Um, Linda, roll call, please. >> Susan, my turn to not find an unmute button. >> Mike Bikardi >> here. >> Stacy Rizzo, >> absent. Susan Gracei >> here.
>> Dr. Kelly >> here. >> Carl Spvenson >> here. >> Christopher Bowen, >> I'm here. Excellent. Rich Visque >> here. >> Don Charmela
absent. Nick Rystrom >> here. >> Mayor Keefe >> here. >> Tom Skarowski absent. John Stematopoulos also absent.
Anthony Cogandro You're perfect. Don Martelli >> here. >> Joshua Miranda. >> Absent. >> Josh is at the National Robotics Finals. Uh out of state, so he's not going to
make it tonight. >> Great. Excused. Um Chris Surmela. Thank you, Dr. Kelly. >> Excellent. We do have acor. Thank you, Susan. Brian, I'm going to let you take over
and I'm going to manage the uh volumes and uh people talking so we don't have any other accidents. >> Sounds good. We'll have um we have two quick housekeeping items um from from tonight. The first is approval of the
meeting minutes from March 25th. Any comments on the minutes? If not, we would entertain a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Linda, you good for a roll call? >> Yep.
Um, starting with Mike Bardi. Uh, >> I'm gonna abstain, Linda. I wasn't there at the last meeting. >> Perfect. Thank you. Uh Susan Graalisi. >> Yes. >> I'm going to call people that are
absent. Dr. Kelly, >> I'm going to abstain as well for the same reason. >> Perfect. Thank you. Carl Spenson. Did we lose Carl? Carl, can you hear us? >> Say yes. >> Thank you. We did gain Stacy Rizzo,
though. >> I did see that. Thank you. I'm going to uh note her arrival at 5:34. >> Linda, could you turn up your microphone? I can barely hear you. >> Oh, yep. Let me uh
let me see if I can Is that better? >> Yeah, I feel a little better. >> It's good for me. I don't know if it's maybe just you, Rich. >> Okay, I'll uh >> I'm finding her volume a little bit
lower than everybody else's as well. >> I'll get through this uh hopefully get through this roll call and then I'll dig into my settings and see if I can make it a little better. I'm gonna continue the roll call with Christopher Bowen.
>> I Yes. >> Thank you. Rich Visque. >> Yes. >> Nick Rystrom. >> Yes. >> Mayor Keith. >> Yes. >> Anthony Kagglandro.
>> Yes. >> Don Martelli. >> Yes. >> And Chris Smela. >> Yes. Motion passes. Thank you very much. >> Back to you,
>> Linda. Just to just to check, did you call Stacy for her vote on the approval of the minutes? >> Um, I did not. I had passed her. So, I can go back. Uh, Stacy for uh approval of meeting minutes for roll call
>> and Yes. >> Yes. Absolutely. Thank you. >> Sounds good. I am going to take the screen. Uh invoices. Um I'm going to zoom into the top first set uh invoices left field invoice 61
for March. Um billing in construction administration uh in plus of uh inclusive of two allowance expenditures. One is the dust monitoring proposal for Sandborn Head. That's about um 10% complete. That'll
continue uh as we monitor dust on site. And uh code consulting for municipal code consulting. Um this is the one of the probably the second to last bill from municipal code consulting. They have some final
signoffs to do on shop drawings. Um but otherwise have completed all their design reviews. Um, so left field invoice totals $224,544. Any questions on the left field invoice? >> If not, we would entertain a motion to
approve left field invoice 61 in the total amount of $224,544. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. Roll call. Linda. >> Yep. Um, Mike Bardi. >> Yes.
>> Stacy Rizzo. >> Yes. >> Susan Graalisi. >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly, >> yes. >> Carl Spenson, >> yes. >> Christopher Bowen, >> yes. Rich Visque.
