Take that as he's here. >> Sorry. >> [laughter] >> Still finding the button. >> That's all right. Uh Stacy Rizzo, absent. Susan Gravelese, absent. Dr. Kelly, >> here.
>> Carl Svenson, >> here. Once. >> Once, twice. Excellent, thank you. Christopher Bowen, >> here. >> Rich Viscay, >> here. >> Don Suramella,
absent. Nick Reistrom, absent. Mayor Keith, >> here. >> Tom Skouroski, >> here. >> John Stamatopoulos, absent. Anthony Cogliandro,
>> here. >> Don Martelli, >> here. >> Joshua Miranda, >> here. >> Chris Suramella, absent. And I noticed that Stacy Rizzo just arrived. >> Yeah.
>> Thank you very much. I will count you as present. Thank you, everyone. Brian. >> I'm going to take the screen, Linda. I've got a handful of items to go through tonight. Uh housekeeping first, uh approval of meeting minutes from the
May 20th, 2026 meeting. Um if there are no questions, we'd entertain a motion to approve those minutes. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Second. >> By Tom, second by Roll call with Mike Picardi.
>> Yes. >> Stacy Rizzo? >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly? >> Yes. >> Paul Svenson? >> Yes. >> Christopher Bowen? >> Yes. >> Fiske? >> [clears throat]
>> Yes. >> Uh Mayor Keith? >> Yes. >> Cogliandro? >> Yes. >> Don Martelli? >> Yes. >> Joshua Mermanda? >> Uh I was absent so I'll abstain.
>> Okay, perfect. Thank you. Uh and that will be it. Thank you. >> Sounds good. Going to move into agenda item three, the monthly invoice package. I'm going to just get my Zoom controls out of the way.
Uh first invoice we have uh four invoices tonight to process. First is the Left Field monthly invoice. Uh billing construction administration to 21% and uh billing uh subconsultant work to dust monitoring with Sanborn Head on
site for 28% and the uh fire protection life safety code review, which is ongoing with Code Red at 50%. Um total Left Field invoice $197,264. There are no questions, we'd entertain a
motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Thank you. I will call the roll. Mike Picardi? >> Yes. >> Stacy Rizzo? >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly?
>> Yes. >> Paul Svenson? >> Yes. >> Bowen? >> Yes. >> Rich Fiske? >> Yes. >> Mayor Keith? >> Yes.
>> Tom Skwarowsky? >> Yes. >> Anthony Cogliano? Don Martelli? >> Yes. >> Joshua Miranda? >> Yes. >> All right. Motion passes. Thank you.
>> Uh next uh easy one construction materials testing. This is the third party. Um Oh, something just got drawn on the screen. I'm not sure how I can get rid of that, but uh we'll keep going. Um
Briggs uh billing 34,185 dollars and 50 cents this month. Uh again, this is an a la carte uh budget. Uh like the mostly compaction soil related tests, concrete tests, etc. And ultimately, we'll be seeing a lot more
concrete tests, steel tests, etc. as we get further into that scope. About a third of this uh budget is consumed. As we've said, we want to get through steel erection uh in the late summer months and uh see if this budget needs to be topped off, but uh right now, it's still in good
shape. Uh if there's no questions about the Briggs Engineering and Testing bill uh for 34,185 dollars and 50 cents, we would entertain a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. >> Second.
>> You? I will do the roll call. Thank you, John. Uh starting with Mike Picardi. >> Yes. >> Stacey Rizzo? >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly?
>> Yes. >> Carl Svenson? >> Yes. >> Herb Boyajian? >> Yes. >> Rich Visk A? >> Yes. >> Mayor Keith? >> Yes. >> Tom Skarupski?
>> Yes. >> John Stamatopoulos? John, are you able to hear? >> Yes, I'm sorry. I couldn't get the mute button. Yes, I'm here paying all the bills. Second Yeah, we're good. >> Awesome. Thank you.
Anthony Cugliandro? >> Yes. >> Don Martelli? >> Yes. >> Joshua Miranda? >> Yes. >> Thank you, everyone. >> Thank you. Third invoice here, Perkins Eastman monthly invoice billing to 8%
completion of construction administration. And I just wanted to point out if anyone's curious, um the uh Left Fields construction administration is at 21%. Perkins Eastman's is at eight. That's really because uh our construction phase started last year
when Perkins Eastman was still in their design phase. So, these numbers will equalize by the end of the project. Um it really is just that our CA phase is longer than theirs because they were still in design. So, 8% construction administration billing for Perkins
Eastman. Also, two subconsultants, uh VHB, who's the traffic consultant driving the MassDOT permitting process to completion at 70%. And GZA, who is the geotechnical engineer and on-site uh monitoring various aspects of uh ground improvements and drilling the uh
geothermal wells, etc., billing to 39%. Total Perkins Eastman invoice, $447,508.42. If there's no questions, we would entertain a motion. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Roll call. Mike Picardi?
>> Yes. >> Stacey Russo? >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly? >> Yes. >> Carl Svenson? >> Yes. >> Christopher Bowen? >> Yes. >> Rich Visciglia? >> Yes.
>> Mayor Keen? >> Yes. >> Tom Skoroski? >> Yes. >> John Stamatopoulos? Did we lose John? I believe we did. We'll call that technical difficulties for now.
Anthony Cogliandro? >> Yes. >> Don Martelli? >> Yes. >> And Joshua Miranda? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Last invoice for the night, the Consigli wreck.
