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Committee drafts department-head questions and flags town-meeting fallout, DPW design funding
Summary
The committee compiled a list of questions for department heads to answer with their capital requests, and members discussed recent town-meeting results, including concerns about design funding for large projects such as the DPW building.
Committee staff circulated a proposed question list for department heads to complete in advance of capital presentations, and members discussed how recent town-meeting votes — including the failure of a town-employee-housing article and passage of a bike-path and capital-expenditure article — should inform review of large projects.
Staff member Sue read a draft set of questions to use when interviewing department heads: "How much has been spent on the project so far? What is the proposed total project cost? Have you considered inflation if it's a multiyear project? What are…
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