Suggested mission statement for committee to study MSH

My suggested wide open mission statement for the Medfield State Hospital study committee follows –

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Town of Medfield committee to study the town’s options with respect to Medfield State Hospital –

The Town of Medfield has been offered the opportunity to buy the Medfield State Hospital by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Board of Selectmen want advice on whether it makes sense for the town to undertake the purchase, and is constituting an advisory committee to get that advice.

The committee should:

1 – Examine the terms offered by DCAM,

2 – Examine the possible uses the town could make of the site

3 – Examine the costs to the town of buying the site, including the costs to own, maintain, develop, and/or make some productive use of the site

4 – Do a cost benefit analysis of (1) such a town purchase/use/development, versus (2) alternatively proceeding along the prior path of coming to an agreement with DCAM about a future use of the site, which use would then get developed by a third party developer in response to an RFP, with the town’s interest in the MSH site protected by means of a Memorandum of Understanding with DCAM that controls that third party developer’s development of  the site.