This is the first wreck that really absorbs the whole GMP value. It's always um a big task to get the approved GMP into the invoice. Thank you, Consigli, for getting everything on the schedule of value side in there and for working with us this
week through some of our questions on um how all the GMP categories were billing. Um per usual, a lot of these top categories uh the 0502 100 0100 and down um are all overhead categories, generally bill according to the calendar
of percentage complete. So, overall, we're at about 12% complete. Getting into uh subconsultant direct billings, there's a credit here on the demo line. that more or less is just some coordination with Consigli that a line item this 15,762
item build on the demo line. Ultimately, it needed to be down in division 31 site work. So, it's a a credit in one category to build the cost into another category. Concrete is billing to 12% complete. It's ongoing on site. If you've been by
there, you've seen some of the footings and walls being poured. Structural steel building to 28% complete. We are in fabrication. If you went further into this package, there's a even some photos of steel that will hold up the Revere High School building up in
Canada loaded on trucks ready to start heading down here in July. We have some first billings from the aluminum entrances entrances and storefront sub-consultant just billing for shop drawings and mobilization. HVAC similar billing bonds and shop
drawings. Both really it's less than 1% of the total contract value. Site work is billing to a total of 34% completion and the geothermal wells which are progressing well are billing to 13% completion.
Typically, we have all the retainage coming off the top. You'll always see this value at the bottom. And we are a number of months away from discussing any any retainage release. We did talk about that a little bit at last month's meeting. So, everything is billing to an appropriate percentage
based upon team review of this and the Consigli Rec 12A total $7,807,369.12. There are any questions, we'll take them. Otherwise, we'll look for a motion to approve. >> So moved.
>> Second. >> I'll call Mike Picardi. >> Yes. >> Stacey Rizzo. >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly. >> Yes. >> Carl Svenson. >> Yes. >> Christopher Bowen.
>> Yes. >> Rich Visciglia. >> Yes. >> Mayor Keith. >> Yes. >> Tom Skroski. >> Yes. >> John Stamatopoulos. >> Yes.
>> Anthony Cogliandro. >> Yes. >> Don Martelli. >> Yes. >> And Joshua Miranda. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. We'll move on to agenda item
four. We want to do a a typical brief but high-level um monthly report overview and highlight a few things um in the monthly report. Well, we're going to jump to now and uh Darren from Consigli's going to talk through is uh this dashboard page that's
in the Consigli monthly report. And uh we thought we would have Darren just sort of briefly describe what's in here. So if the committee's moving forward, this is a good single sheet reference for um for how Consigli's progress is moving along. Darren, would you mind walking us
through this? Let me know where you want me to zoom. >> Sure. Absolutely. Can you hear me? >> Yep. >> Okay. Um so yeah, this is kind of a high-level one-stop-shop look at the project over the last month um
so that if anybody wanted to not have to peruse through, you know, hundreds of pages, uh this would be the a good place to start. So, on the left-hand side, we'll talk about financials,
the middle of the page will be about kind of executive overview and schedule components, and then on the right side is more technical things such as status of submittals, RFIs, status of inspections,
deficiencies, punch list, etc. Um, so getting back over to the right-hand side for a minute, maybe blowing that up a little bit so everybody can see. I'm sorry, left-hand side, apologize. >> [laughter]
>> Um, so uh, financial, so, we will list the contract amount, 395 million. We would we would list any changes that might be forthcoming or have been approved. Uh,
in in our case, this project is our outlook is and our goal is to not have any change orders on this project. So, most of you know, in most months, we would expect that previously approved change orders will be zero and the project is going to hold
at 395 million throughout the course of this project. Um, so, moving down into some of the status of billing, just basically saying that at as a snapshot in time, here's where the billing at the billing lays out, but
again, sometimes this will maybe not entirely coincide with with the actual funding to date because we might be getting the the funding while the report is being put together, but in general, this should accurately
reflect where we are with regards to what's been billed and what's been paid to date, and how much retainage has been whole withheld, and and how much outstanding we have relative to the the overall project in general.
Um but also specific to certain the the actual billing or previous billings. Um allowance The next section is going to be relative to certain specific components of the
GMP. For instance, allowances, holds, contingencies. So, there were certain allowances, holds, or contingencies set up in the GMP. These are just areas of the GMP that
the project team has determined the best course of action is to put these monies aside. They they [clears throat] are utilized during the course of the project. In in general, the goal of these monies, which again are embedded
in the GMP, is to utilize these sources in lieu of requesting change orders. Okay, so that we can keep the contract value topped off at 395 million. Um
Procurement overview is a brief look at the status of the buyout of the project thus far. So, because this project was a 149A project, a good portion of it was
immediately procured as soon as we opened the bids and awarded the contractors for the final trades. Without getting into much detail there, that allowed fairly large portion of the project, over 70%, to be bought immediately.
We had previously also bought um a portions of the job as everyone knows uh starting back uh last year when we released the site work and the steel and elevators and and
other early procurement packages. Um so those are also included in here, but so we have about 20 or so percent more to go to get complete the buyout and that process is is ongoing. We're working with uh
Left Field and the design team as a group to uh to de-scope all of the remaining uh contract uh trades and get them um on board with a contract. That process
is going to be ongoing for uh several more months. Um and then and then consequently you would see that during the process the the things that we can buy out and the things that we are able to qualify in terms of um
uh trying to buy the scope out for the best dollar and that would hopefully net a savings that would be um would be realized and uh kept in the GMP
for uh use as the uh team sees uh fit uh per the OPM and and the owner. >> [snorts] >> So that is the financial side. Are there any questions on that side? >> Actually Darren, before we go on, can you just briefly talk about what we
talked about Monday with the values and the hold status and how next month the committee should expect to see a little difference there. Nothing that's going to change substantively, but just to align with the GMP with the 20 million on that original line, but then the
expenditure to date would be adjusted equally so that the balance is still 12 million. >> You pretty much explained it all right there, Dr. Kelly, but yeah, that's basically it. We we had a uh
the the the way that we uh published this uh was based on some reconciliation of previous uh holds per previous project amendments that prior to the final GMP.
