Issues persist inside and out at Community Center in Buzzards Bay

The list of problems inside and out of the Main Street Community Center continues to grow. Frustration mounts. And the latest issue involves solar energy.

Solar panels were installed last month atop the recently repaired gym roof atop the inter-generational center at Main Street to some acclaim, but they have not been hooked up. Broadway Electric Co. of Boston awaits a web-based monitoring system to complete the project.

Center trustees, meanwhile, are frustrated about the project; notably because they were not informed installation was pending. Center Director Lisa Plante, in her own defense, said she was not told as well when the project contractor showed up to start work. And she does not know when the firm will return to finish the alternative-energy project.

Trustee chairman Charles Noyes, meanwhile, did not like the idea a large electrical master panel was nailed to the front of the building across from Perry Avenue after so much thought and consideration had been afforded other exterior aesthetics.

Noyes said the overall solar project is another issue that unfolded without his board being involved in the notification process, even though members are elected by the public to assume the care, custody and control of the building that apparently was built with no checks on materials, workmanship and installation of various features that still cause problems.

The Cape Light Compact coordinated the energy-savings solar project through Bourne Energy Director Richard Elricks office. A hook-up date is pending.

Trustees said it did not make a lot of sense, generally speaking, to place a new weather-resistant fiber across the top of the leaking gym roof and then nail holes in its to secure solar panels.

The frustration is emblematic of the continuing and growing - disenchantment with a never-ending list of projects and repairs that are needed in the center but seem to defy funding.

The exterior downspouts out front are damaged and vandalized, and trustees would like to open the buildings columns and place the roof drains on the inside; but this takes redesign and engineering that never seems to be funded.

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