included in the project vision that could have been trimmed. I >> haven’t followed their work since town Meeting, but I’d think removing the >> teaching kitchen, cheaper finishes and cutting down on site work would all >> move the needle materially >> > </snip> > > Unfortunately, the site work is a relatively large portion of the CC cost > and equally unfortunately it's not likely that it can easily be reduced. > The site is very constrained by wetlands (see the GIS) and some of it is in > the buffers. This by law requires mitigations, and mitigations are > expensive. > > If I were to poke fault at the CCBC process it is that the cost > implications of the wetland and a larger vs smaller footprint building were > not explained to the town. We were asked what we would prefer for a design, > not how much (in $) we preferred it. Having served as a town volunteer on > boards and committees for many years I have a pretty good idea why it was > done this way - it's an extremely hard sort of question to ask of an > electorate and get any kind of coherent answer. > > All that being said, I don't think a redesign is a good use of my tax > money. Could we get a more cost effective building? Maybe, but we would > have to start from scratch and at the end of the day starting from scratch > would wind up costing just as much as the current plan even with it's cost > increases. As FinCom, Andy Payne, and others have pointed out. It would be > a largely pointless use of town time and resources. We're a small town with > limited staff. There are only so many projects or issues they can tackle at > once because there just aren't that many staff. > > Margaret > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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