hi there we go so before we kick it in gear I just wanted to remind any folks that are on here from the public um we do have interpreters for uh Spanish Portuguese smer and Arabic if you're using the zoom software there should be
a little button that looks like a globe down at the bottom you can click on that select the language of your preference and listen along in that language um I think I'll turn it back over to um to Susan real quick we can call the meetings to order and get
moving okay sounds good welcome everybody to the Rivier High School building committee meeting number 71 today is Wednesday January 22nd 2025 the time is 5:33 PM Linda if you
could um call the roll call please absolutely thank you Susan I'm going to start with the school committee today um starting with Stacy Bronson Rizzo don't see
her uh an Anthony kagano here thank you John Kingston here great ASA Milbury Ellis present jacn monteroso
present bred sella absent and mayor Keith here excellent thank you um moving forward uh we're going to go on to the school building committee um and we're going to start with attendance for Mike
picardi here you Stacy Rizzo join yet Susan grai here Dr Kelly here senson here Christopher Bowen I'm here
Rich viske absent Don Cella here Nick rrom had emailed me that he was not going to make it today mayor Keith
here you Tom sski here John stamatopoulos yes ma'am here Anthony cogliandro absent Don Martelli
here and Joshua Miranda here thank you that takes us through roll call Brian I'm G to turn it back over to you sounds good um so we have the bulk of the um time we're going to
spend tonight is going to be on agenda item five we have a couple of quick uh items to get through first uh first off you did not receive meeting minutes um that's something the meeting minutes for the December 18th meeting are going to come with tonight's minutes we'll approve them next month um I
apologize for that that's just something that fell through the cracks on us so we're going to go right to agenda item three to uh approve the December invoices um they are on the screen I'll quickly highlight each and we'll look at the budget then we'll move for three
motions um standard invoice package left field billing to design development um Perkins Eastman with some of their subc consultants in the middle uh getting close to the end of design development and kigle down at the bottom billing for pre-construction services I know this is
not the easiest sheet to um to read in some of these meetings but as you can see we're um around the uh 88% level of completion with design development as far as the OPM contract goes we're at
78% with the design team and the only other line that we're billing against here is preconstruction um so we do intend we'll get into a little more of an update but we'll be completing the design development phase by the end of next month and um really no new business to
note on finances um other than just running these approvals are there any questions on invoices before we go to roll call approvals I don't see any hands I'm clicking
through if not we would uh going in order here we'd entertain a motion to approve the left field uh invoice dated December 31st 2024 in the amount of 23622 $4 Ryan can I just uh clarify that
because this is a joint meeting of the school committee and the school building Committee just to be clear for everybody who might be watching or on the call that votes are for the school building committee yep good clarification Dr Kelly thank you motion to approve um left field
invoice for 2 36,2 24 second motion approve then someone else second it yep motion by S grai seconded by Mike bardi I will do a roll call for uh the
approval of left Field's invoice starting with Mike bardi yes Susan grai yes Dr Kelly yes Carl senson yes Christopher Bowen
yes Don C yes mayor keth yes tomkowski yes John stamatopoulos yes Don Martelli yes
Joshua Miranda yes thank you um and Linda can we note that uh Rich joined the meeting just as the slide was put up and I vote yes thank you all right right I will jump back up to Rich
Vis yes yes thank you Rich I will note arrival hey Linda just so you know I'm not on that roll call yeah Linda we we should include Chris I think from here on out yeah I just realized thatg to put him in the that the word file we're using sorry
Chris he's on the second page why chis I going down to last final but not least Chris yes thank you okay we'll move on to the next um motion to improve Perkins Eastman design
development for December 2024 in the amount of 7929 $ 7389 Susan just quick quick check on that since their invoice has three parts that the total is 807 94967 this I'm trying to Circle it over
here oh okay sorry about that I thought we were do okay let me rephrase that motion to approve three invoices from Perkins Eastman um in the total of $87,900 67
second roll call thank you roll call Mike bicardi yes Susan gravi yes Dr Kelly yes Carl senson yes Christopher Bowen yes
Rich FIS yes Don Cela yes mayor Keith yes Tom karowski yes John
stamatopoulos yes Don Martelli yes Joshua Miranda yes and Chris Cella yes thank you okay moving on motion to
approve invoice number 24 from consle construction for preconstruction service services in the amount of $27,000 second roll call roll call Mike bardi
yes Susan grai yes Dr Kelly yes Carl Fenson yes Christopher Bowen yes Rich VC yes Don Cel
yes mayor Keith yes tomkowski yes John stamatopoulos yes Don Martelli yes Joshua Miranda yes Chris Sela
yes excellent thank you very much thank you um we're going to move move to a quick agenda item here um agenda item number four um I'll set this document uh up a little bit this is what's on the screen right now is a
summary of potential Grant and incentive opportunities that was shared to uh the city and school and the project team from the msba um these are all items one way or the other that as a team between Grant
Riders at the school City and the project team we'll be looking uh into further um I know we wanted to highlight it with the committee but Dr Kelly I'm not sure if we want to go into any any more depth with any of this or mayor Keith well I sorry I do have a meeting
on Friday morning with the city's um grant writer and we're going to review these and try to figure out um which departments might be the appropriate places to apply for these grants and I'll just foreshadow for the building
committee um um that we might be reaching out to members to help us if we can identify some grants that would be beneficial to the city we might be reaching out to members of the committee to help us with certain grants depending on what the funding source is and finding the right people who have um the
right knowledge and the right connections for that um grant funding line great um and Brian I I I couldn't hear if you mentioned but just kind of for the for everyone the viewing audience this is good news because a lot of times and Brian you you you've been
through the process is these grants um that may or may not have been eligible for were not reimbursable or they they they took out the calc from the calculation of the msba grant where these now don't seem to have that
uh uh you know kind of portion so ultimately it it would be you know kind of a win-win they wouldn't affect the amount of uh reimbursement from m MBA they'd also drop down the cost to the to the to the community correct these these these
would not have any impact on the msba grant which is a nice development so and and just for the history of it it used to be that if a district had an msba Grant to build a new school and they applied for one of these other grants that and and they got it that
amount of uh Grant award would be reduced from the msba amount now it's going to be in addition two which is Fabulous As the mayor just said I say I thought I said that but maybe my English was different excellent so um we're gonna
