FAX TRANSMITTAL

To: JOHN HODGE

Number of pages excluding this cover sheet: 0

Date: April 24, 2009

Dear John,

Relative to the town’s obligation to install a bridge across Ball Pond Brook to allow access to the Museum District, I strongly suggest you put a dollar cap on the installed cost of any bridge that allows access to the other side of Ball Pond Brook. Otherwise you’ve committed the town to what could be a super expensive structure. You might be surprised when you see the estimated cost of a structure that spans 100 to 120 feet, since that seems to be the approximate length requirement for now.

I would suggest a cap of $100,000 be included for the installed cost of a bridge, if it is not too late to incorporate that in the lease.

Also, if the bridge does not allow for vehicular travel for things such as EMT vans/ambulances, I feel the town is open to a huge liability if a visitor has “the big one” in one of the buildings and winds up dead. The claim could well be made that having to hand carry supplies across a footbridge and then having to gurney the person back to the ambulance resulted in a fatal time delay.

I hope you seriously consider these two items before you finalize and execute the lease.

Regards,

Doug Thielen