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REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING
TOWN OF GREENWICH
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS FOR
SEPTEMBER 2006 MEETING
ITEM NO.: 1- postponed from the June 2006 meeting.
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments, Health & Human Services Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a member of the Commission on Aging for a term expiring 3/31/09.
RUTH SUH
Explanatory Comments
Ruth Suh. 59 Stanwich Road, Greenwich. New nomination as a regular member of the Commission on Aging for a term expiring 3/31/09.
Bachelor of Science Degree in Food and Nutrition, Lawrence University. Registered Dietitian, State of Connecticut Dietitian/Nutritionist Certificate, Food and Sanitation Certification, Medicare, Medical Nutrition Therapy, Certification.
ITEM NO.: 2 – postponed from the June 2006 meeting.
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments, Parks & Recreation Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
NANCY O’BRIEN CAPLAN
Explanatory Comments
Nancy O’Brien Caplan. 5 Lincoln Avenue, Old Greenwich. New nomination as a regular member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
CPA, MBA, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, BS, Economics/Accounting, Russell Sage College.
Various IBM Management positions in financial planning, corporate treasury, consulting services, etc. Member, Junior League Board of Directors, Greenwich Girl Scouts and OGRCC – Assistant Soccer Coach.
ITEM NO.: 3 - postponed from the June 2006 meeting
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments, Parks & Recreation Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
DIANE WREN
Explanatory Comments
Diane Wren. 21 Grove Lane, Greenwich. New nomination as a regular member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
BA/MBA – Adelphi University. Retire Senior V/General Mdse. Manager – Federated Dept. Stores. Member, Greenwich High School Sports Foundation. Past activities include PTA sponsored functions – North Street School and Central Middle School.
ITEM NO.: 4 - postponed from the June 2006 meeting
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments, Parks & Recreation Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
TONI NATALE
Explanatory Comments
Toni Natale. 79 Cos Cob Avenue, Cos Cob. New nomination as a regular member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
Associates Degree – NCC – Early Childhood Education. Director – St. Paul’s Day School. President, GYCL, Treasurer, CCHC, coached Cheerleading at GHS, coached softball and T-ball in Town Leagues.
ITEM NO.: 5 - postponed from the June 2006 meeting.
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments, Parks & Recreation Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
JOHN CRAINE
Explanatory Comments
John Craine. 10 Tory Road, Riverside. New nomination as a regular member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
BA, St. John’s University, MBA, New York University.
Retired Senior Marketing Programs Manager – IBM. Chair – RMA Volunteer Committee, Red Cross Motor Service, Fairfield County Commodores Assn. And Past Commodore of Old Greenwich Yacht Club.
ITEM NO.: 6 - postponed from the June 2006 meeting
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments, Parks & Recreation Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
WILLIAM DUNSTER
Explanatory Comments
William Dunster. 208 Bible Street. New nomination as a regular member of the Board of Parks and Recreation for a term expiring 3/31/10.
BS – Rutgers University. Owner – landscape business in Town. Member – GYFL Board and GHS Sierra Club Advisor, past member - Greenwich Old Timers.
ITEM NO.: 7 - postponed from the June 2006 meeting
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments & Land Use Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
STEPHAN SKOUFALOS
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed an alternate member of the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency for a term expiring 3/31/08.
Explanatory Comments
Stephan Skoufalos. 29 Highview Avenue, Old Greenwich. New nomination as an alternate member of the Inland Wetlands and Water Courses Agency for a term expiring 3/31/08.
University of Bridgeport School of Law – Juris Doctor, New York University – Bachelor of Arts.
Partner in Skaufalos, Llorca and Ziccardi, LLP. – Maritime law. Member, American Bar Association, New York State Bar.
ITEM NO.: 8 - postponed from the June 2006 meeting
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments & Land Use Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed an alternate member of the Planning and Zoning Board of Appeals for a term expiring 3/31/10.
