Special Town Meeting
Monday, September 23, 2013
7:30 P.M., Lyme Consolidated School, Hamburg Road, Lyme, CT
Electors and citizens qualified to vote in Town Meeting are hereby warned and notified that there will be a Special Town Meeting Monday, September 23, 2013 at the Lyme Consolidated School, Hamburg Road, Lyme Connecticut commencing at 7:30 P.M. to conduct the following business:
1. Consider and act on a resolution to authorize raising the cap for the Library-Town Hall Campus Center project from the original 4.7 million dollars to a new total project cost limit of five million eighty thousand dollars ($5,080,000.00) with total public financing to remain capped at 3.7 million dollars.
RESOLUTION
TOWN HALL-LIBRARY PROJECT SPENDING CAP AMENDMENT
Whereas: Voters of the Town of Lyme approved construction of a new Library as well as renovation and expansion of the Town Hall at referendum in May of 2012, and
Whereas: Public financing for the project was capped at 3.7 million dollars and the total project cost fixed at 4.7 million dollars, and
Whereas: The bid solicitation process has resulted in a total project cost in excess of the original 4.7 million dollar spending cap, and
Whereas: the Lyme Public Library, Inc. has voted to provide private funding not to exceed three hundred and eighty thousand dollars ($380,000.00) to mitigate the increase in the total project cost in its entirety-
Now, therefore: be it resolved by the Town of Lyme, in Town Meeting convened, that the total project cost cap be raised from 4.7 million dollars to five million eighty thousand dollars ($5,080,000.00) with public financing to remain fixed at 3.7 million dollars.
