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For Immediate Release: May 9, 2007
For further information contact --
Leon Gaumond Jr., Town Administrator at 508-835-3490
SELECTMEN TO BRING TIVNAN DRIVE PROPERTY
ARTICLES TO MAY TOWN MEETING
The Board of Selectmen are presenting four separate articles to Town Meeting on May 21, 2007, concerning the development of a commercial solid waste transfer station and processing facility in compliance with M.G.L. c. 30B, §1(e) to serve the solid waste disposal needs of the Town of West Boylston.
In 2006, the Board of Selectmen asked the Town Administrator to go out to bid to see the recently acquired property on Paul X. Tivnan Drive developed for the ‘construction, at the developer’s sole cost and expense, of a solid waste processing facility including a transfer station for receipt and disposal of municipal solid waste and recyclable materials, and for processing of other wastes as allowed in full compliance with all permitting and regulatory requirements under local, state and federal law.'
“This is a creative attempt by the Town to potentially use one of our existing resources for the purposes of bringing in additional income to the Town, removing some of the costs of our trash disposal expenses, and to provide for the future building needs of the Town,” said Kevin McCormick, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
According to the RFP, the successful developer will be asked to provide the Town of West Boylston and its residents with solid waste disposal services, including a transfer station for the receipt of municipal solid waste and the processing of recyclable materials and construction & demolition debris as defined from time to time by Massachusetts law. Such services shall be provided on a free or cost-reduced basis to the Town for the term of the ground lease. The selected developer shall bear all costs of permitting, engineering and design, construction, operation and continuing maintenance of the facility throughout the term of the ground lease, and shall pay all legal costs incurred by the Town in connection with this transaction.
Furthermore, the developer shall be responsible for the cost of extending public water and sewer services to the site, or for providing alternative on-site facilities for such services, to meet the needs of both the commercial solid waste facility and those of the municipal DPW facilities to be located on the Property. In addition, the successful developer shall provide the Town of West Boylston with the financial resources to design and construct a new DPW facility on a portion of the Property to be determined by the Town in consultation with the developer. The design of this facility shall be developed in consultation with the Town’s Board of Selectmen and Municipal Building Committee. The Town is also expecting to negotiate a lease of this land incorporating a percentage of the company’s business as a fee
to the Town, thereby providing a source of funds for future capital projects of the Town or even adding to the Town’s stabilization fund.
Another benefit to this project is that as stipulated by the deed to this property, the Town will designate part of this property for recreational space at Town Meeting. There has been an identified need for more field space in Town. This situation has been made worse this year as the Department of Conservation & Recreation has reclaimed land used as ball fields across from the entrance of the Rail Trail. This project would dedicate a significant portion of the land as field space.
“This is clearly a win-win-win situation for the Town,” said McCormick. “The Town has many building issues and if we can address the need for at least one of the buildings and address some of the Town’s trash needs and provide much needed revenues to the Town, then this would be a very successful venture for the Town.”
The articles to be presented at Town Meeting are:
ARTICLE 35 - AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO A LONG-TERM TRANSFER STATION LEASE: To see if the Town will vote, pursuant to G.L. c. 44, § 28C and G.L. c. 40, § 3, to authorize the Board of Selectmen to lease to Bay Colony Recovery, LLC (BCR), approximately 10-12 acres of the premises conveyed to the Town by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by deed recorded with the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds in Book 32654, Page 314, which 10-12 acre portion lies on the northerly part of the premises and is the industrially-zoned land around the building shown as “Proposed 45,000 Sq./Ft. Building” on a sketch plan entitled “Conceptual Site Plan” dated January 10, 2007, prepared by SITEC Environmental, and on file with the Town Clerk, for a term of forty (40) years from the date on which the facility
commences regular operations and on such terms and conditions as approved by the Board of Selectmen, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into a lease and operating agreement and to execute such other documents as may be necessary or convenient for the foregoing purposes, and further to authorize the Selectmen to petition the Massachusetts legislature for approval of such lease under Article 97 of the Articles of Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution, if such approval is determined to be necessary; or to take any action
relative thereto.
ARTICLE 36 – AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO A LEASE OF THE DPW SITE ON TIVNAN DRIVE: To see if the Town will vote, pursuant to G.L. c. 40, § 3, to authorize the Board of Selectmen to lease to Bay Colony Recovery, LLC (BCR), approximately 6 acres of the premises conveyed to the Town by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by deed recorded with the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds in Book 32654, Page 314, which 6 acre portion lies on the southeasterly part of the premises and is the land shown as +6 Acres around the building shown as “Proposed 20,000 Sq./Ft. DPW Building” on a sketch plan entitled “Conceptual Site Plan” dated January 10, 2007, prepared by SITEC Environmental, and on file with the Town Clerk, for the purpose of constructing thereon, at BCR’s sole cost and expense, a
facility to be used by the Department of Public Works, which lease shall terminate upon the completion of said construction or sooner, and on such other terms and conditions as approved by the Board of Selectmen, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into a lease and to execute such other documents as may be necessary or convenient for the foregoing purposes, and further to authorize the Selectmen to petition the Massachusetts legislature for approval of such lease under Article 97 of the Articles of Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution, if such approval is determined to be necessary; or to take any action relative thereto; or to take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 37 – ACCEPTANCE OF THE LAY OUT OF RECREATIONAL LAND ON TIVNAN DRIVE: To see if the Town will vote to dedicate to park and recreational use, under the care, custody, management and control of the Board of Selectmen, approximately 8 acres of the premises conveyed to the Town by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by deed recorded with Worcester South District Registry of Deeds in Book 32654, Page 314, on file with the Town Clerk; or take any action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 38 – ACCEPTANCE OF THE LAY OUT OF A ROAD: To see if the Town will vote to accept the layout as a public way the parcel of land shown as “100’ Wide Right of Way” on the plan entitled “Proposed Conditions Plan,” dated June 28, 2006, prepared by Green Seal Environmental, Inc., on file with the Town Clerk, and will dedicate the town-owned land within said layout for all purposes for which public ways are used in the Town, or take any action relative thereto.
For further information contact Town Administrator Leon Gaumond Jr., at 508-835-3490.
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