With the $93 million school project drawing to a close this summer, the next big-ticket item on the horizon is a community center. All but two voters at the March 26 Town Meeting approved a measure to authorize the Select Board to appoint a building committee, with the goal of voting on a community center…
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SOTT #1: Community center could cost more than $25 million
A community center for Lincoln is now expected to cost up to $25.4 million in 2025 dollars — and to save money for the project, many attendees at the November 1 State of the Town meeting said, “go for it ASAP!” The updated estimates were revealed during one of several topics at the first of…
Register for State of the Town online meetings
Lincolnites can now register to attend the Zoom-based Sate of the Town meeting on November 1-2 from 7–9 p.m. on both nights. SOTT #1 (Monday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m.) Public Health Update School Building Project Update Finance Committee Update Community Center Discussion Open Forum Zoom advance registration link (night 1) SOTT #2 (Tuesday, Nov….
State of the Town meeting to be held virtually in November
Since large in-person gatherings are still not feasible due to the pandemic, the town will again hold the annual State of the Town meeting via Zoom. A preliminary schedule discussed by the Select Board on September 27 calls for three sessions, each starting at 7 p.m., with updates on topics assigned as follows (though the…
Environmental measures, name changes to go before voters on Saturday
Voters at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting (ATM) will be asked to vote on five citizens’ petitions concerning plastics and the proposed community center, as well as two other measures seeking town board name changes. The items were originally planned for the 2020 Annual Town Meeting, but that meeting was stripped of all but essential financial…
School project budget, financing aired at SOTT
Town officials provided updates on the two pending school campus construction projects at the State of the Town meeting on October 20, outlining a series of cuts made to bring the school project under budget and a timeline for the community center. The detailed construction cost estimate presented to the School Building Committee in September…
Corrections
The agenda for the October 20 State of the Town meeting posted in the Squirrel on October 9 was incorrect. Here is the correct agenda for the meting, which will take place in Brooks auditorium from 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Campus building projects (10:30–11 a.m.) South Lincoln planning (11–11:30 a.m.) deCordova bylaws (11:30a.m.–noon) Open forum (12–12:30…
Schedules proposed for school, community center projects
School and community center planners have proposed schedules for further community input and eventual start dates for their respective projects. Daedalus Projects Inc., the owner’s project manager for the school project, presented a schedule to the School Building Committee earlier this month calling for three community forums from August to October as well as six…
Residents split on preferred community center design
Residents were almost evenly split as to which of two design concepts they preferred for a future community center. The choices were presented in a paper survey at the June 9 Special Town Meeting on the school project. A total of 158 residents completed the survey, or 25 percent of the 632 who cast votes…
School option L3 wins the day
After almost a year of meetings, community forums, architectural work, and spirited debate, Lincoln residents voted to move forward with school concept L3 at a Special Town Meeting on June 9. Consulting architects SMMA will now produce a schematic design with detailed specifications and an updated cost estimate. The current estimate for Option L3 is…