move into item five here I'm just going to remind folks anybody on from the public that um language interpretation is live in Zoom uh if Spanish Portuguese moner or Arabic um are your languages of preference
click on the little Globe shaped button at the bottom and uh pick your language we have interpreters live very brief update uh on some general items so we are are in the process of estimating the design development package we will be in
that process through February we plan to meet um next I believe let me make sure I say the right date um February 26th is when we will have another joint meeting of the school committee and
school building committee at that meeting we will be um summarizing permitting schedule and cost updates based on the estimating process that's happening now we're also uh continuing with
permitting uh a notice of intent was filed today with with the Rev Conservation Commission um that should get the project on uh the February 5th conservation meeting that is strictly about um phase one site demolition work
so as we'll go into it in a little more detail next month but uh being that we completed the first step in the um State Environmental permitting process we're returning to conservation in February to secure permission to do the site
demolition work that we plan to do this spring summer and fall so without further Ado we're going to uh go I'm going to try to make this full screen this was crashing earlier when I did this so let's see if it works uh I'm going to turn it over to
the design team um who's going to bring you through an update on building and site design uh we have a lot of slides to cover and we don't want to Short change the landscape section which comes towards the end so I think the goal is
going to be to try to get through these slides slides and then go through committee members questions certainly doesn't mean you can't speak up but um we've got a good deal of ground to cover here so um that might keep us efficient Don would you like to take it
over I would love to thank you Ryan uh and I will also say that EMT Gregory from uh mcky young Kim uh landscape design is with us so he will do the second portion of the design update uh uh exciting stuff on the landscape
design so uh at the end of the architectural presentation I'll turn it over to EMT and he'll go through the landscape design so some of these slides a lot of them you may have seen before like years ago so those who have been with us for quite a while some of these will look familiar but we always like to
remind everyone when we're doing a design update we design for each Community individually we look at the context we look at the community we look at the history and all of that um will hopefully be apparent uh throughout the design in parts and pieces so just
reminding you this was a slide from years ago showing some of the context you know your community best but these are some of the images that we found that uh relate back to R so if you want to go to the next slide we took sort of the first public beach in America and
some of the you know Rivier Beach and Sand Castle uh design and um it started to build on a concept that uh began with the anatomy of a wave and that wave had to do with one um taking this very long
building this uh the sheer size of this building is almost two uh football lengths long and looking at how we can make it feel less long and in doing some of that we've got these waves and the concept of a wave and it relates back to
um the wonderful context in rier uh along the beach front so you can see we sort of took the anatomy of the wave the concept and then the final diagram and that takes us to uh basically the the diagram of the building we've got the main um classroom bar to the South which
is that lowest piece of the building Brian if you want to Van a white me awesome uh and then we have the entry Plaza which is a secondary wave that sort of greets the um the students the staff uh if they're coming to the front entrance and also the community as you
come to the front of the building and then we have the heart of the school that big yellow I'm I'm sorry Big Orange circle is really how you enter different parts of the building everyone comes into this main space and a lot of the community spaces feed off of that part
of the school so that's always been the concept even back to our um our interview when we actually won the project with you guys so moving from that uh I think we go to the site plan next Brian yes uh so just to give you a
quick it is really slow on your computer isn't it it's kind of heavy with a lot of content and photos um but this is the general site plan I'm going to leave a lot of this for EMT to cover but what I will say is that on the lower right there's sort of two fields that are
split by the campus entry uh directly across from the Wonderland garage for all of you that live in Riv and know this area well off the VFW Parkway uh that is the main Comm um campus entry you'll come up from there and circle if you would do the car Loop like the main
entrance yeah Brian thank you uh that's the car Loop the buses peel off uh before the cars sort of to the south of that multisport field and they drop in in the middle of the classroom bar if you remember the wave concept with the classroom bar and then the staff and
those of um that will park either on the surface parking or the under building parking which I'll get to in a moment they'll swing around the back of the school and enter from the West kind of the left side of the site plan so so this is where the building sits on um
the site for those of you that know it this is almost directly above where the Greyhound track used to be uh so it's kind of the farthest end the Western end of the site that's actually the high point um we're trying to being in a flood zone we have to raise the building
and get it out of the flood plane so we're trying to build on sort of the high point but it's a very flat field um for the most part so we are also replicating some white Wetlands which is sort of the center of the gra uh Greyhound the old Greyhound track you
can see it thank you Brian he's pointing to where we're replicating it that Eastern County ditch is basically an open Albert an open air um ditch that collects uh storm water from the city and um on the other side of that we will
be replicating the Wetland and EMT will talk in Greater detail than I will about some of the exciting opportunities over in that area so this is the general site plan again I'm going to leave most of it to EMT because it's really exciting to hear from his perspective so the building itself if you want to go to the
next slide Brian I'm going to run through the floor plans quickly a lot of you again that have been here for most of the process and are familiar with the building not a lot has changed from when you last saw the plans some minor things and I'll Point them out but for the most
part that southern wave the classroom bar four stories tall the tallest part of the building is on the south that has the majority of the classrooms science rooms Tech spaces learning spaces special ed spaces and um just for
reference I'll point out the lighter blue is General classrooms the purple are special ed the tealish green uh are science and text spaces so you can see they're sort of sprinkled throughout um the yellow is a lot of the shared in
community spaces so if you'd point to the main entrance Brian you come in on the east side of the building into that heart of the school which is called the three-story Atrium in this plan a lot of the spaces feed off of that so the community spaces so as we get up in the building you'll see that uh then we have
admin spaces are in Red so where adults mostly occupy uh offices and spaces in conference rooms those are in red support spaces in brown and then stairs so the brown that's the kitchen and locker rooms that Brian was U pointing to that's under the auditorium but just
