001Mike is here. Sue is here. John is here. Ellen is here. Dave, Dan Kemp, Dean Sudus, and Jeff Putnham. And Mike McKenna. You cannot forget. [Music] Can I have a motion to approve the agenda? That's right. Okay. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Okay. Next one. Public participation. Any public? All public. Okay. and discussion and action on the turf project. John Jenny on here looks like him. Yeah, John Jenny's on there on Zoom. Zoomer. The Zoomer. Dan's just getting set up here. Yeah. Okay, no problem. Should I sing? I don't know how [Laughter] many singler. Yeah. Yeah. Passover's coming. Easter's coming. Everybody's coming. The first chair you gave me just straight through. That was on purpose. Just listen. If you set down off [Music] so my IT support team is supporting Perhaps
002I should just give you a little background on what's been going on. Um, so we've been pulling together pricing for about a month and working through diligently the the takeoffs and effort to qualify the numbers that we did get. Um, so that's why three weeks ago I believe plus or minus I created an updated document of the estimate that we had all looked at about two months ago. Um that document was the first evolution of uh the pricing that I had gotten and estimates that I had created for each various scopes of work. Um that was superseded with a preparatory email and agenda that Ed sent out a week ago. um we could go in a couple of days and then we sent it out again on Tuesday and then the document was just updated
003again. She found um about an hour and a half ago. Okay. The the difference between the documents is just refinement of the estimate numbers and in the document or in the email that I shared out to the community an hour ago plus minus there were two documents. One was the estimate which includes the OMG take up uh OMG cover sheet itemizing the the the cost of the work overall and then a second document that I wanted to be able to provide to all to let you know how close we are to the final number and that would be my you know what's left to resolve and that was the single sheet that I passed away I have all let's see if I'm not going to share my screen digitally so you can you can look
004at it in front of Or you can look at it on the on the monitor but on the left. Let's see this the right maybe not. And then you can just share the app. Right. Right. Yep. Well, that's actually we got to we got to find way stop here. There we go. So again just as the the history of of the evolution of this change u slam has presented a PR87 to us which included u you know a myriad of drawings as well as a couple of spec specifications uh to identify scopes of work. We've gone through and sent that out to the to the impacted trades and have been pulling costs in. So I guess the most important document. Okay. So the the summary page if I can walk you through that. Grab a
005son. We got more technology wizards with us here. They're fighting. We got Jeff here. Load it up. Can I just first page? Yeah, I keep talking. Oh, you're talking about the narrative. Yeah. Can you can you show just for clarity sake landscaping because it's a big number and that's why I put it on the page. But that's going to take off. I think are you doing the take off on that or did you get No, that's my personal take. I thought all these were on my desk right over the far end right. retaining. So to Gary's question which was specifically you know one of the larger cost items that we haven't got back yet from the trade base is the retaining wall credit and to explain you know just jumping to the bottom of the
006page the single page that I passed out. Um it identifies how I came up with the value of the credit that we're expecting from the trade. Uh Gary's question was how did I derive that qu that am I getting takeoffs from slam or in-house estimating or from the trade um they've been done by myself personally and so you're looking at it on the screen it's not part of your packet um this is a this is the shop drawing of what the trade provided on the original wall you see in red is what is the new wall just for for volume sake Wow. So, and in blue is what was originally. So, I took off how much square footage of face of wall was in both scenarios. Again, red and versus blue. And then I go
007to the cover and I can tell you that the original square footage of face of block was 5700. The new face of block is 2,200. The reduced amount is about 3500. At $32 a square foot, the trade should be giving us back labor only in the order of $110,000. The value that I carried forward from that was only $90,000. So, I'm again, I'm always conservative when I'm providing you guys an estimate that every little item that I've had to to plug a number in is valued conservatively. Okay? So it means I'm has a little higher credit when the right when the values come final they should be better more in your favor whether it's a credit or an ad if I could explain that any more complicated perhaps one [Music] they said they purchased it
008and said bought it we're going to get that we don't have that proof yet we will get it I don't know where it is Right. Right. No. And we'll get before we finalize anything, you will get that. Absolutely. Yep. And they are actually the Well, the concrete trade is the one trade that hasn't given us pricing. Um as well as TC Landscaping. Um their TC landscaping delayed primarily for they're giving back a lot of money. They're not chasing me give me back a big credit number. uh they're probably chasing more work at this time of year. Um you know, they're going to go after getting work, not figure out how much they got to get back on work that they're not going to get. And then the concrete trade, we just we know what that
009value is because we know what their cost per square foot is. So sidewalk is a known unit cost. We just we did some value engineering um back on 327 in which we came up with ways to reduce the amount of concrete, increase the amount of grass a little bit, saves $10 a square foot to do so. Um but until I see the final drawing from from Slam's groups, um you know, we're not going to get that finalized number, but that's another one that doesn't have much variance. You know, the concern is variance. I guess we can. I'm sorry, Mike. Can you please stop? It's very distracting trying to listen to him and you're talking over here. We can't. And it's not just me. The whole room is distracted listening. We're sorry. Thank you. Um, sorry.
