like I normally do and but it's asking me to admit people from the waiting room which is new h that might have been some weird setting I accidentally checked off i'll have to go look myself they've been
making a lot of changes lately and uh yeah there's a new button down the bottom it says resume slashs stop recording do we should we click resume when we're good to go yeah because it now all of a sudden it started recording automatically when I
started the meeting and I'm like I don't need it to have 10 minutes of recording of just this yep go by the way this is being recorded in five minutes i don't like new buttons on my screen makes me nervous i don't like new
settings it's it the minute I logged on it said recording started i'm like what what usually I have to search for it which leads me to believe that they did some sort of software update again which usually is never a good sign anything to
confuse us right yep keep us on our toes yep yep i mean I saw it said AI being Oh that's I didn't see that that's it thing i hate the AI companion thing mhm then I always get I get nervous dumping
on Zoom because the AI is on and it's listening probably it's going to fall everywhere we go everywhere we So DK and the mayor and Rich Fiske all said that they could make the 5:30
meeting so they should all be coming on yep and Diane said she might end up being on the phone uh earlier at a meeting we're probably getting there hey folks sorry I'm just wrapping up a million
meetings so yep hi folks we should evening we should This should be a maybe record quick one but we'll see let's do it let's do that yeah it is it's popping that up for me too linda the waiting room thing i'm
going to have to poke around on Zoom not now though hi everyone hi Diane how's it going Dr kelly hello i think we're just about everyone keeps Dr we have eight
we can kick it in gear if you'd like Susan all right are we recording recording in progress there you go okay very good good evening everyone welcome to the Riviera High School Building Committee meeting number
74 today is Thursday April 10th 2025 and the time is 5:32 p.m um Linda roll call please absolutely mike Picardi here stacy Rizzo susan Graalisi here dr kelly
here you Carl Spenson absent christopher Bowen absent rich Visque absent don Cereamela here
nick Rystrom absent mayor Keith absent tom Scarrowski present john Stomatopoulos present
counselor Congleandro here don Martelli here joshua Miranda coming in right now linda and Carl arrived as well yeah coming in hot i
might just start over um doing roll call with Josh Miranda here thank you joshua sorry chris Saramela absent and Carl
Spenson here excellent we have a quorum so I'm going to kick this over to you Brian okay first off thanks everyone um for accommodating this sort of out of the regular monthly
meeting cycle and thank you Susan for putting this together um we have two planned budgeted project commitments that unfortunately um got to us a day or so after our last meeting so we didn't get them on there so we have just two items to cover we're not going to do
minutes we're not going to do regular invoices we'll do that all on April 30th so I'm going to move right into agenda item two um both of these two items as I noted are financial commitments um they're small contracts that are
executed directly with the city both of them have budgets both of them were anticipated the first one is about uh the passive house project registration uh this is basically one of the main programs uh out there outside of lead that has a method of quantifying
sustainable elements of the project um it ultimately involves them brewing uh reviewing documents sending people on site verifying that systems got implemented the way systems are designed and um and ultimately is one of these
accreditation um um services that these projects uh go after this registration fee for this project a building this size is $50,150 and it's something I'm going to scroll down to the budget really quick
just to show you folks uh this was something we always anticipated i'm going to try to zoom in to bill against the other project cost line here which is a a $400,000 budget line uh that to date we have zero commitments against um
we'll look at National Grid in a minute that's going to bill against and Christopher Bowen's coming in uh the National Grid One we'll look in a minute has always been intended to go against the um utility company fee line so uh backing out here does anyone have any
questions about passive house um what this is etc one more thing I want to mention is um the these motions are worded that both of these are contracts that we basically need to sign up and pay so the motions worded to allow the city to execute the contract
and pay the bill um you're going to see these included on the monthly invoice summary on the 30th just for record we use those monthly summaries ultimately to seek reimbursement and it it's cleaner accounting if we put them all on one so we're asking that you approve
execution of this contract and authorize the city and school to pay the pending invoice um again both are upfront costs these folks won't start work until they see the money um any questions brian I have one yeah does the passive house
project registration does that process enable the city to access reimbursement for some uh environmental grants um I'm not aware of that it doesn't relate to MSBA reimbursement lead is the one that
is required by MSBA uh this cost should be eligible it should get the reimbursement um but it doesn't re result in more MSBA reimbursement i'll definitely follow up to see if it if it opens up any other grant opportunities