And and all that uh Dr. Kelly is saying here is that um this number that we're showing here is not entirely reflective of of the entire hold uh status. The entire hold status is actually 20 million, it's not 16. And
and um so we're going to that number's going to show a little bit differently next uh month, that's all. >> Thank you. >> Next section is project overview and um I I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that cuz I I would like to uh show
you some uh you know, our typically we show pictures of the current status of the project and I would probably like to uh cover that item during that when I when I share some of those pictures. Um but generally speaking, this executive overview kind of addresses
certain aspects of the project. It talks about where we're at with um uh with buyout, with certain things her- hurdles, and maybe some challenges that we're trying to overcome. And and it also covers uh a schedule update in more
specific. But I'm going to get into that with the pictures in a minute. Uh the and then and then the next section down with uh schedule just kind of shows this is again shows schedule milestones and where we're at on certain items. These are um newer items, like
things that are either have are on the immediate horizon or are coming up. >> [snorts] >> Roadblocks at the very bottom are just some things that again the project team is working through to try to get resolved so that we can keep get answers
to subcontractors or to solve to I guess identify questions and get a resolution. On the on the right-hand side you've got the as I said some technical
information in regards to submittals and RFIs. So submittals are just project information, shop drawings, and data that the contractors owe us once we buy them out so that we can provide them to the design team to
ensure that we're getting what we intended on getting. And um the so RFIs on the other hand are usually come from questions from subs or contractors that we from our team that
we need to get clarity on from the design team. I would say that with regards to the submittals and I cuz I want to be clear about this cuz the design team brought this up on our discussion on Monday. This pie chart shows all the submittals
for the entire project including closeouts. So while it looks like that we have a tremendous amount of submittals that are outstanding, the fact is that this is the entire project. It's not just something
new. We've got 2,000 submittals that are outstanding, you know. Um so in general though it's very reflective and typical of where we are in the project at this point in time. The RFIs
you can see so far around 260 little over 260 and we have design teams doing a good job on keeping us getting us answers to those RFIs. I feel like there may have been some
questions coming in so if I want to I give somebody a chance to pose anything. >> Don, this is Mary Keith on behalf of Rich Biscay we had our standing standing poor ratings call yesterday
and they were actually looking to see if we had some photos we could share with them. They enjoy this type of stuff but they're also the bonding bond rating agency when we continue to buy bonds to this project or sell bonds to this project we'll we'd like to have some things to accompany.
Also, I know that you've been cataloging photos from start to finish. I'm not sure if you're doing time lapses. And certainly now isn't the time to maybe make them all published but it would be great to have kind of a good catalog for some
historical preservation on the building of the site. >> Yeah, absolutely. We [clears throat] have we we we do a we we hope to do a very thorough job of cataloging the progress of this project
and we we store that information on a SharePoint site called Procore. The project team has access to that >> [music] >> and we can get those parties that need to get access to you know to uh
select the pictures that they are interested in in using. They're all for public consumption. I can talk Left Field and I can talk offline about making sure that you're that any team members that want to get access to that can can get those.
>> Great. Appreciate that, Darren. >> Was it um Again, uh just to close this kind of section out here, and I don't want to put to uh or dismiss this the safety update at the bottom. Just kind of gives everybody an outline of where we are in
terms of uh our our normal uh weekly audits of the project to uh internally uh with our team coming through and making sure that we are uh doing everything the right way. Um talking about how many uh
uh hours have been expended to date overall on the project, and if there are any God forbid uh recordables or any accidents or so forth, that would also be uh uh identified at this in this uh section of the of the dashboard.
And then on the bottom of this, she kind of just shows uh a number of pictures, kind of highlights. Um but I'm going to show some pictures in a minute that will kind of be even more up-to-date than this. This is a snapshot that now is,
you know, almost going on 3 weeks old, so um does anyone have any more questions on this particular item before we move to some pictures for the current over the last week or so? >> Just a comment that I think this is
incredibly helpful, and thank you. >> Great. >> Just really really quick high-level, Darren, um and I always just want to jump back into the last few pages of the uh left field report. This is a slightly rolled up um a little more detailed than this
schedule summary, which as Darren noted is sort of uh what's right in front of us, but we are still on schedule. Um >> I I will take a real quick uh shot at this one to help out uh Brian. So,
this was uh at the request of uh Joe Lewin who has been helpful with the team trying to keep us focused on what uh is important uh to communicate uh to uh the school board committee. So, um
what this kind of outlines here is what we did was we established a a baseline schedule, which is on the left, and we call that the GMP schedule, and uh it took a while for us to get to that point because there was a lot of uh
moving targets over the course of the last say 8 months with uh some of the site work challenges that we were dealing with out here. But, once we got those kind of nailed down, we were able and we got the bid uh all of the bids in it over the spring, got the contractors
bid out, and the contractors to buy in on [clears throat] uh on our um what our plan was, we established a baseline schedule, and that's what's over here on the left. Sorry, is there a question? Okay. All right. That's what's over on the left.