010Go ahead. I just want to, you know, the what has been taking place with some of these VE meetings. They're the exact same thing that happened when we were going through the estimates for the main project where we had, you know, members of the committee, design team, ourselves, trades in the room collaboratively, real time working through things, you know, what what was understood to be on the plans, what could we what was needed to be changed. So, it was a very, you know, the outcomes that Dan is talking about, all these things were bees. They're not they're not they're not vacuum assessments. there were assessments done with the whole group at the same time. Yeah. And I think that's an important distinction to make is that we use the pol the process that we've used
011throughout, you know, building processes when we come up with estimates during the schematic and design phases of the project and CDs. We sat in OMG's estimating conference rooms and we brought in our estimators and we brought in members of SLAM. So that was a meeting that was held on 3:27. That's when I initially got the numbers in from CJ Fuji. We saw that we wanted to bring down the cost of the project and we had opportunities to bring down the cost of the project just because we didn't see the documents really needing they contain some information they contain some work that wasn't initially contemplated. Um that meeting that was held on through 27. Um the team of three here plus myself plus Slam plus Besh the civil engineer plus CJ Fucci we all got together
012with our estimators and we looked at the various ideas. I think I had about 16 ideas going into that meeting uh and that we flushed out and put estimates on and now have been flushing through getting those finalized costs. It was not before I go to defend the guys up here. I sat on some of the meetings. One of them was five or six hours. I last three or four weeks Mario and these two slam Dean was there too on some of them input hours and hours and hours. Ed and Mario tried to crush the subs as much as he could as they could. You get the best you can and I bet you spent three weeks going back and forth. It was torturous. But when you give when you give a contract to somebody,
013then he has he he wants to give you a change order, which is required under this program, which only can be a change order. We're going to get whatever we can get, whatever he decides to give us. And that's probably been part of the problem. But so far, you've done a better job than most, but there's just a lot to it. This is, you know, it's countless. It's it's $6 million worth of work. We're not taking it lightly. There's a lot of elements to the uh to the process that we want to make sure we vetted appropriately and I'll I'll get into that. What I wanted to make sure is that you understood where the numbers are. So I'll just make this a little bit bigger. So this is again the same format that I
014used when we created the initial estimates. The upper part of the estimate this completely is the This so this breaks down site work. This breaks down the trades that are involved. So the first number in the the first row is CJ Fucci and their subtrades. Uh another subcontractor involved in the work is the metal railings contractor. Um we're deleting the railings and the old stair system that was there and we're adding the railings on the ramp now. And then there's an electrical component. And you can see from the values associated with each. Oops. Um, you know, your primary cost here is site work. There it is. It is a touch. I could have been just driving with my finger. Um, so there's the 5.4 million number that goes to CJ Fucci. Um, a couple of
015the other items that are in this upper section, the unsuitable soil allowance, we did not touch that from the previous estimate. It still sits where it was. U, we've included a winter conditions or premium labor allowance. Don't think we're going to need it, but it's not a bad thing for me to put out there that, you know, summertime we have Saturday opportunity. We're going to make time, make a little hay when we can. So, I carried a cost for that. And then the big difference, we no longer have a foundation and we no longer have a slack. So what we've been doing is been driving this cost down and know into the budget that we've been been given to work with, which is to to make the trade cost come in at $6 million. You
016want to let them know the building was a half a million dollars and building? Yep. Last estimates up over 450. That's why it's not just the building or with the slab? No, with the slab and and and the buildout. Um, yeah. Foundation estimate is now at 120. That's we validated by both concrete our estimators in concrete as well as the the foundation trade that's on the project. Um, moving down on the page, it's the standard uh template that we utilize. So, it's got a the cost for the permit. It's got the OMG uh insurance and bonds and fee and then the CM contingency. We've we've lowered our contingency on the project on this portion of the work to 2%. So instead of three, as you continue down the page, you see the breakdown of the
017owner direct soft costs and what is the ad cost for the project. And then below that you see the values coming back to the city for the for the reduced scope of work or for the the original scope of work coming back. That's a combination of Liberty Landscaping who had a turf, you know, they had natural turf natural turf, but it's, you know, it's athletic field turf. It's not just grass. um as well as a few of their other components like they provide the softball the the soccer nets uh they provide the foul poles um a lot of work related or site improvements related to the scope that's all comes back in its entirety and then CJ Fucci's scope to you know earthwork related top soil processing top soil spreading that type of work and
018again OMG is reducing their fees their insurance bonds and fees on the same So that's the cover page and that's the bottom line 5.937 with that target. The next page that I've just Does anyone have any questions on the first page before we move on? Sure. The allowance. So if it's 5.9 that is 234. Where does the 234 Mhm. come from? the 234 it's the what the geoteex that's included in the 6 million171077 right so that's at that point a little over 6 million right that's right now 6.2 2 would be actually the total propos you know that we're looking at for cost of the work. You are accurate in that it's a $6 million cost to the construction side and a soft cost side of 231. So we would have to get that number
019down to 6 million even not to exceed the overall approved project cost. Well, we use a credit for that, right? You're you're well below your well yeah established by the state is is 6 million total including costs and credits. It's before the credit. You're within your you're well within your your state. Sounds good. Thanks, guys. Um, so where the first page pulls the CJ Fuji number from is from the second page. Um, and that's an itemization of their costs. um they have both self-perform work, it's identified in the upper section, and then they have subcontracted work. So, when you bring that down and you sub total it, um I think it's appropriate they put in the the bond premium. We weren't going to get hit by that. You should recognize that all the change orders
020for the project, all the trades have the contractual capability of asking for additional bonding costs. if their contract went up, they send a letter to their bonding company. Their bonding company responds with the cost in their contract increase and by contract and state statute, they're, you know, they're able to capture that money. They have they have to show us an invoice for that additional money, right? We validate it before we approve the change order, but it is a cost of the work and um you know, it's great that that $50,000 has been encumbered, right? And it's and it we can't actually submit that until the end of the total project. That's how the state works. They don't want the volume changed on change to change. But because of the magnitude is one change. It's in
021there because that's a that's a measurable amount of money after the fact. You know, they're when their bond premium comes in at the end of the project, it's going to be highly inflated because of the extent to which their work was expand, which is why it's here and why you don't see it in any of the other changes that we've been processing throughout the project. 45360 going back to the first page that's the first line right so here I'm circling on my little screen 5 million450 and that's where I get it I get it from the culmination or the sub the total of CJ Fuji's uh contract change below that listing of all the bees we had our list of the first uh the first 13 came from that meeting on 3:27 and then an
022additional eight have come since and what I've done is I've not you know they're not all lump summed they are taken from the individual lines above so where you'll see in the grading line it states that site grading is 158,315 and it includes ve item number 15. If I scroll down on the page, I get back down to see DE item 15 is raising the softball and varsity ball fields up 3 in. Um, it reduces the amount of export and therefore we're looking to capture that that as a VE option. The the grading plans were finished up by by slam a couple of days ago. Those are back to the trade so that we can work through. I guess this would be a great opportunity to show you the next page. So this is the
023page that actually came from the trade. The next page shows a grading earthwork component and it says under grading and earthwork in the middle of the group it says cut to waste and excess m excess material haul out. It's got a value of 58,440. That's based on 2,000 yards of export. I put in the right hand column in my handwritten note that we're I've included a 20k estimate. Again, I'm conservative. Our goal with the raising of the grades is we're picking up about a,000 yards of material gets to stay on property. So, really, I should be getting around $29,200 for that should all things come together as we plan. But, I'm only carrying 20,000. I've only reduced his price by 20,000. that and that's so you're getting the the the gist of what I'm putting
