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Part 1 (Video ID: bxOuK8IO-PI):
- 00:00:20: Meeting Commences; Roll Call and Approval of Minutes
- 00:02:21: District Update: Tree Removal Legal Process Discussion
- 00:03:59: Traffic Safety Mitigation and Court Case Clarification
- 00:05:11: OPM Update: Schedule, Pre-Qualification, Subcontractor Status
- 00:07:56: Procedural Question: Bidding, Budget, Contingency Clarification
- 00:09:04: Construction Manager Update: Property Surveys, Neighbor Outreach
- 00:10:58: Letters of Recommendation; Bidding Package Approach Explained
- 00:12:39: Timeline, Tree Decision, Zoning, Planning Board Approvals
- 00:16:53: Additional Landscaping; Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment
- 00:20:24: Furniture Preferences and Budget Reconciliation Process
- 00:24:39: Fontaine vs PMC; Cost Analysis & Budget Tracking
- 00:27:39: Budget Reporting; Construction Document Submission Approval
- 00:29:18: Building Enclosures; MSBA Relationship Discussion
- 00:31:27: Proprietary Items; Switchgear, Generator, and Electrical Loads
- 00:34:09: Generator, Emergency Shelter; Flow Test Discussion
- 00:35:16: Site Work and Early Electrical Packages Approval
- 00:39:59: CM Amendment 1 Approval; Construction Service Incorporation
- 00:43:36: MSBA Submittal Approvals and Reimbursable Expense Approval
- 00:47:44: Motion and Second; Hydrant Flow Test Reimbursable Approval
- 00:49:08: Project Mobilization; Key Dates and Summer Construction
- 00:51:30: Work Day Hours; Additional Construction Logistics Discussion
- 00:57:17: Fence and Wall Discussions
- 01:00:17: Mitigation and Noise Discussion
- 01:02:46: Fly Over Presentation and Virtual Building Tour
- 01:16:46: Meeting Adjournment; Next Steps and Schedule Confirmation


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Oh no. >> All right. I am good to go >> whenever you are meeting. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Count five. >> Okay. >> 5 4 3 2 1. >> Good evening and welcome to the

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 meeting of the middle school building committee. This is a hybrid meeting both in person and uh remote. Uh I'll start by um doing a roll call on the members uh voting

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members of the committee. Uh Marty >> here, >> Kate >> here, >> Armen here. Who online? We have Lynn >> here. >> Josh >> here. >> David, >> Chris >> here.

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>> Have I missed anybody? Okay, seeing not, we'll move on. Are there any public comments at this time? Seeing there's no public comments, we'll move to approval of the minutes. Are there minutes to approve, Marty?

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>> Uh, stand by. >> Standing by. Let's see. You have minutes from the um April 8th meeting of the building committee

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that are in your packet. >> Do I have a motion? >> Um I move that we approve the uh minutes from the April 8th, 2026. >> There's a motion. There's a second.

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>> Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll call to a vote. Nicole, >> yes. >> On the minutes, >> yes. >> Kate, >> yes. >> Marty, >> yes. >> Armen, yes. Lynn, >> yes.

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>> Josh, >> yes. >> David, >> yes. >> Chris, >> yes. >> Minutes pass. Uh, district update. Lib,

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>> is this going to be Lib? >> We have uh the tree removal process for for off-site improvements. Um I don't know if you're in a position to speak to that, Len. Um if not, we can certainly table it. >> Yep. Um I can just give you an update.

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Um the select board um voted removal um after two meetings of all the trees. Um we did uh receive a lawsuit as a result and it's working its way through the legal process. Uh the

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next hearing is scheduled for June 13th. >> Okay. Any questions for Lynn? Okay. See none. Let's go to the OPM update. Call yours. >> Sorry, Armen. Can I just correct that?

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Sorry, I just misstated. Um, sorry. There was a hearing. Um, the decision on the motions is expected by June 13th. Apologies. >> Okay. Thank you. I >> How critical is the tree removal for the project

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>> for the So I Adam. >> Yeah. So the tree removal is necessary for the for Williams road widening to turn to to eventually put the lefth hand turn lane in. So those are the trees that need to come down in order to make that happen. And the alternative is if

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not we'd have to make some adjustment on the other side of the street. Correct. Which probably be more expensive than >> Yeah. I don't even know if that's even possible with the >> Okay. >> the bank embankment. >> Yeah. With the embankment that's there. >> So this was a mitigation issue. The people who were asking about traffic

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safety are now arguing against the mitigation of the traffic safety. >> Okay. Uh uh all right. If I could just um in >> Yeah. >> So this is uh the the suit is in the housing court and the housing court uh I

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from what I have read will it will be unlikely to even hear the case and so it will get pushed out to not out of the court but I don't think we'll get a decision on the merits. So, I don't know what will happen after. It

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might go to another court and I we'll have to move quickly in our timeline, I would think, uh get that roadwide or getting that that part of the project started. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Because that work is certainly part of this early package that we're

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going to be doing over the summer. >> Okay. And so it's it's important that it's done over the summer so that way we're not doing the work while school's in session and then we're really going to have a traffic problem with trying to do all that work at the same time. >> All right, cool. Any more questions or

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concerns? >> Okay. Uh oh, back to OPM. Back to May. All right. Uh Marty, we can go to the schedule. All right. So, our arrow keeps moving here and we are just I don't know three

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and a half weeks away from being on site, which is amazing and crazy all at the same time. But we are on track right now to to uh start the uh enabling phase, which is some electrical work, some utility work, the road widening work, um you know, some tree removal

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that needs to happen. Um so, we're all on schedule for that. We're ready. Um we'll talk a little bit about the the subcontractors that are going to be on board and vote those um contracts to be awarded to uh for Fontaine to add as an amendment, but we'll talk about that a little bit later. Um and then from here

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uh the design keeps going. We are submitting the uh 60% set to the MSBA. Again, we're going to talk about that a little bit later in the design uh update. And from there, we keep moving um in through our construction documents. Um, in according to the

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schedule, we're looking to get uh September to have a complete set ready for uh the full package of bid out. Um, and from there we move through to the heavy construction and then again we're planning on uh moving the kids in in the fall of 2028. >> So, we're on schedule. Things are

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looking good. >> Any questions on schedule? >> That's good. Staying locked in. It's great. >> Yeah, it's great. And we'll go through kind of logistics what that's going to look like and find things update as well. >> All right. Good. Uh, and then pre-quall process.

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So, um, tonight we're we are going to, um, have a vote on the electrical and the site contractors. Uh, the next round we have is just the plumbing and so there's some temporary uh, gas lines that we have to put in. It's going to actually go over the roof of the existing building just to move that out

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of the way. Uh, but we do have to do a pre-qualification for that work for the plumbers. Uh so Chad has already issued the legal document and we're going to be getting uh calls in uh shortly and uh we'll review those just like we did in the past and um we'll put that out to

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bid and then go through through the same process. >> When's the deadline on that Chad? Do you know? >> Um it's uh June 5th. >> All right, cool. And it's already out there. >> It will be next week is the publish date.