That's in the kind of highlighted left side, the lime colored area here. And And those are the Those are the baseline measurements that we would use for certain very specific uh scopes of work throughout the whole course of the
project. So, these will not change over the course of the project. These dates um and um these line items that are in here for description won't change. On the right-hand side is the current outlook of the schedule
based on latest updates and feedback from the subs and latest information on our work progress, when materials are arriving, ex- uh etc. So, this is a way for us to compare between what our
current current outlook is versus the GMP schedule, the baseline schedule. And this is kind of a one-stop shop cuz our current our real schedule that this is all based off of is probably at this point it's over 40
pages and at the end of the day it will probably be pushing 100. So, it's a it's a very long it's got, you know, thousands and thousands of line items. So, this is a better way for everybody to review more efficiently
where we are at on a monthly basis. >> And I was I mean, if you if you want to cheat while you're following along at home, you know, zooming down to the bottom is a good way to look at this current outlook substantial completion is a good 40-something days. Um a little
better as Darren mentioned that can evolve. These blue columns are always a snapshot. But right now the snapshot is good. >> Yeah, and and the thing to know here is that >> [clears throat] >> what we're trying to do is strategize
to make sure that we do not miss the the November substantial completion date. So, what we're trying to do is gauge okay, based on what we what we have commitments from trades on based and
also coupled with other unforeseen circumstances, we we have this we have this what we call float. It's a buffer, if you will, that that tells us, okay, the you know, this is the worst-case scenario on the
left and right now we're trending this way and we want to we we if if things start to get closer to that 11 8 date, we it starts alerting us that we there's some things we need to do quickly to try to
uh either pre- prevent further slippage or reverse course. >> Thank you, Darren. I'm just going to hit the one-page budget summary quick to uh which is one page before this. >> Uh sorry, Brian. One more thing on that last page, if you can. I just want to
point out that the A after the finish date means it was actualized. So, that's actually happened. And the more we see the A's, the better we know we are in uh progressing on time. >> Good detail. Thank you. So, on the budget side of things, we
remain uh under budget. Again, the quickest way to read this sheet is to look at these yellow numbers down here. Overall total project budget um about 17% complete and have expended
significantly less than that and um any contingencies um 3%, 5% depending on how you look at it. So, these are always the good uh columns to look at to make sure that we're we are more done physically than what we've chewed through in terms of
contingencies for unforeseen events. The other column to um generally look at here is this H current exposures column, which is a a forecast, sort of a crystal ball of potential upcoming items um that might require some uh dip into
contingency. Right now, we just have a very small value uh booked on the builder's risk line. That's a plug that's going to be there until we're filling this brick building up with furniture and technology. That plug would um pull an inland marine um policy
to cover that equipment that's not under the builder's risk policy currently uh cuz it's not in the building. So, we'll be plugging that uh small insurance premium for to cover furniture and tech until we get there. We're also previewing down in this miscellaneous cost line that once the uh
final National Grid service uh the bill to install the service the back charge from National Grid we expect that in July. Um the discussions we've had with National Grid think that's going to be about 200,000 over what we have remaining in that
budget category. Uh that's an item that would ultimately be covered by the owner's soft contingency which has 605,000 left in it. Uh lastly, you see this $1.5 million value in furnishings and equipment. This right now is a guestimate that in the coming three or
so months we'll get into a lot more focus and discuss with the city, the school, and the committee. But uh right now at least the numbers that um I'm sort of choosing from various discussions are we probably need about $500,000 to help out the technology
section and we'll need around a million potentially more um to help out furniture. Uh so again, these are just a forecast. If they're uh in the end the tech and the furniture package do need their budgets topped off, that would
feed from the owner's hard contingency line of which there is 33.3 million in there. So, this is sort of the crystal ball what's coming. Are there any financial issues? But generally speaking, the bottom of this spreadsheet um vets out that we're uh
we're ahead of the game in terms of the budget for now. I think I either saw a chat or a hand go up. I'm not sure if that was a question. Yep. >> Brian, I have a question. Yeah. Am I hearing you right that we're a
million and a half over budget on technology and furniture already? >> Uh it's a as those those old estimates this the combined value of 7.8 million is a couple years old at this point. The forecast as those teams are moving along
are are yes that between those two categories that 7.8 million dollar line Uh, right now it's forecasted that we might need about 1.5 million in addition to the 7.8. Um, as we get real estimates on that we
can review them and refine them with the city and the committee as needed. >> Did you put a point on what's driving a million and a half over on a 7 million dollar budget? >> Um, for furniture it's mostly the cost of um, the furniture having gone up. Uh,
I don't I I know I don't know want to put Dan or anybody from Perkins Eastman on the spot. I don't believe it's that um, more furniture is being added or more technology is being included. I think it really is market costs. You could also
make the argument that um, perhaps the 7.8 million dollar budget could have been higher to begin with. Um, we base these uh, off of the MSBA reimbursing to the tune of $1,200 per student. We carried a little bit higher than that to create the 7.8 million dollar budget. I
think it was 1,800 a student for furniture is what we carried and if I'm not mistaken 1,400 per student for tech. Um, but at least the consultants working on this are previewing that that those two three year old numbers we
established a long time ago are potentially inadequate. >> All right, I'd like to take a closer look at that when it gets closer. >> Yeah, there'll be um, there'll be some updates um, in the coming months. We we we won't be buying this stuff until at
the earliest probably late 2027 through that winter and into spring 2028. So, there'll be some update presentations this fall uh, about what is the scope, what is the cost, where did some overages happen, and decisions can be made at this point. Right now, this tool is really just
saying this I if I'm hearing some of these budgets are inadequate, this is where I'd plug a value to make sure that we don't lose track of it and make sure that you folks know that there's potentially some turbulence down the road in some of these budgets. >> I just want to add to that, Brian, that
we have been talking about this for some time now about the cost of the furniture and um technology equipment increasing more rapidly than anticipated. >> Yeah, correct. There were some discussions about potentially using the
GMP savings to immediately top these budgets off, and that decision was sort of deferred um until we have more info. So, yes, Dr. Kelly, this has been on the radar for a little bit. Any monthly report questions, schedule, or budget, and which I did see um I can
get you the slide. Um I was just looking at the chat. Whoop. >> Thank you. >> Uh if there are no further monthly report overview topics, uh Dan, if you can just hang on for 1 sec. I should have the construction update right next to it. We'll do that
next month. Um but we're going [clears throat] to get through Moving into agenda item five, um I'll queue this up and uh Linda's one of our resident experts on this. She's going to take it over, but um for some time we've known that there are potentially uh federal rebates that would come well
after the job is complete, specifically inflation reduction act rebates associated with the geothermal system. Um we spent a few months uh with the city, with Rich, uh soliciting proposals. Uh we got multiple proposals, talked to multiple firms, and there's a
recommendation tonight of a firm to move forward with that basically will help consult, translate a bunch of uh detailed documents that we, the project team, Left Field Consigli need to track so that um down the road after the
project, this consultant can uh work with Revere's tax folks and uh recoup IRA money after the job is complete. So, Linda, I'm going to stop sharing the screen. Um pardon that little intro, but um I'll let you take it from there.