024out there is that I've always been a little bit more conservative as I as I produce the estimate. So question I think at our last meeting we talked about I think it was mentioned that the um that more fill needed to come out. So what happened in between that where we're not taking where we're able to leave more in? So the when you say so yeah we we've been working the grades on the site. Okay. And so the last effort and the last place we worked those grades was in the the J the varsity softball and baseball. They raised the grade three inches which means we're not exporting that square footage of earth problem. But but there was right there was a there was a blip on the radar that was a much bigger number
025and that was somewhat of the result of just trying to do things very quickly and it turns out that there was something at the site where contractor had a a difference in his computer program that was a more of an error than anything else. There wasn't anything drastically that changed with the design. Mario had a stroke and it was going back to I didn't give him mouth to mouth. I just wanted it was $77,000. That was not a good day. That was not a good day. We found that out about 4:30 in the afternoon and at 8:00 the next morning he was on the apologizing for sending out bad information. Okay. But those things I did quality time. The tiles the battles. Um let's see. So really the the backup beyond that is from each
026particular trade contractor uh or subtrade in this case. We uh we have finalized pricing from field turf. We have finalized pricing from Liberty landscape with a couple of things noted that I you know again incorporated the value into the final numbers that that culminate or bring into the summary. Uh couple of little things I guess you're you I can explain but there's a lot of little minutia out there. So can't explain a lot of them. Maybe just tell them what they should go to just so I'm sorry as I kept going through the document. I flipped through field their their proposal is firm. We did go back then to them for one ve item which was to reduce the number of replacement areas they provide as part of their initial bid. um you know high
027use areas instead of six they're going to give us three um it should take you you know into the future and actually I can identify that a little bit more that's okay um in their proposal it actually lists out exactly how many mountains they're providing and how many uh heavy duty areas or high high use areas like pitchers uh catching the catcher box the batter box Mhm. Yeah. Uh let's see. So as I move through the proposals, I got through uh field turf and then I get to Liberty. You can see the itemization. OMG has taken these items. You see some of these items have unit cost unit values. In previous editions of of the Liberty uh proposals, we've gotten better quantity clarifications and we've done OMG's comparison of both quantity and value so that
028we are now at a point where we're comfortable with uh with Liberty scope of work and their cost is associated with it. on the bottom of the page, he's identified a few things. And I can just quickly explain that if he carried a perimeter drain on the first field on the north side, but after vetting that with the drainage that goes towards the east on the side of that property does not need a collector drain, so we don't have a collector drain on that east elevation. So we don't need that cost. Um the ad alternate, he was always providing an al alternate for the safety netting. the safety netting is a is a larger topic we can touch on in a couple minutes. Um but this needed to get broken out because we were unsure
029as to the extent. Um so that's why it's identified as accepted. And then the soccer goals is also something that we needed to include in the project. The anticipation here is that we're getting two new soccer goals and we're going to reuse two soccer goals for the now two multi-purpose fields. So that's the first page of this proposal. It's broken out by JV baseball up here and highlighted on the I'm sorry, JV baseball and multi-purpose field the upper left. Uh the next page of his proposal is the varsity softball, varsity baseball with the uh with the multi-purpose field, you know, that that extends to the east. Um, the other item that's in here I wanted to mention is that in the contract documents, one of the DE items is to go from what's known as
030a polyboard bench. Polyboard benches are okay if they never get wet. Um, and they're very expensive. So, instead of going down the path of the specified polyboard bench, we went down the path of an aluminum bench. It's a good, sturdy bench. It still has a back to lean against. Um, and the savings there, as you can see, it's significant. By taking them out of the JV baseball field, you we're saving $36,000 and spending $10,000. So, there's a net savings of 26K on that line. So, that's Liberty's proposal. Similar situations on the last page for what would be the varsity softball field and then total costs for what would be his change to contract. Um, how we worked it with Liberty Landscaping is they gave back their entire contract. And so I went to CJ Fucci
031and I said, "Give me a copy of their contract." And this is what you see. This is considered exhibit A and the contract between CJ Fuji and Landscaping. It's kind of itemized in the same way. This goes back to 2022. Um, so that's a two-page document and that's what the 1,ion33,606, that's what he's giving in its entirety. And then his new proposal to sum them up when you get to the 2.9 million. Eagle fence is a little harder to manage. The takeoffs were not even close to mine and it's another large dollar value. Um, I've been using a few negotiating techniques. I'll leave it at that. And my my next meeting with them is tomorrow. Um, in which I'm flushing out, you know, things that I think I can grab savings on. Um, and just,
032you know, something to note in their proposal is the netting. When we got their proposal for what was to propose field netting on the site, we saw the ad cost of 455,000 and we started to dig in. You know, the first meeting that we had, we all in that, you know, March 27th all field netting plan, we identified areas that we didn't need or should say we can't afford to provide, you know, netting to this extent. Um, I want to mention that when we all sat and and agreed and initially we didn't have this much netting. So, it's not like we're taking things away in the base contract, right? There was there was one section of of safety netting in the base contract. Um, show this one section. So, if you refer to the screen,
033this is not in the packet that you have. This is just, you know, takeoff work that's been done. This is the base bid document. the only netting that was in the base bid document was along the right hand side of what was the only multi-purpose field back then. Um, and now in the new set of documents, you know, there was protective 20 foot tall netting along this side of the of the now JB baseball field, this side of the JB baseball field, this side of the soccer field, and netting along between the what is the the junior varsity softball field and the tennis courts. The new proposal is provided, you know, in my estimate eliminates this area that's been hashed out in red and includes this area that's still over the tennis courts. On the
034next page, we're including netting on this side of the field of the driveway coming in again in the stripe. That's it's hard to see the blue this one side or the left hand side of the multi multi-purpose field as well and JV baseball field. This gets 20 foot tall netting. We've eliminated the netting on the back stop area. We've eliminated the netting along the back stop area beyond the back stop area uh on the sides of the varsity softball. Just a big number. So I wanted to touch on that one. And this is one of those items too that there's been an immense amount of conversation among you know the building committee design team us trade the athletics department I think dean I don't know if you were even in that meeting there's been these
035are these revisions and tweaks are not ones that have been made in any sort of vacuum they've been talked about at almost at nauseium at this point so we've got a we've got a good scope of work Now, it's a matter of bringing the trade in line with what we believe is fair and reasonable price for the revisions that we've gotten through. Go ahead. All right. So, again, going back to this way, I just want to ask just because I feel like we should go on record, but there's no safety issues with reduced reduced netting. No, no. I mean, again, this is none of this netting was in the base pit. You've never had netting when you drive down daily drive. who was never for the JV baseball field. You've never had a 20 foot
036wall safety net protecting that road. Um, but we haven't lost anything that was in the basement. No, you had the 2717 ft in the basement. You currently have uh, you know, almost 500 ft in what's currently proposed. So, when did they get added? Why? uh during the redesign you know the the fields when the fields started you know when the outfield of one started over not overlapping but facing you know the the a lot of what occurred I think didn't really take into account um you know softball's a spring sport is a a winter a fall sport right um that type of thing um so I think I think uh Kemp's subs were were over protective of the of the student body. I don't think that's it was in it was in the schematic plan
037that we were given. That's why we got Oh, from That's a good reason. Yeah. Go ahead, Mike. I'm sorry, Jeff. You go first. Go ahead. I apologize. My question on the the netting was what's the expected lifetime of this? Does it have to be taken down and put up every winter? What's the what's the involvement in having this netting out there? Is it a fiveyear net? I mean, UV UV eats this stuff. So, isn't it guessing it's nylon or is it? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, but it's a lot because it's a lot of money, but he said, "Hey, this is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do we need to ask somebody for $200,000 again in 5 years or 15 years?" We take the landing down right now. That's down along the highway on Route
0388. We take it down. Certainly, if you do take it down, it lasts longer, of course. Um so whether it comes down or not is you know that's a a factor of if you know who takes it down Mario uh yes person takes it down. Yeah that's something we've been doing since we well we've been doing it. Yeah right. Yeah. I mean if you take down this extra 500 ft that's a you know that's up to you guys. If you say obviously it's a budgetary thing. If you guys don't have the money to take it down, then it's going to last less. The the netting we have on the on the Route 8 side of the soccer field, it's been there since we opened the field 10 years ago, and it's still in great shape.
