Special Board of Aldermen 11-22-2021 Page 5
Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
Pretty much all the groups will be moved over? | think there's some Street Department personnel that may not move
over right away but my understanding the plan is all the other groups would be would be consolidating but | defer to
Director Fauteux.
Chairman Dowd
Director Fauteux would you like to come up and join us?
Lisa Fauteux, Public Works Director
That’s correct Director Cummings with the exception of Wastewater will stay - remain at the wastewater treatment
plant.
Alderman Caron
Okay thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Including Park & Rec., right? We don’t want to forget Park & Rec. do we Alderman Caron? Okay.
Alderman O’Brien
One thing | want to bring up. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | at this time just want to, you Know, in part of the discussion
and everything with this as many of you know that this building will be built in adjacent to the Fire Department training
facility, which has all the props needed for the proper training when a firefighter gets into drill school to get on the Fire
Department. But it does not have showers and it does not have classroom facilities. To prove how a couple of
Divisions can work together, | thank Director Fauteux for it did opening up and have discussions with the Fire Chief
that some of the shower facilities can be used and perhaps some of the classrooms can be used on an as need type
of basis. So this will probably stop any requests from the Fire Department perhaps maybe in the future, you know, as
far as any classroom type of facility. So | love it when two different Divisions can get together and work for the
betterment of the whole city at large and this seems to be the case. | thank you Director Fauteux for your cooperation
with that.
Chairman Dowd
Any other questions? All right, I'll go back and I'll open it up to the public for testimony in favor.
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None
TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION
Laurie Ortolano
Hi. Good evening. Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. | know we have three different items here and they're all
related. So | don't want to repeat myself too much but | also know | have a limited amount of time. So I'll be coming
back up.
A couple things regarding the facility. First of all on this one Resolution to use unanticipated revenue from 2022, | do
support using that revenue to pay down the bond on Burke Street that was purchased years ago when it wasn't the
correct building. | think you take out a bond on a facility, you don't end up being able to use the facility, you sell it, and
then you maintain all the debt, and then apply more debt. Fundamentally, | don't agree with that. So that's one
reason.
Secondly, this facility has morphed into something different from where it began. It started off as an office facility and
then it sort of became a facility that housed everyone except Wastewater, which is fine but | do have a concern that
there was never a traffic study done. All the equipment and heavy equipment is going to be in there and | see the city
time and time again skirt these traffic studies and we don't do them. We really didn't do a good one down at Costco.
We have the new buildings going in at the Henry Hanger Company and Corriveau Routhier where the road areas over
