Meeting Minutes of February 27, 2002

Meeting Place: Judge Welch Room

Members Present: Jane Donoghue (Co-Chair), Regina Binder and Rex McKinsey

Others Present: David Guertin (DPW Director), Chad DeLima (Marine Superintendent)

Patricia Lemme (Recording Secretary)

Members Absent: Ellen Rousseau and Joyce Guide(excused)

Call to Order: Co-Chair Jane Donoghue called the Meeting to order at 1 PM.

PUBLIC MEETING

Minutes: Rex McKinsey voted to approve February 13, 2002 minutes, Regina Binder seconded and so they were approved.

Report by DPW

David Guertin reported on and discussed several topics, including:

Additional Compensation Request by FS&T: David stated that Consultant William Zoino was contacted and we received a reply from him. Mr. Zion stated that he would gladly participate in the negotiations. David spoke with FS&T Vice President Robert Bertolino about the sum and substance of what we are looking to achieve. A meeting will be set up when Mr. Zoino returns from Florida with all the participating parties.

PROFISH: David stated that representatives from PROFISH contacted him with some concerns and issues:

Lobstermen will need an area to offload their traps around early April. AGM had agreed in the job meeting that they would clear the bulkhead area.

PROFISH members voted to request of the Town, that when the fish offloading lease space is up for renewal, that the successful vendor stays within the footprint of the lease. David stated the current lease will be expired March 31, 2002, but there will be no changes until the construction is completed.

PROFISH will be holding a meeting March 5, 2002 and invited David to attend. Rex stated that he thought a Building Committee Member should be present and Ginny replied that she would be going.

Memorandum of Understanding- David reminded PROFISH that the memorandum of understanding was executed with the Town on February 26, 2001 asking PROFISH to “submit a plan” on proposed layout/operations and they should start working on it.

Whydah: David stated that the Town received a request from Barry Clifford to “expand berthing”, both North & South of the Whydah. David explained that this would intrude on the float owners on the north side and the expansion on the south side would inhibit general berthing on the pier, and there would be a strong objection to this expansion. David then referred the committee to a memo that he sent Keith Bergman about this issue.

Dingy Dock: David reported that the dingy dock needs a temporary location for the coming season. There was much discussion about the pros and cons of many locations. Ginny made a motion to temporally move the dingy dock to the North side of the dredged are, Rex seconded the motion and so it was voted in 3-0.

Retainage: David informed the Building Committee that there is four hundred thousand dollars in a retainage fund for AGM. The contract allows for AGM to request either part or all of this money to be released. David stated that Kopelman and Page does not approve of a reduction but that he would back up this request to some degree for AGM. There was much discussion including a lot of praise for AGM and everyone agreed that they would like to see the West side of the pier completed before this would be considered.

Harbormasters Office: David stated the final cost for moving the harbormasters office and the building of the platform would be approximately 60,000. This should take place by June 1, 2002. He added the FS&T was waiting for approval to design the final plans, their cost should not exceed $5,000 for these plan. Rex made a motion to give FS&T authorization to design the final plans for the harbormasters office, Ginny seconded the motion and so it was voted 3-0.

Old Business

Ice Machine: The committee wanted to know the status; David replied that PROFISH was investigating sources of grant money.

Grantors Meeting: It was discussed that mid May to early June would be a good time to host the next meeting.

New Business

Contract: Rex was interested in seeing the contract closeout documents.

Schedule Next Meeting: Will be on Wednesday March 27, 2002 at 1:00 PM.

Adjournment: Ginny moved to adjourn at 2:20 PM, Rex seconded it and so it was voted.

These minutes were approved by a vote of the Provincetown Building Committee at their meeting on ______________, 2002

Respectfully Submitted,

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Building Committee Signature Title

Patricia Lemme On Call Secretary