It’s Elementary!

 After the last blog about the Templeton Elementary School Building meeting…Notes from… ,there were some comments made about the contract for $900,000 with the OPM.

MSBA rules and regs have changed since our elementary school project began. One of the new rules when we started the project was that in order to facilitate the feasibility study and get the project to schematic design, communities needed to select an OPM from a list of MSBA approved vendors. So we did. The Templeton Elementary School Building Committee(TESBC) did an RFP and selected Strategic Building Solutions from the MSBA approved list.

The contract with Strategic Building Solutions (SBS) was signed for a total amount of $989,813 (page 28). The vote by the town for a feasibility study was in the amount of $550,000. This contract was signed by former chairman of the board of selectmen, Gerald Skelton on September 15, 2009. This contract was signed by SBS on June 25, 2009. At the bottom of the first page, please note that the contract was stamped “RECEIVED DEC 08 2010”. Received by whom? The BOS? None of this makes sense, unless it was mixed in with the documents from 252 Baldwinville Rd in the white binder.

My opinions…supported by FACTS ! ! !

Julie Farrell

• Attached Minutes‏

Templeton Conservation

To 'Dave Symonds', 'George Andrews', 'Janet Haley', 'Justin Duplessis', 'Paul Cosentino'

From:	Templeton Conservation (conservation@templeton1.org)
Sent:	Mon 11/26/12 8:43 AM
To:	'Dave Symonds' (symonds@gis.net); 'George Andrews' (naturesafe1@aol.com); 'Janet Haley' (jhaley@mhcc-1.org); 'Justin Duplessis' (justinduplessis@comcast.net); 'Paul Cosentino' (cosentinosalvage@hotmail.com)

Attached are the minutes from the November 19^thmeeting, which George has approved. You will receive an Agenda for our next meeting within a couple of weeks, which is scheduled for December 17^th. Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving!

click here for the minutes

Notes from the Advisory Board Meeting

At the Advisory meeting last night, chairman Will Spring, started a discussion of the budget guidelines for FY14. There seems to be some confusion on the part of some departments what the term “level funded” means. Level funded means you have the same amount of money as you did last year…the total that was appropriated at town meeting for FY13. Some departments are referring back to ghosts of budget past. Those were the good old days. 

The Advisory Board is recommending a 5% cut from the level funded budget (what was appropriated at the ATM in May) as a starting point for FY14.