001okay I'd like to call the Granton Board of Education special meeting to order being held on March 6 2025 at 5:00 pm it's a remote meeting and the purpose of the meeting is discussion and possible action regarding the approval of the roof replacement project at Charles barnon Elementary School so as you know um Sam has been working closely with Ray to get the paperwork into the state for the roof project so we can go out to Bid And in that he had to report the date that you all had approved the project so when we went looking through our documents Joyce found that you had approved the specs for the project but you didn't officially approve putting a roof new roof on C Charles Barnum school and that's we've had the CIP for several years
002now and we were hoping to get it done this summer so it's really kind of now very timely to get this information to the state so we can build the roof for Charles Barnum so we do have the funds through the town to do this work you all had also contemplated solar panels but I I remember the decision with this specs were just to go with the specs for the roof itself and not to entertain the solar panels at this time so I think it's going to be I think you have a motion Beverly to make and if anybody wants to talk about it certainly or ask questions but this is just to make the motion to approve the building um project for Charles baram which is the roof project itself okay so I'll make
003a motion to approve the roof replacement project at Charles baram Elementary School they have second Matthew thank you okay you want to say anything else Susan no I think I think that's it really okay Ian uh thank you yeah I just wanted to just a quick clarification question more or less um if my memory serves correctly I I think we the the reason we didn't go with the solar plan panels was because there was like a some question with gr utility versus eversource is that Burnham's in like an area where it's drawing utilities and not eversource that's right Ian and so with the ever Source we really um you know they were really providing or leasing these where with the other um organization you'd have to purchase them so there were additional costs to it
004upfront and I think that the the board had decided to put that off at this time right yeah okay that that's as I recall thank you any other questions for Susan I see Adrian's hand okay I didn't see Adrian's hand okay Adrian go ahead oh y yeah um I I had the a similar question on the solar panels um I was I I don't remember the board actually making a decision to um to not go with the solar panels and I thought we' I thought we just talked about splitting the two projects up but I don't believe the board I mean please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe the board ever said we don't want to do solar panels um you all can discuss that Jay you might remember but I do
005know that you did approve the specs and the specs that you approved were for the actual roof project itself and not for the solar panel so that's what um was in the notes from Joyce J so um as Ian pointed out um groten utilities does not um work with with solar and frankly their rates are so low that the payback would be um probably longer than we expect the the building to be in use frankly um and uh unlike with eversource we would have to pay for the panels and the inst a and the maintenance and there's no money in the CIP to cover that the the CIP is just enough to do the roof so we'd have to go back and get it we'd have to start this process all over again if we
006contemplated solar so while I think we all would like solar uh well I shouldn't say we would all like I mean we we want to be more environmentally um friendly but I don't even know that that um then are being responsible for the eventual removal and disposal of the solar panels unlike with eversource uh where that's all done through the green bank so I just think this this particular site presents problems that it um we really can't overcome the same thing was true with themes River that's why that brand new school didn't get solar panels because they're in the same predicament so at this time it's not doesn't seem that it's doable yeah that's my thought the same thought that Jay had um that it wasn't feasable at this time to do anything with Charles
007Barham other than be placed the roof right well I just want to just go back to that a little bit I mean I don't think we need to have the solar talk tonight um but I don't believe I would be fine with that but I don't believe the board actually made that you know made that decision or had that discussion as a board um I believe as I remember it was going to cost about $50,000 um was the fee to the board and the payback was slow because of grotten utilities only gives like three cents or something I mean they give very very little back um but there what so there was concerns about it but I just don't remember um the board actually saying no we don't want to do solar and I would
008I would appreciate you know doing that at some point um that being said I don't think that it should hold up the um the roof project because I think they they're two separate things yeah no we can't hold up this roof project AG we have to move forward with it Dr aiman I remember the conversation and I remember that I believe anyway that we decided not to do solar perhaps at this time but we decided not to do it Ian you still have your hand you all finish out AC yes okay thank you Ian you still have your hand up yeah I just wanted to kind of I'm not sure if we actually took a vote or not either but it I think it was one of those moments where it was kind of a
009consensus where we just realized that you know the encumbrances that would come with the solar panels due to ground utilities restrictions on that um we're just too cumbersome and we just we just kind of put it on the Shelf I don't think we lost your last comments in uh so I think are correct okay yeah not everything do we vote on I think that at that point we were just doing it by consensus so you did vote on the specs though and the specs were for the roof so you did that but now we have to just make sure we've you know dotted our eyes and crossed our te so we can get this thing moving forward and that's with this vote okay any other discussion okay hearing none all those in favor to approve
010the roof replacement project at Charles baram Elementary School say I I I opposed I who's opposed no that was me saying I for the in favor okay I got you I got you Ian thank you exensions all right so approved do we have a motion to adjourn this was quick meeting thank you everybody for motion to adjourn motion to adjourn okay thank you all right it's 511 and we're now adjourned thank you everyone a great the best me we've had better have a great weekend