>> Oh, yeah, it was great, Brian. You just covered everything. I >> I tried to do the five-cent version of it. >> [laughter] >> It's all good. Uh I'm just going to uh just explain a little bit uh just what was sent out in the package to
the SBC was um a what we got was a revised statement of work from uh one of the firms that we all felt was seemed to be um very qualified in uh helping aid the city of Revere and the the project team
in this process. Um so, what I had attached to uh your meeting information is uh just a statement of work um which is on your screen right now. Uh it talks about the the scope for the fees for
them to assist us during the course of this project. Um and there's a couple of different pieces that they broke out. Some of the the scope has already been taken care of uh in the bid documents uh just because
we have been handling this um these cases on many other projects, so we've been able to incorporate a lot of the verbiage and a lot of the guidelines that needed to be included uh for the bidders already. So, there's there's a little bit more limited scope to what we
need the tax attorneys to help with. Um but basically what it is is um it's a a statement of work that they would like the uh Revere City of Revere to sign off on so that they can start uh looking at
the documentation and what this is, as Brian mentioned, is this is a rebate program that comes from a federal level, so it's not state regulated. Um there's um um it's related to the geothermal system
all the way from the the wells being drilled uh into the ground all the way out to the HVAC system and diffusers out in the uh the ceilings essentially. So, everywhere and everything that is tied to that system.
Uh so, what these folks do is they help with uh looking at the um um the guidelines that we have to have all the subcontractors follow is they have to have a certain amount of
uh domestic content to their product. They have to have an apprenticeship program in place and they also have to have um they have to track the um the the wages um
throughout the process and throughout the project. So, what we found is that this is really really tricky information to gather. It's hard to set it up from the beginning and it's even harder once you actually have to file for these rebates.
Uh so, that is why um these uh tax attorneys are so incredibly helpful. Uh they will go through the documentation of what we already know we have to look at and look for uh and they will help us continuously track that throughout the process.
Um and then once the project is complete and the entire system is up and running, uh, they will help the city with filing documentation to get those rebates. Um, and those rebates, um, they they
vary depending on how you meet those guidelines that they have set in the beginning. Um, but essentially if we run everything right, we we could potentially get, uh, a rebate of up to as much as 40% of the total cost of a system.
And when we ran the numbers briefly from the very beginning, we came up with an estimate of about $18 million for for of cost for the system. So, if you take 40% of that, it's a pretty sizable amount of money that would come back to
the city of Revere. Um, it would come back in terms of a check and it comes back after the project is done. So, it doesn't get mixed in with the reimbursement from the MSBA or any of those because it comes back as a check directly to the city of
Revere. So, um, in short, that's that's the Reader's Digest version of this. Um, and this company, um, MA Bailey, um, has, uh, given us a proposal and we are,
uh, recommending that we go with this firm and sign an agreement with them to have them start looking at documentation so that we can make sure that we're tracking the documentation to make sure we meet all those guidelines from day one. Um, which is now becoming very
time-sensitive as the geothermal wells have already started getting drilled. >> And I'll go ahead. >> Sorry, go ahead. >> No, I just wanted to, um, kind of in layman's to the group, this is, um, this is obviously good a good thing. You know, some of the the quotes that we
received, uh, we've asked you to kind of uh, suss out, but from the city's standpoint, a check is good at the end of the project and that is part of that'll go into the the repayments for the bonds that we're going to be pulling
when the project's completed and we start having those larger payments for those few years. So, this is part of that staying within the tax levy and making sure that we pay for the project and we're um we're financed well, but also we're being good stewards of the the city's
tax base. >> Thank you, Mike Kieven. I was just going to add that um we this would be a this we are requesting basically a motion to approve Aid Bailey and their proposal
that totals $155,000. We have an other project costs category in the budget, so that cost would be borne by the budget. That was a $400,000 budget, of which about $50,000 has been used to that 50,000 was used to register
the project for Passive House, so there's about 350 grand left uncommitted in that budget line. So, just pointing out that this would be a project expense. It's not a contingency draw. It would fund off of the other project costs line in the
budget. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> I make Can I ask another question first? >> Sure. >> Sorry. >> Um this is going to be a separate contract, Brian, or a subcontract to that field?
>> Uh it's a direct contract with the city, Michael. >> Okay. >> And this is not a sub subconsultant to anyone. >> These are attorneys doing this work? >> Correct. >> So, they're exempt. >> Yep, exempt from procurement and will
not be reimbursed. >> Wonderful news. >> And just Michael, in in addition to that we might just write it as a cost not to exceed because they do bill hourly, so they're they might not even get to that point, but
that was sort of that was their their guidelines of what they were thinking it would a project of this magnitude would take. >> Yep. That makes sense. Yep. >> All right. So, we had a motion by Rich Viscay. I apologize. I don't know who
made that who seconded that motion. >> Mayor Keith, I think. >> Correct. >> Yep. All right. Awesome. Um if there are no other questions, then I guess we can move to a roll call. Um Mike Picardi. >> Yes.
>> Stacey Rizzo. >> Yes. >> [clears throat] >> Yes. >> Dr. Kelly. >> Yes. >> Paul Svenson. >> Yes. >> Bowen. >> Yes. >> Rich Viscay. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Keith. >> Yes. >> Tom Skwarczynski. >> Yes. >> Don Stamatopoulos. >> Yes. >> Anthony Cogliandro. I think we lost him.
Um Don Martelli. >> Yes. >> And Joshua Miranda. >> Yes. >> All right. >> Good. Stop sharing. >> Thank you. Uh back to the agenda. Um
we will now do a little design update. Um Think is Don on? Don, yep. Yep, I see Don. Uh Don, you want me to robo click here for you. >> Oh, sure. I'll just uh give a quick update. Let everyone know
there's some exciting things happening speaking of FF&E that we just talked about earlier. Um our consultants Mohar Design came through with a showcase uh sample showcase back in May before the students uh sort of were finishing up for the for
the school year. And they set up a bunch of different samples in the classroom. This was the QR code. Kids could scan it with their phones and then sort of vote on the different uh types of furniture. So, student furniture, teacher furniture, desks, lounge
furniture, cafeteria chairs, uh computer tables. There was a plethora. So, I don't know if anyone on the committee besides uh Dr. Kelly and Chris were able to come over and join and check things out. But, uh I was
there. Some uh colleagues of mine were there. It was kind of fun to watch the students. They'd come in and lounge in the lounge chairs and be on their phones. Uh um but they got pretty good feedback. And I think if you go to the next slide, this is just this was the flyer that Mohar put together.
