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Task Force Talks Metrics

The Facilities Study Task Force develop criteria for recommendation to the Board of Selectmen

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Joe Duwan and Amy Squyres develop criteria for the Facilities Study Task Force's final recommendation to the Board of Selectmen
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Members of First Selectman Dave Campbell's Facilities Study Task Force can soon claim "mission accomplished," but first, some homework: a written pros and cons analysis of the proposed municipal-building shuffle.

"What I'd really like to do is give everybody a little bit of homework," said committee chair Selectman Jayme Stevenson.

Campbell's plan to rearrange town-owned facilities and the agencies that use them revolves around the Senior Center, an old school building on Edgerton Street that the Task Force agrees is in unacceptable condition.

Put simply, the three-phase plan looks like this:

  1. Move the Board of Education to the former library at 35 Leroy Ave.
  2. Move the Senior Center to the Board of Education space at Town Hall
  3. Knock down the Senior Center on Edgerton Street, and leave the space as a playing field

Charged with the six-week challenge of gauging the general feasibility of the project is the ten-member Facilities Study Task Force, chaired by Selectman Jayme Stevenson.

Phase one will draw to a close on Feb. 16, with a formal recommendation to the Board of Selectmen; it's the last piece of the committee's charge, said Stevenson, but it's certainly not the least.

"This really lays the foundation for phase two and anything that may follow," she said.

The formal recommendation will consider the pros and cons of a set list of criteria as applicable to two scenarios: moving the senior center to Town Hall and moving the senior center to 35 Leroy.

"The Senior Center either moving here or 35 Leroy is the first step, all the other scenarios really come next," said Joe Duwan of the Board of Finance.

The possibility of a rebuild of the Senior Center at Edgerton Street is one possible scenario that will be reserved for phase two.

Wednesday's meeting saw the Task Force draft the following list of criteria:

  • Construction quality
  • Adaptability: physical and programmatic
  • Parking
  • Site Considerations
  • Neighborhood impact
  • Synergies
  • Town/Board of Education relationship
  • Constituency preference
  • Expansion potential/future use
  • Timing
  • Entrance accessibility
  • Intangibles

"Start jotting down the pros and cons of each criterion, so we can create a consensus list at our next meeting," said Stevenson.

Homework assignments are due in Administrative Karl Kilduff's inbox by 4 p.m, Feb. 8.