Date: Fri 15-May-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: CURT

Quick Words:

Nuclo-Fairfield-Hills

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State Slates Public Info Meeting On Fairfield Hills Uses

Newtown residents will be asked to comment on the recommendations of a state

study of possible uses for the Fairfield Hills campus at an informational

meeting on Thursday, May 28, at 7:30 pm in the Newtown Middle School

auditorium.

Richard Nuclo, director of assets management for the state Office of Policy

and Management (OPM), said this week that the firm hired by the state to study

possible uses for the land and buildings has prepared some preliminary

conclusions. The purpose of the public information meeting is to solicit

public comments on those conclusions.

The public will not have the opportunity to review the report prepared for the

state by Arthur Andersen Consulting ahead of time, according to Mr Nuclo. "We

are going to hand out packets of information that night and try to explain

what we're doing," he said. "We want to lay out a process to take us from

where we are to where we want to be."

Mr Nuclo said the preliminary recommendations in the Andersen report would not

contain any "big surprises" for those who have been following the issue in

recent months. He suggested that the recommendations are compatible with the

now-defunct Fairfield Hill Task Force recommendations, which layed out a plan

to keep much of the Fairfield Hills property as open space.

The preliminary recommendations will not unveil a single grand plan for the

campus, according to Mr Nuclo, but rather will present a range of seven

options, including "a lot of uses that have been talked about," he said.