so you can kind of give a quick look I'm not going to go through every space but we'll point out the curve uh off the off the main entrance has main admin some tech spaces that's the uh Hospitality there's the nurse and the uh Community
Health on the back side of that we have a lot of support spaces with the um the kitchen servery and locker rooms that support the gymnasium which is the big yellow Square on the left so that's gym Roc weight room room and there's some
spaces above so if you want to go oh one other thing before we leave this the learning Courtyard is sort of centered between the Western academic wing and the gymnasium EMT is going to describe that in detail it's a very exciting outdoor space for the students uh in Riv
so that's an exciting space that will connect the students from the building back down to the landscape and I'll remind everyone it's the last plan there is under building parking but I'll show that last just for the sake of getting through the main part of the building this is the second floor that part of the school says open
to below that's like a multi-story three-story space which is really Dynamic lots of natural light we have some renderings of it that's also serves as the um on the lowest level the 10 through 12 uh cafeteria and on this
second floor you can see cafeteria Freshman Academy there there is a separate uh freshman Ser uh servery and cafetera area that supports the Freshman Academy speaking of the Freshman Academy that Western Wing that's adjacent to the um
Courtyard on the left hi nice to meet everybody I so sweet hi thank you for joining us um The Freshman Academy are the first two floors of that academic wing on the left uh so that that is an isolated part of
the building so those students can have an entry way into the high school and feel like they have ownership of some uh learning spaces so those first two floors there the rest of it's General academic we've got art rooms that feed off of the heart of the school both on the Southside and the East thank you
Brian it's harder than it you think to run my slides isn't it Brian and then the um the Performing Arts uh so this is a lot of Art Space both Visual and Performing they feed off of that curve yeah thank you Brian there's Band Room
uh digital music and chorus theater space that all connect to that Auditorium which is that big Square yeah thank you so that Auditorium it main level is off of the second floor so the community as a come in they'll go up the grand stair at the heart of the school
and enter the auditorium at the second floor if you go over to the gym if you recall it was on the first floor we have an open to below here with a walking Track not running but walking for students who maybe don't want to participate in general PE but still
should um participate in physical education there's a walking Track there's learning spaces there's Junior Roc General Health classrooms um off of the second floor gymnasium as we go up to the third floor that heart of the school connects at
this level too again two stories you'll see some renderings of that and at this level you have sort of the balcony level of the auditorium you've got some admin and guidance uh spaces to the left of that the gym is still volume because we need the height for both basketball and
mostly volleyball we have a lot of those yellow spaces that feed off of the heart of the school it's the main media Commons to the South yep and then we have stem writing centers we have College and Career we've got um credit uh dual enrollment we have a lot of
those spaces that are off the learning Commons now that feed off of this heart of the school and really will make it a dynamic space especially at this third floor that media Commons on the south Brian that is actually a two-story space when we go up a floor uh I'll show you
the second floor of that but that's the main reading Stacks uh studying space access to computers that's um basically what you would think of as a library Chris charmela asked earlier do we not have a library we absolutely do we're just calling it a media Commons because
it serves as More Than Just Books and stacks and tables but it's actually digital literacy and other um access to D digital resources uh the academic wings are still just stacking this is the third floor there's one additional floor if you want to go up one more
Brian uh fourth floor tallest part of the building you can see the media Commons is that two-story space uh yep facing south and then um you know the last of the academic wings so with that we've got underbuilding parking that I mentioned
and um here I think there's about 350 some odd spaces and 300 um out on the surface parking to give us somewhere around 650 um so there's also some this this area is intended to flood in a larger
flood scenario a storm surge so there are not a lot any occupiable spaces down here it's storage stairs and parking but it's mostly bmed you can see what's gray that's like Earth up against it and it's open air to the West uh to have access
uh in and out from the far west side of the building uh John's asking if there's EV charging under I don't think so for two reasons one it will flood and that's not a great idea I think we do have EV charging but I want to say it's out at the surface
parking you're welcome all right next slide so that's most of the floor plans if anyone's got questions feel free to either ask now or um uh hold it till the end reminder you would have seen this years ago we proposed three concepts back when we were looking at materials this was the preferred concept ocean and
wave it supports the the diagrams that I showed you earlier um some of the palette that we were starting to look at if you want to go to the next page Brian this is actually the real selected materials on the lower left those are the physical materials that were selected with an exterior working group
in summer of 2022 so we're talking you know two and a half years ago we've got a Base Brick that's an iron spot it's like a shimmer of a dark brick um intended to hint on some of the you know the uh Reflections in the water Andor you know um things you might find in the
sand the next is the field brick it's um not a direct correlation to sand but has a nice light looking feel like the sand does we have some phenolic wood accents uh you know just a nod to drift wood and things that you might find um that wash
up in the ocean and lastly two different tones of glass throughout the building that um is intended to hint at the look and feel of Seaglass so again you can see the real materials as photographed uh in the lower left so our renderings are not really photorealistic and not
really going to represent those perfectly but we try to do our best and have um worked with some of the coloring to uh try to represent them as best we can so these are the massing models you can see on the the largest one on the right the main entry um you can see the
curve that's got the um the Performing Arts that back up to the auditorium you can see the fortory wing which is the tallest curved piece that's the classroom bar that we mentioned the gym AO torium and of course the courtyard so this just gives you kind of if you were
flying over the building when it's built this is starting to give you a look of um what you it will start to look like from a massing perspective if you want to move on to the next Brian thank you uh exterior renderings the main entry you know this
is meant to be a warm welcoming space for students uh community members guests uh to arrive at the school this is that Loop that Brian kind of s uh circled on the site plan so cars are intended to to queue up Park you know um let their
student off and then continue along and exit the site so the glass feeds into the heart of the school when you come into the heart of the school you have glass Beyond to that courtyard that I mentioned so it's really a dynamic space that gets Eastern light in the morning Western Light in the afternoon and is
