001We'd like to call the meeting in order. Roll call. >> Mr. Roger. Dr up to Grove. >> Here. >> Dr. Weir >> here, >> Dr. Wy, Mr. Broofphy, Miss Connor, Miss Kratz >> here, >> Miss Diamond, Mr. Brad up to Grove, >> Mr. Penal >> here. >> Four present. >> Let's rise for the pledge of allegiance and moment of song to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Well, good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us both here in person and virtually this evening. We have a few items that we'd like to discuss with the facilities committee. And uh I believe we have some of our presenters here. So we're going to kick
002things off and we're going to begin with the Boertown Elementary School HVAC and roof along with the Boyertown area senior high school turf project update. So we have with us this evening Mr. Jamie Lynch from CHA who's going to walk us through a uh a a short PowerPoint and this is an opportunity for members of the committee um to ask any questions and really as we kick off here over the last uh week with both projects we want to just make sure you're aware of this our next steps over the coming months. So Mr. for lunch. >> Great mic on. >> Red. Red. Very good. Good evening. Always good to be in Boyertown. Uh especially now that spring has arrived and it's the season of construction. So just wanted to uh provide uh the committee,
003the board, the community with a little update of what to expect over the next couple of months on these two projects. Uh the first being the uh turf project. And if we head to the next slide, I have the control. Thank you very much. Then I can advance to the next slide. Just one slide that uh identifies where we were from a budget standpoint. After I was last here, our bid cost was substantially lower than uh budget. So that is a a good thing. Landec is the name of our contractor who's going to be installing both fields for the district. uh a contractor that's uh very experienced in this type of work and we've worked with time and time again. So, we have kicked off the project with them. Shop drawings have uh been rolling
004since we issued the notice uh to proceed. Uh all of the shop drawings for storm water, for the turf field, for the fencing, for the paving, erosion controls have all been going back and forth from their office to ours and also to the township engineers office who has approved those shop drawings. And we are at the point where we are ready to break ground for construction. So this week uh we were intending to start with erosion and sediment controls on the site, get construction entrances uh moving and move on on the uh practice field side. That's where we start. The stadium field of course starts after spring sports are complete. And as you know outside everything has been very wet. So, we're holding and waiting for a little bit of a drying pattern to uh
005perform that work and keep going. But the schedule that uh we're under is identified here. Uh we're still in great shape in order to complete both fields and the timeline that is uh was provided in the contract. So, Lantech has exchanged shop drawings. They've done their field survey with the preconstruction meeting with the conservation district and the township. Uh a lot of materials have been procured and are in procurement. They've provided a schedule and this week as I mentioned installation of initial soil and erosion control measures. Um in the next couple of weeks we'll complete those measures, strip top soil from the practice field and start uh installing the practice field uh storm water work. Um all of that will tie in to when the stadium field is ready for us because we have a
006soil exchange between the two projects. Um, and that's how we manage the amount of soil that's being moved for both projects. Uh, I know you can't read it, but there is a schedule that was provided by by Lantech. Um, and right now we're complying with what they've provided. And so I'd like to see that practice field uh stripped in the next couple of weeks. And that tells us that we're really uh on our way with the turf field project. Um, before I go on, just any questions from the committee with regard to the Turfield project that I could answer at this point? >> Just for the committee's awareness, we uh have set a schedule on the access road off of Montgomery Avenue and with the swing gates there. So, they're going to operate on a
0076:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. They're going to be open. that ex is the expected pathway of a lot of transit of materials that are going to be coming in and out, soils, rock, etc. over the next couple of months. So, you can expect that during the working hours of the week and those will be then secured back at 6:00 p.m. um each and every evening. >> Great. Uh over on the elementary school project, um this is a project that has three prime contractors on it. We're doing new roofing, new HVAC, and new electrical components inside of the elementary school. Um, our contractors are JBM on HVAC, AE on the roofing, and Phillips Brothers on electrical. And so far, we've exchanged shop drawings, held our pre-construction meeting, and we're getting ready for um I'll call it
008prep work to start on second shift in April. Um and so essentially what we're doing uh in the spring before the summer hits, this project is executed over two summers, this summer and next summer, very heavy summer construction months. And to help with that, we've uh specified that work begins on second shift to remove ceilings in corridors in the elementary school and do prep work. This way, contractors know what's above the ceiling. They know where to run their conduit. They know where to run refrigerant piping. And it's basically planning to get ready for the minute kids and and staff leave. We want to take over and be stripping the roof and be installing new utilities on the inside of the building. Next summer is probably the heavier month because that's when our electrical replacements occur.