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>> Awesome. Thank you. And we're going to talk about the electricity in a little while. >> Yeah, that that's under Fontaine. We have the information. There's all the info from the the bids in the packet that everyone had a chance to look at hopefully and uh we'll talk through that. >> Okay. >> So that's >> I have a more procedural question along

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that though for Chad. So >> when I look at it, we had three respondents, right? And there was two that came in thousands feet apart and then we had one that was like double which >> I think you and I were talking. I mean they probably have too much work and they just threw a number out there, >> right? Yeah. So, what happens if the other two hadn't bid? Would we have to

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go with that one largest bid or can we always put it back out there? >> If you receive one, Chad, correct me if I'm wrong, we can go back out to bid because it's not competitive at that point. >> Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think you would have to have >> Yeah, you want to have competition and that's a point of public projects. >> Yeah, I believe that because we have a

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budget for each of those trade packages. I believe if that one bid did come under though, I think you may have flexibility, but it's something we can clarify for. Uh >> yeah, I'm more worried about the other way, not if they came under or if they came way over as just like I'm just putting something on a wall to

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>> Yeah, typically you you have you have the authority to go back and say, "Okay, we received one bid. Let's put it back out there and see if we can get some other bids." You can just reject that one and go back out. >> All right. Thanks. Any other questions in for Collers? All right. Moving on. Construction

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manager update. Fontaine. Sure. So, we got a bunch of things to go over here. Um, we're going to start with property surveys. So, uh, as part of the, uh, reach out to the neighbors, we, um, back in March, we engaged with a third party

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called Thali Associates, um, and they reached out to the surrounding neighbors around the school property. Uh, total 27 neighbors were were uh, solicited. Uh the the surveys are completely uh optional and up to the you know

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voluntary to the neighbors uh at well and we had about 10 surveys uh completed so far. There was one uh I think we're just Valve was just waiting on a phone call back from that neighbor to get scheduled. But all in all um once that gets done 11 out of the 27 neighbors

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that were solicited um took advantage of the survey. >> Great. Then those surveys include video recordings, right? And >> documents and photos and all that type of stuff. >> And that was inside a house if they wanted it and and the exterior and

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patios and that type. So, >> yep. Complete walk around. >> The intention is to document the pre-existing conditions in case there's any concern that the construction, you know, had some effect on the on the abuters. >> Correct. It's a good documentation for

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both parties. >> For sure. No. >> Any questions on surveys? >> Yeah. >> Is it typical for you to have so many that don't respond? Do you only reach out by mail? Is there any other >> avenue for making sure folks just in

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case they've missed something? >> Yeah, it's like 50/50. So, the FALV reached out to each of the neighbors via certified mail and has that receipt per record. Um, so Okay. >> It is documented that communication was made.

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>> Okay. Okay. Um so these are uh so next is our LS also called letters of recommendation. Uh and these are for our first good packages on the project. So um just to zoom out a little bit. There's uh I think three early packages

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that will be on the project. This these first LS are in what we call ERP 1A is what they were labeled. This captures a site enabling work for us to get on site as soon as possible. One of the benefits of the construction manager method that we're doing this project for is this

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complete schedule acceleration. Basically, instead of waiting until the 100% CD documents and then going out to bid and then getting contractors on board, by having this phased early package approach, we're able to bid out in packages and get a head start on the

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project. So if for a lot of this early site work we're doing in ERP 1A that's getting uh the site enabled the fencing up utilities relocated the road work. We'll go into all those details in a little bit. There will be couple more early packages. Uh 1B will actually be

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going out tomorrow. That's to pre- purchase some switch gear and generator. And then ERP2 will be in July and that's going to be for our bigger packages for structure site work, concrete, structural steel, those type of things. And then the rest of the bid packages go

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out with 100% documents in the fall. >> So one question before we do go there. Are we putting the before the horse voting on the packages before we discuss the 60% construction documents >> or no? >> I would say no. What we're going to be

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that is for the submission to the MSBA. >> I understand. But I mean but I think >> and this is my line of thinking is that >> being on that call on Friday for hours. Yep. >> And just listening in >> like we're in a really good place budget-wise. It seems like like we're on

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track. It seems like we're actually better than on track, right? And not by much, but um >> we are. Y >> So, I just kind of think it's good for everybody to know that we're on track in budget. >> That's good to know >> in the packages before we start voting on money. Does that make sense? >> That's a good point.

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>> Yeah, we can jump to that. So, do you guys want to jump to the >> Can I just um go back one more thing about about the trees? >> Yeah. Um, I I guess I wasn't clear if there was a decision going to be made prior to us needing to make a a determination of whether we're going to

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be able to go ahead with the work or not. >> I don't think we know yet. I think we have to wait until that date for the court's decision. >> June 13th. >> June 13th. >> Does that give you guys enough time? >> So, it won't slow us down from our initial activities. Okay. >> Um, so, and we'll we'll go over that a

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little bit. We have some slides and stuff. >> Okay. Thank you. And when we get to that point, I think Lynn had brought up there's like for potential for emergency actions too that we need we could take in court too. So I >> I think we have to let play out with the lawyers.

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>> Okay. >> So with these things are these being paid by Fontainment or >> Yeah, these will be amendments to contract. >> Okay. >> So we'll jump to >> the 60% submission and we can talk about the estimates and those things. Then we'll come >> Sorry. Put that monkey in the works.

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>> No, no, no. This is people need to understand that we're on plan. >> Sure. >> Good to know. >> Uh so just wanted to there's the tree issue. We also have uh met with zoning

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board of appeals and the planning board. Um both of which gave unanimous approval. Um zoning board uh met on March 24th. um gave unanimous approval that really the main issue that they were considering was the overall height

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of the building. Um and so that official decision was sent to time bond and they have since recorded it with the registry. So that's basically kind of sealed up and tied with a bow and all done. Planning board approval was two different meetings March 31st and April

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15th. Um they did have some conditions um with their unanimous approval. Uh, so storm water and land disturbance permit from DPW, uh, site plan showing compliance with zoning bylaw article 8, uh, which I checked in with Jean, and that's just,

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um, addressing the amount of landscaping in the parking area, and she thinks they have that covered with their, um, 60% set, but they just got to us a couple days ago that we're submitting to the MSBA tomorrow. So, they'll um forward

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that along to the planning board uh to meet that zoning bylaw. Um they ask that we continue to collaborate with DPW, police, and fire. Makes sense. Um we submit a lighting plan when that becomes available that shows all the foot candles across the site and that's

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typical. Um complete a landscaping plan compliant with the tree warden's comments. We'll do that as well. And that we install a no right turn on red at the new driveway. and that also seemed reasonable. So, um the appeal process is technically open until May

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and then that will also be recorded with the registry and um you know be put to bed. >> So, the project is responsible for putting up a no turn on red sign and not the town. >> I think with the new stoplight that's

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going in because it's a new intersection they wanted to make sure >> or the municipality be responsible. Yeah, I think like Kush I think because the the light is falling under the project, >> the sign will fall under the project as well. And I imagine that sign is going to be on site or it could be coming from the light. I don't know which one it's

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going to be, but either way, it's part of the project. >> Okay. >> Budget, so it's going to fall under us. Okay. >> Suppose it wouldn't have been done if not for the project. >> Correct. >> The light wouldn't go in not for the project. I got it. >> Okay. >> Question on uh the site and the and the

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trees. Can anyone speak to the the the number of trees that we're anticipating adding to the site? I know there's concern about the number of trees that uh need to be removed to widen the road, but the net effect is that this will be

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a a more heavily landscaped campus with more trees than we currently have. And I I probably can't put you on the spot for the exact number, but if you could just speak just maybe generally to to that. I know at the planning board they talked about or Jean from time bond mentioned over 200 trees would be plant. Yeah,

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it's over 200 trees. >> So that's >> Wow. >> I mean I hopefully that's that's reassuring. I know this town values its trees and that was part of the design conversation all along. >> So for the handful of trees that are coming down, it's over 200 trees being

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planted, >> right? Does the person who's arguing our side for the uh for the tree removal have that information? >> Uh we talked about it at the planning board and I can't remember if he was there virtually or not. I can't remember

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>> because I mean it's an argument for our side, right? >> His his objection is not about trees in general. It is uh there two trees that are directly next to his driveway. and provided shade to his house. So I I I

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don't think the number overall project trees is what he's concerned with, but from what he said at a tree hearing and from what the lawsuit says. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you, John. >> Yeah. And those trees are on the town's tree belt, just

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for your information, just so you know. >> And one of them is 30% decayed. >> Yes. >> 33% decade. um 250 trees according to time bond. >> That's great.

