GRANBY SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE 
Meeting Minutes

Date:     Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Place:    Granby High School – Room 106, 6:30 p.m.

Voting Members Present:
        Joe Arabik               Dawn Cooke        Frank Marion
        Mary McDowell      Sally O’Shea        Jim Pietras
        Mike Quesnel          Ken Scully  

Non-Voting Members Present:
        None

Visitors:
        Virginia Snopek

Meeting called to order at 6:33 p.m.         

Visitor Comments – None  

Approval of meeting minutes of November 1, 2006
          Motion to approve: Dawn Cooke    Second by: Sally O’Shea
          All approved      -       Abstain – Ken Scully  

First discussion item – The e-mail attachment dated November 3, 2006 from Mike Quesnel to Gini Tate was discussed briefly.  This message to Gini was to have her contact Bob Moran, the House Counsel, regarding the special legislation in regard to the Community Library.  We will hopefully have an answer regarding this matter at our next meeting.

Next discussion item – The e-mail attachment from Andy Cherullo to Bill Frangiamore dated November 16, 2006 was discussed.  We went over each of the five questions and answers with the following items noted:

·       The first item concerned the reference to the Educational Facilities Master Plan.   This must be a current educational facilities master plan that includes both a long term and a short term plan for facilities and an updated building inventory. 

·       Next were questions over the make-up of the school building committee – Who is the local chief executive officer of the Eligible Applicant?  Should the administrator or manager of our town be on the committee?   Also, the question of a local budget official or member of the local finance committee being on the committee was raised. 

·       The next question was about the reference to a pilot program for a review of the statement of interest. Is Granby going to be selected for this program?

·       The last discussion centered on the timing question of July 31, 2007 as the deadline for submitting statement of interests to the MSBA.  How is this all going to work?

 

No discussion on the covenant between the School Department and the Library Trustees.

No invoices for approval.

Next meeting date is Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in the Granby High School Library.

Motion to adjourn meeting made by Sally O’Shea at 7:25 p.m. and was seconded by Joe Arabik.  All in favor!  

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