039We've never taken it down. We take it down every at the end of at the end of the soccer season. What's the linear field of foot of that? It's a whole soccer field. It's got to be pushing 360 or so. These are now we're at additional you there's currently so here's my takeoff of the of the fence work um there's currently 600 feet of fence you got 240 ft that is 10 ft above the 10ft chain link of the tennis court and then you've got 364 feet along the side of the the soccer multi-purpose field varsity baseball field and you can see the values you know when he quoted it initially his value was 57 $7,000 for the first 215 ft. Um, you know, the new scope of work I'm estimating at around $122,000 with
040a net cost of 64. It's a chunk of change. Are there still back stops though? Oh, yeah. Yes. Yep. You have the back stops. They're 30 ft tall. They got a nice hood on them. They're shaped with the hood. And those are on 380. second. I just had a question and and I think Kemp kind of alluded to it and I I thought and I don't want to because Kemp said it was in the design that came over. I thought when we had talked about that the netting was also in the original because someone made a comment that we don't want to smash windshields or cars or whatever. So I guess I'm just having my concern or question is that shouldn't have been an addin at this point because it was already in the original.
041No, it wasn't in the base bid. It was in the it was in the drawing that field turfed it. That's the guidance design. That's what that's where Kev sucked off that information. The base contract that was part of the originalund some odd million dollar project only had the whatever it was 200 it didn't have any field safety knitting at all. Correct. But field turf, you just said field turf had it in that design. No, no, no. Field turf design came in in December of 2024, which was not in our original Right. It was it honestly I don't think anyone was necessarily looking at field turf design from a standpoint of the netting. It was the main objective of field turf's design was the layout of the fields, right? That not their credit only field turf's
042credit go only goes back to the original alternate that they that alternate they gave us when they gave us a new design. This is their new price and their and their design show all that tur all that netting design they gave us back in December which meant nothing because as I said another meeting everything we're getting is is is a number that's being thrown out because nobody's bid this out yet going through all these items I don't know if you were there but there was an extra 400 ft of netting in there which was decided is just not needed there may be more but like We don't think we What's your concern to? Well, my concern is I mean it just I don't know. It just seems as if you know I thought and everyone's
043kind of alluding to the same thing. It kind of was there but it wasn't there. And now that we're kind of to the final part, we have to put it in. And I'm not saying we don't need anything. I'm agreeing that we need it. I guess it just to me and maybe I'm the only one and I'll that's fine. I just assumed maybe I assumed incorrectly but when we had talked about it that the netting was in there. So to hear that it was in the drawing and then to Kemp's point when he got the drawing he added to it but it was already there in theory and then to Gary's point well theory is great but now there's a number to it. So is that what I'm hearing? So the netting should have been
044there and now that we're putting the rubber to the road the netting is going in for a cost of X dollars. Is that the easiest way to explain it? No I think it was never determined exactly where the netting should go. Exact. I mean I think in my opinion because I remember the conversations about where the ball's going to go where it's not going to go. I personally said we don't get in any of that, but that's another story. But I think Field Turf, I'm guessing I've never dealt with them before, did a layout, which was their design, and said, "Okay, this is where you could have a thousand foot an ever, nobody would have even thought, ever put through the program of your athletic group, you know, when we looked at this now finalized
045drawing, having netting, you know, a long daily drive is just You send it out for the subtrades and the subtrades my opinion have no evil offense. I wouldn't be using it's not your choice. They do a lot of work around the state. They're going to stick to stick it to us as much as they can and they're going to bid the best they can on the most most expensive product they can give us and hopefully it slips through and if it doesn't go for it but we can't. It's not slipping through. No, it's not slipping through. I agree with you. But there's one missing piece here. The whole thing was designed before the new New York Yankees bats. So now we can hit the ball way further and we need the net. Just as a
046for instance that main sidewalk coming that main sidewalk that comes down the middle of the field had netting on both sides. That's redundant, right? And it's a long way on both sides of this drive. It's a long way. So you had a long tunnel of 20 foot 12 28 foot high netting. So, not only did they have too much netting, they had, in our opinion, too high of netting. Yeah. They misread Salam's documents and and quoted the work at a 28t tall ultimate height, but Slam's documents clearly state, you know, it's a 20ft tall net from from finished. Mike, is your concern there's not enough netting or too much? No, I just I as I said, I'm not I'm not opposed to the netting. My concern was I guess my assumption was that it was
047kind of rolled in and it just to see it as a just seems like it wasn't and now it seems like another cost for it. That's all. Um uh that's my concern. There's areas that it is definitely justified for sure. I'm agreeing with you. I don't I don't want anyone breaking windshields. I mean that's not right. You know, I'm with you. That's way too much for us, you know, fight. Yeah, it is a lot. I mean, listen, that field's been there for 60 years without a stitch of netting. Um but there's places where it absolutely makes sense. You know, if there's a home run in in the softball game, the netting's going to stop it from going into the tennis court, right? Um that type of thing. Netting behind the soccer goes. If there's a
048high shot during the fall, it's going to hit the netting. Um so you're saying it's where the where we're where we landed with where the netting is where we feel is the most most critical areas where it's needed. Yep. Yep. We worked with Mike on that and we all worked together on it and Yes. So to Donna's point about safety, right? And it's you're confident that pretty darn confident. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. A lot more than you could ever ask for before. Yeah. I think too much, but you're right. Safety is important. Another question. Not netting, but fencing. Um the repairs to the fence around the track field, are those due to uh construction or are they repairs to an existing fence that just going to be I think both. Um quite a question. The the
049fencing repairs around the existing complex is in contract. Yeah. Um, Donna, there is some repair of fencing that got disrupted, but before the project started, the fencing wasn't it's, you know, it was 10, 11 years old. I had them put in the spec to uh to inspect every gate in that stadium field. That was you're doing repair. Yeah, smart. So, there are problems. Yeah. Replace all hinges, entry hardware. But it has nothing to do with this change that no that was in that was in retal. Yeah. I guess I'm just thinking more of whether that I don't want to be a pain in the butt, but whether that is a cost properly borne by this budget or whether there's a maintenance general fund or something. It's only 13,000, but it's only 13,000 and could go.