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>> Next. Yeah. >> So, uh just some updates on what we have been involved with while also doing the uh document development. uh our uh consultant for furniture, fixtures and equipment, uh Vasin has been uh on site

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at the schools and set up two two uh model classrooms with furniture and the the larger quantity of furniture you're going to purchase or your student desk, student chairs, teacher desks, things like that. So, um for some faculty who hadn't seen different types of

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furniture, this is an opportunity for the students and staff to experiment, sit in them, that's awesome. >> Hold class in them um and and get to know them. And then we did some surveying with both the faculty and the students to get their reaction to different pieces of furniture. So all of that information doesn't decide

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everything right away. We need to really weigh it against cost, quantity, um maintenance. Um but we also had uh the department uh district staff maintenance staff tech take a look as well. So we're getting feedback on all of that uh so that we can finalize the furniture

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process in this next phase as well and narrow our orders. And it it definitely led to some I think evolving thinking amongst faculty. Um interest in some surprising new things that they hadn't seen. Um a lot of conversation in general which is always great to hear

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about how this is going to change the potential. A lot of teachers acknowledge that a lot of what they do they do because the furniture is heavy and they can't be moved so they don't try and change the classroom. So it got them talking a little bit about those issues again as well. So it's a good process.

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>> What are their percentages? Yeah, >> these percentages actually the the top the darker blue number represents the faculty response to chairs. The faculty were interested in this ruckus chair for themselves because it moves around lightly. You can sit in a variety of ways and a lot of the faculty were

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really excited by that. That was not the intent. It was actually a student chair. We didn't bring it in for the faculty, but they really liked it. the students. When thinking about the student chair, the the second chair, the 46.7% interested the students because it's got a nice kind of bounce to it. So, it

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helps keep you a little bit more >> active without moving. >> Um, so that was um somewhat of a surprising uh response actually. >> Um, so all again, doesn't mean the others aren't good chairs and aren't going to be considered uh because we have to look at it all as a but

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>> interesting input. Will there be an actual bid for the furniture or will it be using like state contracts? >> We'll be purchasing off of state contracts. >> Okay. Because I just want to mention I know like with the adult center um certain contracts have certain brands of furniture, right?

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>> And just because you know a vendor is a state contractor or cooperative contract and there needs to be furniture that's on that contract, you pretend to buy contract. >> Our primary um furniture um manufacturer will largely be KI. They're kind of a a good quality line for us. There'll be

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some others, but a lot of what we were showing was coming out of the KI. >> Well, at the center, there was a issue with that. So, I just wanted to bring it up to make sure that >> we're getting furniture and that it's actually on some contract. It's not a bid, but >> yeah. What were you talking about too

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with bringing you in with meetings with the furniture consultant and with JWA in the district? >> Okay, sounds good. >> Teachers, >> the teacher's like a ruckus. I was thinking of it as almost like a the type of chair a doctor might use to move around an exam room. I think it

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gives a teacher that flexibility to go from group to group to group. >> Yeah, the teachers will have a lecture on wheels too. So I think they were really getting excited about what that >> almost wheels but keep going. Sure. good to go.

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>> Um, so as Armen mentioned, uh, we had a very long cost reconciliation on Friday, but was super helpful, uh, Fontaine, uh, with their number and then PMNC for the design team. Um, so as you can see, the

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initial um, estimates came in on I think on Wednesday. Um, for PMC 118, million18 and for Fontaine 118,822. So they were already quite close which was great news. Um but both you know

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went up a little bit during the reconciliation. Um but ended around a pretty similar number and so that on the average we're at 118722 um which is under uh the budget that we carried at schematic design which is the part that the MSBA is so concerned with

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at 118 million 909700. So we're under our construction budget which is great. Um, we're keeping uh our projected construction costs at the same as where we had them at schematic design. Um, it's just easier that way uh

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paperwork wise with MSBA and maintaining the same total project budget. Um, but still tracking that number as we move forward into the 90% set next. Um yeah, >> we also added um half a percent to the

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escalation expectation just out of an abundance of caution uh given where the world's shipping issues are. So that that's good news in half% >> pay crazy tax. Yeah,

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>> sorry. Yeah, half% the world is crazy tax. Any questions on that on that cost estimate process? >> Great. >> Where was I? Yeah, I listened a lot, but I wasn't there the whole time.

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>> Why is Fontaine so much more expensive? Like where was the big differences? >> Oh, there's so many little details left. >> Is that what it just comes down? Like I like part of I'm getting in of like we want PVC. No, we want this like you know insulated conduit like is that where the

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differences are? Is it >> a lot of little things a lot of little accumulate to the difference could be the cost of square foot is a little bit different. >> We talked about rebar for a long time >> and so there was both a difference in quantity carried because they're not

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counting every single piece of rebar yet. >> Um and there was also a difference in dollars per linear foot. >> Okay. Um, and I think PMNC upped their quantity and then Fontaine had some recent numbers of how a bid had come in

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and so PMNC also upped their dollars a little bit but didn't feel that they had to go all the way to what Fontaine was carrying. So there's a lot of kind of back and forth of that nature. >> These models are all built ground up, right? Like we we start with zero when you build in or are we backing into a

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number? >> Oh no, that's all. Yeah. Quantify and take off. >> Yeah. I mean, from the big picture here, it looks like we're just reconciling that big number, but in actuality with the process, we're reconciling every single section of the So, it's

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>> No, that's what I want people to understand is that we we're not like we we not building from a number like you didn't look at the 118 909 and said we're going to build backwards from that to make it work. What we said is we're going to look at every single >> component that went into this plan and

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we're going to price that out. And then when we came up with that, that's what it came up with. >> There's even specialists within the cost estimate process. So there's people that just focus in on the site costs and they have no idea what that 118 number is. They're just looking at the site scope

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>> and there's the people looking at the mechanical systems and they're just looking at the mechanical systems. >> Then when you add them all together, >> amazing. The other thing is that you know the where we started this is how many we are on our how >> SDDD 60% CD

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>> so this is our third set so each time the amount of new content is shrinking and and we informed the starting point by looking at comparables. So we're we're always starting kind of from from knowledge that is based in the real world of cost estimating and then we're

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actually just the the the really new con new information we're bringing is narrowing but the level of detail they're bringing to the process gets narrower you know more and more refined as we go. So, >> as we go along, is there a simple way to

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to a simple accessible way to track the budget like a a reporting form that would be understandable to the community and to town boards, that kind of thing? Is that something that we've we've talked about or >> in construction? Yeah, just as as you know, as we're tracking through this

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project over the next few years, you know, is there is there a way for us to understand how we're trending and you know, >> oh yeah, we'll keep we keep track of all the finances and we'll be able to talk about that at, you know, at these meetings every month and we'll be able to have a slide on it. >> This like something that's accessible

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and understandable to the community. they can they can kind of mark. >> Yeah, it'll be kind of a high level snapshot of where we are on all the different budget line items that we have and the percentage that we built built today essentially. >> Great. >> Ready to go.

