Feasibility study for new swimming facility will effect new library, police headquarters.
The century-old Underwood Pool will have a 101st season this coming summer. That was the outcome after the Belmont Department of Public Works accepted a half-dozen proposals from local engineering firms who are bidding to conduct a feasibility study to build a new swimming facility at the Underwood Playground, according to Ann Marie Mahoney, chairwoman of the Capital Budget Committee that met Thursday, Oct. 18. The six firms – CDM Smith of Cambridge, BH&A, Weston & Sampson and Warner Larson, all of Boston, Blair Hines Design Associates of Brookline and Marshall/Gary of Wakefield – selected by DPW Director Peter Castinino will determine whether a community pool can be placed on the plateau a few hundred feet from the existing facility at …
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Capital Budget Committee doles out $1.4 million to school and town and $1.2 million to roads.
Indoor activities will be easier do in the Butler gym, high schoolers driving into the school's parking lot will have a smooth ride and maybe the road and sidewalk outside where you live will be repaired. Finally. Those and several more improvements to equipment and facilities will be presented to the annual Town Meeting later this month after the Board of Selectmen today, Friday, May 4, and the town's Warrant Committee (on Wednesday, May 2) gave their unified support of the allocations from the Capital Budget Committee. The entire package – it will be Town Meeting Article 8 and Article 8B – will need to be approved by a simple majority for passage. The funding distribution – $1.4 million for schools and general government and $1.2 …
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Lee Adams
7:19 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012
I wish someone would do the math to show the total cost for this "domino proposal" of capital projects. It’s concerning our Town Leaders have no plan in place to pay its debt obligations and previously borrowed money, is unable to exercise any fiscal responsibility, can't live within their annual budget, can't control cost and fails to provide acceptable levels of basic services is spending money… more ›