Uh I think the next slide, yep, uh has some photos of some of the kids throughout the couple of days. Uh the furniture was there almost a week. So, a handful of days. Chris sort of scheduled different classes to come in and check things out. So, it was all
labeled and they could sit, they could roll, they could you know, put take the chairs over to the desks. The teachers could come in. They could sit in the chairs. So, um if you go to the next slide, these were sort of uh
the outcomes. Not everything that was selected was the number one choice. There were different reasons whether it was cost, durability, function, um sort of you know, reasons why uh people may have chose chairs or not. Uh, Dr. Kelly and
Chris, if you guys are on. Um, the student chair, that one, we've recently toured a couple other high schools and they all had those chairs in different rooms and I was like, "Oh my god, that's the chair we chose." Um, so it's kind of fun to see. Uh, but you can highlight ones for the
ones that were recommended to move forward uh, based on feedback, based on, um, you know, cost, durability, function. This was all through the furniture consultant. And then with Chris and Diane's feedback, um, and sort of
nod of, "Okay, yes, let's move forward with that." So, what did I miss, Dr. Kelly? I don't know. >> I'll just add that we thought a lot about, um, ease of cleanliness and the ease of, um, moving the furniture. So,
we looked for pieces that had, um, kind of a space in the back where we could dust crumbs out if necessary and that things wouldn't collect in, um, joints of chairs and, uh, making sure things were stackable if need be, all of that.
>> Yeah, so the cafeteria, thank you, Dr. Kelly, that was perfect. The cafeteria chairs, perfect example. So, the green one on the right, the third one, uh, that sort of had these like, uh, perforation in the back and there was concern like kids could take food and shove it in there and it would get
dirty. And then the one in the middle doesn't, it's like a mono chair, like the seat to the back. Um, and the number one, uh, option was like has a hole so that food, you know, food, anything can kind of slide through, easy to clean. Um, so
this is a perfect example of some of the different criteria that we talked about um, with all the different furniture. So, I thought it was fun. I thought it was great to see the students in, uh, you know, involved. The teachers were coming in, asking good questions.
So, it was a great week. So, feels like a long time ago, but I guess it was just last month. I think that's it. Does anyone have any questions? It wasn't everything in the building, but it was the majority of the furniture that students and staff would
interact with. >> I'll say that we have a meeting tomorrow to talk about office furniture. So, we are progressing through different areas of the building. >> Yeah, so I guess it's also worth noting. Maybe did I do slides? I can't remember. I did these last week. For some of the
furniture layouts. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. I thought I did. So, we've been meeting with Mohar, which is our our furniture consultant. Like Dr. Kelly said, there's another meeting at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow to sort of review some of this. But, we met with users back
That might have been in the fall. Went through the spaces and we met with as many as we could. There are some lingering ones and some coordination with construction as far as power and data and how the furniture might affect what is already in the contract documents. So, just looking to
coordinate that with the selections. We had a meeting last week. That was great. And these are some of the layouts that we talked about then. There's a meeting tomorrow more about like Dr. Kelly said, the offices and some of that furniture. So, now that the selections
have been made, we're looking to just finalize a lot of the layouts. And if it affects power and data, we're trying to not affect it because that contract's already been purchased. But, if it does, we will get ahead of making any changes we need to before the building
starts going up. >> And just a quick note on the power. Two things that we are seeking to avoid in the layouts. One is power receptacles in the floor, which we know from experience is problematic. And
whenever possible avoiding having power poles that run through the middle of the room. So, trying to make banks of computer stations that act as peninsulas off of a wall so that the power can be carried from the wall
through that peninsula instead of having you know, islands of of of stuff that requires either power in the floor or a pole going up to the ceiling. And then in some cases we did look to have that mobility of the
furniture by having power come down from ceiling receptacles. >> Right. I think thank you, Dr. Kelly. What we're trying to balance is function, flexibility, and
like allowing teachers to be able to teach in a way that they can >> What? >> Carl, I think you're not muted. >> Yes. >> Um, but trying to, you know, allow the teachers to be able to see as many screens as possible within a classroom.
Just given some of the feedback that they've shared as we've met with them. So, this is sort of the final stage in setting the furniture and the final coordination with the power and data that coordinates.
So, that's FF&E update. I think signage was next. Dr. Kelly, were you going to do this or do you want me to? Dan said you might, which is fine. I'm happy to, so you tell me. >> I'm happy to let you you take it. >> Okay, great. I'm happy to. So,
with working with our signage and graphics team with them Perkins Eastman, we have a signage package that was part of the base contract, which is out there. That's all the like labeling of I think it might be on the next page.
Maybe I'll let's go backwards. If you go yep. So interior panel signs. So this is all part of the base contract and we've coordinated some of the colors with some of the theme in within the building. So this is all probably from last November or so more
than 6 months but just wanted to give an update since we were talking about signage. So this has all been determined. It'll be colored by floor and and by the particular theme so it makes wayfinding a little more straightforward within the
building. But as we were working through some of this and getting to the outside of the building and some of the campus signage. If you want to go back a slide Brian. Um we began to talk about wayfinding. How does a car that you know someone is driving they've never come to the campus
before. How do they find things? How are things labeled? What are they called? How do they get to the front door? How do they get to parking? So some of the items that we've met with first Dr. Kelly and Chris and then brought it to the design working group
for their feedback. What had to do with labeling the parking which is what you see on the right. We kept it simple A B C D E and F are the surface parking lots. G is the garage under building parking. And so that will all be
labeled. You can kind of see the snippets in the lower right. Those are the one on the far right lower right campus wayfinding is the vehicle scaled. So that will direct you to the parking lot A if you're going to see
a sporting event as an example. And then the one next to it that you see the the silhouette of the man that's the pedestrian scale. So if you're walking say you've taken the train or been dropped off and you're walking onto campus that will
direct you to the different parking lots and areas of the campus. So, that one was fairly straightforward. As we got into the field and other amenities on the campus, our team was saying, "Well, what do you want to call them? Is it field, you know, one or field two?" And
And so, I said, "I don't know. Let's ask the client." So, we brought it back to Dr. Kelly and Chris, and they said, "Well, I think we need more people involved. We know that naming it after a person not something we want to do or people, but what, you know, what's the
best way to identify some of the amenities on the campus." So, we met, I think Was it just last week? About this, and the design working group felt like there were some straightforward answers.