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>> We're ready to go. >> Okay. >> Um so again, we're looking for a vote tonight to approve the 60% submission to the MSBA. Um the 60% construction document submission is very very very similar to the design development

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submission which is nice. The so we have our drawings which is what we focus on a lot and then we have our uh project manual it's called under there that's our book of specifications. So those are kind of the two main instruments that

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we're focused on because that's what the contractor cares about. The MSBA also requires all of these other items um in this binder that goes to the MSBA. Most of these are basically going to be repeats of what we've already submitted at the design development level. Um so I

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only highlighted really the ones in red um that are changing. Um so starting at the top with OPM deliverables, we get review comments from collers from Fontaine and from the commissioning agent whose name is building enclosures on this project. Um we had a really

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helpful meeting with them last week. Um >> Building Evolution. >> Building evolution. Thank you. I just know it's be uh building evolution. Uh they're actually hired by the MSBA. Um and so it's a little bit of a interesting relationship because they're not a consultant of ours. They're not a

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consultant of Collars. They just kind of get attached to the project. >> Yeah. And all their billing goes through the MSBA. So we don't receive any of the billing. So it's just that they're their own separate entity outside of this, but they are going to be part of this project throughout the entire process.

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>> So it's a little bit of a pays for them. Do we pay for them? >> No, pays for them. >> Yeah. >> And they they added this relationship to the projects to really vet the mechanical and envelope of the project and set guidelines for um its review and

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performance and then verification of that performance. So those are the probably the biggest over time on a building risk factors um for uh um building performance as a whole. >> Yeah. Then if you remember too that we talked so at 10 months post construction

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they come back and they look at all the mechanical systems again and make sure that they're functioning the way that they were um set up to. Um and then they report back to the MSBA and that's how the MSBA kind of keeps a log of what's working, what's not working um going through this process.

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Luckily, this firm seems fantastic. So, that's great because you're never quite sure and sometimes they can be easy to work with and sometimes not so much. And >> these guys seem great. >> And additionally, there seems to be a lot of site visits, virtual visits. They're already super engaged, which you don't

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typically see at this point in the game. So, they're already they're coming to us saying, "What else can I do?" Um, which usually we're we're hunting them down trying to find them. So, this is >> Yeah. And it was interesting that they their background is also doing forensics on failed buildings. So they're very

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conscientious about, you know, the history of, you know, 21st century and 20th century buildings that didn't work. So >> So it be interesting because none of us have worked with that. Have you guys worked with >> No. >> No. So none of us has worked with this this group before, but so far they've been great.

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>> Excellent. >> Um, so we'll have those review comments in there. Uh, the reconciled cost estimates that we just went over, those are of course new and and will be in there. Um, I just highlighted propos proprietary items because that was a vote that we took. We added a couple more to that list, right? So, that's the

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only change to that list, but I just wanted to bring that to your attention. Um, total electrical loads. I also highlighted just because as um Jason mentioned, we're going out for that early release package for the switch gear and the generator. Um that's been

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difficult because we really have to get much more detailed information on our mechanical systems to therefore size our electrical systems to therefore size our switch gear and generator. Um so uh I have to give kudos to our team of both LN consulting for the mechanical side

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and then art on the electrical side um nailing that down and art's got that. >> We've probably talked about this before but what will the generator support the whole building? the whole or is it >> just on the emergency functions of it. So the um you know making sure that the

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building can't freeze. So just the bare minimum for mechanical systems to make sure that uh no pipes are bursting you know the building's not getting too cold. Um emergency lighting uh elevator um the generators pretty >> so enough in case we have another like

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October surprise event. >> Kitchen will work the the uh coolers within the kitchen will be on the generator. would be on it for people to go to the building >> as an emergency building. And now we have the high school as well. So now we have two. >> It won't be it's not meant to be a shelter >> partial tilt.

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>> Yeah. I mean not me it's not sort of designated as a shelter by >> Long metal fire or anything but correct would >> it would elected not to have it you know you cannot cook in the kitchen for instance. You can't serve meals. Um you know the lighting is just the bare

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minimum emergency lighting. Okay. um a few outlets will be identified as being on the generators that you can still charge some things. Um so >> they've they've had a really strong focus, this team, on being sure that the the environmental temperature of the

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building um sustains as long as it can with minimal power. So even being sure that air can be circulated to keep because it's a much better insulated building. So it's not going to get cold super quickly compared to my house. Um,

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so they've been really worrying mostly about that and and I think they've had a kind of a design goal of a fairly extensive window of time that it could stay quite comfortable within the building quite a few days without a power, but it wouldn't be a place you'd want to be teaching anyway because of

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the other things you wouldn't have. >> Yeah, I was thinking more emergency shelter for a town. Yeah. Just, you know, keep warm kind of thing in. Yeah. All right. Can I ask um of the emergency shelter? Is that the decision not to do that? Was that the police and fire department

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based on other already available? >> Yeah. Long meadow fire felt like we had enough capacity townwide that this building didn't have to serve as like a a shelter that would shelter people for an extended period of time. >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> Because it's an all electric building, if you did want it to be an emergency

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shelter situation, that generator would be humongous and very expensive. So that they were taking that into account. >> Um yeah, so uh with the electrical loads and then the drawings and the project manual and that's uh that's basically

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what's going out to MSBA tomorrow. >> So question are the Fontaine packages part of the CND percentages or can we vote separately? So all of those numbers were in the reconciliation because they are part of

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the total construction cost, but the commitment to that has already uh to some degree occurred. >> But I think I think we're if we go back to Fontaine say go back to Fontaine vote those because they're in these packages and we can vote the packages. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Back to the top.

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>> Yes. >> All right. >> Thank you for indulging me on that. I just >> want to make sure we're understanding. >> All right. So we did the enabling. Yes. Okay. So, >> we got to vote on that though. >> So, I'll just run through. So, this is uh the first package L number one. This

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was for the site work portion. Um so, we re we uh went out to eight uh pre-qualified uh site contractors. We received uh three competitive bids. Um you can see the numbers on the screen there. TNM

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is the low bidder. Um little bit of a spread there. Um but we we really think it's attributable to Griffinberg and Maroyy's um being more out of town. TNM Equipment for those who don't know is a is a local uh company to the area. Um so I think the project worked out um just

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timing wise good for them. Um and the travel for the other probably knocked uh their prices less competitive. Uh so combined with uh some site work allowances uh we included in the package uh the total site work

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enabling package comes to 3,658,490 which is less than the estimated bid package value we have in that estimate um that we just discussed which was 3,759,890. So our recommendation is to award T&M equipment the

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site work enabling package for >> motion that the >> building committee uh accept the recommendation of Fontaine to award the uh site work enabling uh package to TNM Equipment Corporation. >> There is a motion second.