LAWRENCE LARSON
Explanatory Comments
Lawrence E. Larson. 411 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. New nomination as an alternate member of the Planning and Zoning Board of Appeals for a term expiring 3/31/10.
Colgate University, Columbia Business School and Cornell Law School. Practicing Attorney specializing in property matters, estates and trusts, and related litigation. Admitted in New York, Connecticut and Florida and Federal Courts. RTM member
DEPARTMENT: RTM District 10
CONTACT: Bob Richardson 531-7538; Joan E. Caldwell 869-2553
REFERRED TO: All Committees
VOTES: June 8, 2006 District 10, unanimous
RESOLVED, that the RULES OF THE REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING OF
THE TOWN OF GREENWICH be amended by adding the following paragraph to
Section IV. C. – ELECTION OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES TO COMMITTEES:
Neither members who (or whose spouses) practice before or do business with a Town department or agency nor members who (or whose spouses) are Town employees shall be elected as their district’s delegate or alternate to a standing or special committee having primary operational and budgetary responsibility (as defined in Appendix B) over the department or agency concerned. It is the responsibility of individual members to advise their district chairman of any potential occupational conflict and the responsibility of the district chairman to see that conflicts are prevented or promptly cured.
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
The Town has a Code of Ethics which is applicable to financial conflicts of interest. There are, however, conflicts related to members’ business or occupational relationships to the Town which may not be overtly financial in the first instance but which may have financial implications or involve financial benefits to be realized with time. These occupational conflicts of interest are manifested as undue, inappropriate, or self-serving influence on approval processes, policies and practices, appointments, the organization and staffing of departments, and budget levels and priorities. They have arisen in recent years when (a) a member who practices professionally before one or more Town agencies or (b) a member who is employed by a Town department simultaneously serves on an RTM committee
having primary oversight responsibility for the agencies or the department concerned.
Such occupational conflicts of interest are hardly rife within the RTM but are frequent enough to be a matter of concern to members when they do arise because they call into question the impartiality of the RTM in carrying out its legislative responsibilities, they lead to awkward and
inappropriate infringement on the normal practitioner/regulatory agency relationship or the normal employee/employer relationship, and they are unnecessarily divisive and disruptive to the operation of our committees. Moreover, under existing rules, such conflicts are not readily avoided or cured without time-consuming and perhaps publicly embarrassing recourse to the Board of Ethics whose purview is limited.
Nonetheless, the RTM is empowered to effect a remedy. The first sentence of Charter Section 169 (a) is echoed in Section II.B.2.a of our Rules which states that “RTM members shall be the judges of the election and qualification of their members.” And Section III.J. of the Rules provides a procedure for making amendments to the Rules, i.e., by submitting an item for the Call of a meeting. Accordingly, we propose that RTM remedy the problem by adopting the above motion and would much appreciate your support.
DEPARTMENT: Land Use Committee
REFERRED TO: Finance, Land Use & Legislative & Rules Committees
VOTES:
RESOLVED, that it is the sense of the Representative Town Meeting that the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) currently being prepared by the Planning and Zoning Commission describe all capital improvement projects required to achieve its goals, that it be revised and updated with appropriate citizen input at periodic intervals and that, upon adoption and approval by the RTM of the new POCD, all capital improvement projects included in the Capital Plan prepared annually in connection with the Town’s annual budget (other than projects that consist of repair or maintenance of existing infrastructure or are operating equipment) be also in the POCD, as revised and updated.
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
At its meeting held on June 5, 2006, the RTM Land Use Committee approved the following resolution which it requests be placed on the call for the Representative Town Meeting to be held in September 2006:
RESOLVED, that it is the sense of the Representative Town Meeting that the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) currently being prepared by the Planning and Zoning Commission describe all capital improvement projects required to achieve its goals, that it be revised and updated with appropriate citizen input at periodic intervals and that, upon adoption and approval by the RTM of the new POCD, all capital improvement projects included in the Capital Plan prepared annually in connection with the Town’s annual budget (other than projects that consist of repair or maintenance of existing infrastructure or are operating equipment) be also in the POCD, as revised and updated.
