Minutes
Lincoln Community Preservation Committee
Feb. 12, 2008
Present: Susie Collins, John Koenig, Jim Meadors, Bill Stason, John Valpey
Absent: Rayna Caplan, Craig Donaldson, Colin Smith, Bryce Wolf
Also attending was Tom Gumbart on behalf of the Conservation Committee, and Barbara Myles and Peter Sugar on behalf of the Lincoln Library.
The committee first heard from Barbara Myles and Peter Sugar regarding proposal 2009-10 from the Lincoln Library, for $63,288 for Phase 1 of the library fire suppression system. The original funding requests for the library fire suppression system were based on the estimates in the RDK engineering report. Responses to the library’s RFP came in much higher than the RDK estimate. Consequently, the library hired DG Jones, a cost estimator, to provide more precise estimates of the cost of the entire fire suppression project. The DG Jones report provided estimates on the additional cost escalation of the phases of the fire suppression project are undertaken in later years.
The committee then discussed proposal 2009-06a from the Conservation Commission, for Management of Invasives. This proposal is a modification of the ConsCom’s earlier proposal relating to invasive plant management. Tom Gumbart explained that this revised proposal originated out of the commission’s recent program on the woolly adelgid. The new proposal requests funding to deal with the infestation to the Codman Hemlock Grove, which includes approximately 165 hemlock trees, and to create a database of those trees. The proposed treatment would be by root injection.
The Committee discussed its earlier request for some parameters for measuring success of the program.
The Committee then discussed proposal 2009-11, for $6,000 of administrative funds. The primary use for these funds would be to pay for membership in the Community Preservation Coalition, which are currently $2,500 per year.
The Committee then discussed the possible problem with a re-authorization of the $900,000 funding to the Affordable Housing Trust. In short, the funds that were returned to the CPA from the Trust as of January 1, 2008 may have to be certified before they can be re-granted. Colleen Wilkins, the town’s finance officer, will contact the Mass. DOR to get its opinion on this subject.
The Committee decided to postpone final approval of its warrant to give Jim Meadors, the Conservation Commission’s new appointee to the Committee, more time to evaluate the proposals. Given the time constraints to print the motions for Town Meeting, it will be necessary to reschedule its next meeting.
The committee postponed approving the minutes from its January 8, 2008 meeting.
Tom Gumbart mentioned the possibility that the Conservation Commission will submit a proposal for a handicap accessible trail for the Harrington Property.
Submitted By: John L. Koenig
Approved: 3/4/2008
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