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>> Second. >> Motion and second. Is there any discussion? >> Seeing none, I will call for a vote. Nicole, >> yes. >> Kate, >> yes. >> Marty, >> yes. >> Lynn, >> yes. >> David,

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>> yes. >> Chris, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Armen, yes. Motion is passed. So, move on to early package 1A, electrical. So, yep. This is uh letter

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recommendation number two, early electrical. So this was a trade contractor which we discussed earlier when had to go through the pre-qualification process. Four contractors were pre-qualified through that process. Three of them submitted proposals. Um these were the public bids

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that were procured using bid docks. Um that the uh low bidder was Universal Electric followed by ML Schmidt and Griffin Electric. The two low bids I think we talked about this earlier in the meeting but are very close to one another. Uh so good competition there.

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Um Griffin the high bidder um just not as competitive likely due to their backlog. Uh but we see no issues work uh with with the package at all. And together with the electrical allowances we included in the L. The total uh

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electrical enabling package is 220,950 which also is below our estimated budget for the package which was 244,160. So our recommendation is to award universal the low bidder for the package.

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>> Make a motion to uh the bill uh accept the recommendation of Fontaine Brothers to award the early electrical package to Universal Electric Company Incorporated. >> Is there a second? >> Second.

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>> Motion and second. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, call for a vote. Nicole, >> yes. >> Kate, >> yes. Marty, >> yes. >> Lynn, >> yes. >> David, >> yes. >> Chris, >> yes. >> Josh,

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>> yes. >> Harmon, yes. We have uh approved the motion. >> And again, if people are looking at home, Universal is a local company as well. Correct. >> Yes, that's right. >> And TNM is local as well. >> Correct. >> Did I think they did Union Station and a

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couple other projects around there? >> TNM. Yeah. >> Yeah. They're doing a number of projects. They're doing awam high school for us right now as well. >> Okay. I think it's just good that residents know that we're supporting local businesses as appropriate. >> Okay. Next, we have uh CM amendment

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number one. So, with the uh amendments that we'll have throughout the course of the next several months, um these are amendments to the Fontaine Brothers Construction Management Agreement. Right now uh our our agreement is for pre-construction services. So this is

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the first amendment that will now incorporate construction services. Um so it will include the two site work uh the two packages we just discussed site work enabling and early electric. Uh and then it'll also include the ERP uh one project allowances general requirements

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uh the CM proposal costs and the uh incremental GMP contingency uh that's applicable to those. So the total amendment uh number one value was $14,860,731 >> callers any input on this? >> Yeah, so this was you can't really see

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the document, but this was their price proposal. This includes the price proposal for Fontaine. Um and so that's for moving them out of precon into actual construction. And then also added into that is the two uh bids that we just approved there. So that's the

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combination of those. So that's going to have Fontaine's full contract along with the two uh sub bids. >> And just and this all fits within the budget of the project. >> Right. And just to ground everybody, we had brought Fontaine on prior to the the vote that we took. >> Correct.

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>> To because we had anticipated positive outcome and to have us get on a jump on the construction by bringing them on early. >> Correct. Now, this is moving from that preconstruction to the actual >> actual construction. And so, we're carrying through their uh proposal that

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they gave us the cost >> right >> into this amendment number one because now we're moving into construction. >> Nice. Chad, no objections from you on that, right? >> Um I need to talk to you later about this because I um did the contracts. I put the price in there.

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>> Yeah. So I'm not sure am I is this increasing that price or is it part of the total price that we talked so this is so what's increas so this the price for Fontaine's contract is going to be an amendment and so the price proposal

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that they submitted initially when we selected Fontaine that price is carrying through plus these two sub bids and that'll be the amendment going from precon into construction so it's an amendment >> okay >> that fits within in the budget. That's all. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. So, nothing changes on the

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Fontaine number. We add on the two packages we just voted on to the total. >> Correct. It just has to be formally put into an amendment at this point because we're moving into construction. >> Understood. Any other questions here for on this package?

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>> If not, I would entertain a motion. Make a motion that the building committee approve amendment number one uh to the contract between the town of Long Meadow and Fontaine Brothers Incorporated for the Long Meadow Middle School early

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release package 1A. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion and second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, call for a vote. Nicole, >> yes. >> Kate, >> yes. >> Marty, >> yes. Lynn, >> yes.

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>> David, >> yes. >> Chris, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Armen, yes. Motion passes. Back to JWA. >> Uh, still still with Fontaine. >> We are.

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>> Do we want to move back to Yeah, we can move back to the submission now that we have all the costs wrapped up, >> right? >> The ping pong ball. Got it. All right. Uh, back to JWA. All right. >> Don't mess with my mojo. >> Okay, gotcha. >> 15. One more down, Marty.

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>> There you go. >> Perfect. >> There you go. >> All right. Somebody want to make a motion? >> We have two to make, right? >> Uh, you got it. >> Good work. >> Long middle school building committee has completed its review of the total

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project budget for the Long Middle School project and approves to submittal to MSBA for consideration. >> There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. >> Any discussion? >> Seeing none, call for a vote. Nicole, >> yes. >> Kate, >> yes. >> Marty, >> yes. >> Josh,

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>> yes. >> Chris, >> yes. >> David, >> yes. >> Lynn, >> yes. >> Armen, yes. Motion passes. Another motion. The Long Meadow School Building Committee has completed its review of the 60% construction documents submittal

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for the Long Meadow Middle School project and votes to approve and authorize the project team to submit the related submitts to the MSBA for consideration. >> There's a motion second. >> Second. >> Motion and seconded. Any consideration or contacts or questions?

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Seeing none, call for a vote. Lynn, >> yes. >> David, >> yes. Chris, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Marty, >> yes. >> Kate, >> yes. >> Nicole, >> yes.

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>> Armen, yes. Motion passes. All right. >> One more vote, then we'll move. >> There we go. Yeah, we'll do this since we're here. >> Um, so this is also falling under the general uh project budget. It's been established. We just have uh as we have

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on previous meetings two more uh reimburseables to improve to approve. One is um for a flow test for the what we did is we took the test well that was dug for to test for the geothermal system and now the idea and hope is to

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use that same well for the irrigation system for the school. Um so to do that we needed to do a flow test on it. Uh it's an all day affair. um checking the amount of water that can come out of that well. Um so that comes to 12,650.

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Um and because it was time sensitive, that work has actually already happened. Um and the well does look like it has enough flow um to meet the irrigation needs, which is great news. The second item is a additional hydrant flow test. We did one long ago in the feasibility

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study, I think. Um, and just a prudent thing to do again to make sure that the hydrant flow test is still the same. Um, and that our fire sprinkler system can be uh engineered accordingly. Um, and

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that's for 2750. >> Motion then. >> So, you're saying that we we're now going to be able to run the HVAC and the irrigation off the same boat pump? >> No, sorry. >> I don't think so. So, we did we did one test well kind of at the front of the property, so the south end of the

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property. >> Um, to see how the ground conditions were for our future geothermal well field. So, um, we were just going to abandon that well. >> I see. >> And then do our new well field a little bit more to the north for all the

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geothermal system. But then once the district expressed interest in irrigating part of the property or most of the property, um we thought, "Oh, we could maybe reuse that existing that well that we've already dug." >> Okay. So, we're going to have two separate balls. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Makes sense.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. And the well was dug there because initially early on the well field was over in that general location towards the front towards William Street and since it's moved back towards um the electrical room which is closer and shorter runs uh which made more sense

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>> to the HBAC. >> Yep. So that as the design developed a little bit more it made sense to move it. >> Makes sense. >> Who's being reimbursed? >> JWA. So that'll be amendments in their contract. >> Okay. All right. Is there a motion? >> Make a motion that the building

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committee uh approve the costs associated with the irrigation flow test as a reimburseable expense payable to JWA. >> Second. >> Motion second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, call for a vote. Nicole,

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>> yes. >> Kate, yes. >> Marty, >> yes. >> Lynn, >> yes. >> David, >> yes. Chris, >> yes. Josh, >> yes. >> Armen, yes. Motion passes. Do we have a motion on the hydro flow test?