Please include the following in the Explanatory Comments accompanying the Call:
The Planning and Zoning Commission is preparing to revise the Town’s only comprehensive, long-range plan, the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD). It will replace the POCD adopted in 1998. In the past, the POCD has been prepared by P&Z mainly to serve as a guide for its decisions on land use, i.e., for decisions on zoning regulations, subdivision regulations and municipal improvements. Many of its recommendations are broadly stated and do not describe the capital improvement projects that would be required to implement them.
In contrast, Stamford’s comparable plan (its Master Plan 2002) has a great deal more specificity as to the improvements that would be required to achieve its vision for the city. But like our POCD, its preparation was an extensive process involving considerable input, most importantly public hearings focusing on individual neighborhoods and on major topics.
At the meeting of RTM committee chairs held by the Moderator on May 11, one of the topics discussed was the CIP (“Capital Improvement Projects”) process. The CIP process is administered by the First Selectman and a “Capital Improvements Projects Committee” drawn from the Town’s administrative staff (i.e., the Commissioner of Public Works, the Town Comptroller, the Town Planner and others). The goal of the process is the development of a different plan, the 10-year Capital Plan. The current version of this plan is included in the Capital Schedules of the Budget Book for the Fiscal Year 2006-07 budget that was approved by the RTM at its May meeting. In approving the budget, the RTM takes no action on the Capital Plan.
The RTM also has no role in its development. As stated in the BET Chairman’s budget message, public participation in development of the Capital Plan is “through the various neighborhood associations and organized community groups that have expressed their thoughts to the First Selectman”. But the RTM’s approval of preliminary expenses in connection with particular projects is an implicit approval of those projects (or, at least, is viewed as such), even though it has not reviewed or approved the Capital Plan itself.
At the Moderator’s meeting, Bob Brady, chairman of the Education Committee, posed the following questions:
1. What are the projects in the CIP’s Capital Plan? How were they selected for inclusion and assigned to specific years?
2. What projects were excluded from the Capital Plan and why? Are there any anticipated projects that were not included in the Capital Plan, e.g., relocation of the Board of Education, the King Street fire station?
3. What is the status of projects for which appropriations were made in prior years, including progress of the work and any changes in cost estimates and timing of completion?
4. How will the projects be financed, with what mix of tax levy, borrowing and/or excess cash balances? If borrowing is contemplated, when will it be repaid?
The first two questions are planning questions – they relate to what needs to be financed. The second two are financial questions – they go to how and when to pay for it.
The Capital Plan includes repair and maintenance of existing infrastructure and operating equipment. This is an appropriate subject for the Town’s administrative staff, which is charged with its maintenance and operation, but new infrastructure is not. The creation of new infrastructure, such as, for example, the proposed parking structure on Benedict Place, should be based upon a vision of how its citizens want the Town to develop, and that vision should reflect as broad a consensus as possible.
At a minimum, the POCD and the CIP’s Capital Plan should be consistent. The most straight-forward way to achieve this is to require that projects in the Capital Plan also be in the POCD – as capital improvements required to implement its recommendations. A duly adopted and updated POCD would then be a necessary precursor to the Capital Plan. Because the POCD must be approved by the RTM, such a requirement would give the RTM a meaningful role in the CIP process. So long as the POCD and the CIP’s Capital Plan are consistent, there is no reason why the RTM need approve the Capital Plan, which presumably will continue to be prepared annually in connection with the annual budget.
Because capital needs evolve over time, the POCD would have to be updated from time to time. The 1998 POCD contemplated periodic revision; it states that it will be reviewed and revised by P&Z at regular intervals. However, while there have been regular reviews (which were conducted in cooperation with the RTM Land Use Committee), no revisions in fact have been made. Revisions would require RTM approval.