050I think you can make a case either way. Yeah, we really want to make it done. Yeah, you know what I mean? Uniform looking remember a lot of the building is is a lot maintenancefree because we know that maintenance is a is a problem with money. So that's why this is important to do you know it's 12 years old 11 years old to make sure it's right. Yeah. Yeah. Every single game on that thing is with Jeffrey. Yeah. So this is great with the net and the safety. This is great. Keep everybody safe. My next question would be in order to keep all these people safe. They need to have someplace to sit, right? So are we and we talked about this big whole thing about bleachers and and dugouts and things. Where did we
051land maybe the group could understand where we landed on that in the most recent proposal. What is included that we asked for last time? What's not? There were emergency boxes talked about. What what of all those things? I think that's a great segue out of the out of some of the minutia, but to to Donna's point, really, you're only paying the 15% of the 13,000. The rest of the state is is bearing the cost. So, it's a better deal to do it do it through the building project, right? Your point is valid. Um, but I I appreciate the fact that we need to to get a little out of the weeds. you literally have hundreds of hours looking at every particular detail on the project in order to figure out where to go. But I
052don't want to be I don't want to overstep and and forget to tell you some of the bigger items. Um on the center or in the cover page I identify there's two things in this um cost estimate I should say that are not in this cost that I wanted to draw your attention to. The blue lights ended up costing almost $70,000. Um what it is, it's a structure with a camera and it required fiber from the building all the way out to two dedicated locations. Um that went on the chopping blocks as one of the BE items. The athletic field lighting that we had hoped to get within the cost of the project again that's you know that's upwards of $600,000 as an ad. So that is also not in the estimated. Those are the
053only two particular items. All the rest of the items that are not, you know, that may be wondered if they're in, if they're out are listed on that page or that second page that that speaks to, you know, what are the list of need items? Where was the blue light thing? I don't see the blue I don't see it anywhere on here. Delete for it. It's not listed as a VE item. It's listed on the front page here under the list of things. I just didn't even bother to add it and take it out. So I list there I say qualifications. A little tiny print. Oh yeah. It says um you can find the cost of CJU on the next page. Athletic field lighting and blue lights and cameras are not included in the was
054the primary driving force the cost of the fiber. um the conduit trenching and the device itself was certainly the fiber and the device itself was the primary part of that. I'm afraid I'll have that handy. Okay. But u I do I do just in recollection it was 40 plus the devices and getting the getting the raceway and fiber out. That's just to feed get the get the infrastructure there that or is that to hook it up? Uh no that was that was the soup to nuts. Okay. That rough 60 or $76,000 cost was soup to nuts each or for two. That's for both. For both. So there was two. One was closer to the out building location and one was on the far side of the main driveway coming in. That's for I was I'm
055sorry. I was talking about the lights. The blue lights the Oh, the bigger softball lights. Yeah. What's your question? If there's anything going on to it. If Yeah. If if there's Is there any way to get halfway? No, Dave. Well, no, because it's it's that the infra it's kind of all in one with the infrastructure. Yeah. Putting in the foundations and trying to get infrastructure to that is again upwards of 100k. Um and it's we felt as we discussed the item that that's one that'll never come and so we didn't you know spend the money on the infrastructure that we didn't feel that the group would ever actually invest in to add those. Well, I Okay, but that leads me to another question because I was my question was going to be what if we
056want to put lights in? So, I don't know what group said that there would be a desire to put seven group. Oh, cuz the board of ed may want to put lights in. So, that's why I'm asking if we have if we were able to someday get lights. You will pay for the the whole thing, the infrastructure and the lights. So my question is what what's the cost of the infrastructure if it were is it a h 100,000 today versus maybe 500 when the work is done for us to get that set up and I'm just throwing numbers out. I have no idea. We there is a desire for lights on the softball field. We almost have to do it to meet title n requirements and it's almost it's not not not an option for
057us because of the football setup. We have lights for the boys. We need lights for the girls. I I think what happened I mean I don't know after hours and hours with these guys. I know I I understand you were calling me through the whole thing. I get it and I'm not discounting any of that but just hearing this for the first time that there's no infrastructure to the lights concerns me because we the we being the board of education may what do you want to sacrifice most definitely want lights. What do you want to sacrifice for it? I don't know. I'm just hearing this for the first time that if we don't do it that the the the discussion was made that their group wouldn't want lights but the group would want lights. So
058what does that I voted for lights but the group here voted for no lights. I'm not talking about this group. I'm talking about the group that ultimately is going to end up responsible for this field that has talked about having lights for the girls softball for probably upward of 10 years. Susan, yes. This the building committee voted on priorities. The first one was the field. The second one was the building. The third one was the lights. All right. So, and I understand. I'm not asking for lights. I'm asking for I understand. But that's how I understand. This is the first time I'm hearing that part of it. So, I'm just caught a little off guard, but that was decided. That's all. It's a lot to prepare for. I mean, probably. It's more to prepare for
059if the work the fields are laid out and done and we have to go back. So, that's why I'm asking. It's almost impossible. All the people out the turf de it probably is, but it doesn't matter at this point because the choice was not to go with lights. So now we're in a position where here's our budget. This is how much we have to spend. They were and I voted for the loads last time. They were voted out. So to go back is impossible. It truly is. Otherwise, you have to go something's got to get Well, I'll tell you what. What happens is Fuji starts on the old job, their old contract tomorrow, and we have no because I know I'm not suggesting stop that, Gary. I I'm not suggesting we stop anything. I'm just
060a little frustrated that the decision was made the group wouldn't want lights when the group does in fact want lights. the group that will inherit this field does want lights. That's all I'm saying. I just vote it again. I I I voted for lights, but at the same time, it's it's a committee that votes what what they what they want, what they don't want, and I accept it like everybody else, and maybe if somebody else gets voted, we can get money from the state. We've also had conversations here that for instance, this year softball season starts started what, two weeks ago, right? And ends when, Mike? May about the third third weekend in May. third week in May just before there's a very very very small window there and believe me I coach girls so
061I'm with you there's a very very and you can't use them in April you freeze your rear end off right you can't there's a very small window there where lights would be practical use well but that shouldn't be I mean all depends I mean it came down to the choice of what the building committee would I'm yeah but then I'm thinking that's why became the third priority that's why it did I agree with you but it wouldn't matter how many hours it is. There's just certain statutes and laws that have to be followed when decisions like that are being made is my point. And you need to consult with the people that are held accountable for those consequences. That's all I'm saying. And to cover the effort into the value engineering process, how deep we've