>> Yes. >> Nick Rystrom. >> Yes. >> Mayor Keith, >> yes. >> Anthony Kaggleandro, >> yes. >> Don Martelli, >> yes. >> Chris Saramela,
>> yes. >> Thank you. Motion passes. >> Uh, next is the third and final invoice for the builder's risk insurance premium. Um, we have noted here, I just wanted to explain it. It says on this, um, when we approved the first, they
first sent a full invoice and the full invoice was approved back in December. Um, right around that time, um, Rich and the city worked out um, a payment option with them. So, the first two invoices were processed against the original
approval. Um, we are seeking approval of this third invoice. So, if we somebody went back to um December, it would look like you approved the whole policy then, but the way it's been paid incrementally, we have a final invoice for $46,728.75. This will uh fully expend the full value
of the builder's risk insurance policy that the city is holding. >> To approve. >> Second. That was Kristen, Carl, Linda. >> Yep. Thank you. Uh, roll call. Mike Picardi.
>> Yes. >> Stacy Rizzo. >> Stacy, is that a yes? Don't know. I Stacy, can you hear us? We all come. Oh, there we go. >> Yes, I can. I'm sorry. >> It's all right. Thank you, Stacy.
Susan Graalisi, >> yes. >> Dr. Kelly, >> yes. >> Carl Senson, >> yes. >> Christopher Bowen, >> yes. >> Rich Visque, >> yes. >> Nick Rystrom,
>> yes. Mayor Keith, >> yes. >> Anthony Kagglandro, >> yes. >> Don Martelli, >> yes. >> Chris Camela, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Next is the uh Briggs
Engineering and Testing Invoice. This is an invoice you'll see monthly uh construction material testing. We've eroded uh after approval of this 23,742, we've eroded about 6% of the $400,000 budget here. Um this is an item that uh
mostly is expended in this first few phases of the project as we're doing concrete, steel, soil work. Uh there's there is testing later in the project, but um so far we think we're on course here. Uh probably by the time we're in about winter and we're done with steel,
we'll do a little review of um getting through those heavy phases. How did we do against the 400? And we'll forecast uh whether we think we'll be over under on that budget category. But in good shape right now. Um Briggs invoice for March. Total's $23,742.
Motion to approve. >> Second. Roll calls starting with Mike Bardi. >> Yes. >> Stacy Rizzo. >> Yes. >> Susan Graalisi. >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly. >> Yes.
>> Carl Spenson. >> Yes. >> Christopher Bowen. >> Yes. >> Rich Visque. >> Yes. >> Nick Rystrom. >> Yes. Mayor Keefe, >> yes.
>> Anthony Kaggleandro, >> yes. >> Don Martelli, >> yes. >> Permela, >> yes. >> Thank you. Next invoice. Perkins Eastman um billing to 3% completion of
construction administration and um the ongoing um work with MASDOT doing final permitting uh against the traffic category uh Perkins Eastman invoice total for
March $59,75183. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> Uh, roll call. Mike Mccardi. >> Yes. >> Stacy Rizzo. >> Yes. >> Susan Graalisi. >> Yes.
>> Dr. Kelly. >> Yes. >> Charles Spenson. >> Yes. >> Christopher Bowen. Christopher Bowens. >> Uh, yes. Can you hear me? >> Yes. Thank you. >> Rich Visque.
>> Yes. >> Nick Rystrom. >> Yes. >> Mayor Keith. >> Yes. >> Anthony Kaggleandro. >> Yes. >> Don Martelli. >> Yes. >> Chrisa.
>> Yes. >> Thank you. Um last invoice for the night, the Conigley requisition 10A for March. Um we're still billing to the direct cost that my mouse is uh hovering over here for um site demolition, start
of concrete, that's probably only billing at around a percent of that contract. Structural steel is picking up as uh orders are going in to fabrication up in Canada. Uh and as if you've driven by the site, you know there's a whole lot of site work going on down there. So
um this has been reviewed by left field by Perkins Eastman. Um all these direct costs um are billing at an appropriate percentage and all of these uh above items the insuranceances and bonds all bill as a percent of the below. So, um,
no surprises in the Consley construction invoice. It's in alignment with work complete. And this month it totals 8 million 50,489,00086. >> Brian, just a quick question. Is the last line item there a negative value?
>> Correct. Um, good point. So retainage retainage is um every time we approve a bill with Conigley there's an amount that's retained the invoice is approved um but it's not paid all the retainage is tracked and as individual
um trades become complete would then request that retainage be released on a future invoice. Um we're not there yet. The first trades that we'll see become complete are in the usually structural steel category. So
this is amount an amount every month that's retained on direct work that is not released until the each trade line value is at 100% and we agree and we release the retainage that was held against it.
