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File for the Civic News:   RyeBOSrclNotes122716revBfinal<\/a> 2.     The bids for the two Red Mill Ln. culverts were received. The low bid was $220,000 for each culvert, a total of $440,000 or an estimated $500,000 after engineering costs and contingency. The warrant article voted earlier this year provided only $150,000. The Town will augment that with $110,000 in the 2017 operating budget (rather than presented as a separate warrant article) and complete only the first of two culverts<\/span>. More Detail<\/a><\/p>\n 3.     No agreement has been reached with any of the three town employees unions, whose contracts are expiring. The sticking point is health care<\/span>. More Detail<\/a><\/p>\n 4.     The timing of meetings on Town Hall was agreed. Public meetings are scheduled for January 3, January 9 and January 17. The cost appearing in any warrant article will need to be decided after hearing public input on January 3 so that the hearing notice can appear in time for the January 17 hearing which would occur on the last possible date<\/span>.  More Detail<\/a><\/p>\n            5.  Hutter Construction, the sole responding bidder for the Town Hall project, explained its two bids (one for renovation, the other for tear down and rebuild) both for approximately $3 million. Extensive public input and questions were taken. Key issues are (a) the long-term suitability of the building in terms of durability and meeting future town space needs; (b) the high $400 to $500 per sq. ft. cost likely once “soft†costs are added; (c) the location of the meeting room in the addition vs. in the Great Hall; (d) the concessions needed with the renovation option relative to the new build option; and (e) the massing of the proposed building relative to that of the existing Town Hall<\/span> More Detail<\/a>  Town Hall background information from the RCL Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" File for the Civic News:   RyeBOSrclNotes122716revBfinal 1.     The Selectmen refused to provide further details or answer questions about the acquisition of Transfer Station land that the Town already thought it owned for $75,000, citing the pending court case. Meeting Detail  Additional information and documents form the RCL Click Here 2.     The bids for the two Red Mill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-selectmen","category-town-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.     The Selectmen refused to provide further details or answer questions about the acquisition of Transfer Station land that the Town already thought it owned for $75,000, citing the pending court case<\/span>. Meeting Detail<\/a>  Additional information and documents form the RCL Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n