062delve into try to find I understand and I respect that. I do to put the infrastructure in, you'd be looking you'd be giving up significant scope of work elsewhere. Last thing I'm gonna have to unload on Mike over there is there are no benches in my estimate. Benches or bleachers? Sorry, bleachers. Bleachers. Yeah, but that I think hopefully maybe Mario and Ed, that would be a good time to lead into Please. Please, the letter that the request for the the money for that for those things, please. Let me I'll I'll lead Ed into the conversation. Okay. Although there are some things missing here, not lights. Um there is going to be an opportunity to add things and um we have both parties have contingencies which may or may not be there at the end. Well,
063as soon as we get through the earthwork part, right, you got $150,000 of savings potential getting through the earthwork, right? I mean, if they breeze through the earthwork, boom, you got bleachers, right? Um if if if we make it through the rest of the project taking down buildings, maybe you have money for bleachers and other things. and and most of all is our conversation regarding the Eversource uh rebate which I will let Ed tell you about. Oh, thank you. He looks you. So, uh in the beginning of the project, we filed with Eversource uh for a rebate of all the uh services that we can get from them. It's $774,000. Uh we have submitted the first half uh from the new the high school building. All those uh forms have been submitted by by slam
064to them. We're waiting to get that idea of what that is. So we met with the mayor on on that money. uh she would like to put the money back into our project. Okay. And and we came up with a list of items that were cut that would could go back into the project. But one of the benches just so everybody knows. Let him finish. You're going to read the letter. No. No. Oh, I thought Oh, you had to get I don't think he's done. Oh, just him in this. Oh, good. the items that were that's a letter that was requested. Could you read that out loud for us? Yeah, it's read out loud. Just for clarification, we can get the money now, but a lot of the stuff we can't do until the project's
065over. Sure. Okay. Because we can't co-ingle because this money has to go to the city. If it went to us, they would take it off our reimbursement. Wait till everybody gets it. All right. So, as a matter Doug and I can change. Thank you. All right. So, as a matter of record, this isn't this was attached to an email that Ed sent to the mayor. was delivered uh delivered and delivered to the mayor and was discussed in person the two of us and a couple other members of the uh staff down there. So, these are she asked for some wish items for us to uh use this rebate money for. And you can see number one is the auto shop. Uh I won't read them all, but that's total 81,226. That's to get our second
066lift and all the necessary um attachments to um to use in in the in the curriculum. Okay. The second one is uh a building which outside the project that building becomes a much lower price, right? It's outside the project that building's not built with prevailing wage and and so on and so forth. So that's another item. Uh the bleachers that you see there, three permanent, two movable, uh and of course we got to pay the city back for the sewer connection fee. Um none of this is written in stone. The mayor has uh has committed with to be fair the board of finance approval that this money comes back to us. Um you have that in writing. No, we do not have that in writing, but we will follow up. I actually sent an email
067today. I actually sent an email today. So So in other words, just because you're not seeing it in this budget doesn't mean it's never going to happen. lights like you said, right? The horse is out of the barn and it's out of the barn. It's hard to go back. That's Yeah, that's I mean I don't know or but OMG has lights they could roll down there. I mean worst case scenario lights can be red for you. I mean I I it doesn't look nice but I'm just trying to think outside the box. I'm not comfortable with the fact that we're shutting out lights completely. But if there's options I think you're right. If there if the girls want to have a senior night some night some year or host a tournament or a weekend tournament
068or something, I want to be able to say yes, we can provide that. Yes, we can. We could do that. We got power out there. Yeah, we got power out there. Yeah, that's true. That right. They're under, right? That's true. So, um, listen, I wanted them, too. I wanted everything, but we we just can't have everything. Go ahead. Get back to you. Back to me. No, you Dan. So, what happened? The last time we had this big time crunch for the decision on the bathrooms that we were going to take the fixtures out of. We were going to use them out in the new concession stand. It was the only exterior bathrooms. It was a It was a big rush. So, what ended up happening? Could you give the group where are we at on
069that? More to come next week, right? Um we're bringing we're opening up the slab of the existing building and we're putting in the sweeps um to get the infrastructure from the existing building out to the new structure and we're bringing the plumbing under slab into the existing structure into that area so that you can put restrooms there. Should you not put restrooms out in your out building, you will have the opportunity. You know, I'm not I'm at a point in construction where I have to do the underground, and those are the two components that we're putting in in the underground. We're taking utilities in in case you do build bathrooms in there, uh, and a concession stand, which has a sink, but we're also taking that raceway in, you know, the the the pipe in
070the sleeve to get from the existing building out so that if you end up with bathrooms out in the field, uh, we're prepared to bring that. So, if this were not to happen and the the fields are built and we were to roll, there are no outdoor bathrooms. We as of the base bid plus the $6 million project. Currently, if no one gives me otherwise direction, we will be putting the two bathrooms where they were originally intended to go. You are bringing them back to where they were. Y is that an additional cost to the project because we've already changed it out once and changed it back or We haven't. No, we haven't incurred any additional cost. We are going to pop, we are going to remove that section of slab, put in that um
071that extra little sweep to get stuff out of the building, but we always had taking the slab up and putting in the pipes to get to that area as part of your contract. So there's when those bathrooms move outdoors, does that leave the storage area hindered in any way, shape, or form? Repeat, please. So if if we do get the 774 we've moved the bathrooms outside, does that leave the storage area hindered in some way because it had we we met with Dean. Yeah. We know what he wants. So we were we were going to discuss this next week. So I'll try this first. I know we were going to discuss this next week. So let me just put it in a little box. Okay. Um, we're working now that 774 we we know we
072can never get the money in time to do things in the logical manner that we would like to. So, so we met with Dean, we met with Mike. We're working on a plan um where we could make do with bathrooms inside uh just inside the building. And don't though don't keep in mind this is just really for football, right? um little bit for soccer. So, we're working on a plan where we could just use bathrooms just inside the locker room um and try not to build something and then take it apart. That's where I was going because it's a it's it's terribly frustrating waste of money. So, we think we'll have we'll have more on that next week. Okay. Thanks, Mario. Okay. So, really I could go through each of the minutia items. I feel
073compelled to tell you of the ones that I, you know, I feel are significant. Um, and so that is a couple of things. One, out at the JB baseball field, there's no dugouts. There's no, they're not really Well, they're shelters. All right. They have a solid roof and they have posts and they have fence. We had to pull those out of the JB baseball field um just as a cost savings. On the positive side, in the varsity baseball, the desire was to have the larger uh dugout areas and so the larger dugout areas are included in the um field dugouts in the south field. Really, there's not a lot of other significant changes. One that is currently included in the estimate that will, you know, it's notable is that you have one sidewalk that that