Standard practice in these public um 149 and 149A construction projects. And is it um safe to say that that ensures to the city that the full job gets done before the subcontractor or whoever gets the full amount of the
contract? >> It's exactly it. So we all we have to agree that they're um complete complete and then we can start releasing retainage at that point. Those will be discussions probably you know fall winter is when maybe we'll have the first discussion about that with steel
and then it'll take a while to get there for all these other trades. Towards the end of the job is when most of that retainage gets released. >> Thank you. >> Motion to approve sigly invoice. >> Second.
>> Roll call. Mike Picardi. >> Yes. >> Stacy Rizzo. >> Yes. >> Susan Graalisi. Yes, >> Dr. Kelly. >> Yes, >> Carl Spenson. >> Yes, >> Christopher Bowen.
>> Yes, >> Rich Visque. >> Yes, >> Nick Rystrom. >> Yes, >> Mayor Keem. >> Yes. >> Anthony Cogleandro. >> Yes. >> Don Martelli. >> Yes.
>> Chrisella. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Excellent. We are going to move into agenda item four uh which is we're going to do a a brief presentation, high level presentation about the GMP contract.
It's a major milestone. Um we're here to talk about tonight. The committee received um some analysis. I just lost control of my windows. Thank you Diane. Thank you Joe for going through all a lot of those summaries. Uh thank you
Chris, Mayor, Claudia, Nick, everyone who's sort of do dove deep with us on this uh this GMP contract. Um high level we look at it is a schedule update and a budget update. So starting with the budget um >> you recall the original construction
cost budget that was approved is 412 million. Um, after we back out the 2 million for the builder's risk, which the city procured on their own, you can call that a $410 million budget, this GMP is coming in at $395.1
million, uh, which is 14,852,441 under budget. So, a $14.8 million savings on the GMP. that money. Um those funds we are proposing um to move into the owner's hard cost contingency. Um
the budget always contained an $18.5 million um hard cost contingency. We have not spent a dime of that. So after incorporating the $14.8 million in savings, the $18.5 million contingency
becomes 33.3 million. Um which is wonderful. high level. When we estimated and passed the project, it was at a $950 a square foot number. After bidding, we're coming in closer to $935.
And that original contingency I just talked about was always built as 4.5% of the total construction value. After we move all the savings into that contingency, it'll currently be around 8.5%.
Um, so really great news on the financial side of this project. Uh, I have to say that I've never seen any public project that I've worked on in as good a position budget-wise. Um, we have
appropriate items built into this GMP that um, left field is certainly confident. I think the whole team's confident that we'll be able to deliver this under the GMP value. Um, so by the time we're closing out the project or even done with a lot of the scope that
we're going to be working on in the next year or two, we're hopefully going to be in a position to say we can beat this $395 million GMP. So, I don't want to get people too confused with a lot of numbers, but the bottom line is 14.8
million under and incredibly healthy financial outlook for this project. Um, I'm going to pause for a second, see if um, make sure anyone else on the project team, any left fielders or any Conigley folks, if um, or Perkins Eastman, if you
folks want to weigh in uh, and reiterate the health of this budget if you happen to agree. Um, I think the committee would love to hear from you at this point. >> Well, this is Darren with Conigley. Um
we wholeheartedly uh concur. Um we uh feel that this project is uh in great shape uh financially moving forward. So um we um yeah, we think we've got all
the uh areas that we need uh in the budget to make sure that uh we can get this thing done and minimize change orders as much as possible. Agreed. I know there was a lot more detailed info in the primer that was sent out. Um
I could we could either pause and talk budget or or we could do a quick schedule summary as well and then go back to the committee see if anyone had any questions. Do you >> want me to pause here or want me to talk schedule for a minute? Ryan, I'll let you go, but I do want to just, you know,
kind of piggyback on what you're saying and just the levity of I know that this this group here has been very familiar with the project over, you know, the last couple years, but, you know, there's always been the noise outside that we, you know, we can't control and
we'll never be able to control. Uh, we we we know what the project is. We we've been reviewing all the documents and you know spending hours upon hours a week uh sometimes getting into arguments but that's part of being on a project team and this is really you know we we knew
this we obviously knew news news was coming before today as we went through the GMP that was in the preview stage over the last week or so but um we're really happy it's budgetary news um and we know that the project's in good hands that doesn't mean that we're going to
just lay back and coast the next two and a half years either. So, I want to make sure that the public understands that this project still has, you know, two and a half more years of of of pressure and uh good leadership and good good teamwork to make sure that we that the