really intended to blur the lines between the exterior and interior and connecting to the site um what's in front of you the lowest levels the admin so they'll have visual connection to anyone that's entering um the building
that's a guest and needs to be buzzed in and above it is the Freshman cafeteria um and then of course the music as you head to the right one of the academic Wings kind of comes off the left side of the building and then you can see in all of these interior and exterior you'll see the materials off on
the right um so the field brick Base Brick I just went through all of those you want to go to the next render Brian this is the flip side of it I mentioned when you enter the building Into the Heart of school there's glass in front of you that connects to the Courtyard this is that view from the courtyard
looking back at the heart of the school so this is from the West this is an outdoor learning space the gymnasiums on the left side of the screen um and the CL one of the classroom bars the lower two floors of the Freshman Academy and there's two floors above of General
academics um this is you're so you're looking at the heart of the school by gymnasium and academic wing and again this uh Courtyard EMT will get into a lot of that detail it's very exciting so next rendering is the bus entry so this is on the south this is
kind of the middle piece that enters the heart of the school kind of flanked by the two uh academic wings that are four stories tall so you enter into here the lowest level I want to say it's robotics um and then above we've got two
art rooms and then the third and fourth floors are the media center that I mentioned that's two stories tall so this is really uh what's on display from BFW Parkway we're hoping there are some views out to the ocean in between some of the developed uh buildings that exist
along the the beach but we do think being the tallest part of the building uh this will be um kind of a really exciting space and uh what the anyone who passes by in BFW Parkway will see the classroom bars we are still developing some of those openings and
refining and working with the design working group so that elevation uh will update you probably at the next meeting but uh still a little bit of discussion about what that will actually look like so do we want to move into the interior some concept drivers for what
the inside of it wants to feel like you know the ocean the waves we're still bringing that in um some playfulness and um Discovery for the students uh just some you know aboard with our concept draw fers if you want to go to the next one Brian we'll look at um the
inspiration and color palette um both the ocean and school pride off the will be off the heart of the school um sand and Pebble fields in the admin the marsh I'll get into that on the next slide but sort of recognizing the local ecosystem with the marshes and the ocean
connection and then sky and Discovery with the classrooms and media center so you'll see all of this play out in the um renderings that are to come if you want to go to the next slide I'll get into um so the first floor we will um will be this is sort of the color
scheme As you move up the four stories of the academic Wing So the subtitle and mud flat is what we're calling it with the blue uh color scheme the second floor the low Marsh the third the high Marsh and then fourth floor will be the
Upland the darkest green so just sort of connecting the architecture back to the local um natural resources and ecosystem we felt like was an a learning opportunity but also a wayfinding opportunity for the students so if you want to go to the
next slide Brian um here are the color schemes that are being proposed um again the first floor is the blue the subtitle flat like these are the actual materials so we've got paint we've got accent tile and accent flooring for each of the four
academic wings and then all the field workor is on the left so we've got you know Mill workk and doors are mostly wood lockers will be a light neutral color there's field paint also neutral there's plenty of um wall protection in
the form of um porcelain tile that'll again probably match the field paint I have some examples and you'll see some renderings and then the flooring uh again sort of a neutral and then with the accents at each floor so the students kind of know oh yellow in the floor on the walls I'm on the second
floor so if you want to move to the next slide Brian uh speaking of floors here's a rendering I want to say this is the third floor uh the um the middle green kind of the medium green color so this is one of the
um the breakout spaces kind of mid academic Wing so there's two of these per floor four floors there's eight of these um it's a place right outside of the middle uh stairwell that's uh breaks up that academic into two uh pieces so students can travel vertically to get to
and from classes that um that Vision Glass kind of in the middle of the screen Brian if you want to point that out that's a teacher planning space they can have eyes on the street and um see students as they're passing by there's a whiteboard that students or teachers can break out from classrooms work together
small groups they can write on the Whiteboard they can move the furniture around um there's a there's a counter and a bench for students to stop charge up you know uh do a little homework if they need to there's Lockers in other parts of the building but these are sort
of entryways into different classrooms so that green uh kind of accent paint at the far right enters into one of the adjacent classrooms and again you all all of these you will see the materials on the right this is a typical classroom you've got the the exterior window to the right
you've got the door I just mentioned that goes out to The Learning space or the corridor on the left we've got built-in with um the wood mill work we have a main teaching wall we have a secondary teaching wall you can see there's a sliding whiteboard in the Millwork on the left and there's a
whiteboard on the exterior wall on the right we literally provide four teaching walls in every classroom so all of this furniture is flexible can be moved when needed to break it out into multi- um uh zones within each classroom for
different learning uh opportunities next slide the heart of the school I talked a lot about this this is um this will be a really Dynamic space some War wood tones lots of built-ins flexible cafeteria Spa
uh Furniture both in the form of options meaning there may be some booths there may be some high tops there there will be some small tables some large tables public tables like what you see in sort of coffee shops now where you might sit next to someone you don't necessarily know but that's not a bad thing um the
built-in wooden benches that open up the left side is the courtyard uh connection the right side is where the admin is and just off the screen is the main entry so you come in off the main entry you'll be greeted by this multistory heart of the school you'll see through to the
learning Courtyard you can see up the main Community stair here to the uh that is the auditorium entry at the second floor and then the gym entry is under the r rhs that's just a placeholder we don't know what we'll go there we're talking
through um uh graphics and you know sort of uh iconic School opportunities uh we're meeting both with students to do that as well as our own Graphics group within Perkins Eastman so uh stay tuned for some exciting things throughout the
building that will appear from that uh exercise I think we have one more of the hard of school yep so here's as if you walked in the front door you can see the built-in booths on the left those wooden booths we may have a media wall or graphic wall on the above that then
we've got the multi story glass that feeds through to that um outdoor Courtyard space so on a nice day students can go out and eat like I said emt's going to describe that um it will really be a dynamic connection between the indoor outdoor here and you can see
