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Gardner City committee draws up FY27 capital priorities, highlights City Hall elevator and DPW equipment needs
Summary
A Gardner City committee reviewed and prioritized FY27 capital projects and equipment replacements — including a City Hall elevator, DPW bucket truck and dump trucks, and several school-department repairs — and agreed to circulate a draft issues report; the transcript records a motion and second but no vote tally.
Members of a Gardner City capital-planning committee spent their meeting reviewing and prioritizing projects for the FY27 issues report, highlighting aging building systems, public-works equipment replacements and several school-department repairs that committee members said must be included to meet state requirements and long-term maintenance needs.
The committee’s discussion, led primarily by Speaker 1 with technical and cost input from Speaker 2, centered on a constrained capital picture: Speaker 1 cited a FY27 grand-total need of roughly $30,000,000 and noted that after removing about $10,000,000 in enterprise accounts the unmet need is on the order of $20,000,000. The group reiterated the guideline to target about 5% of the municipal budget for capital (roughly $4.1 million in the prior year) and emphasized that limited funds require careful prioritization.
Among the top priorities identified were a City Hall elevator, which Speaker 3…
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