Neary Committee outlines outreach plan after well-attended office hours; posts, FAQs and three public sessions planned

Jason, subcommittee chair, opened the March 12 Neary Building Committee communications subcommittee meeting by summarizing feedback from a recently held office hours session that “there was not a seat left in the Public Safety training Room.”

The subcommittee said the session, held about 10 days earlier on a Saturday, produced heavy discussion about cost impacts on residents, operating budgets, and alternatives to the schematic design. Jason said much of the public was still working from an earlier August cost estimate and that the committee has updated numbers that have not yet been presented widely.

The committee described a three-part outreach plan aimed at making project materials easier to find and understand before town meeting: (1) reorganize the website FAQs into shorter, digestible items; (2) prepare a standalone cost presentation so residents can see the revised budget in a shareable format;…