Dresden Athletic Fields Committee
Minutes, September 19, 2005
Following our joint committee meeting on Monday, the Athletic
Fields Committee met for another hour or so. At the meeting
we reviewed a comparison of the bidder's prices with the cost
estimates in the Fields Committee Report and reached the following
conclusions:
* John Aubin would contact the bidder to determine what steps
might be taken to duce the overall bid and to determine what
contingency, if any, was built into the proposal they submitted.
* John Aubin, Wayne Gersen, and Jonathan Brush would confer
on ways to reduce the costs by either lowering the Board's
contingency or withdrawing parts of the bid package (i.e. the
lighting and/or the bleachers).
* Cam Brown would contact the lighting contractors who provided
him with the original estimates for the lighting to see if
they would submit a bid for the Fields Design-Build sub-committee
to consider.
* The Design Build Sub-committee would meet on Friday at 3:00
PM in my office to review the findings from the staff and Cam
Brown and to develop a modified proposal for the Fields Committee
and Board to consider. At the conclusion of the meeting John
Aubin will email the sub-committee recommendations to the Dresden
Board and Athletic Fields Committee members.
* The Fields Committee will meet at the HHS Library on Monday,
September 26, 2005 to review and discuss the sub-committee's
recommendation. The final recommendation will be emailed to
the Dresden Board at the conclusion of the meeting (either
Monday PM or Tuesday AM)
* Wayne Gersen will give a brief presentation on the ultimate
recommendation at the outset of the budget hearing on Tuesday,
September 26.
The bottom line on this is that the Dresden Athletic Fields committee
supports the plan they submitted to the Board in June, but they
want the staff and the Fields Deisgn-Build sub-committee to pare
down the ultimate cost of the project to a more acceptable level.
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