July 11, 2012
MassDOT/MBTA Boardroom
10 Park Plaza, Suite 3830 Boston, MA / 1:00 P.M.
  1. MassDOT – Open Meeting

Meeting Number: 34

1.Approval of the Minutes for the May 22, 2012 Special Meeting and June 6, 2012 Meeting.

2.Secretary/CEO’s Report to the Board.

3.Report from the Highway Division.

4.Report from the Registry of Motor Vehicles Division.

5.Report from the Aeronautics Division.

6.Report from the Rail and Transit Division.

7.Presentation on Quincy-Weymouth (Fore River) Bridge Project.

8.GreenDOT Presentation.

9.Presentation on the Vision for Rail Transportation in the Commonwealth.

10.Authorization to acquire the rail line Connecticut River Main Line from along the Knowledge Corridor from Pan Am Southern and all adjoining property, as well as passenger rights held by Pan Am between Springfield and the Massachusetts border for a purchase price of $17,000,000.

11.Authorization for approval of the Fiscal Year 2013 Operating Budget.

12.Authorization to remove this item from the table and Authorization to negotiate and execute a Development Agreement and a Lease with Trinity One Canal LLC (Trinity Financial LLC) for the development of MassDOT Parcels 2A and 2C and MBTA Parcel 2B pursuant to a Term Sheet submitted to the Board.Authorization to negotiate and execute a Lease with the MBTA to include Parcel 2B in the MassDOT Lease to Trinity Financial LLC.

13.Authorization to execute the contract with Fay, Spofford and Thorndike in the amount of $12,891,403.66 for the preparation of the Preliminary Design, Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Report for the “Woburn – Reading - Stoneham - Wakefield: Routes I-93 and I-95 Interchange Improvement”.

14.Authorization to execute the contract entitled “Acton-Boxborough-Littleton-Resurfacing & Related Work on Route 2” with Brox Industries in the amount of $5,665,092.00.

15.Authorization to execute the contract entitled “Haverhill-Interstate Maintenance & Related Work on I-495” with Brox Industries the amount of $17,118,894.40.

16.Authorization to execute the contract entitled “Holyoke-West Springfield-Interstate Maintenance & Related Work on I-91”with SPS New England in the amount of $14,886,806.

Commencing immediately after
MassDOT Board Meeting
  1. MBTA – Open Meeting

Meeting Number: 1062

-Public Comment Period

  1. Approval of the Minutes for the May 22, 2012 Special Meeting and June 6, 2012 Meeting.
  1. General Manager’s Report.
  1. Authorization to execute Change Order No. 1 with S&R Construction CO. ,Inc. for an amount not to exceed $ 3,849,174.50, to increase the track allowance line item for Contract No. S32CN01, “Construction Services for the Assembly Square Station, Orange Line.
  1. Authorization to grant permission to request the Inspector General’s office to utilize Construction Manager/General /Contractor,as an alternate project delivery method for the Green Line Extension Project.
  1. Authorization to approve a contract with Pandrol USA, LP, for $ 8,230,633.00 to furnish and deliver 572,000 Resilient Fasteners, 609,700 screw spikes, and 285,400 tie plate-resilient fasteners required for the construction of the Knowledge Corridor/ Restore Vermonter Project.
  1. Authorization to approve a contract withKoppers, Inc, for $ 4,131,833.32 to furnish and deliver 69,048 treated crossties which are required for the construction of the Knowledge Corridor/ Restore Vermonter Project.
  1. Authorization to enter into a contract with A. L. Prime Energy, Inc for the supply of gasoline as called for during an estimated, depending on usage, three-year period, with two one-year options, subject to price in effect at time of delivery at a cost not to exceed $7,398,842.00.
  1. Authorization to execute a change order to formal contract No. 671 with MotivePower, Inc. for the purchase of seven (7) New Diesel Electric Locomotives at a total cost not to exceed $37,695,000 with the last locomotive being delivered no later than December 31, 2014.
  1. Authorization to enter into a contract with Alstom Transportation, Inc. for the Mid-Life Overhaul of 74 Bi-Level Commuter Rail Coaches for a cost not to exceed $114,719,722 first completed coach must be delivered within 15 months from NTP and the final coach not more than 55 months also from NTP.
  1. Authorization for approval to execute a contract with J. F. White Contracting Co. for Phase II of the Emergency Training Center within the abandoned tunnel near Broadway Station for a sum not to exceed $5,744,000.
  1. Authorization for approval to enter into a Ninety-Nine (99) year long lease agreement with the City of Lawrence for a portion of the abandoned Manchester and Lawrence Branch Railroad Right of Way for use as a bike path.
  1. Authorization for approval to enter into a Ninety-Nine (99) year long lease agreement with the Towns of Medfield, Dover and Needham and the City of Newton for a portion of the abandoned Right of Way for use as a bike path.

OTHER BUSINESS:

  1. Update on the Naming Rights Corporate Partnership program.
  1. MBTA – Executive Session Meeting

Meeting Number: 1062

-Executive Session Minutes for May 2, 2012

-MBTA Superior Officers' MOU

NOTE: THIS AGENDA HAS BEEN PREPARED IN ADVANCE AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY INCLUDE ALL MATTERS WHICH MAY BE TAKEN UP AT THIS MEETING.