So, the far field, which is mostly soccer, um, that will be the Patriot field, recognizing that the logo of the sporting teams is the Patriot. The Wonderland field is the bigger field in the middle, sort of at the front of the building. So, if you enter the campus,
it'll be on the left. Uh, it also will have the reclaimed Wonderland sign. So, when the site was taken over, they reclaimed the Wonderland site the sign. I think it might be at Chris Turmel's office or in
their building. So, anyway, we've got that lovely sign, and it will go on the side of the amenities building, which has toilet rooms and, um, you know, a place to fill water bottles and that sort of thing. Uh, so that will be identified as the Wonderland field.
And I'm just giving you a snippet of the monument sign while we're talking about signage just north of that in the top center of the screen. Um, so as you enter the campus, there's a digital sign. So, you know, things can be announced and celebrated. Graduation's coming or graduation was last week, etc.
>> [laughter] >> Um, and it says the name of the school. Uh, so the two fields are either side of that sign, which will be at the main entrance. And then the wellness path, um, we just decided
community Well, not me, the group decided community wellness path made the most sense trying to recognize that the campus is really a place where we want the community to come and, um, have access to all the amenities. So, that walking path that
goes up around the um, wetlands replication and there's an osprey nest and it'll be a beautiful space. So, that we're just calling the community wellness path. Uh, and then lastly, the courtyard. That seemed fairly straightforward. It is
what it is. It's a courtyard between two parts of the building that is mostly used for school uh, during the day, but could be used for the community in evenings or on weekends. So, we will direct people via signage to all
of those locations. And on the upper left, you can see the campus wayfinding. So, there'll be these larger signs, uh, for vehicles along the the roadways to send you to parking A or the the main entrance. And then there will be some
that have maps, which is the black and white one, uh, just below the upper left. It'll have a map that will identify, uh, different parts of the of the campus and tell people where the So, some things that didn't need naming, tennis
courts, that's straightforward, right? Um, and the parking lots will be on there, the fields will be on there, the courtyard will be on there. So, what were the two areas we left? There were some interior, um, naming that we left after Kelly. It was the
hospitality, um, uh, restaurant or or cafe, uh, and also the school store. And it was decided we amongst ourselves and mostly the group uh had different feelings about it, so they
decided it might be worth getting student feedback. So, those two spaces will be named in the future. Uh I think the school is going to put out in the fall a um a poll or a contest or or some sort of fun activity for the students to get
involved in and name the future cafe as well as school store. What did I miss, Dr. Kelly? >> I think that was it. >> All right. So, lots going on with naming, locating, directing,
what the signs look like, what they say um because that package uh needs to be completed and um we're just buttoning up the last of it. Any questions on that? I don't think there are any other sides. I went to the
interior, Brian, if you want to go forward. Did the Yeah. Oh, and this was just kind of a nod to we're still in progress. There will be some large uh graphics in the building and these start to identify some
potential locations with some These are just ideas and um so, those will be future meetings that we will have with the group to sort of say, "What's the best graphic to have, you know, in the heart of the school and the the freshman
dining?" Uh so, there's a handful of places, the gymnasium. There'll be some large graphics that celebrate the community of Revere and uh those are in progress, to be determined. We're just holding money to
um and locations for them for now. So, stay tuned for that. I think that was it as far as graphics and signage update. >> I think we just might we tucked in a little um there's an idea an idea for um to somehow capture uh support from the community donor
panels maybe inside maybe outside but this is a idea in progress that thank you for some of these examples >> I didn't know this was going to the bigger group. Yeah, I know I know we thought this was just the yeah, >> We sort of threw it in here as a
something to come we going to work out some sort of program with the city where you know people could make a donation have a name memorialized etc. This will be its own its own little side project compared to all the slides before this
but just a preview of some ideas that working on that will require some interaction with the city and with the school and we'll be following up with this in the coming months. >> Yeah. So we're us along with our graphics team happy to
you know put things forward these were just ideas we had based on what we know about your community what we know about the design and trying to integrate how some of these donor panels might you know be celebrated in the building so >> Okay.
>> Great. >> Any questions on the design update questions comments anything? >> I think there's a slide for it oh there was there was an outdoor version but we can show that. >> Yeah. >> Oh there >> I was waiting for that but I don't know if it >> Oh I'm sorry I forgot about that.
>> Yeah okay so we're yep. So a couple so we had some indoor ideas and then some outdoor ideas and the out door there could be that piece is the good way or some slat and these walking paths
particularly thought the community wellness path has three three bridges that there'd be either you know a stainless panel or Sorry my internet has been really bad today. Or um wrote it in news.
>> So more to come on all this whether it's interior or exterior um owner memorial etc. Uh plans which we wanted to get it out there for some um some preview. >> Great. >> [clears throat]
>> If there's no questions, that's it. >> If there are no questions or comments, we we are back to you Darren for a construction update and then we'll wrap up the meeting after that. Unless we we lost you Darren either.
>> No, uh I I'm here. Can you release for sharing? I'm trying to share. Okay, great. Okay. One moment. See if this comes up. Is [clears throat] everyone seeing the screen?