DEPARTMENT: First Selectman – Parking Services
REFERRED TO: Finance, Public Works & Transportation Committees
VOTES: Board of Estimate and Taxation, 12-0
RESOLVED, that the sum of $350,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated to be added to the Parking Fund Account Number G219-59560-27096
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
An engineering inspection and review of the town’s municipal parking garage, located next to Town Hall was performed in March, 2006. A follow up inspection was made in May to review exploratory excavations completed earlier at the garage.
The May review revealed deterioration and corrosion of some of the wire tendons
that run through the concrete support slabs. The consulting engineer (Carl Walker Parking Engineers) recommended that we repair those sections this year and not allow another year of deterioration.
Attachments-
Separate enclosure
Report from Carl Walker Parking Structure Consultants
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments & Health & Human Services Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a member of the Nathaniel Witherell Board for a term expiring 3/31/08.
THOMAS A. SACCARDI
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
Thomas A. Saccardi, 22 Connecticut Avenue, Greenwich. New nomination as a regular member of the Nathaniel Witherell Board for a term expiring 3/31/08.
Ph.D. in Business (Organization Theory); and Master’s Degrees in Philosophy and Business Administration. Retired after 21 years employment as Vice President of MBIA, member of various committees and task groups, College of New Rochelle, from 1978 to present.
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
REFERRED TO: Appointments & Health & Human Services Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a regular member of the Nathaniel Witherell Board for a term expiring 3/31/09.
LLOYD BANKSON
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
Lloyd Bankson, 26 Indian Point Lane, Riverside. New nomination as a regular member of the Nathaniel Witherell Board for a term expiring 3/31/09.
Princeton and NYU Business School (non degree). Presently Managing Director Venture Partners, Inc. Member of Goose Management Program 2006, and was Treasurer for Lile Gibbons Campaign for State Representative.
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
REFERRED TO: Appointments & Health & Human Services Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed a regular member of the Board of Social Services for a term expiring 3/31/09.
JOHN “STEVE” MAXWELL
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
John Steve Maxwell, 4 Alex Templeton Lane, Greenwich. New nomination as a regular member of the Board of Social Services for a term expiring 3/31/09.
B.A. Davidson College; MBA The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.
Presently ESL Instructor at Stamford Board of Education. Past community Activities: Tutor, Literacy Volunteers of America, Director Hamilton Avenue School (Saturday Academy) and ESL Instructor Greenwich Board of Education.
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen
CONTACT: Edward Gomeau 622-7710
REFERRED TO: Appointments & Land Use Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen 3-0-0
RESOLVED, that the following named person, nominated by the Board of Selectmen, be appointed an alternate member of the Planning and Zoning Commission for a term expiring 3/31/08.
FREDERIC HENRY BROOKS
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
Frederic Henry Brooks, 189 Shore Road, Old Greenwich. New alternate member of the Planning and Zoning Commission for a term expiring 3/31/08.
Columbia College and Columbia School of Business as well as the Merrill Lynch executive training program. Recently completed four years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Caribbean Latin American Action, in Washington D.C., served as Chairman and CEO of MacGregor Sporting Goods. Presently is recording secretary for the Retired Men’s Association of Greenwich and Chairman of the Finance and Director of the World Affairs Forum.