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>> And I make a motion that the building committee approved the cost associated with the hydrogen uh flow test as a reimburseable expense payable to JWA. >> Motion second. >> Second. >> Motion second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, call for a vote. Lyn, >> yes.

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>> David, >> yes. Chris, >> yes. >> Josh, >> yes. >> Marty, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Nicole, >> yes. >> Armen, yes. Motion passes. >> Where are we going next?

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>> Should we say this? >> We got back to Fontaine, right? >> Back to Fontaine. >> Fontaine. Keep it. >> There we go. That one. That one. >> One more. There we go. Perfect. >> Logistics. So, uh, uh, we're planning to mobilize. It's a big milestone getting this first

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amendment authorized because now that kicks off construction really and by the time the SBC meets next month, we're going to already have them mobilized. So, we just want to go over what to expect between now and then. So, things are really happening here and um, we're

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really excited. So, just zoom out real quick. If you remember that we have this enabling phase between now and end of October split into phase 1 A, 1B, 1 C. This uh which we're kicking off now, we're calling 1A which is pretty much

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the mobilization uh activities, the offsite work uh along Wood Street as well. So just a couple key dates we're highlighting for everybody to understand. Um first of all, the middle school dates, there's field day and a rain day on June 4 and 5. So, that's really what we're waiting for to

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complete and then we're going to uh start mobilizing on June 8th. Um there is still the commencement uh and classes happening until June 17th. So, the section of the school on the east side of the school is going to remain uh open and not part of our fence when we undo

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our initial fence line. But once uh after uh commencement is complete, >> that's a section of blue section right there. Then our fence will will continue over that way. Is that the new water feature we're building?

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>> Um, the town needs more pools. >> The big kahuna wave >> between uh now and June 8th. There will be some soft stuff happening. Um, you know, surveying Dig Safe will be starting to do their stuff out on site. Some stakeouts will be happening. So,

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you'll see some some soft stuff like that happening around the site in uh the on William Street. Um, we're also planning to get some advanced advanced signage on this a couple weeks in advance just as public notice to travelers on the street knowing that the

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work is upcoming. Um, and then behind the scenes, a whole lot of stuff's going to be happening between uh contractors ourselves, the design team, uh, submitts for those that are familiar with construction process. Basically, every single piece of material and equipment on the project has to be submitted and

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approved by the design team for basically a quality control check to ensure that what is being ordered, put in place is actually what was specified and meets the requirements of the project. So, there's a lot uh that'll be happening over the next couple weeks um behind the scenes. Um so, we're getting

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ready for that. Um, and then typical workday hours. Just want to note typical workday will be starting at 7:00 a.m. Um, probably ending by 4. Uh, there will be days that run long, but uh, in no case will they be past 6:00. Um, and we can also anticipate um, some Saturday

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work. Uh, because there is quite a bit of work that needs to happen this summer before uh, school comes back at the end of August. So, uh, we're prepared for uh, for getting it making it happen. Uh and then one other note just under the hours uh blackout hours for when the

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school is in session for those first or the last I guess two weeks after we move on June 8th. We'll line and nail down the best hours that that should be basically that'll prevent we'll make make sure contractors do not enter and exit the site during those blackout hours in the morning

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>> and then also in the afternoon during dismissal. >> Josh, you okay? Are the butterers aware of the start time every day and that the possibility of Saturday work? >> So, we're going to be working with um the town and we'll send out, you know,

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we'll have notifications that are going to be posted. Um and then also we have Nicole who's the principal for Williams. She's going to join we have a team meeting every Friday. uh she's going to join our team meeting on Friday so we can put together for something that she can send out to the parents informing

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them that you know construction is going to be starting these are the hours and you know what types of activi activities are going to be happening >> and it's been part of the answer all along with the zoning board and planning board they ask those same questions so nobody should be surprised by the hours

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at this point >> good thank you >> yes >> you might not have an answer to this yet because you said Nicole's joining you on Friday. Yes. >> But does the delivery of things to the field by the 8th, does that impact anything related to field day, graduation?

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>> Yeah. No, we've already had some conversations with with Nicole. Okay. Uh she's joined us for a few other calls, but this is more just to go over kind of what we're doing right now just to get the final final touches on everything, but she's been a part of the conversations all along. Um she's not with us every Friday, but we ask her to

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come when we have topics like this that come up. And then Mark, do you want to just go to the next slide? Uh oh, that was it. Okay, that was all we had. So Kevin, uh do you want to anything else? Uh >> yeah, I can jump in. I'll go over some of the logistics. Thank you.

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>> Uh so Jason's already touched base on the precon there. You know, Date's been called. Uh they're going to come in and they're going to mark out all the utilities on the street. Uh we're starting the permitting process. Uh we're going to be starting some middles that are going to start to roll out

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there. Um you know, we're going to install some road signs, signage out there in the street. Um you know, we're going to be laying out the sidewalks and all the utilities. So that's all marked out. Um we've got um in this uh uh phase

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1A, what we're calling FA phase 1 A, we're going to start with the construction fencing around uh the perimeter uh of the sites. And then we'll get into there's there's a lot of little steps here and I can break them down if you need to, but I'll go through all of the uh the main topics

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here. Uh we've got our erosion control that we're going to be putting in around the fencing. Uh and then we'll start with the you know site clearing. We've got the we've got some uh tree protection that we're going to be doing. Uh you know, we'll be grubbing and then we'll be uh tree

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clearing. Um so then you know then we're going to get into the storm drainage. Uh we'll get into the water on the bringing the water into the site. Uh we've got our temp service that the electrician's going to need to do for our uh our trailers and the OPM's trailer, Kier's

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trailers. Um we've got a telephone pole that's going to be relocated out on William Street uh and brought in in towards the site off off of the sidewalks uh for the road widening. Uh we've got a new telephone pole that's going in for Verizon for telecon coming

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into the site. Um we've got a utility demo that we're going to be doing. >> Um and then um we're going to get into that that loop road coming in, the new loop road that's going to be the the road. So uh we've got the earth work

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that we're going to be doing. We got storm drain drainage that's underneath that road. Uh so all of the catch basins and everything. Um we've got our water. I said that we're going to be bringing up that in that road. Uh telecom and and

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fiber optics going to be uh all the conduits are going to come up through there. And then we're going to we're going to start all of the uh the you know we'll be doing working on binder when it when it reaches that point. And I can break any of this down if you're if you got any questions. But,

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uh, you know, uh, we're going to be relocating our fencing as, as the project, uh, uh, starts to close in. You know, we're going to get the loop road in, and then the fencing will once the road opens up, then the fencing will come, uh, inside of the road so that,

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uh, the the construction will will not impede any of the road, the new road that's being that that was built. Um, >> is the fencing going to be like the one you have at AW? It's >> it's uh we'll have five foot I think it

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was on this and >> it's a six foot it'll be six foot temp fence with with a scrim on it. >> It'll have a scrim. Okay. >> Yes. There'll be a green scrim that's attached to the temporary fencing. >> Okay. >> Um then we get into the road work and uh

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we've got that off-site sidewalks that we're going to be working on. So there's going to be a lot of sight prep in that area. Uh there's going to be concrete sidewalks that we're going to be working on. We've got the speed table that's going to cross uh Williams Street there.

