Building Commitee Notes from May 26
The Warren Building Committee met May 26 to review proposals for creating new office space and to prepare to take two proposals to a town meeting. Plan A calls for renovating the town hall into office space and building a gym on a separate site. Plan B calls for building a separate town office building on town property off Cemetery Road and renovating the existing town hall for use as a community center.
The committee reviewed site maps and recommendations from a soil conservationist and architect as to the location of a new building on the Cemetery Road site. The committee proceeded to outline the factors for and against each of the two proposals for presentation to a town meeting.
The town meeting will be set for June 30 at 8 pm in the town hall. At this meeting both proposals will be outlined and the list of positive and negative factors will be presented as well as a site map showing the proposed locations of new buildings.
The purpose of the town meeting will be to vote on the direction the committee should take. Since it is expensive to do detailed plans and cost analyses, the committee wants some direction from the voters as to which proposal should be developed. This vote will not be a final vote on a plan. It is intended to give guidance which the committee will use to proceed to have detailed plans developed for one of the two alternatives.
Once those plans are complete and an estimated cost is available, there will be a referendum on whether to commit to the project
Committee members were urged to visit town halls in Copake, Ancram and Patterson, NY and Harwinton, Roxbury, Colebrook and New Hartford, CT to see how other towns have handled their space requirements.
Committee members are: Jack Travers, Cal Tanner, Marion Smith, Nancy Scofield, Theresa Layman, Toni Richardson, Jim Richardson, Bruce Anderson, Cindy Whitlow, Dean Ackerman, Joe Manley, Rick Valine