DEPARTMENT: Selectmen & Finance 08-23-2006
John Wayne Fox 622-7876
REFERRED TO: Finance, Land Use, Legislative & Rules & Parks & Recreation Committees
VOTES:
WHEREAS, the Representative Town Meeting adopted a resolution appropriating $35,288,000 and authorizing $35,288,000 notes of the Town for the “Purchase of the Pomerance/Tuchman Properties” on March 13, 2000 (the “Resolution”); and
WHEREAS, the purchase of the Pomerance portion was completed and financed in 2000; and
WHEREAS, the Tuchman portion has been the subject of a partition action recently concluded in the Appellate Division of the Connecticut Superior Court on November 30, 2005; and
WHEREAS, the Town has entered into a contract for the purchase of two-thirds of the Tuchman property at a purchase price of $8,666,666.66; and
WHEREAS, the Town has determined that is beneficial for the Town to issue its obligations to the open-market in a competitive offering instead of to the sellers of the Tuchman property at six and fifty hundredths per centum(6.50%) per annum;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS:
The Resolution is hereby amended to delete the requirement that the notes be issued to the sellers of the land and the requirement that the Board of Estimate and Taxation shall determine the details of the issuance and sale of the notes and to insert in lieu thereof the following:
“Not exceeding $8,888,000 of the appropriation may be financed by the issuance of bonds to be sold by the Town in a competitive offering at the lowest true interest cost to the Town. The bonds are authorized to be issued in one or more series, maturing in substantially equal annual installments of principal, provided the final installment shall be due not later than five years from date. The bonds shall be in the denomination of $1,000 or a whole multiple thereof, be issued in fully registered form, be executed in the name and on behalf of the Town by the facsimile or manual signatures of the Chairman of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, and the Treasurer, and countersigned by the Comptroller, have the seal of the Town
affixed and attested by the Town Clerk, be certified by a bank or trust company, and be approved as to their legality by Robinson & Cole LLP. The bonds shall be general obligations of the Town and each of the bonds shall recite that every requirement of law relating to its issue has been duly complied with, that such bond or note is within every debt and other limit prescribed by law.. The aggregate principal amount of the bonds of each series to be issued, the date, time of issue and sale and other terms, details and particulars of such bonds, including approval of the rate or rates of interest payable thereon, shall be determined by the Chairman of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, the Treasurer
and the Comptroller.”
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
The original resolution approved by the RTM in 2000, allowed the town to purchase both the Pomerance and Tuchman properties and give the sellers notes at a 6.5% annual interest rate.
The Town acquired the Pomerance property in 2000. The distribution of the Tuchman property was litigated by the Tuchman beneficiaries and was recently settled. This resolution amends the original RTM resolution and allows the town to follow the procedure it did with the financing of the Pomerance property. The town will sell five year obligations at an interest rate substantially below what the rate would have been under the original resolution (6.5%). The estimated rate of issue is 4%. There would be an estimated $900,000 in savings to the town if we finance this transaction with the public sale of bonds rather than issue notes to the Tuchman beneficiaries.
The Board of Selectmen and Board of Estimate and Taxation approved the Sales Agreement between the Town and the Tuchmans in 2001. This agreement allowed the town to purchase 2/3 interest of the Tuchman property for $8,666,666.66.
Attachments-
Separate packet
DEPARTMENT: Petitioners
CONTACT: Carl Carlson 869-1405, Randall Huffmann 869-6356, Ceci Morgan 869-0987
REFERRED TO: Finance, Land Use & Transportation Committees
VOTES:
RESOLVED,
"Whereas, the B.E.T. removed all funding for tiered parking (outside the new police-fire complex) from the 2006-2007 budget,
"Whereas, the B.E.T. allowed an allociation of $690,000 for architectural and engineering studies for tiered parking to be transferred from the 2005-2006 budget to the 2006-2007 budget,
"Whereas, there is considerable opposition throughout the Town of Greenwich to the building of any more tiered parking,
"Therefore, it is the sense of the meeting of the Greenwich Representative Town Meeting that none of the $690,000.00 be spent until a final decision has been made by the R.T.M. as to whether there will be any additional tiered parking at all in downtown Greenwich."
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS:
Until the Greenwich Representative Town Meeting has made a decision on building
an additional parking garage in downtown Greenwich, it is the request of a group of
petitioners that no further money be spent on architectural or engineering studies for
a tiered parking garage at Benedict Place or any other location in downtown Greenwich.
Instead, it is recommended that the Town of Greenwich focus its efforts on what will make existing parking available.
In taking informal surveys of Greenwich residents and store employees, the
following objections to building an additional parking garage(s) have been made:
1) further burden on tax payers in addition to other capital projects and ongoing
maintenance,
2) underutilization of existing parking garages,
3) ongoing demand for convenient parking in front of stores, restaurants, banks,
etc.,
4) stressful congestion in the Central Business District of Greenwich (CBD)
from construction of the Public Safety Complex and other new buildings,
5) high cost of maintenance, insurance, and security necessary for parking garages,
6) changes in shopping patterns due to Internet shopping and gas costs,
7) overbuilding and citification of the Central Business District of Greenwich.