the city gets the best product available and that we deliver to the residents of Rivier and the future students and and everyone on this team is going to have a very vested interest in that. So, I thank you for getting us to this point and the group uh that's here today. It's really good news. It's really like a little we can give ourselves a little
pat on the back and then let's get back to work. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, I'll continue on for now and I'm going to get back on the screen here. And I thought it would be helpful from a schedule perspective to just put together a very simplified perhaps
oversimplified graphic. But um how can I go full screen? Where did it go? I don't see my full screen button. This might have to do for now. Oh, here we go. Okay, let me get that out of the
way. All right, so um these are a graph very simple graphical representation of the next few years here that uh more or less uh has been pulled from the GMP schedule that I thought would be helpful. And we're going to just we'll
talk I'll talk through this briefly and then we'll zoom in on uh really the closeout phase um which is when everything comes to fruition here. But Conigi is and has been uh working the site, working site utilities, working ground improvements
um and concrete footings have become underway this month leading into uh foundations and elevated decks, which is going to going to pretty much be going on through the remainder of this year and into winter as we get out of the
ground and structural steel shows up. So, we're working towards um a middle of July commencement of erecting steel on site. It's always a huge milestone getting that steel on site and then getting it finished. Anticipate the
erection of steel to be done uh by the end of this year in December. And as that building is goes up and as foundations and elevated decks are poured, uh, the envelope work can start on the building starting with the roofing working its way into the facade.
So envelope work from this fall straight out through next fall. We'll be able to enclose the building. On the mechanical side, geothermal wells will start to be drilled um, in the coming weeks. Monday, if I'm not mistaken, we're going to uh Conigi and their subs will be drilling
the first wells. And that leads into once we have an enclosed building and interior areas to work, we'll uh move into area by area mechanical construction inside the building on the roof in the mechanical rooms, which will
be more or less rapidly followed with all of the interior construction trades from uh laying out and framing walls all the way down to final finishes. So, um, the point I wanted to make here on these huge bars of mechanical systems and interior construction is, um, there's a
really detailed sequence that Conigley has developed through the building. Um, so there's we're working our way I think the easiest way to think about it is from towards the train tracks out to the street. Uh, in a multi- we call them buildings, but you can consider them
area. This is really only one building. So, uh, there's a detailed flow through the building both with mechanical systems and interior construction that all culminates into the summerfall 2028 leads into our closeout phase. Um, the
red bar here over on the right is represents substantial completion of November 8th. That's what's in the GMP and the green bar is commencement of classes uh, anticipated on January 2nd, 2029. So, zooming in on the back end of
this schedule a little bit, this 2028 phase, um site work gets finished up before the summer. Um and you can see these purple and green bars that have been a little bit uh broken up here to
show that we're working our way back towards the last area. The last areas of the building that are scheduled to be complete are in area C. And the area C works its way from the top to the bottom level from level four down to one. So the part of what I wanted to stress here
is that major swaths of the building um are mostly complete complete from an interior point of view, a mechanical systems point of view well before here. Maybe all the systems aren't tied together, aren't online. Um but the last sequences of this schedule are relegated
into one area of the overall building and certain levels of the building. What'll start happening in uh late 2027 and early 2028 is closeout activities area by area as they become complete will uh come into play. That includes a
lot of punch listing, system verification by engineers, architect, um left fields, MEP folks, commissioning agents, etc. And those phases more or less uh you know get into full steam
closeout work in the early spring and run out into the October range with final inspections, affidavits, etc. in late October that lead up to that big red bar November 8th substantial completion.
We have work to do outside of the construction contract on the back end of this. We'll be getting in this building early in um July so the tech um the tech staff at the school has the summer to start getting server rooms and closet set up and then we'll work our way as we
get later into um into 2028 into loose technology deployment and furniture deployment. Ultimately we're uh have a sequence of packing and moving in December through the holidays that enables uh the January 2nd occupancy.
