A batter before we got to see Lorelei Collette. And the clockers go quickly. Well, that's unfortunate. Sometimes when when you're just trying to buy a hit and that you know, Caroline absolutely smoked that ball down the third base line and that was a heck of a play. That's one of the best defensive plays I've seen all season. Sets up Haley in absolute no man's land and she gets doubled off at third to end the the bottom of the sixth and now it's 16 to 8 and we don't get to see Lorelei unless the miracle happens and they put a hit on the board. We do not want that to happen at this point. >> at least five runs for this win, like you said, to get those points. We talked about it earlier, the hot corner. That's why they call it that and that ball was roped and unfortunately, Caroline has had a couple hard hits like that the last couple days, which she just has no In the box score, you can't see it result in anything.
That is significantly less than what we asked for last year our five-year capital plan in 25-26 was about $62 million dollars. Um the reason that there is such a cut is because of the energy performance contract. There are a lot of projects that are in limbo if they can be funded by the EPC or not. We took them out of this capital plan just kind of scooted them off to the side in another tab if they need to come back next year they will um but it also significantly reduces our ask and it allowed us to make more leveled ask across five years. And the five-year outlay by building, what you're going to see here is that our newest building buildings Barnum and Norton very few ask less than 1% um and then Dodd Middle School and Cheshire High School make up the majority of the requests over the five year along with district-wide projects.
>> Yeah, it's really unfortunate that that the Caroline has been the unlucky recipient. They're probably the three balls that she's hit the hardest in the last two two games have all um made outs. So, uh not good for the batting average, uh but got to stay positive and just keep swinging the bat because the ball is coming off the bat pretty good. Yeah, and Holly Cashin has pitched 1 and 2/3, only one hit, no runs, no walks, two strikeouts. She will look to finish it off here. Against 7-8-9. Yes, it is 7-8-9. Here comes the first pitch. That one is fouled back. Casey Sullivan will lead it off. It is the same defensive alignment as it was in the last inning with Vendetti uh coming in at first base. Sanders, Herder, and Maloney out the outfield. Butera remains at second. Collette remains at third. Eustace at short and the battery of Cashin to Kazanjian.
And Dodd is 68 years old, Cheshire High School 78 years old so older buildings. The last slide that I'm actually going to present on is the maintenance safety net. Um we have this uh building maintenance C&R fund with a $233,000 balance. I would say this is for like a catastrophic failure where we really couldn't you we didn't have existing capital money allocated for a project Um and we couldn't fund it through our operating budget. The last time we've utilized this account is 2019. We really don't try to utilize it often but if we had to for instance if for some reason snow plowing if it just completely annihilated our budget and we weren't able to make up for it in another budget line item that would be a use of this fund but we don't anticipate tapping that for this year but there is a balance there.
>> [screaming] >> That was a called strike there. So, quickly ahead nothing in two of Sullivan. That one's fried into center [screaming] field. Herder goes back and she makes the catch. Good job by Herder to settle under that fly ball and a quick out number one here. Nice job there by Quinn tracking that ball down. Got the first out. I had really liked to see the way Lexi Maloney sprinted over there to back her up just in case something crazy happened. Nice job by the junior getting over there to help out her friend in center. As there is one away. That was a swing and a miss there by Leah Collarone who is 0 for 2 walking a strikeout so far. Another batter getting ahead here for Cashin. And that one just missed. A ball and a strike. >> I sure would like to know where that one missed, Jacob.
So with that said I'm going to go back to year one cuz like I said that's while you're approving the five-year plan really what you're approving is year one of the five-year plan and you have a one-pager in your folder that's portrait orientation that that's all of our year one projects. You also have a larger stapled version that's landscape that's all of the five-year projects but I am going to just walk through some of the key item details for year one. So one thing that I want to say about year one is in the campus column you see any project that's highlighted in yellow means it's a new project. If it's white that means that we've requested it before and it was deferred. So there are six projects out of 27 on here that are new projects. All of the other projects were deferred from prior years and usually it's multiple years of deferrals.
I I know I've been a little bit critical of the man in blue behind the dish today, but I I just have no idea why that one wasn't a strike. Uh must be the bad vantage point that we have. And that one's grounded to third. Collette fields it and the throw is in time at first base. And two quick outs for Cashin here. They are one out away from a win. And that's uh Lorelei's fifth infield assist of the day over there at third. Uh she's had six six total chances. Um I believe that one that we were questioning went down as a fielder's choice. So it wasn't indeed given an error on that. So she's had a clean day over at third to go along with that day. That was lined to second and Butera makes the catch and the game is over. The Clockers take it 16 to eight.