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Uh at Heather Road. Um we're going to be uh doing, you know, the concrete sidewalks. There's going to be some landscaping going on. What we're going to be working in with the road widening. Um, so there's going to be a lot of that road work that that we're going to be,

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you know, uh, you know, landscaping, road widening, earth work. We got the, uh, uh, the concrete. We got storm drainage that's going to happen over at that uh, at Heather Street. There's a little bit of, uh, uh, drainage work

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that's going to be going on there. We've got the traffic signals that are going to be going in. Um, we've got some grand curbing that we're going to be working on. So, you know, all of that all of that work is going to be going on in Williams

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Street. We've got some dates there. And, uh, then >> what's that >> a question? Um, when you're talking about the sidewalks on Williams, that's over the summer that that's going to be happening. Um, those will be Is there a pathway that

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people would use while those sidewalks are under construction or does that just take those out of commission while that's happening? >> Well, the only sidewalk that that uh we're going to have some issues with is right on William Street. we won't have any issues with any of the other sidewalks. And we'll probably set up a temp fence

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to rroot any uh pedestrian traffic. Okay. >> So that uh they're not impeding on uh any of that work that's being done. >> Okay. So there'll be a temporary. It's just that's that is the only spot where there is >> that we're going to get on the other

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side of the street. So I'm just making sure when we've got >> Yeah. And we're going to be removing that sidewalk there. So, we're going to have to set up some temporary fencing to to funnel funnel any pedestrians. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. >> Yep.

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>> You know, that's that's really about it. I mean, I can go into details of of uh exactly, you know, uh the process if if need be. And also these plans have all been gone through multiple times with uh Long Police, Long Fire, DPW, uh the

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building inspector, everybody has, you know, kind of blessed these plans as as being a go um at this point with the school district as well. >> Yes. And I'm sure maybe um planning and zoning have also asked this question, but um in terms of um the acoustical

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aspect of parts of this project, have we, you know, have we again have we informed the abutters? Are they aware? And are we like um restricting some of the louder parts of the project to maybe after 9ine or you know? >> Well, it's kind of why we're putting out

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the signage, road signage a little early. So, we're we're letting uh that everybody know that there's going to be work going on in the street coming up. >> I mean, I just wouldn't want to be woken up to a jackhammer at 7:00 a.m. on a Saturday. >> Yeah. We'll make sure that you know they

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understand what the bylaws are for noise and when they can actually start. I forget what it maybe it's 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. >> Okay. During the week. Yeah. >> Um >> retired people. 7 a.m. could be details. Long Meadow Police or is it sheriff's

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department as well? >> Don't know the answer to that. Uh I assume it'd be Long Meadow. >> Yeah, Long Meadow Police Department. Unless uh they're not available, then they'll have to reach out to another source. >> Yeah, because I know they do use the sheriff's department for >> I had details.

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>> Thanks. >> Any other questions for Fontine? >> I I do uh for the rest of the committee. I was I had the chance to go to uh Deerfield two weekends ago and I know you guys just finished up the uh

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>> the dining hall >> the dining hall which is like almost as much as our school class but it was beautiful. The work was beautiful and um from what I'm hearing and just from friends in the area, the mitigation around it was awesome. how

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you used the baseball field, I guess, for as a staging. And then for the old >> We did a temp dining facility. >> Dining facility with a temp. >> We built a temp dining facility, took over the baseball uh field >> and put a temp dining facility up for

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them, and then we took over the existing dining hall and basically took off two two sides of the building and opened it up and did the demo. >> Pretty much gutted the building. So, if you get a chance and you're in that area, stop by and see it because it's

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pretty amazing how the building came out. The landscaping I think is amazing. That back hill with the retaining wall and the solar panels on the backside >> where I charged my car while I was there. Um, for free, thank you. Um, but uh, but I would just say check out some

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of the Fontaine Brothers work that's been done in the area because it it is topnotch. >> I was the superintendent there. >> Oh, there you go. Nice to know. >> All right. I don't know where we're going now.

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>> The fly over. Fly over. >> Yeah, sure. >> Go ahead. >> So now let's see. Does J do you guys have something else? >> No, just the just >> the fly over. >> Yeah. Yeah. This always happens that the

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designer does all the design work, but by the end everybody's talking about how great plantain's work is. >> We did not do >> that's why it could have been better. So, um you know, you all have seen

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individual stills uh of different angles on the outside and inside, but um while working on the documents, we've been adding as many details as we can in to give you a feel and give the community a feel for what the building will feel like going around it and inside of it.

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>> So, this is a a fairly complete quick walk through around the building, fly through um as well as inside. And uh there are two versions. One has music and one does not. >> I think you have the non- music one because we figured the community might want the music one later and we'll talk

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through this one. So if there and this goes fairly slow >> so that we can talk through uh any of the details >> the non-m music version. >> They're all can sing for us though. >> Unless you want to sing. So here we have our approach on the new

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drive that uh that we're already talking about Fontaine starting work on. Um and we we go in different directions. Um and again the uh this is a a digital model so some imperfections in color but uh gives you the general feel and a much

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better sense of things when you're moving to it. So this is that entry point that faces a visitor entrance. Uh and as we know, students will be coming from both sides essentially into the school, but this is the entry that most visitors would come to that leads them

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to the secure entrance of the building. And this is a canopy that students can wait under while waiting to be picked up. Um there's always some coordination between site and architecture. That's not perfect yet, but uh this is just a general feel of it, >> right? Those sight benches have changed

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a little bit since this has been made, but >> pretty close. And I'll say the the colors that are the way they're shown here are a little little washed out, I'd say. >> Yeah, this a little um kind of um slightly pinker, I'd say, and and less

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detailed looking. But remember in our last conversation, there had been discussion about the color on this side. And we did intentionally keep the admin block a little different than the other fields. Um and we did alter it based on your comments at the last, >> right? Simplified the dark break a

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little bit. Um, and then this moves us to the back of the building and starts to bring us around uh uh the north side and around the gym. And you you've seen some of these um areas before. Um it's a little jumpy from the version that we're

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showing you. There's another version you'll see as well. Um but you can see here the uh you have a little bit of metal panel and some window into the gym. The teachers are really eager to have natural light in the gym. Um, and the gym has a kind of a two-sided slope

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um, ceiling and a little bit of wood on the inside. Um, and the outside has all these amenities in place for students um, and to support the PE programs. Um, and this is past the turf field that's behind us. >> Do we expect that wall will handle wall?

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>> Yeah, it's a that's a block wall, >> block interior and exterior wall. >> And then I was thinking about the panel windows on the side if that might be something that we have to think about. Yeah, that's something that we probably want to take a look at and think about. We wanted to be sure that the the basketball court as well. >> Yeah.