the community stare a little better here takes you up to that main pre function area but also the Freshman Academy cafeteria the maker space is at the top of that so very much on display and you know exciting things that are being built in there can be showcased and then
also the entry into the auditorium flanks the maker space on either side next Slide the Chris Jella the library media center uh this is the third floor entry from that so right off the heart of the
school on the South Side plenty of vision glass connections through you'll be able to see to the outside uh it's basically an open space with low uh um book Stacks so you'll be able to see both students in it but then also the views to the outside there'll be you
know your typical um uh desk where you check out books but then also flexible Furniture there'll be a classroom at the second floor for teachers to bring students in and teach them within the media center um but it's twostory and this is the lowest level there's also
some exciting built-in benches and this is one of the rooms that has carpet you can see the tile we've got some lolium floor and then wood stacks and wood accents throughout next slide I think is from the inside yep so the left-and side is
the exterior glazing so that faces South that's where you might see some views you can see that this farthest piece this is twostory um you can see those built-in benches that have views to the corridor that we just saw from the other side on the far right yep and um some of
the library stacks and books and you know places students can set up and research do homework and um certainly uh work on projects and have access to technology as well next Slide the gym uh we have a
large exciting gym 18,000 square feet uh it can be separated by a a you know a vinyl divider a netting um into two side courts it's got a main competition court it's got bleachers around we have some natural light coming from the North and then you can see kind of that bluish um
band around is the walking Track so those silhouettes of people or you know there's a as I mentioned in the floor plans that's the walking Track so they'll be able to see down they'll be Pro protective netting uh that's what it shows on the bottom right but there's protective netting to prevent balls from
going up or balls from coming down so um 've done this in previous projects with success so hoping to do this here as well it's kind of an exciting feature that we were able to get because three sides of the gym actually have learning spaces uh all around it next slide I think is another view of
the gym from above so this is the walking Track View and you can see down can kind of see some of that protective netting got obviously wall padding we've got uh painted metal rails that you know from a safety standpoint uh here's where we would look to do student Pride School
colors that sort of thing um so some of the accent paints and um maybe some of the coloring in the floor uh to be determined later with this you know what's in the middle and any um painting in the in the maple Sports floor um May
you know start to highlight some of the school colors and student um Pride next Slide the auditorium uh the other big large community space um I think we're about a thousand uh seats here two stories we have a
balcony that you can see on the second floor uh this main floor you enter from the sides uh and you kind of the the you can enter through the aisles or along the sides some of the structure is built this way for acoustic purposes trying to keep the sound within the space uh this
view is from standing midstage um so we have a stage we have rigging we have um we have Auditorium lighting theater lighting you can just see a hint of a a catwalk at the top um so you know modernday uh performing space we went
and toured one of our other projects with the group at Boston arts academy and um the the Performing Arts team from Riv was able to see some of the opportunities there for performance spaces and how they function and how they're laid out so um this is what's
currently being proposed if you want to go to the next slide I think you look at it kind of from the side yep so you can see the stage to the right you can see um the main floor there's two aisles and then the balcony with some sort of pop out balcony spaces and this will be
fully accessible and um there's ramps on the right to get you sort of down and then there's a way to walk directly onto the stage for accessibility from within the space next slide some logistic you know
uh materials and colors the egress stairs like your typical how do you get vertically in a four-story building um we're planning on neutral porcelain tiles that protect the walls we've got rubber stair treads um and dark blue uh
railings for the most part at each Landing within the stair we will highlight the the level color I mentioned previously the blue yellow light green and dark green uh with the marsh theme so that as you're going up the stairs and you hit one of The Landings you're like oh I'm on the third
floor I'm on the light green so that's kind of a way finding uh built into the architecture so most of the egress stairs will have this look and feel the maker space I mentioned previously that it was um this is one thing that did move in the floor plan it
switched with the servery for the Freshman uh cafeteria now it's a little more on display right in between the two entry points for the auditorium uh the hope is that this is really a a creative building uh learning space where students can get dirt and and create
things and you can see the cord rails you can see it's more of a kind of a raw space looks a little bit like a science or art room but it's intended to have um these work taes that are on casters they can be moved around it's got 3D printers it's got laser cutters um it'll have
General tools it'll have a glass um operable that will open up to that part of the school so if larger things are being built there's an opportunity to move them in and out of the space and next slide I think this is one of our last um the art classroom so
again a lot like the maker space but a traditional art room it's got lots of sinks it's got an adjacent Kil uh room we have a specific Ceramics uh art room which isn't featured here but has like a a row of Wheels pottery wheels um so a
handful of art spaces that will all be used um extensively for different types of um uh Visual Arts I think that's it yeah that's the end of the architecture it's a lot I'm sorry to talk for so
long but what EMT has to show is just as exciting so EMT Gregory with Mick young Kim uh landscape design I will turn it over to you and then take questions at the end thank you Don yeah as as she mentioned I'm mcgregory um project
manager with mck young Kim design we're one of the Landscape Architects on the project um we're a Boston base keep going is that a question okay okay I wasn't sure if that a question um we do education work higher education work in Boston and throughout the country so we're really excited to be a part of
this one um one of the first things we do when we take on a landscape design is we think about programming how can we use the landscape to complement a lot of the incredible things that are going on inside so um the first thing we do is come up with some ideas which we'll run through here here and then I will um
highlight in later SL slides how those ideas have made their way into the landscape um so some things that we think might be appropriate for this landscape are outdoor performance spaces and classrooms um we've got some example images of what those might look like they're not necessarily these really
formal constructed spaces but they can serve multiple purposes you know on and off day they can be um casual hangout spaces but when needed they can also hold maybe a small Orchestra event or a a graduation or a lecture or something like that kind of on the opposite end of