009The switch gear that gets replaced, it's a long lead item. It won't be here for this summer. So, all of the contractors have been doing planning. Um, your roofer, you may recall that we had a bid alternate whether or not to do the roof in one summer or two, and he elected to do it in one. So, we're going to do the entire roof this summer. Uh, Philips Brothers has been in coordinating where their conduit and uh, uh, wire pathways will go throughout the building. So, they've been popping ceiling tiles and looking above the ceiling. Same with JBM. Um, and so that will uh, begin probably in the second week of April on second shift. I have a meeting with JBM on Thursday to prep for that. And I also need to get over and
010talk to building leadership and get them all set for exactly what we do, when we do it, the times, make sure we have people there, collecting clearances from all the workers, getting them approved. So, it's been a lot of prep work. Um, I just wanted to share an image of a similar school that we did and what things might look like this spring when ceilings are removed in corridors. Um, this is a a middle school project that we did uh in a similar fashion where the ceiling was removed. In our case, we're leaving the existing lights. This image shows temporary lights, but we're leaving and resupporting the existing lights in the corridors. And so, this is what the corridor should look like, which is really our pathways to get refrigerant piping and conduit throughout the
011building. So, I just wanted to give everyone an idea of what that might look like. Um, and then just to run over the scope once again in classrooms at Bees, this is one of the actual classrooms, you'll have new lights, new ceilings, new fire alarm. The old unit ventilator will be replaced with VRF uh cassettes. We have new rooftop units. Um, and so basically the ceiling will look a lot different and there'll be an operable HVAC system, fire alarm system when we're all done. new electrical switch gear that serves the building, new emergency generator. That is my update for now and we'll continue to provide Friday updates as we get into construction to um administration leadership who can distribute out to board members so you understand what's happening. We'll throw some pictures in there so
012that you can see it, but we'll do that every Friday so that you're well informed as to what's happening. >> Great. Thanks. >> Happy to answer any questions, >> Mr. Did you say uh you have currently uh you know the silt socks on the fields yet or >> they've been delivered but they haven't really touched the field because it's been so wet. We were supposed to actually last Friday was going to be our first day >> and so we're letting things dry out. We should see that this week. >> Cool. Great. Thanks. >> Mr. Mr. Lynch, can you just reiterate for the committee um that of a point that's going to be on site, somebody that's going to be the lead at each of these projects, both on the turf and with relation to the
013bees project. >> Correct. So, our Kevin Lys is going to be assigned to this job. He's um wellversed in school construction. He worked at Princeton Day School and also over at Lawrenceville Prep in a prior life before coming to us. He's been up at Northampton uh working on their new elementary school. He's going to come down here and watch both projects uh for me. Our MEP team is engaged. They watch the shop drawings, review the shop drawings, provide him with any guidance if necessary, and I'm sorry you're stuck with me. I'll always be available. Dr. David Heiser knows that he can call me day or night if there are questions that come up. So, I believe you're well represented. >> You think one guy is enough for both projects? >> Yes. >> Is he going
014to be coming to the meetings and updating the board or you going to be doing that? Uh, I'll drag him in here if you'd like me to. I'd like to give you the updates and and maintain the point of contact, but if Kevin needs to come to the meeting um with me, we can do that as well. But >> so he's he's essentially your project manager on the field. >> Yeah. He he and I talk every day, right? So I have the relationship with all of the contractors as well, right? I'm guiding the shop drawings right now. I'm working on the schedule right now. He's come in boots on the ground, if you will. So he's watching what happens every day, making sure that it's compliant with the specifications and the drawings, and if there's
015any issues, he obviously pulls me in. So we are a team. >> Okay. >> Another quick question. Um, staging areas at the high school. Are you anticipating losing any parking spots or do we have to make sure we make arrangements to, you know, have students park somewhere else, faculty, that kind of stuff? >> Well, the line share of the work at the high school is going to be done during the summer. >> Okay. So, I don't anticipate losing any um spots for students during the school year. Um it really is as soon as we are able to get on that track at the at the end of the year. We will uh we're not going to have massive amounts of materials right on day one. And a lot of them can actually be brought out
016and put in the infield after we strip it. So, I I really foresee that being um not a conflict with school operations. Can you also explain to me how you are uh getting over the all-w weather track into the field and getting things in and out without disturbing, you know, that all weather track without without messing up the track. Right. So, uh we actually have a detail in our drawings um that we've used for years and years on these types of projects. So there's a mat that goes over it and it's got several layers of material so that you don't have to worry about vehicles, namely triacles loaded with stone. >> Sure. >> Damaging the track. So it it we build up over it and then we remove that when it's done. So the first