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>> Well, now I'm thinking more of lacrosse uh lacrosse balls. >> Oh, really? Do you expect that to be a >> any wall in Long get rid of the low the low light. >> Yeah. So, anyways,

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Um this area shows the outside of the cafeteria um dining area um and a sort of an a contained area um that students come in and out of the cafeteria. Uh and then there's some seating around this area as well and a rise area teachers

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can. One of the things that in terms of supervision, um, I think our administrators have commented that this is advantageous because they can sort of position themselves and watch the outdoor diners while the kids are at recess. >> You know, nor I think at both of our

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schools now, we sort of have to hold the kids. Everybody everybody's either indoors or outdoors. >> So, this this will allow for some flexibility. >> Be right right here and see both. >> Yeah. Right. >> Very cool. >> Yeah. On the right is terrace seating. And I have to give our landscape

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architects credit that we're we haven't infilled it yet. Comes up. >> So that's not just a retaining wall that has nothing on either side. Um but then what that mound helps protect this cafeteria area from the shipping receiving that we're about to see. So

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it's all kind of tied together. So that's the generator right there on the left. Uh that white mass. Um, >> and that's a pretend truck, >> right? >> Yeah. That's a bigger truck than I've ever seen go there.

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>> Twice the size of school, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And then these are the academic wings. This is the B-wing, back of B-wing and then um sliding along to A-wing. And this is a large kind of this is the most open area behind um for

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class areas to meet um and then jumping back to the front in order to go in the school. I like this. >> Again, you've got that layered vestibial uh arrival experience. So, uh visitors would not be able to enter past this

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point without being admitted by the administration. >> That service window has been a topic of conversation. just making sure that there's a way to pass supplies, equipment, deliveries into the office without necessarily having >> visitors enter the school. So

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>> is that Nicole? >> That's our both Nicole's were were really >> I mean that picture >> they were they were uh instrumental in making sure that we had a really secure um entryway. >> Nice.

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that uh this is that larger lobby area. So if you pause right there, >> so that's where the visitor entrance may entrance coming off from parent drop off would be coming in this way. Um so this is kind of the main crossroads I'd say. um in the morning um for students um and

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you can go from here up to either wing um or at this level go to ice. So we have a assistant principal's office has eyes on that intersection. It's also the entry point into the media center. >> Are those the actual fixtures, light

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fixtures? No, they're they're at this point they're types, but we do have some interesting fixtures over that area. And I think this is showing two of every one light that's meant in these little ones. >> Okay. >> Because you've got a lighting designer and electrician, they sometimes copy each other stuff. Okay.

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>> Um um we did add the DD level, uh we did add Terzo to the second floor. Um originally we had Lenolium here, but the budget was looking good. Um, and we had some other cost changes that went another direction and the district was quite eager to have the the most solid,

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steady, easily cleanable surface. >> I'm sure maintenance loves that. >> Yeah, they're very excited about that. >> Excellent. >> I will say for this model in general, so that is our architectural 3D model that we're actually walking through and our electrical model is imported into it. So you will see some light fixtures that

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are floating at weaker heights, >> fires, fire devices that >> what's not on is our mechanical system. So uh there will be in some areas, not in this area where we have a drop ceiling, but in some of the classrooms you'll see like the open ceiling. In reality, there will be some mechanical

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ducts in that space, but not shown quite yet. So, this is entering into uh the seventh grade uh academic wing. Uh so, remember you have uh two seventh grade teams. They're in here together. So, you're approaching, you're passing the seventh

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grade bathrooms on that side. You have some lockers and then you're coming into the first common area and then go around to the second common area and then through sample classrooms. This is one. Um, and we brought you up here so you could see that you have a higher ceiling

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in some like Mr. Nan. >> Um, this the second commons. Um, that's kind of the gathering point for this team. And then this is one typical the teachers ultimately settled on on two different approaches. The classrooms

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very similar same number of students are served and they're laid out the same but slightly different furnishings. So these are individual desks in this room and in this room you see two um shared desks. So it allows for a slightly different arrangement and possibilities.

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Um uh and then they getting a lot of wall storage um both at the back here. Um four whiteboards uh and also some built-in cabinetry. >> Are Elmo still relevant? Elmo do still exist.

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>> This is a quick look. Oh my gosh, there books in the library. That's new. These are This is our amazing media center that's on the first floor. And then here, this is jumping into the cafeteria. It's come a long ways. Sort

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of. >> I like the color up top. I know you've had a few differentations. >> Really hard to get this one. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Looks sharp. >> Very nice. >> Yeah. And then as you turn back, you're looking towards the auditorium. That's why you have that slight raised area there.

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>> Um and that's a little subseating area that's open to it. So students who maybe have sensory issues would prefer to be in a quieter spot. >> You opened up the seating area in the back, too. I like that. Yeah. To make that a little bit easier to um supervise. Yeah. And then this will

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swing into the um jump into the auditorium. >> This I love. >> Yeah. >> Excellent. And then uh this is the uh gymnasium. >> Are those the colors? >> Uh we don't really have colors settled.

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This is one of >> It looks like the Indian flag. >> It looks like >> the Indian flag. >> So we've um we're going to uh we've been talking to Marty about uh offering a a um kind of a polling of a couple

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different um overall school colors and and mascot ideas. So we this is one room that needs to be decided somewhat based on what the final school colors are it seems more than others. So we keep kind of changing this trying to get a feel for where we want to go here. Um but we

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haven't settled it but we do feel like we want to put a stronger um color around the court and we've generally kind of kept that teal as a as a color fairly consistently through the wall pads. There very limited number of options for wall pads. So, we're not

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sure if that should just be there's very few colors to choose from. And then that's an acoustic panel around the top. And that can be either, you know, it can be any paint color. So, we have a lot of choice there. >> I'm not saying it's bad. It just Yeah,

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just >> strikes me as Miami vices. >> Little It's a little Yeah. >> tropical. Yeah, we had gray and it was really blah and uh you know, so we keep uh >> keep struggling with that, trying to

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figure out and so I think a lot of it's going to depend on on where we want to go and can keep playing with that one. So cafeteria took a while for us to to really get to where we were happy with the final um feel and I think we're still feeling the same way in the gym. >> Cafeteria looked nice. I like those colors.

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>> Very nice. >> Great. >> Exciting. I know it's coming along really well. Thank you for this. >> Anybody on the phone have any questions or comments. >> Okay. Um do we have anything else? JW, are you

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guys done for today? >> That is it. >> Thank you. >> Um so next step, next meeting June. >> Yep. >> We're on track. >> Yeah. By that time we'll be on site. >> Okay. >> So we'll have an update. >> Yeah. Y

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>> All right. Anything else? Any questions, concerns? Anybody? >> Jan. >> Thank you. >> I have it already. >> Yeah. Tammy's been pretty good about getting calendar in place early. >> Yeah. Great. Thank you.

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>> All right. Seeing no further comments, I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> So move. >> Is there a second? Second. >> Uh any discussion? Seeing none, call to a vote. Nicole. >> Yes. >> Yes. Marty, >> yes. >> Josh,

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>> I heard yes. David, >> yes. >> Chris, >> yes. >> Armen, yes, we are ajourned. Thank you everybody. >> Nice update. That sounds pretty