that Spectrum would be um study Nooks these are smaller spaces of three five seven students maybe a single student can get away from the hustle and bustle of of the interior of the building and maybe find a little space to hang out listen to music study that sort of thing so you know in a lot of these um
programming ideas we're we're trying to serve all types of students those who might you know want those more active spaces and feel more comfortable there and then also those students who might feel more comfortable in these smaller quiet secluded spaces um next
slide again thinking about different opportunities for programming um this is a a fairly large site so I think there's opportunity for some walking Loops exercise Trails especially as you get further away from the building I I'll highlight in a little bit it starts to
feel more wild and so we can integrate um some boardwalks or some softer trails that really feel like you're experiencing nature um we also think there's an opportunity for Learning Gardens here um an opportunity for students to really get their hands dirty understand what it means to to grow
something and then eat it and so we've we'd like to partner with um some of the programs inside the school around uh kitchen and service industry that sort of thing and use these Learning Gardens as as a teaching
moment next slide um we also think there's this could be a place some of these space these spaces could be used for Fitness zones on a nice day you could bring a PE class out here um to use some of the outdoor areas
for um yoga or um ping pong I think it's also an area where it's okay to be a little bit more active it's okay to let off some steam um so we have designated some of those spaces throughout um the campus as well and then um just a a nice
simple um flexible lawn um that can be used to on a nice day sit outside and study or kick a soccer ball or hang out with friends I think those those kind of unprogrammed Open Spaces are also important next slide um again thinking about
opportunities for learning and engagement where kids can get their hands dirty um we have an idea of a micro Forest which um if you guys aren't familiar they've been popping up around the country and especially we've seen a couple recently in C Cambridge where you
invite the community in and plant trees at a really small scale you can see that top right image is right after planting so that um a student themselves could come out here or a class could come out and plant some of these trees and then they start to grow very rapidly and after a couple years it starts to look
like that image on the bottom left so that if a student's here for four years and it's passing through these Landscapes every day they start to see the progression and and kind of the growth of the natural world and and and can also point to that and say hey I did that and I think that could be really
cool Hands-On learning opportunity and then um finally thinking about restorative spaces um that the life of a of a high school student can at times be stressful and I think it's important to provide some of these quieter
contemplative spaces for students who might be feeling overwhelmed on a certain day or just need to take a break and reset um so we've identified some areas that are a little bit off of the beaten path that can be quiet and secluded and and kind of offer some respit next
slide okay um so those are our IDE ideas in terms of programming now you'll see um and we'll walk you through each we'll kind of zoom into each of each of these areas as to how those ideas have made their way um into the landscape so this is the site plan again Don covered it
briefly but we're providing a couple um turf fields one's just a standard soccer field and then the second is a kind of a flexible multi-use field in terms of Recreation on the far west side of the site we also have five tennis
courts uh and then um we'll start to zoom in on some of these areas I'll start with the Wetland walk which is on the top right and then we'll move kind of from the healing Gardens clockwise around the building and end in the courty yard so we can go ahead and move
to the next slide perfect and so we'll have the same setup on each of these where we'll zoom in and and show some inspiration images on the right um but this is the Wetland walk as Don mentioned we are as a part of the
building um removing some Wetland it's I mean Wetland by name but it's really in poor condition um and we will be replacing it in this area north of Eastern County ditch um with that Wetland replication I think there's a lot of opportunity to get students out
into the landscape um start to experience some of these Wilder ecosystems Don mentioned earlier the um the coastal transect so um that's obviously a big inspiration for us this is a coastal site and we'd like to try to re recreate as much as possible um
some of those ecosystems in this area and then not only recreate them but but get Stu get students out in them through this walking trail um you can see there's a couple that we've selected to add Boardwalk where you can get students out over the
water or or the the Wetland I think that could be a really cool opportunity to offer different vantage point and then kind of at that at that bottom left corner there closest to the building is a small nature classroom um this will be
sized for a classrooms of 2025 students and I think on a nice day they could come out and and it could tie in nicely with some of their science classes and and and use it as a real learning opportunity this is also I think a great place for exercise this is is a nice Loop here that could Connect into some
of the larger Loops excuse me on campus um next slide okay so now we are at kind of the northern corner of the building um this is directly adjacent to a lot of the administrative uses um the nurse's office some of the mental health
facilities um so this is the area that we've identified for healing Gardens and outdoor classrooms so some of those quieter contemplative um healing spaces um we have a series of these nice Meandering Pathways and along that we've
sprinkled um some Garden Nooks which are some of those smaller two three four five student spaces and then a couple lawn areas which would be nice um which could be used as an outdoor classroom this is also an area where we might look at a little bit of an elevated planting
scheme that could serve as a pollinator Garden next slide okay so now we are at the main building entry we saw some really nice renderings from done earlier of of what that entry will look like um but this is
the this is the face of the school this is the first thing people see when they arrive um so we've this is another area where we think might be a little bit of an elev planting scheme a really nice Paving pattern and then at the edges it starts to maybe feel a little bit wild you can see we've started to kind of
vary the edges there and and in some of those spaces tuck some seating Nooks um I think you'll have students waiting on a ride after class or after a sporting event and and so we've provided plenty of seating here for for folks who are waiting on um on a ride or or just want
to hang out next slide okay swinging around to the South Side here this is just west of um the Bus drop off I I talked about that Learning Garden this is a spot where we think that Learning Garden might make sense it
has a really nice Southern Exposure which is good for um uh for for a garden and then as we move further west that's a really low area um so we're thinking that might be a nice spot for a buyer retention area that will serve not only some of the storm water needs on the
project but could also be kind of an interesting landscape feature that students could get up next to and and understand what what that functions as next slide okay now we around the backside here at the courtyard as Don mentioned