017layer is a covering like it it's a plastic material and then there's another layer that goes on. Then there's a bit of earth that goes on. So you build up over top of that and then it all gets removed and that portion of the track gets cleaned at the very end. >> Okay, cool. Great. Thank you. >> That's a great question. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Lynch. I know you have another meeting. You're >> Thank you very much. It's good to see you. >> Thank you. All right, we'll talk soon. >> And Dr. Wear, uh, one of the things we've been working and Mr. Lynch's office has been working with, uh, Mr. Paladino and the athletic office um and coordinating most especially for the alternate field so we're not losing any spaces most of
018that has is going to be stored on the field um and anything in and out we're moving inside a bare stadium as needed and so forth so we're confident that uh we can handle anything and we will not be reducing any parking spots at all and you saw the stadium the stadium is really um it will be impacted and we expect, you know, we have a highly successful track team and season, so allowing them to go through typically the Memorial Day weekend is when states take place, which obviously is the end of May, which coordinates pretty closely, too. We might be doing a few things with staging or CHA may be doing a few things um Lantech with some of that staging, but again, we we don't expect that it'll interrupt any of the operations
019of our own athletics or parking in any way. Thank you, Mr. >> Great. Okay, that takes us down item B. And uh we wanted to share with you this evening um expected capital projects for 2627 as we plan for budgeting purposes for 2627 and what this entails. Um I'm going to ask Mr. Lent and I'm going to ask Mr. Yanuzi, our supervisor of facilities and operations, come to the podium and we're going to kind of tag team both uh on this presentation for the board. Mr. Lent doing some of the 30,000 foot and filling in some of the details. Mr. Yanuzi. So, it's an opportunity for any of the board members that have not met Mr. Yanuzi who's not typically at board me um just to be introduced and has done a wonderful job, has
020been here almost a year now. May >> May we'll we'll we'll be at a year uh anniversary. So welcome and thank you for joining us. >> Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Lance, Mr. Yunuzzi, it's all yours. >> Great. So we'll start just giving you some background on the next slide. Uh we have as a district a capital projects plan. Um that plan is the basis that we've been moving forward capital projects and is one of the bases for the projects that are being presented here tonight. It is the last year of the five-year plan. um as some initial um you know foreshadowing for what that renewed plan looks like um also have worked u with Mr. Yuzi uh with regards to identifying needs that um have come up outside of that plan but are
021relevant. Uh the goal here is to maintain existing systems um and as well as um addressing maintenance that uh if we don't address will be um of concern down the line because it will expand in scope. on the next slide. So, of course, we'll start the discussion looking at the financial picture. So, we started the year $34.3 million in our capital projects balance. Um, when we account for the expenditures that are forthcoming from th those funds, uh we have the Gilbertville water treatment, um the HVAC and roof, um at Bortown Elementary School, and the Bash Fields. Uh so those are all deductions from that total. Um we then based upon where we are in this year's budget project a minimum $4 million transfer into the capital project fund at the end of the year. So
022in theory we're looking at this as far as funds that are available from the lens of $21.9 million um as of today uh for this. These funds of course do earn interest. in fact with um the formal development of capital projects funding streams as part of our budget. Um that's one of the pieces that I'm working on because as interest is earned on these funds that stays in the fund and is added back for uh additional projects. So we'll start so um districtwide um to address uh paving needs um looking at you know various repairs ceiling um striping lining um really looking at middle school east um new handover Gilbert'sville and Bash um really to address um concerns with the the the paving surfaces there um and really not necessarily looking for um any complete
023overhaul but really um maintenance and I don't know if Mr. Unus he has anything to add to that. >> The only thing I would add is after speaking to some folks at the high school since we have the projects going on for the turf field to do that parking area maybe this year might be maybe take a step back year so heavy equipment not >> oh I thought he left it off for me. Sorry. >> First time. Yes. Yes. I don't have to repeat any of that. Do I? >> No. >> Okay. Good. All right. So, I've been asked if we could just back that up uh for a year or more to see they don't want the the parking area uh ruined. So, that's all I have. Everything else is on there as priority
024for the rest of the schools. >> And again, Mr. Lance, why don't you talk through a little bit of what we expect to do with um an idea of of how we're going to evaluate these and the needs. >> Yep. So, we're going to look at um the next step will be to get pricing, bring that back to the board in April. Also, these projects will span the fiscal year. So, it doesn't mean these are all this year's summer projects. These projects could be based upon timing and other pieces at the um end of the school year um next year. um this is really what we're targeting on but in most cases we'll be bringing you pricing in April to um confirm these estimates approved so that those that can be completed this summer can