There's also a lot of training, staff training, uh, building training. Uh, we'll be occupying a lot of the IT staff, Carl and his staff's time, uh, this summer and this fall as we get into this building. Overall, um, you can sort
of see here the schedule more or less has a month or so of what we call float built on the back end. And that means in theory um the building could be ready to occupy in December. And we have what we feel is an acceptable landing strip here
to get the owner furnished items that are outside of Conigley's contract technology furniture uh equipment in here. Most importantly, um there's been a lot of thought, a lot of discussion with the team with Conigi about uh bidding an accelerated schedule with
subcontractors. Um, all of the subcontractors are on a slightly more aggressive schedule than these purple and green bars show. And I'm going to sort of go back. So, the this um schedule that was bid with the sub consultants, these purple and green
bars are a little bit compressed. And as we work our way towards getting all those subs on board, which we need this GMP approval tonight to do, um, we hope to open up more backend on this schedule. So, as it's laid out right
now, left field is confident that we can finish and uh get everyone in this building in the time frame we say and we have some real means with Conigley and Conigley subcontractors to work towards bettering this schedule and opening up a
bigger landing strip on the back end here and um perhaps just have more time. Be always wonderful if we can get in a little bit earlier with furniture and technology. It's going to be a whole lot of deliveries, a lot of work. We're confident in how the schedule's laid
out. We have a plan to make it better. You'll hear a lot about that as we progress through the critical path of the schedule in the next year or two. But overall, um, I know left field has confidence that we can meet this schedule. And I wanted to do what I just
did with the budget and defer to Conigley or Perkins Eastman, our project team people to um to let the committee know how you feel about the schedule side of this project. >> We we also concur. We've worked uh quite extensively on this schedule um as
everyone knows and um we still have more detail that we want to put in it and there are strategies that we're employing as we move into the next phase of construction with the both the filed trades and the non-filed trades that as
we get them on board to um try to as Brian was saying bring this uh the back end of the schedule in as early as possible to ensure that there will not be any delays in uh occupancy for start
of classes on January of uh 29. Thank you, Darren. And a lot of these schedule previews are all dependent on getting done the items that are right in front of us going back here these next number of months. uh getting this foundation poured, getting steel on site
is what's critical now. Anything we can do to to hold and better what we're doing now will help us later. So our our focus in the short term and Conigley's focus in the short term is getting through these completing ground improvements, completing the foundation,
getting steel on site, finishing steel. that is the most critical part of the uh of the front end of the schedule which any improvements we have back here are going to make the back end of the schedule better. So, >> correct. And um yeah, as we stand today,
and I'll I'll review this uh a little bit later in the discussion, but we are on schedule for foundations. Um it's tight. We're pushing. Um but we we're still in good shape to uh receive steel
in July. And uh the steel erection that commences in July will be what we call the critical path which means that once we start that we gauge the remainder of the project from there. So um we're on
schedule for a July start with uh steel. >> Thank you Darren. Uh I can put anything back on the screen, but I'll stop sharing right now to see if um anyone from the city. I know we've again I want to thank the people who've all of you, but a lot of
people have spent a lot of time. Dr. Kelly, Mr. Mayor, Chris, Chris, Nick, Joe Leuen. Um any of you folks have any questions or any comments? Um again, we think we're in a good place. We're ready to go and uh we look forward to making
this a success over the next few years. if there >> I don't I don't I don't think I have anything. I just want to say that um so the the committee knows um I did not receive any questions from any school building committee members. Um there was there was one from uh Rich Visque a
series of things that we have to do but that they're coming after the GMP. Um, and I believe that was the only inquiry um, regarding the GMP. >> And maybe I'll add in some very quick next steps. So, we approve the GMP
tonight. We get that executed with the city. We submit that to the MSBA with some other supplemental documents. They need the >> the money into one single line item. >> Okay. Thank you. the way the the reimbursement strategy
is kind of detailed, Nick, but um in the end MSBA is going to review this as they would any estimate as they have in the past. They come up with a big number of ineligible costs. They decide what to assign as ineligible. So putting this money in various places um sort of
defends against uh putting it all in one spot and having that the spot that's deemed ineligible. So, um it's as with any allowances, we can put them in various trades, but the strategy there was to split the big one into two. Any other questions, comments?