some of this is elevated above the parking garage below um so everything kind of West of uh that vertical line to the north of the page is what we'll say is on grade and then everything to the right or to the east of that is on structure with parking below and then is
surrounded on three sides by building um so I'll run through each of these areas in a little bit more detail and we can talk about them next slide okay we've got a a little key for you at the top right um but we'll move from from right to left through the
courtyard so starting with the Outdoor Cafe this is directly adjacent to the cafeteria on the inside what what Don and her team are kind of calling the heart of the space and we really see this area of the courtyard as an extension of that this is a nice wall of
glass so we'd really like it to feel like like part of what's going on interior there also will be as you're coming in the front entry some really nice views through that open cafeteria heart of the school out into the courtyard um this is an area where we're
thinking we'll have movable seating um where on a nice day students might come out and and have lunch out here um a class could come out and and pull some tables and chairs together and and hold classes on a nice day um so this is kind of the most um most active largest of of
the spaces in the courtyard next next slide as you as you move west away from the heart of the school we've started to break down these spaces to feel a little bit smaller um so whereas on the last
slide that might be good for a gathering of 100 or 150 this now to break out into spaces where you know five five or 10 students might sit and grab lunch or or hang out um these are a little bit less formal you can see that the edges kind
of start to wind and and feel like sticky almost so you have these little nooks and crannies that you can kind of Tuck into next slide and then we talked about that open lawn and Amphitheater space so this is an area that will serve both functions I
think on a on an every day it will just be an open lawn um where you can come out and kick a soccer ball or or lay on a blanket and then when there are times where the school does want to hold an event we have a couple rows of Amphitheater seating that could bring in
additional seating and set that up in on the lawn with movable chairs and hold a gathering of two or 300 if you'd like to do something like that so again we don't want a space that will only get used a couple days a year in a normal time the main lawn I think will be really really
active and then when you need an Amphitheater or a larger outdoor Gathering it can accommodate that as well next slide and then finally this is the last area before you move off the structure
um this is the the wildest and and maybe the the least um uh the least structured of the areas that we've designed so this is the spaces that we think the students might be able to let loose a little bit this is where the
ping pong tables show up this is where you have more casual seating um in the form of maybe a lounger like on the top right or a hammock like the top like the bottom right um which I think is a nice transition kind of moving from the cafeteria and then as you get further
away from the school it gets a little bit more uh loose and active I should note too that in this area we've tried to keep a lot of the more active uses towards the top side of the page which is the gymnasium and then leaving a lot of green space in buffer
off of the bottom Wing which is one of the educational wings so that if you're sitting in one of those classrooms you're not distracted by any of the activity going on in the courtyard all right and then finally this is um the
transition from on top of the structure the second floor the or the main floor of the building down to the existing grade so in order to make that transition happen happen exess accessibly we've kind of wound this path through a forested area and then placed
a couple uses along it so bio retention area sit at the bottom at the low point of the site and then halfway up we've tucked another kind of informal classroom Gathering space which we'll get some nice afternoon light and could be could be nice on a warm
day next and I think that does it for um the landscape we we'll end here on another view of the site plan and I think that probably wraps it up for our presentation that right we have anything
else Brian sorry I didn't realize I was muted I'm hitting page down and there's nothing else okay we must be done then yeah great I think can open up for questions yeah sure thank you Don um I think we're
we'd like to stick with school building committee and school committee for anyone else on we will um have public comment but uh starting with um folks on the committee comments questions I know that was a lot of
content can I ask my question um menu you I think you'll have to wait till the public comment section we're going to ask the Committees first I'll let you know when when it's a good time is that okay uh that's that's that's
okay okay thank you and Brian can I just um point one thing out that just for everybody's uh knowledge nothing is written in stone so where we saw like the hammock area we might decide hammock's not the best idea
or where we saw the ping pong area we might decide ping pong is not the best idea um but it's just to give us all ideas of uh what these different areas could be yeah thank you Don that's a great point I do see uh Jacqueline montoro hand
up H yes monteroso uh sorry no worries it's okay H my question might come at a lat point in the planning but I just want to know how the building committee is thinking about Safety and Security especially given so many nooks and crannies and just entrances so is that
something that is being talked about right now is it a question I should say you know down the road in the planning phase um I'll kick that off and Dan you might want to follow up but um we are in a continuous manner as we go through this talking about security the design
team does uh have a security consultant on board we have been uh meeting with First Responders police fire um high level we will have exterior cameras on the site interior cameras an advanced security system a mass notification
system system um that's a flexible system that ties together fire alarm with PA AV um the building will have zoned uh lockdown capability um all of that is controlled by a building management system so there is a very
sophisticated um security system that is going into the is included in the design development and we are uh including in pricing that's definitely an item though that um will continuously get worked on jacqualine over the next um as we go through the next 10 to 12 months and
finalize the design before we bid it thank you and then can I just add two sorry can I add two things to that before we go on one is um the building committee has been very cognizant of that and we've been clear with the designers that when we talk about um
Nooks that everything needs to still be visible by the adults who are going to be monitoring these areas um so you know we want we want to make sure we talked about like if there were going to be trees surrounding any of the nooks that they would have a higher canopy so that
adults could see through and see what any kids in the nook are doing if that makes sense and then the second thing I just wanted to remind uh both committees we've talked about this at both committees but the school committee recently contracted with a um security
provider who's auditing our security measures in all of our existing schools and part of the charge that we gave them was to also work with the building committee to look at the I'm trying to not get too complicated here but I'm going mess this
up look at the work that the security consultant that works for the OPM and the designer and all of them our folks that the school committee just hired are going to be a second set of eyes on that to give us feedback and make sure that
