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Acton select board directs peer review of proposed DPW building design
Summary
The Acton Select Board authorized staff to begin a third-party peer review of the town's proposed Department of Public Works building design and feasibility work, seeking updated cost and reuse options after voters rejected a prior debt-exclusion measure.
The Acton Select Board on June 2 directed town staff to engage a third-party peer reviewer to reassess plans and costs for a proposed Department of Public Works building, with a goal of returning updated options to the building committee and the board.
Town Manager John (Town Manager) told the board the town recently revisited a feasibility study and partial designs produced in 2020'1 and said market conditions and other factors have changed since that work. He said the administration has asked Arrow Street, a firm that previously worked for the town, to prepare a scope of services and perform a peer review of the prior design and feasibility assumptions. "We think that the very first step that should we should take is a peer review of the the proposed design and the feasibility study," John said.
The review will aim to update cost estimates and consider alternatives the board…
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