If not, we would seek a motion to approve consigly contract amendment 10 including the final guaranteed maximum price contract in the total amount of $395,154,413.
>> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Thank you very much. I will do the roll call for this. Um, starting with Mike Bardi. >> Yes.
>> Stacy Rizzo. Stacy, is that a yes? Stacy, can you hear us? Or did I just miss it? >> I'll keep my eye on the chat. Linda. >> Okay, I'll I'll continue on. I'll come back. Dr. Kelly,
>> yes. >> Carl Spenson, >> yes. >> Christopher Bowen >> Bowen lost his signal. He's trying to reconnect, but I don't know if he's going to be able to. >> In the meantime, I am a yes and I apologize.
>> No problem. Thank you, Stacy. We'll come back to Christopher Bowen. Uh, Rich Visque, >> yes. >> Nick Rystrom, >> yes. >> Mayor Keith, >> yes. >> Anthony Cogandro,
>> yes. >> Don Martelli, >> yes. >> Chris Camela, >> yes. >> And I'm going to go back and see. Did Christopher Bowen come back? >> Excuse me, Linda, I think you skipped over me. I'm sorry, Susan Graalisi.
>> That is a yes. And I believe Tom Skarowski entered the um Zoom a little bit ago. >> Yes, I did. Thank you, Susan. I was in and out. Um but I am a yes. >> Thank you, Tom, very much. I will note that and
I will check for the arrival time uh later on. Um, and we still don't have Christopher Bowen, correct? I don't see him. All right. Well, we definitely have the
motion passed anyway. So, I will >> note that. Thank you very much. >> Excellent. >> Thank you. And congratulations. Major milestone. Um, rest of the milestones are going to be a little more physical. Still topping off, opening the building.
So, um, this was probably our last big on paper milestone. Everything else will be, uh, will be real life at that point. Uh, let me look at the agenda. So, next, we wanted, uh, to ask Conigley for a quick update on construction progress.
Agenda item six. >> Okay. Um, can you see my screen sharing? >> It's trying. It's not. Yep, it's there. All set. Oh, okay. All right. Um, so overview here. Um,
the, uh, you can kind of see the building shape here, uh, on the screen. Um, uh, the gymnasium over in the, uh, far left over here. Uh, the auditorium and back of house utilities area on the
right. Uh then down below uh you've got the across the entire frontage is the um what will be the front of the school um the classroom uh portion of the of
the school. Um as you can see here we have a lot of uh foundational work going on in the back of the site which is the plan. We once again are moving from the rear of the school to the front of the
school. Uh simultaneously working on both uh what we call building F which is the gymnasium and building E which is the auditorium and and uh house back house utility area. Then we move across the building footprint going through the
cafeteria area which we call building D and through over the um what would be the courtyard area which is called building G and into the frontage of the building which is again the classroom area which we've split into or the the
design team is split into three separate parts A, B and C. Um, so a lot of work going on here in the in the rear as you can see. Uh, this back area here is uh we're putting up we're we're putting peers in place in
preparation to actually form the foundation walls. There's footings, spread footings all the way throughout and around. So foundation walls will be u materializing as we move uh through the month of May.