that that's what I meant other grant opportunities yep i'll talk to Perkins Eastman about that we'll do a little bit of research i'm not sure the answer to that okay thank you Ryan i have a question don Charm sure how do they determine the amount of the fee 50,000
that amount is it square footage or it's mostly square footage yeah there's some flat rates to begin with but um ultimately they then pump it up by square footage and and part of how they justify that is more systems and they actually are this company unlike lead will actually send people out there'll
be people walking the site doing some testing so it's another layer of testing at the end of the job to make sure all these mechanical systems got implemented in the way that um that are designed and this is a relatively new one uh Don
as this um passive house and netzero ready buildings have gotten more and more common any other questions uh if not I would seek a motion to approve the pass sorry I was on mute um so if my question
is if we have to have the LED certification right um from MSBA so what's the point of getting this um cert certification um it's it's mostly a a a design it's
it's it's a a way to quantify in more detail than lead does lead is mostly based on submissions you tell them what you did they give you certificates um the strength of this is that people are actually coming out and verifying now we'll have a commissioning agent who's going to look at to make sure all
the systems are functioning um functioning properly as well uh but this is really in the end what you're paying for is an extra independent layer of verification that the systems are
performing uh to the energy code basically okay so they'll be on they'll be on the property throughout the project at some point yeah yeah it'll it'll really be once um the envelopes closed up and mechanical systems are online so probably not for the first year year and
a half but um once we have systems to test in an airtight building um they'll actually have boots on the ground okay thanks Brian i have a question sure um the registration fee is 50,150 what is the
total cost of their services that that that is uh the total cost oh okay i thought that was just the registration yep yeah it does say registration fee but this is basically Yeah to register for the whole program
any other questions if there's no questions I don't see any a motion to approve the passive house institute contract to register the Revier High School project for the passive house program in the amount of $50,150 and to authorize the school/
city to pay the pending invoice using approved project funds second you I will do roll call mike Picardi yes Susan Graalisi yes Dr kelly yes Carl
Spenson yes Christopher Bowen yes Donella yes Tom Sarowski yes john Stamatopoulos yes counselor Conro
yes john Martelli yes joshua Miranda yes thank you excellent um next agenda item uh I mentioned the passive house is a little
new um getting charged by National Grid is not new at all so um what is a little different here uh often on other projects maybe that you've seen especially some of you folks that um see a lot of these construction projects there's always a back charge from
National Grid um to hook up a new building to power uh the slight difference here is that due to the size of the building and the fact that there hasn't been uh any significant electrical service down at the Wonderland site for um at least a decade
or more uh the first step here is for National Grid to do an engineering power study um so when whenever they're looking for a power study they look for a deposit upfront this effectively is a deposit to what will become um the final
back charge i anticipate the final back charge will be significantly more than $30,000 uh we do have uh after this commitment uh there will still be $245,000 and a little little change after that remaining in this utility
company fee budget line but really the only thing that would go against that remaining 245 that I know about right now is electrical service so this will authorize National Grid to perform the power study those can take between four
and 6 months um at the end of that they'll put uh a full quote in front of us to get power permanent power to the site and we'll process that bill when they get it so effectively this is uh a deposit to the work that's going to come right now it's going to fund the power
study and ultimately when we get the full bill we'll already be $30,000 into what um the project owes National Grid uh same as before this is going to show up on the April 30th invoice summary for record and uh I did just quickly show
you the budget line this is paying against the utility company fees we had one commitment from last month 24,383 to get that fiber data service to the site this will be the second commitment against this budget line any national
grid back charge questions looking around for hands seeing none we would entertain a motion motion to approve the national grid contract dated March 31st 2025
uh for the initial national grid back charge of 30,000 to fund the engineering study required so on and so forth perfect second i will do a roll call mike Bardi
yes susan Graalisi yes dr kelly yes carl Spenson yes christopher Bowen yes donella yes tom Sarowski yes john Stomattopolis
yes thank you yes council Kagleandro yes don Martelli yes and Joshua Miranda yes excellent thank you everyone
okay we'll go quick to public comment is there any public comment name and address for the record if so I don't see anybody last call public comment uh any new business from the committee
keeping in mind we'll be meeting on November it's November April 30th uh for our regular monthly meeting no new business we would seek a motion to adjurnn then motion second again thanks folks thank you for your
time okay we're good have a good night bye thank you very much everyone recording stopped