ATTACHMENTS: separate packet – petition pages
DEPARTMENT: Board of Selectmen 08-24-2006
CONTACT: Eugene McLaughlin 622-774 emclaughlin@greenwichct.org
Ed Gomeau 618-7683 egomeau@greenwichct.org
REFERRED TO: Appointments, Legislative & Rules & Parks & Recreation Committees
VOTES: Board of Selectmen to vote at Special Meeting prior to RTM meeting
Resolved, that Section 80 of the Town of Greenwich Charter be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 80. Board of Parks and Recreation.
(a) There shall be a Board of Parks and Recreation consisting of nine (9) resident electors who shall be appointed annually [biennially] by the Representative Town Meeting, on nomination of the Board of Selectmen. [for terms of four (4) years.] Appointments to fill the next terms following the terms of the five (5) members expiring March 31, 2006 shall be for three (3) members for terms expiring March 31, 2009 and two (2) members for terms expiring March 31, 2010. Appointments to fill the next terms following the terms of the four (4) members expiring March 1, 2008 shall be for one (1) member for a term expiring March 31, 2010 and three (3) members for terms expiring March 31, 2011. Thereafter, terms shall be for three (3) years. [Of the members first appointed, four (4) members shall be
appointed for terms expiring March 1, 1972 and five (5) members shall be appointed for terms expiring March 31, 1974.] In addition to the members so appointed, one (1) of the Selectmen and one (1) member of the Board of Education to be designated by the Board of Selectmen and the Board of Education respectively, shall be members of such board, ex officio.
(b) The Board shall make studies and shall prepare and submit to the First Selectman from time to time, proposals, recommendations and long range plans relating to the parks and recreational system of the Town. The First Selectman shall consult with the Board concerning the selection of sites, budget and the appointment of personnel.
(RTM, 4/27/1970.) (Char. Rev. 11/4/1975, eff. 1/1/1978.)
(additions bold; deletions within [brackets])
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
The Board of Selectmen is recommending that the terms for the Board of Parks & Recreation be changed to three years. This proposed change would have the terms of one third of the committee expiring every three years. This proposal would provide continuity to the Board by only have the one third membership up for reappointment or replacement at any one time.
DEPARTMENT: Public Works 0609PW03
CONTACT: David P. Thompson, Chief Engineer (203) 622-7767 dthompson@greenwichct.org
REFERRED TO: Finance & Public Works Committees
VOTES: July 17, 2006 BET, 12-0-0
RESOLVED, that the sum of $119,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated to be added to Capital Account Number Z312-59620-26034, known as “North Porchuk Road Bridge Replacement”.
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
This request is for an additional appropriation of $119,000.00 to complete the reconstruction of the North Porchuk Road Bridge. This project is eligible for a grant reimbursement of 90.32% under the State of Connecticut’s Local Bridge Program. Under this Program the Town Of Greenwich can anticipate revenues in the amount of $107,481.00 as an offset to this expenditure. Therefore, the net cost to the Town Of Greenwich will be $11,519.00.
Construction began in September 2005 and is scheduled for completion in October 2006. At this time, the project is approximately 60% complete. The Town’s contractor for this project is C. J. Fucci, Inc. of New Haven, CT.
Our consultant for this project, WMC Consulting Engineers, has provided a Project memorandum, dated July 5, 2006, on the Project Cost Projection (see attached). The projected construction contract value is $1,210,000, an increase of $114,000.00, due primarily to increased pile lengths. In addition, due to an increase in the construction schedule, the projected engineering cost increase is $39,000.00.