And then if you look in the proposed plan year one there's any value that's highlighted in green means that it's a single year project that we spend the money in one year and then the entire project is done. An example of this is row five the Doolittle stage renovations the entirety of the ask for that project is $250,000. If you look at the next line there's an electrical distribution project at Highland in the plan year one so 2026-2027 we're requesting $50,000 but you can see that the entire project ask in over the 5-year outlay is $350,000. So, you can just see the the new projects and then single-year projects in year one. Uh in year one, last year we had two projects that go to referendum. They both failed at $800,000, the loading dock and the turf. This year we are recommending that there is one project that goes to um referendum and the value for referendum is $500,000 or cumulative total total of $500,000.
An offensive explosion again. They come out alive despite a rocky, what was it, fourth inning and a huge huge win in the final game of the regular season. 15 and five is how they finish. What an incredible season for these girls. A regular season that gives them 15 wins. I can't even imagine that these girls thought that this was going to happen coming in with a brand new head coach, coming off a season where they only won six and the the the play of Lorelei Collette on the last two games has been absolutely magical. Let's hope that she continues the hot hitting into the playoffs. And what an opportunity for these girls right now, right? They are 15 and five. They they end the regular season with an eight-run lead eight-run win over Grafton without their best pitcher. You know, Nico Eustace gives a a good performance.
So, it's not the one-year price, but the whole value of the project once you hit $500,000, it needs to go to referendum. We are recommending that we have the loading dock safety improvements as our referendum project for next year. The price of that has increased to $874,000. We did have design work that was already already allocated uh and completed by Loriot. Um so, we have the design for that. Again, um I would say that with this project, you know, I am happy to give anyone a tour of the loading dock at Cheshire High School. It sees a lot of deliveries for the high school. Um it is not a solid concrete loading dock. It actually is like a platform with about 12 ft underneath that's held up by some some framing um and the rebar is crumbling. So, that is the main delivery port for the for the high school.
Holly Cashin comes in in relief and now they're on to the state tournament. Yeah, it is absolutely huge and they have a lot in front of them, you know. Now the regular season's in the past. You wait for that bracket to come out. You've got your opponent and then basically I believe end of next week is when the state tournament starts for both baseball and softball. So, it's right to work. Yeah, they'll be anxiously awaiting tomorrow's power rankings. They're going to come out around 11:00 a.m. The Clockers coming into uh the day were the number 29 team in Division 2. Um have to imagine that they won't drop to 30 with today's win, but anything is possible as the as the Gators do not necessarily have a great power ranking themselves. So, they did what they were supposed to do. They needed to win this game by five, and they did.
Um and it's small and it's it's not in great shape. There are there are safety concerns. So, that is why it is stated in year one. Um but I will say that the turf was also not did not pass referendum last year, but luckily, um I know Dr. Solan shared this with you all earlier, but Cheshire, um the legislature passed a reimbursement grant for a value of up to um up to $1.5 million of a turf project for Cheshire can be reimbursed 95% of 1.5 million dollars. So what that means, um the total cost of the cost of the turf project is about 1.9 million dollars. So what we needed to put in the year one uh ask is actually 475,000 dollars, which is below the referendum value. Although the entire project is 1.9 million dollars because um the majority of that is grant-funded or grant-reimbursed, we don't have to go to referendum for that project because we only need 475,000 dollars.
They won two games this week um after the after the Tuesday power rankings came out. So, I would be shocked if they fell below the 29, but I would also be surprised if they moved up to 28 in the rankings, which right now lines them up to have a battle against a really good Lincoln high school team. >> [screaming] >> Indeed, and you know, any team you play in the postseason, it's going to be a challenge. It you know, no offense to the last two teams they played, but they weren't the greatest on paper. So, you're going to be playing teams that, you know, most likely had an above .500 record. You might not have fit You might not have faced them in in the regular season. So, it's going to be a lot of new opponents that they might have to face, and they have to adjust, get the scouting report, and you know, do do the best with what they got.