>> Uh loading right now. It's up. There you go. >> Okay, great. Um so I'll briefly go through status over the last uh just these pictures are fairly recent um of the project. So
this looks like uh a gigantic archaeological dig right here, but basically what this is is uh foundations throughout scattered throughout the building footprint. Um give you a better view here. I'll I'll come back to the geothermal uh field in
a minute. This [snorts] is kind of a nice uh outlay of the entire uh footprint of the of the site. Um you can see here um Everybody see what I'm showing here with the building footprint? Brian, can you
>> Yes. >> Okay, great. Okay, just making sure. >> Sorry, I was muted. >> Last last month's my presentation went on and I was talking to no one, so So, I just want to make sure. Okay, so
on the left side here would be where the the gymnasium will be eventually over on the left side. If everyone can kind of see where my cursor is. Right on the upper right is the what what will be the auditorium. So, you can
see that the walls on the back side of the site are now not just footings, but are also walls that go up to what will be the first floor of the building. They we continue to form more walls on
what is in my mind and there's been some conjecture about the orientation of the site, but in my mind >> [snorts] >> this is kind of the north side of the building. North [clears throat] to slash east side of the building. This would be also where the cafeteria is. So, we're
we're moving right along here with forming the the perimeter exterior foundation walls. And that goes all the way around to the front of the building which would be where eventually the
build this front of the building is where all the classrooms reside. So, that's kind of a real brief big big overview of the overall project status of where things are right now. There's another shot of the building, but this this time looking from
[clears throat] the north looking kind of towards the south southeast of the building. So, you once again, you can see a lot of these walls along the gymnasium in the upper right coming around to what it be what we call building E, which is
again where the auditorium uh resides. And and all those walls are formed and poured. These are poured and we're getting ready to strip those forms. We also I'm going to show a better shot of this, but there's you can see there's a lot of steel popping up here above the
foundation. And we're getting ready to form those walls and pour those walls. Uh and then and that would outline the cafeteria area. And once again, across the whole frontage of the site which goes from the
left over towards the middle right of the screen here is is again the front of the building where all of the classrooms reside. Four stories in building right there. And then in the foreground here is kind of just our access routes uh to get in
and around the building. And then in the bottom of the screen is the beginning of what would be uh what is the geothermal well field, what will eventually be the baseball field which was being referred to it looks as one Wonderland field.
Um so here's some more pictures of just the ongoing work progress. This is in the over from the auditorium on the left to the cafeteria on the right and just the kind of the progress and the efforts that the crew is going to to get the the
the perimeter walls built. More [clears throat] foundation reinforcement, lots of very very thick rebar. We're talking about rebar that is in excess of an inch or more thick. So pretty pretty big stuff.
Um another example just you know of our cranes, why our cranes are out there, what they're needing in terms of like um [clears throat] remove putting in place and removing form boards for the crew. And then you can see once again a nice beauty shot on
what would be on the outside of building what we call building E and building D, which is again combination of the auditorium and and portions of the cafeteria. On the right of this little picture here, you can see the um
again, just as a reminder, what we had to do around the entire perimeter of the building footprint was to put in these sheets driven down about 20 some odd feet. And this was to give us kind of a bathtub effect to keep in this case, to
keep the water out uh so that we could form and pour everything. >> [snorts] >> Serving as more of a dam than a bathtub, I guess you'd say. Another shot here just what the cranes are doing. We're stripping forms on one side, we're putting forms in place on
the other. Um so um just more more workmanship in process. Here's a nice shot of building E once again. We call it building E, but it's the what will eventually be the the
portions of where the auditorium is. It's also the backside of the of the building where a lot of the utilities and mechanical uh support, what we call back of house areas are. Uh and again, this section that you're seeing right now will eventually be the
the garage that will be on the underside of what will be above that, the auditorium and and and uh the back of house utilities, but this will eventually be prepped to be be the garage area of the building.
Um and then a final shot here, not very exciting, but just kind of an what the reason we provided is just to kind of outline that we're in the process of now starting to prep for uh the garage slabs. So, we're kind of
getting subgrade built and ready so that when we get the steel to arrive next month in July, the cranes can come in and start erecting that steel. So, we're just kind of getting things up to a closer to subgrade.
Um that kind of brings to fruition the presentation on the current site. Is there any questions? >> I do not see any hands. Thank you, Darren. >> It's awesome to see the pictures though.
>> Yeah, and I almost want to just stress cuz some people have been on site and I've forgotten to mention it, but a lot of those photos you you'd be in the garage, the first floor of that level, first floor of the building would be on top of all those walls. So, that it'll
give you a little perspective about how high the building sits. Um that was obviously done on purpose. Back when we talked a lot about storm water handling at the site, but it'll start giving you an interesting perspective seeing a four-story classroom wing over those foundation
walls. There are no further questions um or comments, we will move into public comment. Name and address for the record as always if there are any public comment. >> I don't believe we have anybody today,
Brian. >> We do not have anybody. Going once, going twice. >> Brian, oh yeah, you can I'll let you finish public comment. >> Public comment done. New business, other business, Mayor Keith? >> Yes, um the just curious if we've gotten any updates
on potentially sending the solar package out for an RFP. >> Yes, we're I'm working on the um the solar package. Michael Picardi, I have a schedule coming your way. Um we're looking to potentially start those
advertisements the second week of July. Um but Michael, I'm going to sort of work with you uh on the schedule side of it and um develop an RFP. I need a little bit of info that I've got to pull together some of my notes to get from the design team as well. But um we're looking to get
that advertised out on the street in July, which would mean that um we'd be looking at proposals back in hand at some point in August. >> Sounds good. It's >> And uh the only other item I wanted to note um something we've been talking about for a little bit. You will uh all
receive an email from me in the coming days to invite you to a site walk on July 29th at 2:30. We are inviting the school building committee, the city council, the school committee,
and the local state delegation to uh visit the site. Um there will be I'll mark it on your calendar, but um note appropriate attire will be required. We'll we'll have hard hats, stuff like that for you, but um no sandals, no open-toe
shoes, etc. We'll put that all in the email, but um just wanted to get it out there. July 29th, 2:30 on site, um a walk for all the various public committees that have supported uh this project over the years. Any other new business or other
business? Not, we would seek a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Sounds good. >> Good everyone. >> Thank you, everybody. >> Have a good night. >> Thanks everyone. >> Recording stopped.