um another another uh vantage point of the site. Okay. So, VFW Parkway right here or Northshore uh Northshore Road and and VFW Parkway here. Uh the school property uh the
footprint is right here in the northern part or I should say in the upper part of the screen. And we have this large area here is in preparation for the geothermal wells. Um, we've got, uh,
this is eventually going to be the baseball field. Uh, as you can see, we're using ample portions of the site for stockpiling, uh, for, uh, fills and so forth. Um, we'll move down into kind
of just some more details of some of the work that's going on on site. Nothing specific, but just generally speaking, you can see, you know, uh reinforcing uh steel being prepped to be placed. Uh you can see foundation
uh foundation spread footings in place with uh with uh reinforcing steel popping up above in in preparation to receive new walls. Um,
another large uh foundational uh uh mat area being uh prepped for uh pour. Um and this again is uh as you can see right here these are this is shoring that we put in uh at the beginning at
the outset and that was again as a strategy to help manage uh the water that uh we currently will be experiencing all the way through this project as we try to perform the uh perform all the site work and foundational work. Another another
viewpoint uh from inside the building footprint looking back towards these peers. These are again you're standing inside the footprint of what will eventually be the gymnasium. Um and then of course this is an example of an actual uh pier uh prior to us
putting all of the uh the formwork around it. So this is your steel uh columns going up approximately 16 ft. So they're pretty high. Um, this is just an example of of a wa of a
mockup wall that we uh put in place uh as a way to show uh and get acceptance on the quality of some of the workmanship that will be employed, especially on the viewable areas of the uh of of the uh garage. Um, we wanted
the design team and everybody to see it and make sure that they were happy with the uh finished product uh mockup. Uh, an example of uh our ground improvements. This is um company Menard
who works for the site contractor WL French and they're putting in uh ground improvements. Um so as you can see these are all this is an example of us drilling these uh basically these
columns that are drilled uh basically some are shallow and some are deep. And what these are doing is uh helping to improve the structural integrity of the of the uh subterranean levels of the building prior to us uh commencing with
foundations. Uh these go throughout the entire footprint of the slab uh both under the foundations as well as underneath the the actual footprint the building the general footprint of the building the slab. Um and uh they've
been designed by Menard and uh they are as a means to help us mitigate any uh concerns that may come up with regards to settlement. Uh, as everyone knows, we're basically at sea level. So, uh,
we're we're uh we're designing this in a way that helps keep the building uh in the uh stable position at the end of the project and for many many years to come. Another example uh box cover that we're
placing around the site uh to ferry uh storm water and such throughout uh throughout the site. uh just more improvements to manage uh the uh the storm water that we uh uh will take on
throughout the the lifetime of this project and and the lifetime of the building in general. Um more site drainage here. Um Nick Rystrom and Chris Chamella I'm sure are
interested in these uh picks, but uh they're more than welcome to come out as well as everybody else and view um view our uh progress. Um and that kind of outlines our current uh status of the project as it is. We're
really trucking right along. In fact, we have plans to work uh we worked last Saturday and we're we have plans to work again this Saturday and most likely we'll be working six days a week uh for uh some time as we get ourselves ready
to uh commence steel uh erection in the uh summer. >> Thank you Darren. Any questions, comments on progress? >> Just a question for uh Linda. If we
could get these screenshots updated on the website. >> I can make sure that the uh that left field has uh all these documents, all these pics so that they can and I believe, Linda, that we did send over some uh doc some pics to you last week.
Yeah, I'll follow up with you, Darren. I didn't receive anything yet, so >> Okay. >> Right. Right now, the ones that are on there are more much more detailed. The the drone footage is very effective. >> Okay, fair enough. Yeah, I think that's
what I was referring to, but yes, we can get you some more uh drone footage details. Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Okay, there's no other questions. We'll move it down the agenda. Uh, next is public comment. We have some
new and other business after that, but um, we'll go to public comment. Name and address for the record if there is any public comment. Anyone? I don't see hands.
Going twice. All right. We will move from public comment agenda item seven to other business eight. I think the only thing to I had note here. Um Dr. Kelly, you wanted to talk about the furniture fair. >> Yeah, just letting uh everybody on the
building committee know that we're going to have a furniture expo um in the East Wing conference room at the high school. Um, and that's going to be on May, well, we're going to start on the 6th, but we're just going to um use that day for
kids. And then on the 7th, we'll have um teachers and I wanted to invite everybody on the committee if you can just send me an email on what time you'd like to come anytime during the school day on the 7th. Um we can arrange for somebody to meet you. And um the idea of
the furniture expo is that people can actually sit in the chairs, put their hands on the desks, and uh touch the different products that ultimately we're going to have to decide what we want to fill all these classrooms with. Um and
the priority right now for this expo is um student furniture and teacher furniture. There will be, I believe, a couple of pieces from the common areas. Um, but the primary focus is um student and teacher stuff.
Thank you. Any other business, new due business from the committee? If not, we would entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. Congratulations everybody. >> Very good.
>> You have a good night everybody. >> Thank you all. >> Thank you. >> Date and time. >> Thank you.