074weaves its way around the back of the varsity softball field. So that if you're I guess we should take you to a drawing, understand it better. Yeah. Check your drawings, guys. Oh, yeah. You guys all have these planes right in front of you. Mhm. Um, so if I was to be walking along the sidewalk that gets you from the set of stairs that is on the southwest corner of the Daily Drive parking lot and I chose to go to up those set of stairs. We have what contemplated and again included in this estimate is a savings to remove the pedestrian light poles that were intended to and to light up that walkway that walks around the back of that. We still have light that walks you through the campus in the middle of the campus
075between the softball and the main the varsity baseball and multi-purpose. You still have lights that takes you down the main thoroughare between all the fields and of course you have lights that get you up the ramp and to these field openings and then along the stadium field that you have. I think as as you move forward in time and and this this project comes to closure and you're walking out there and you're wondering what was was removed, I think the only sense or feeling that you'll have is that the JV bar JV baseball field is is not as elaborate as, you know, as the varsity field. It's not as elaborate as the varsity baseball field. Both of those fields have very nice dugouts. They have very nice chain link protection. Um they have they're full
076size the foul poles everything is is you know as large as you look like other than that there's just a lot of little things if you walk through any one in particular if you read through the list and I could explain what it is but we are at a point on the project where the trades need to move. We are at a point where the synthetic turf materials need to be released. the Liberty landscaping materials which include you know a myriad of products have 16 week lead times we need to release these um and know that we're building the project as you see it you know this is an incredibly large amount of synthetic turf area it's a beautiful campus with a lot of athletic benefits here question said the varsity Baseball team is like
077a league. What about the softball field? Same. That's the same. Pretty much mimics the baseball. The baseball and the softball are equal pretty much. It's the JB. That's right. Your field that was way down by the daily drive is just not as it doesn't have. Actually, I kind of call that the field, right? Um, and I think it's Yeah, the one near the the one Yeah, the one nearest the apartments like a practice. The one nearest the apartments. I It's up to Mike, of course, but I view that as the JV facility. And I think it's only right that there's a um not a pecking order, but uh that that the that the complex is nicer at the high school level to give those kids who are in the middle school level something to strive
078for, to play on the bigger fields and the nicer fields. Um, and I mean, gosh, it's awfully nice for a middle schooler. So, um, I was going to say you're not really choosing between a Cadillac and it's right. Instead of having a dugout, it just you walk behind a fence like we've have done for and there's a bench there. There's so just doesn't have a roof. That's basically what it is. No, it's going to be it's going to be a wonderful The complex is going to be It's unbelievable. It'll be unbelievable. Yeah, we're putting GE that away from where there's stairs. No, no. At the top of the So, if you look at the enlargement on the the monitor, this little dot is a light fixture. Okay. That light fixture along with the six others
079that follow this path Yep. would not would not go in. So the last light in the sequence, this light goes in and that would be value engineering item number 19. So So that's right that's right near the Oh, and I Yeah, the the driveway in the parking lot, right? If I can. Yeah, I should make sure that you guys are aware that that there'll be lighting there in the parking lot and and the the sidewalk, right? If if you're walking from the parking area, you're following the sidewalk that's not up the top of the retaining wall where the paint surface is. You're walking along the side of the road and that is all lit. And then you have the opportunity to walk all the way to school in a in a well lit, you know,
080environment. The stair is not there is nothing for someone to use a stair for after dark. Right. Right. There just to go to the softball field and we said to well but it could be that when no one's around someone might find themselves there. That's probably going to happen. They're they're going to find themselves. But for that but for that purpose there is general life. There's general light at there is general. There's really probably a light right at the bottom of the parking lot. I promise my last hard question of the night. So the $775,000 makes this a complete, you know, almost everything we actually wanted. There was a discussion about if we couldn't have everything we wanted not having all turf. So, did I'm sure you guys looked at this and I'm just asking
081what you came how you arrived at the decision not to have the JV field not be turf because if you had gone not turf on the JV field you really could have probably a lot of these other things. Granted, if we get this you get most of them. I'm just asking we going to have turf on all the fields. Well, I think it comes back to the committee's vote. the the uh again the priorities were turf building lighting. Um, so we went down well the path was stake to go down that that I said from day one. We have budgets. They don't mean anything. So let's let's vote for what we want. The problem we have today is it's taken months because we had to go to referendum. We're at the point now where either
082we're going to have turf or we're going to have grants because the contracts, you can talk about Fuji's contract, but you know, it's taken so long and so much pricing to get this under $6 million. You did look at getting rid of turf and the numbers don't pay for $700 some thousand dollars because everything still has blocks, tie downs, netting, everything. It's really just the square footage of the turf and you're reintroducing irrigation and all those other that's why I'm trying to answer. I appreciate it that that there would be a credit. We even looked at changing the the value the the density of the turf itself, but the credit they give back as usual is not what you expect it to be. And and then unfortunately, and I it's it's timing. I mean, I
083wasn't aware, but it was talked about plus contract requires them to start tomorrow. They got to start tomorrow or or change orders come in for for extras. And it's just an accumulation of everything. And that's why they I won't defend them. And I know you're not saying anything negative. I know you're not that they fought. He's I know he was real nervous. Dan seemed nervous how to get to a number that was promised and and that was the conversation and the text messages and how to communicate it and make sure you have all the detail necessary. Make sure every breakdown is there so everybody's questions can be answered. And and we're at the point now that to try to take scope out is actually going to net you more a larger cost. I I wasn't
084suggesting I'm just No, just because it's kind of a hard concept to wrap your head around, but it just it's just like that that time, money like adjustment right now is just we're at that point where to try to spend more time to make a different decision is going to be more costly than the outcome. Just to just to put it in perspective since February and I have documentation of every email, 52 emails we've had through everybody going through every single piece of this project. But I don't think they understand the backstory. That's why we're trying to get that. It's just is understand it sucks. Yeah. No, I I know you know that because you're in the business. This is I get it. This is every email that we have gone through. It's good thing
085I didn't copy him on everything. Tell you a funny story. When I was in region 15, Will Sparrow, rest in peace, came to me and says, "Ed, you know, 5 years ago, we discussed something about this." I said, "Hold on." Thank you. There it is. You never know when you're going to need it. And these are every email since January 31st that we've gone through. And the emails are four pages or five pages. So this this group unbelievable. We've been dealing. One day I had to leave cuz my wife called me. Dinner was on the table and it was 5:15 and after dinner I called Mario and he was still there at 6:30. Yeah. And Dave was there with him at 6:30. So this uh yelling at me this project we've gone through and Gary
