Voters approved a total of $441,760 in Capital Planning Committee (CapComm) expenditures and $740,936 for Community Preservation Committee (CPC) projects at the March 25 Town Meeting. CapComm received 26 requests and recommended 14 of them for voter approval. along with three capital exclusions totaling $300,000 ($75,000 apiece for a bucket truck and dump truck and $150,000…
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Voters give the go-ahead to school project and community center planning
(Editor’s note: Additional stories about the March 25 Annual Town Meeting will be published this week.) Lincoln will move ahead with feasibility studies for both a locally funded school project and a community center as a result of votes at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting. Residents voted unanimously to release $750,000 that was put aside in 2015…
Recap of background stories for Town Meeting
In preparation for the March 25 Town Meeting, the Lincoln Squirrel is publishing an updated and expanded expanded recap of news stories and letters to the editor on some of the issues to be voted on. The full warrant list can be found here. Wang property acquisition (article 11) News stories: Video explains financing and…
Letter to the editor: vote yes on community center feasibility study
To the editor: The warrant for the Annual Town Meeting on March 25 includes an article to approve $150,000 to fund “a feasibility study and preliminary design development plans for a community center to be located within the Hartwell Complex of the Ballfield Road school campus.” If funding for a school project feasibility study is…
Officials offer school recommendations, borrowing estimates
Saying “we believe it’s time to act on our own,” School Committee Chair Jennifer Glass outlined next steps for a town-funded school project at a multi-board meeting earlier this week. Glass told the Board of Selectmen last month that her group recommended not applying again for state funding, but start the planning process for a…
Campus study group presents final report
By Alice Waugh
The Campus Master Planning Committee (CMPC) this week presented its final report, which includes three potential campus configuration scenarios with site work estimates ranging from $2.76 million to $4.06 million.
Campus report delayed by a month; cost estimates floated
By Alice Waugh
The Campus Master Planning Committee (CMPC) has gotten a one-month extension on its original deadline of December 31 to finalize their report on options for configuring the Ballfield Road campus.
Campus study draft to be presented next week
The Campus Master Planning Committee (CMPC) will receive a draft report from its consultants with recommendations for reconfiguring the Lincoln School campus on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Hartwell multipurpose room. Residents heard an interim report at the State of the Town meeting in November from LLB Architects, who outlined some examples of how the building…
Consultant presents ideas for campus configuration
By Alice Waugh
A Campus Master Planning Committee consultant offered some scenarios for configuring the school campus while affirming that there are no septic or regulatory issues that would prevent putting a community center on the Hartwell side.
Speaking at the November 14 State of the Town Meeting, Greg Smolley of LLB Architects also repeated what he said at an October 17 public forum—that a second Lincoln Road entrance to the campus east of Ballfield Road to accommodate a community center is not needed or advisable.
No major obstacles to putting community center on campus, consultant says
By Alice Waugh
If a community center is built on the Hartwell campus, more parking will be needed, but creating a new entrance from Lincoln Road on the south side of the site probably won’t be necessary, according to an interim report by the Campus Master Planning Committee consultants.
Because both a school project and a community center are being contemplated on the Ballfield Road campus, the CMPC was formed to study the basic infrastructure and physical layout of the campus and assess the capacity of the existing infrastructure (buildings, roadways, septic systems, etc.) to support future uses.