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Select Board updates transfer-station construction, confirms cameras installed and web access for officials
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Summary
The Select Board was told the transfer-station recycling building footings and walls are complete; additional slab work for a glass container used contingency funds. Security cameras are installed with web access to designated offices; the attorney advised signage is not required.
A Select Board member reported that work at the town transfer-station recycling building is progressing: footings are complete, walls were poured and concrete work was under way, and contractors added additional stone and raised the slab several inches after encountering a higher-than-expected water table.
Speaker 3 said the town had a 10% contingency built into the construction contract (noted during discussion as a $25,000 total contingency) and that the project tapped into that contingency to pay for additional stone and site work; he estimated the slab and glass-container slab change order at roughly $1,400, with other change items “under $3,000.”
Security cameras at the transfer station have been installed and will be viewable via a web address provided to designated offices and individuals (police, fire, select board members and staff). Training will be provided for staff to access the feed. The board asked the town attorney whether signs are required; the attorney’s advice, as summarized in the meeting, was that signs are not required, so the town does not plan to post them. A resident asked whether cameras record audio; the board said they did not believe there was audio capability but that they would check.
Board members also discussed the geotechnical work: borings were done elsewhere on the site but not at the exact building footprint, and the contractors performed test pits and added stone where soils were wetter at the base of a nearby hill. No further formal action was taken during the update.
