Capital Improvement Committee

CITY OF LACONIA CIP OCTOBER 20, 2015, 6:30 PM CONFERENCE ROOM 200A William Contardo called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm and thanked Mike Foote for handling the last two meetings in his absence. He let the members of the CIP know that this is the public input meeting where the members of the general public can speak to any of the proposals. Roll Call by the Recording Secretary, Kristine Snow: William Contardo, Present; Robert Hamel, Present; Mike Foote, Present; Paul Lambert, Present; Gail Denio, Present; Ava Doyle, Present; Hamilton McLean, Present Staff: Kristine Snow, ZBA Technician, Recording Secretary Minutes: The minutes from the October 7 2015 meeting will be sent out to the group via e-mail. The board reviewed the presentations. P. Lambert asked about the water tank at the Weirs. They had asked for 35K to do it and now it is pushed out 5 years. R. Hamel and M. Foote said they thought it was gone already. H. McLean asked if they still rank Water even though it is the Enterprise Fund and was told yes. M. Foote asked why Fire isn’t upgrading their radios to the same level as Water. They are still on analog so they can interact with regional fire. He said he would think Homeland Security would be working to get everyone on the same process. R. Hamel said Fire went to City Council to ask for the radios and said they must talk to everyone. He said if they can talk to everyone they must be digital. He doesn’t think you can do that with analog. Police gave Fire their 10 year old digital radios. Maybe they have both systems; small towns might. P. Lambert said they are probably transitional consoles. Kristine Snow will send Chief Erickson a message asking if the radios are currently digital or analog and what Mutual Aid has – analog, digital, or both. R. Hamel said the coming budget will be challenging. The inflation rate is 0. He wondered why each fireman needs a radio. If they are in the building they can talk to the command center and then they can contact others further up the chain. M. Foote asked if the radios that are no longer supported and dual platform. He asked if they still go to City Council with their presentation and R. Hamel said that they already did that for this year. The next budget begins in January. M. Foote said DPW is asking for more on the roads as they are trying to keep ahead of things. R. Hamel said he thinks that is working out well. M. Foote asked if someone could confirm the ranking order that Paul Moynihan made at the end of his DPW presentation. The rankings were reviewed. No one from the public attended the hearing. W. Contardo let the committee members know that the ranking sheets are due in by October 27. We meet on November 17 to go over the rankings. Someone asked why that meeting is so late and was told due to elections and other board meetings this was the first date we could do this. This still allows time to make any changes needed before the December 1 Planning Board meeting. Adjournment: M. Foote made the motion to adjourn, with A. Doyle seconding. All voted in favor and the meeting adjourned at 7 pm. Adjourn: