Committee approves $148,418 contractor payment

Permanent Building Committee · Meeting of August 27, 2026

Wellesley's Permanent Building Committee weighed speeding up elementary school AC work after a 220-signature petition, but took no vote on the schedule. Petition sponsor Kelly Norris told the board the project has run 8 years since 2018 and called delay "not a neutral outcome." Vice Chair Thomas Goemaat said buying switchgear directly under state procurement rules could save time but warned "we're going to lose two of those months just waiting for the fall Town Meeting." Member Suzanne Littlefield flagged that a debt exclusion vote must fall at least 35 days after any Special Town Meeting authorization, complicating a March timeline. Separately, the committee approved a $148,418.50 payment to contractor CDI by a 5-0 roll call vote, after Goemaat noted CDI is only 41 percent complete on the DPW Administration Building but has billed 55 percent of its supervision budget, with $2.3 million of work remaining before a December deadline.

In the full story:

• Citizen Speak: AC Acceleration Petition
• Hardy and Honeywell School Solar
• Warren School Electric Heat and Insulation
• DPW Administration Building Construction and CDI Requisition
• Town Hall Interior HVAC
• New Business: Elementary School AC Acceleration Discussion
• Minutes and Invoices
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,649 words

Source: the Permanent Building Committee meeting of August 27, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.