TOWN  BUILDING  ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Email the Committee: townbuildingcommittee@town.exeter.nh.us

The Town Building Advisory Committee generally meets each Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. in the Wheelwright Room of the Town Offices.

 Town Building Advisory Committee Charge (Adopted by the Board of Selectmen, August 2007)

 There is hereby created the Town Building Advisory Committee, herein called the "Committee."

 The Committee is composed of not more than seven (7) members appointed without terms.  They are advisory to the Board of Selectmen and the Town Manager.

 The purpose of the Committee is to: 

• Determine whether future uses of the Town Hall and Town Office should be considered jointly or separately in future use decisions in order to facilitate an efficient process;
  
• Review the prior plan developed in 2006 for the renovation of the existing Town Office building and Town Hall building, known as "Option 3."
  
• Evaluation of future options for location of the Town Offices;
  
• Examine ways citizens are served and develop recommendations for "best customer service practices" to serve Exeter residents in a new or renovated building;
  
• Develop "best service provisions" for general public including use of modern technology wherever possible, including potential "customer kiosks."
  
• Evaluate current and potential non-municipal tenants and users in one or both buildings to address community use concerns versus municipal needs, present and future.
  
• Review community build out assumptions in an attempt to ascertain future service needs taking into account future regulatory activities where possible;
  
• Explore "green technologies" as part of any new building project and report on same to Board of Selectmen and Town Manager; evaluate costs and benefits of these options;
  
• Develop set of measurable criteria to evaluate "workable" solutions to municipal space needs evaluated against cost.

This committee will issue a findings report not later than January 31, 2008.  Its recommendations may be adopted by the Board of Selectmen.


Town Office and Town Hall Facts:

The Town Office located at 10 Front Street was originally a records vault for Rockingham County.  The building was built in 1892.  Municipal services moved from the Town Hall to the Town Office building around 1965 when the old county building was demolished and county services moved to Hampton Road.

The Town Hall was built in 1855, designed by Arthur Gilman.

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