086is Ed Myro sends me a text a text message. Yeah. I'm I'm excited to get this approved. I'm excited for the text messages. I have a I have a question. Um on the turf uh field, the uh multi-purpose field, is it going to be is it going to have the lines or just the tick marks? We're That's next steps. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if this gets approved tonight, we're going to sit with We're going to sit down with Field Turf and Mike and whomever else and figure out what's lined, what's ticked, what's all that stuff. Doesn't that influence though their No. No. No. That's part of that's part of your pricing. Yeah. Okay. So, more inlaid marks, lines, like the actual lines instead of the tick marks. I know. It just it's the same cost
087as long as long as you make all those decisions before we install it. I mean listen, right? And that's where we're at now is we need these shop process. It's a small fail turf has been very good to us the high school field is unbelievable. Uh just putting in perspective cuz we have maintenance on that field. Norat didn't have maintenance on that field. They're replacing that whole field within nine years and this is 10 years ago. We talked about before, I mean, are all sports going to be represented? Um, because we did talk about they'll either have lines or kick marks. Yeah. And what's lacrosse? And Yeah. Yeah. I mean, uh, it I I it only makes sense not to muddle it up too much, right? I mean, we have a soccer field and I
088mean, the class is flowing. Yeah. So, I get you, but as long as there's something I have a question about. Okay. Can can it be lined like a grass field can be lined? That's why you have the tick marks and then it that's what tick marks are for you just connected because it's like a correct stripe that you get. Okay, super quick question. So, I know you guys have spoken with them there and that's great that this is all in there, all the stuff we want, but obviously looking at the bottom items on this spreadsheet line 17, you know, down. That's stuff that has to kind of be done when you guys are doing all the ripping up now and pouring. So, you're not going to drive an excavator over the hill turf. I lost
089it, which is for the pad and the concession stand in there. So, are we assuming that this is a go because she gave you her word? Uh, there's no way be going over the new turf. We hope I guess the best way to answer that is because remember this doesn't come through October. No, that's correct. Septemberish unless they divide. Oh, right. Plus, we're Yeah, we're hoping to be at a point where you making a decision on a foundation, but the foundation access and and the ability to construct that building is down the center of the project. Yeah, exactly. Center of the projects. You're not on an access way from here. You're not driving the fields. Yeah, while you guys are there, it's a lot easier to get to it in process, but we just record
090it right now. No, hopefully we get that. I was just saying if Mario were gonna try to pin her down even more something in writing so that it doesn't delay you guys trying to come to an access. Well, I I I got to say, like I said on numerous occasions, she's told us that's exactly what she wants the money to do. recognize that you don't have access to those funds until the contract work is finished. Right. Otherwise, the gross value have to make the action that you are done spending money using the state funds. Correct. All right. Until they move forward. Mayor has made it clear she wants this project for all the Republicans on the board. They have an ear to the mayor. This Republican doesn't. Well, we forever some that do. She I
091I know that talking to Paul Dan unless she really wants this, but I there's no there's no guarantee. But please, if you can, if you really want this, just try to get in her ear, Arman's close to her, too. And anybody else and just try to convince her that it's post taste. If if it doesn't, it doesn't. I mean, it is what it is, but you know, still looking. So, as as as the OMG guys have said, we have money to do all these things. We just there's a cash flow problem, right? there's some of the money will not be released in time to do some of the things. So, we got to we just got to try to figure it out best we can and you guys are pretty good at it. So, I
092have to say I have confidence that things will come together. I didn't mention earlier that we are bringing um to the site pad location. We're tying the sanitary to the sanitary system that's under the fields. That price is included in this estimate. Bringing raceway from the existing building out to the future out building for the power is in the estimate and bringing the water service out to the building as also to be used for the field irrigation part is all in the estimate. So we thoughtfully put everything you need to put that building in at whatever stage you can you can start digging the foundation. You know, if we have to put a building uh what are those free small building coder farms coder farm building that you know do what you got to do.
093They're really nice on Route 4. Those sheds up there. Just the whole We're going to find a way. Yeah. The whole project is just going to be after it's done. It's been packed up. Anybody else? Anything else? I assume the video because I'm going to make a motion for some action. Who doesn't like some action? Did the video inspection I assume video inspection of the sewer line was suitable to say just line it and call it a day. Uh yes, we had a followup being with WPCA. They required us to line the pipe even though it's in pretty good condition but they required that. They also required restoration of the two manholes. Um so you will have longlasting below your below. Yeah. Be able to sleep at night. And uh and actually the two prices
094that we did get um kudos to Ed as the vendor that he hooked us up with originally that did the original lining was cheaper than the vendor that we had going through CP. Yeah. The same vendor we did when we did the field 10 years ago. Okay. Going to make a motion to authorize OMG Industries to proceed with the work as described in PRO87 athletic field revision to synthetic turf with VE selections as noted in OMG's estimate 2 revision 4 with trade backup specifically to authorize OMG Industries to authorize CJ Fucci to release their subcontractors Field Turf Liberty Landscaping to procure materials in accordance with the change proposals as modified of 1,85,00 171,000 and $2,794,620,000 respectively. Do we have a second on that? Patty second discussion. Yeah. Discussion. Is uh eagle fencing not included in
095there because you're still working on that? Is correct on anybody else? All in favor? I I I got a show of hands, please. Okay. Very good. Opposed. Abstain. Motion passes. Okay. Number two. Make the motion authorize OMG Industries to issue CJ Fucci a notice to proceed with a not to exchange uh exceed change amount of $427,251 for the additional CJ Fucci self-performing work. identified in OG estimate two revision four with the trade backup. Do I have a second on that? Patty, any questions, guys? You already knows what that is. It's the work that CJ Fucci is going to do on their very own with their forces. All in favor? I oppose abstain. Nothing. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you everybody. And we appreciate that hard work on the team's part. And uh I want to
096appreciate Gary coming in. And he didn't bring any food, but he did. He was good. Well, that's because you wouldn't believe it. Uh I can't afford everything. Uh for the good of the order. Done. Thank you for everything. Great job. Thank you. Thanks. I'm good. Thank you for all your hard work and effort. Wasn't smooth, but you guys did a great job. Thank you. I afraid when I started. Yeah. Just really I mean we see a lot of these getting stalled and I know some you may some things are not everything you wanted but what you are getting is it's unbelievable. I mean it's it's what a lot of public schools in the state do not have. So should be really proud of that. Nothing. Thank you everybody. Just let you know uh today was
097uh Connecticut construction career day in Meridan. Uh I was there with 11 of our high school kids uh which was great. It's a they go through and I have pictures with the kids so it's great. They go through a plumbing class and they were and then a uh electricity class through and kids were great. Those 11 are the same ones who are taking the 120 hour class that we started with the union and Yolanda Rivera who's great to us. So u great seeing all the kids there. So it was good. We're going to triple that next year. Yes. Hopefully. Yes. Soon. Great meeting. Thank you guys for all your hard work. Thanks guys for your hard work. Thanks guys for Thanks for letting me pop in and thank you for all the effort on this
098piece of it. All of it, but this piece was huge. I voted against it. Next meeting is next Thursday. You can see each other again. So uh it is now 6:33. Motion to Gary. Ready?