Based on our Consultant’s Project Cost Projection, the additional funds required to complete the bridge reconstruction is $198,000.00. This amount includes $114,000.00 for increased construction costs, $39,000.00 for additional engineering services, and $45,000.00 for a recommended additional contingency. Currently there is $79,000.00 available in the appropriation; hence the net request of $119,000.00 ($198,000 - $79,000).
Attachments – separate packet
DEPARTMENT: Public Works 0609PW02
CONTACT: David P. Thompson, Chief Engineer (203) 622-7767
dthompson@greenwichct.org
REFERRED TO: Finance & Public Works Committees
VOTES: July 17, 2006 BET, 12-0-0
RESOLVED, that the sum of $227,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated to be added to Capital Account Number Z312-59600-26023, known as “King St/Rye Lake Ave Roundabout”.
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
This appropriation deals with two projects that are contiguous and interrelated but have been budgeted separately in the FY 05-06 budget. The Rye Lake Drainage project (Account # Z312-59660-26035) and the King Street & Rye Lake Avenue Roundabout (Account # Z312-59600-26023) were funded in the amounts of $360,000.00 and $500,000.00, respectively. DPW determined that the two projects should be combined in an effort to reduce disruption and create economies of scale. Earth Tech, Incorporated, an engineering firm, was retained to design the Roundabout and to incorporate the Rye Lake Avenue Drainage Improvements into one bid package. This contract includes construction inspection and administration at a cost of $97,500.00. The remaining funds available for both these projects total $762,500.00.
The project went out for bid in June 2006. Two bids were received; the low bid (from Fred N. Durante, Jr.) came in at $959,000.00 and the second bid (from A. Vitti Excavators, LLC) came in at $1,165,000.00. DPW is recommending that the contract be awarded to Fred N. Durante, Jr.. The construction shortfall is $196,500.00. This request includes an additional $30,000.00 for police traffic control, bringing the total request to $227,000.00.
The original estimate for the project was prepared two years ago and was not updated for this fiscal year. The funding estimate of $500,000.00 did not include the $97,500.00 fee for design services or the construction inspection and administration. At the time of budget preparation, DPW planned to have staff from the Engineering Division or the Traffic Engineering Division administer the Construction contract. The workload in the Engineering Division and the loss of staff in the Traffic Engineering Division has made that unrealistic.
Comparison of the bid and the original estimate reveals that the major inflationary increases are due to the costs for asphalt and granite curbing. Asphalt was estimated at $60 per ton and was bid at an average of $81 per ton, resulting in a total increase of $50,000.00 for asphalt alone. Granite curbing installation accounts for an additional $15,000.00. Other miscellaneous increases account for the overall short fall.
ATTACHMENTS:
None.
DEPARTMENT: Public Works 0609PW01
CONTACT: David P. Thompson, Chief Engineer (203) 622-7767
dthompson@greenwichct.org
REFERRED TO: Finance & Public Works Committees
VOTES: July 17, 2006 BET, 12-0-0
RESOLVED, that the sum of $74,500 be and the same is hereby appropriated to be added to Capital Account Number Z312-59600-26129, known as “So Water/Mead St Roundabout”.
EXPLANATORY COMMENTS
The construction of the South Water Street and Mead Street Roundabout has been in development for the previous three years. The FY 05-06 budget amount of $400,000.00 was based on adjustments to this three-year-old budget. Four (4) bids were recently received ranging from the low bid of $400,592.80 to the high bid of $607,376.45. The low bidder, Fred N. Durante Jr., is well known to the staff of DPW. Durante’s bid is very competitive and includes a $10,000.00 contingency as well as $6,500.00 for police traffic control. These two items are low for a construction project of this magnitude.
Funding for construction administration and inspection was not included. Due to the extensive construction program and the vacancies within the Traffic Engineering division, DPW recommends that we retain an outside firm for construction administration and inspection.
For the above reasons, DPW is requesting an additional appropriation of $74,500.00. This amount is comprised of the following elements; $11,000.00 for an additional contingency, $3,500.00 for police traffic control, and $60,000.00 for the contract administration.
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