we have um all of our decks in a row can I just add one quick thing architecturally and Brian and Diane did a great job mostly describing active security features Diane hinted at some of the passive which is visual which is like ways in which we design the
building so that you can see without like you know just needing cameras but setting up I mentioned in the flexible learning sort of having adult eyes on the corridor uh throughout the day and areas again at the admin eyes on both the heart of the school but also who's
entering the building we try to do use passive security and that we're building in layers of visibility so students can see and be seen um but then also we've done white papers and Bob Bell is one of the authors of one of our white papers
on school security and one of the biggest things is s sort of school pride and pride in being a student at that school and experiential graphics and that's some of what I hinted at that we're working on both with the R students now but then also our Graphics department and building in school pride
and things that make the students want to come to school and feel prideful about being at school so that's another layer so there's a lot of layers to security and you may be asking just about active but we're also thinking about passive and school pride as well because that all factors into school
safety great thank you so much and then my last clarifying question is will this still be a one main point of entry type building or like is there just one main office or can people come in through other entries do you want me to answer that
Diane or would you um so the main entry where it says drop off right there on the site plan that is the main entry that is where students get dropped off that's where visitors come the bus entry will be open at arrival and dismissal and I believe it will be manned with um adult
supervision uh just like arrival and dismissal is now um so those are two access points for students to enter and exit throughout the day uh staff that is parking under the building will have card access to enter up and get into the
building from the garage below um that will only be open if we're using it for public you know uh performance in the auditorium if parking happens under there that's different than throughout the day the school day is one access point for any visitors or anyone coming
to the school similar to now um except with the Bus drop off being open at arrival and dismissal and I'll just add it's actually even more secure than what we have right now because right now we have kids in the morning who enter through
the main entrance and through the East Wing but both both the the Bus drop off and the main drop off where parents who are driving their kids will drop their kids off enter to the same point so it's not like kids can come in one way and go in this Direction come in another way
and go in that direction they're all entering into that hot of the school where we can have high visibility um on both doors and then um both of those um entryways are going to have lockout vestibules so that at any other point
during the day um if somebody comes in they would they would have to come in that main office um entrance and they would have to speak to somebody in the office before they can actually get access to the building so thank you
I'm looking around for hands here from the committee still I'm not seeing any uh any other questions from the school building committee or school committee all right as a quick um reminder um
we'll be talking a lot of the boring stuff next month boring to some um budget schedule permitting progress we're going to run through um either this entire presentation or maybe a slightly shortened version of this with the city council uh I believe that's on
Monday and we'll be following up the joint meeting in February with um bringing the schedule and financial update um just as a high Lev reminder we're looking to be out there this spring summer and fall demolishing the old site starting construction of this
building uh around the foundations and getting the structure um right August September of this coming year so we'll go into that in a lot more detail um at next the next meeting and I'm going to see if I can get back to
uh the agenda real quick and I can't your sixth item was public comment Brian if you wanted to go to that yes so I think um yes if we go to uh public comment
let's start with folks uh here I'm trying to see if Manu is still here I see him he is he is he's here Inu do you have a question or a comment where did he go he was just here
he was just here he just show us I know I don't see him anymore I see his name maybe he CED I wonder if he accidentally clicked leave maybe we give him a minute yeah I'll see if um any other members of the public name and address for the
meeting minute record um you can either try to speak up or put your hand up if you can do that in Zoom there is someone who just um a Jessica Cameron in the chat she said she has a question but she's not sure how to Sure Jessica you want to name an
address for the on meeting minutes if you don't mind Jessica Cameron of 74 in neonet Street uh you could just see the back of my house in some of these um I had a quick question about the done Street access
uh is the intention for that road back there to be a service road kind of emergency eress I just wonder because the inner part of the Neponset Sagamore neighborhood has virtually no sidewalks um so I'm just concerned if there is through traffic on a daily
basis there that kids walking to and from school kids playing in the uh in the streets Etc it's we're going to get into some issues so I'm just curious what the intention of that road is thank you than you Jessica so the intention is just emergency responder access maybe
some limited maintenance access if needed but um there will be a gate sort of where dunro trans transitions into the property it's about where dunro sort of tapers off right now um there'll be a gate here that First Responders and
school facilities uh has access to and we're going to sort of gate off down here so nobody comes up this road so this is really just intended for police fire First Responders um but also I think ultimately is um an opportunity
for Walkers or bikers so um I think it will be open to folks that are walking to the site through the site or biking but the intent is absolutely not to bring um staff traffic through here or um student traffic school related traffic anything for athletics anything
for the school perfect that's exactly what I wanted to hear thank you and thank you for the presentation this was all beautiful I'm very excited you're welcome just fishing around for any other public comments so I would um really quick
check with our four language interpreters give you a minute to see if uh anyone in your language rooms has a question if there is you're going to have to toggle back to the English room once you have the question question so that we can hear it uh I'll give you one
minute and I'm going to see if um if we can find Manu in the meantime I don't see menu on here anywhere now no he just dropped off his camera turned off and then he just he just dropped off yeah
unfortunately well now I feel bad I know we all do does anybody know who he is if he's a student we can try to reach out to him Mr Bowen I don't know if I was on my excuse me I was on my phone when he was signing on so I didn't
get the name um do you do you have the name I can I can if if you have the name I can look up and see if I can read yeah like a student y I'll try to look it up uh last call any questions from the language
rooms if not um any new business from the uh school committee School building committee apologies if not we would look to um for a motion to adjourn both meetings one from each motion to adjin the school
building committee meeting second second and mo motion to adjourn from school committee side second second okay thank you all thank you all all right have a great night thank you
everybody