leaving everyone welcome back to the select means meeting tonight tuesday august nineteenth we just finished our six thirty appointment with attorney david luca our executive session read the rest of our agenda seven p m we have citizens input topics not reasonably anticipated by the chair forty eight hours in advance of meeting seven ten pm we have the town hall working group david feldman will give us an update on the town hall process at seven twenty we have town manager seven pm of anyone here for citizens  foxboro historic commission from the fark for j c for the silent sentinel restoration project and thank the jaycees for the donation second those will free thank you very much to the you have two more minutes for our next agenda item it was very nice walking into ninety of the fox were high school marching band practicing they sound terrific already look pretty good actually getting ready for this fall great you normally inform the public who will say yes we have a couple of information items we can take those out of order just to the first two  h planning board regarding two thousand two hundred four east street has provided us with a notice about a new development going on in that area that they have provided some approvals to move forward  on looks like there will be twelve homes that will be built in this area and the other item also from the parts for a planning board was the approval of an accessory apartment to be added to ninety four west street in the coming meetings the group should be focusing on street location and we are looking at a renovation and then those costs in the possibility of it viable although the working group is leaning towards the building new for greater cost certainly in the fact that we may not have to relocate the whole operations we do want to look at the renovation seriously and just just you know be able to present that if if it's like we're working on the web page we actually have the link set up so you don't have to fish around for it under a different party you can just go right to the home page under news announcements in the billing directly to the working group where we'll be providing weekly updates reports and other correspondence for the public one of the things we're working on is finalizing the frequently asked question component that citizens may have where they may not be able to get to somebody but it will be posted on the involved had a hand in it and we think it can be a comprehensive update to everything that the working group been involved in all these different issues that we've discussed debated wrestled around on the carpet with and actually we seem to be all working and in the you know in a on the same page right now we also want to set up a facebook page and we need to discuss that at the next meeting to see who's going be responsible for setting up that facebook page everybody wants it nobody wants to be responsible i wouldn't have to do it well we're going to ask a kid  cost of a similar building the town of drake that recently built a twenty thousand square foot new town hall from the ground up we spent one point three million dollars unit cost about four hundred sixty five dollars a square foot  interesting and i get there occasionally you know to look at we're right on on time for our on our timeline for putting on our people soft cause we have a subcommittee on the working rate directly related to the physical construction of the building items such as architectural engineering lang cost accounting project management environmental studies advertising insurance taxes interest legal costs are all considered soft course any cost that's three or post construction such as temporary moving relocation expenses those would be considered soft costs what we're going to be presenting to the town  for the soft cost is primarily the art actual cost so we can move this to the next phase plant conceptual plan development moving right into working drawings and then be able to present to the voters real cost real construction costs for a building at a future town meeting sometime in the fall two thousand and fifteen but we can't get to that point unless we have funding to engage  that's that we know about many ways in that and while we don't universally all agree on what the approach should be we don't move for less there was a significant agreement about where we should go so that we you know at the end of the day there was this understanding that we're trying to move all in in a cohesive approach there is this david pointed out that we've we've we're close look at that as an option right now but at the other side of that is that we want to make sure that that we consider all the all the issues the other the empire one of the most compelling issues there is that if we can actually find a way to build it in the parking lot on the same site we can then we can stay in the building while that's be constructed that's a huge moving cost as it also creates a you know a plus for the public in the sense that you know they will continue to be able to use location so we've covered a lot of it lot of ground with this report and some i think it's too one but i but i don't i think it's important to get all the facts out there as much as we can and will continue to update this information as more information becomes available to  ourselves as november seventeenth would be the appropriate date for a town meeting so we'll be back to early september asking for the board to occur with a call from me and also tell me you think you'll have this all are and that is that we do not intend to be presenting detailed plans or ideas and that at tommy he will be the idea of the idea will be this is what we've learned this is what we think is the right approach this is what this is the site that we're looking at this is the type of size a building that we're looking at we think we've narrowed the square footage down to a range of about thirty five to forty five in that range which is even lower than the first it was information at our next meeting sharon as you know is working on the r f d for the properties the fire station you know related to coming up with findings of this type of project and  so i met with the planning board last week with sharon and we have feedback that we want to bring to this board at our next meeting to get your input and then we'll take that forward to tell her if you can get us another important point is that we you know we want to demonstrate to everyone that we are moving on a head of concern affronts i know that one that that particular front is important because it's has been one that i think the folks of i'm looking forward to for one other important point that should be coming year but we are working on the ground work of that that piece right now i've already had conversation with school by about how we can sort of meld that together make it work but that's really important piece of this equation is that we can once we build something we have to folks in the city worker program recall that this was the reason we did this was because the i r s requirement side that we have to charge taxes to folks who actually use that program thus reducing their overall income when their program the action of the board and the town took was to increase that to ten dollars as a as a minimum payment however the this the a g s office is saying that that actually conflicts with state statute which says that the program is built around minimum wage and one minimum wage is eight fifty if i'm not mistaken i know so and that however the state has has actually taken the position based upon a follow the governor i believe changed from a fifty to eventually eleven dollars over for the next three years be otherwise the alternative is to is to is to not approve it and then we have a program so we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and i think this is the the right solution the right decision so without conferring with what  i took upon my self to say but with that solution because that seems to be that the best solution for the community here and they they need it and so they can get their answers out to us so that's the direction i want to report back to and so do we have to  down the finalists by by by the twenty fifth to make the decision cut the field to three three possibly four and then in and final and do final interviews on the twenty eighth with the hope that i'll be able to mak i did have one piece of correspondence some information that i wanted to convey the board and i was the fact that this just for received actually the town council received notification from me from the a g s office that to open meeting  determination review complaints filed with the board the board's responses and the complaints filed with our office and they also have spoken with counsel for the target in june and july as well as with various calls a fire truck to who was a witness in this case as well decision but again it points to me that this is a complicated law you know i don't expect that people are filing these complaints frivolously and so i think again just it just shows how complicated you can be to understand the law when you try to read it so again we just move forward and for repeat that i can confidently say that no one on this board would ever your so i guess that's everything on our agenda for today covered it all right