Um that is not part of the grant. So that moved out of the referendum category, meaning only the lot loading dock has stayed in the referendum-required category out of the 27 projects. Um So I you know, there are a bunch of different types of projects on here. Um I don't know if there's anything else, Mark, that you wanted to share. I can share a little bit more about the the turf in year one before I open it up. Um we did bring up uh that the um storage buildings at Norton and Barnum may not be on us. The uh >> Yes, that's right. new schools may be taking care of that. Yep, so there are two in the year one projects. If you look at row 30 for Barnum storage building buildings, um 125,000, and then there is one for Norton as well that I believe is line I missed this last uh is row seven, same value 125,000 dollars.
Yeah, you know, Jacob, there is an outside shot that they might play against a familiar opponent based on wherever these final rankings end up. Wayland is out there, and uh if Wayland does indeed end up finishing .500, uh they have two more games this week, one against I believe Holliston. Uh if Wayland indeed does uh make the tournament, they could end up having a second match-up against the Clockers in the tournament. So, that's the only way they could possibly see a an opponent that they faced earlier in the year. Otherwise, I would expect them to have to take on a team that they haven't seen. And that, you know, always presents a challenge. Everybody is coming for you in a state tournament game. Yeah, and a lot of these players are playing their best ball right now, and that definitely helps when you're going into the postseason.
That is currently going through the next generation school building committee. They would need to approve that. That's still up in the air, so we put this in as a placeholder, but if they approve that, then we can remove uh 250,000 dollars from this ask. But wanted to put it in there cuz there there are storage needs at both of those campuses, especially for equipment for our grounds team. Any other thoughts, questions? Tim? Matt? Yeah, sorry I stepped out for a minute, but I'm curious, did you did you touch upon uh because it's significant dollars, did you touch upon the performance contract and how that interplays? Yeah, I well what I talked about was that that's why there was a decrease from the $62 million from last year to the $31 million to $62 million to $31 [clears throat] million this year. That those projects were were removed.
When your bats are hot and you can get momentum, it's it's huge. And as you said, Wayland, they did beat them five to four earlier in April. So, that is a team that they have faced, but again, even if you do play them, you win that game, you're going to the whole tournament, you're going to be facing teams that you're not familiar with, that don't play, maybe even teams that you play. So, common opponents. So, it's it's definitely tough once you get towards the later rounds of the state tournament. >> Yeah, it's it's going to it's going to be tough sledding the rest of the way, but I think the one thing that these these teams needs to remember is the future is incredibly bright for this program, no matter what happens in the state tournament. Obviously, we'd love to see them try and make a run, but the turnaround has been sensational.
Okay, so I'll just recap then what I think what I said downstairs and coming off, but basically the where it stands right now is generally potentially up to $55 million or so in projects. $20 million of which has been locked into contract. Uh that is primarily solar. Mhm. Which will take, you know, probably at least a year to roll out. Uh the other 35 or so million, 30 or 35 million relates to more to energy efficiency and conservation measures. Mhm. That has some hurdles to overcome really in Hartford, I think. Uh if we can overcome those hurdles, it I believe it would go a long way toward some improvements at Doolittle in particular. Mhm. And that's a particular concern for me because I do feel with the we got town-wide support for the two new schools and Island and Doolittle are not getting those they're not getting anything out of all all support that they gave.
They are a really young team. They have been powered by their young players. When you think about what they have done so far this year. Bella Domestico, a freshman, led the way the entire way for the pitching staff. Unfortunately, she's out right now, could potentially miss the postseason play. Even Dedi leading the team in RBIs, she's a freshman. Laura Like Collette, you can't say enough about her. She's clearly our player of the game today. She's the offensive player of the game and the defensive player of the game with with her with her assists over there at third base. She is only a sophomore. Nikki Eustace probably up over 600 average right now. She is only a sophomore. Haley Buttermilk, I think he pitched him with three hits today. She is only a sophomore. She's starting at second base. Then you've got, you know, Caroline Kyra who's had a great season hitting the ball.
Uh I am concerned about property values diverging between among the four elementary school districts, so I do want to make I do hope that we can make continue school modernization with Highland and with Doolittle, and I think this performance contract is a great opportunity to make some improvements there at Doolittle. We don't know if it's going to happen. It's really we can advocate for it, but it's some of it is based on decisions that are beyond our actual authority. Um but I just wanted to add that because it it rolls right into the capital budget. Thank you. Matt, did you have a comment? I have a few questions. Um and I don't know if this is better suited for you, Jeff, or for you, Emily. Um you know, one thing I've thought about in this budget cycle from the school modernization advocating for the schools and passing them on the referendum is you're now seeing as the budgets have progressed, you know, the other operational costs that come with those and you know, I think we knew a lot of those coming.