025get completed on the next slide uh for the education center uh boiler replacement for a boiler at end of life uh also a replacement of a rooftop unit um you know uh for our HVAC Mr. community if you'd like to add anything to that. >> I mean they are at end of life. Both are functional at this point but we have had problems with the rooftop unit. So uh whenever you all feel and vote on that this should be done certainly again it it is productive and useful but it is getting toward the end. So, it's a recommendation and we've really gotten that recommendation coming out of our um um contractor who services these. Again, this certainly out of warranty for many a decade now, no longer under warranty. uh the useful life of it
026again as it runs but it is a break fix um and continuation of a break fix to where we u don't want to run into a situation to which uh we don't have to which we couldn't heat or cool the building in any particular uh fashion. So we are we are we do estimate that this has has to occur in the 26 27 year you know whether that's the summer project or whether that's something that might be able to h happen over a break period during uh the school year to be able to establish those. So not as impactful to students um being that it's here at the ed center but certainly impactful to 30ome u folks that operate out of this building. We also could see that price of 88,000 come down because the
027same company that bid that also bid for our Pine Forge, which we'll get into later. Uh, and they are um they've estimated to use a higher efficiency, higherend boiler and burner, but again, that's up to you. I'll provide the information later on with Pine Forge and make the correlation between the two. >> On the next slide, we look at Middle School East. Um if you haven't seen the tennis courts um the entire paving surface is deteriorating. There is um weeds and other cracks in the surface. Um so that would be a complete digout of that. New poles, new nets. The fencing will be would be repaired, but the existing fencing um is adequate enough to be maintained on that site. Um the second project for Middle School East relates to the the sewer. um redirecting
028that um the the line has breaks in it um and if it can be redirected u Mr. Yunuzi can speak to that um it will assist us in that um flow. I agree with the tennis courts they are in dire need of help. So uh we and again obviously these costs were were just put together to hopefully come in lower. Uh as far as the sewer hookup this is more an investigation. Uh there's a sewer line that runs, I believe it be east to west on uh Route 73, Big Road, and it runs up about a quarter mile and then makes a right-hand turn across that road and then comes back down, hooks up to our uh pump house on our side of the property. So, our former director had done this had put put
029this in there because they had had a few breaks in the line. And when you have breaks in a line running through properties, obviously the district is responsible for taking care of that cost and they have had a fewer, you have to dig up the property and you have to then make it like it was before. So rather than go through that, the idea was investigate to see if we could just shorten that pipe and reroute it back to a manhole cover now or a manhole unit right in the uh neighborhood that's to the left of the school currently. and they're just going to ask the township to take a look at that and to see what the cost would be to do that would save the district a lot of money in the long
030haul as pipes only get older and are more more tendency to break. >> Next slide, Miss Moyer. Middle school west. So, replacement of the auxiliary gym floor at uh end of life. Turn it over to Miss Genezi for any more information on that. Uh the information is these tiles are popping up uh quicker than they're playing on them. Unfortunately, that's not an exaggeration. Uh it is again in bad shape. Has been done. Uh I don't think it was done in the uh was it 2015 one. So it's very old and they use it a lot. So it again it behooves us to get on that when we can to keep that because it's I think middle school west primarily is used I think more than any other of the institutions we have. I know east
031is is there as well, but they use middle school west for everything. So again, it'd be a great idea to have this uh taken care of. >> Next slide, Miss Moyer. Washington Elementary um for the office and for um a better logical flow of access to the nurses um suite um the build on installation of a door um to for access to that to be really clear and a straight path. Mr. Muse, you want to speak to more details? Yes. Uh the the students do come in through the uh from the lobby into the office and there's a lot of traffic in and out of there. There's, you know, uh people coming to meet the principal. There's visitors. So, what they were coming up with was just to have them go through the uh other
032door into that uh sloped hallway and then we would uh cut through the center block wall uh put a a landing three steps up and to the nurse's office right there. her desk would be right there to put a railing up there for safety. Uh the measurements have already been taken. We've had someone come out and take a look at doing the work, the masonry work and the cement work. And we're waiting for some u one of the person we use for doors to come out and measure and give us an estimate on that. But uh this has been I think been on for a couple years if I'm not mistaken. So um you know that's that's all I have on that uh at this time. But any I'll answer any questions. Yeah, this has
033been a project since I've I've been here with the district. Um, and it it it really be has come down to to um, you know, we and if you've ever been into Washington, it it's a unique lobby area comes into the main um main office area with the nurses sweeping inside that main area to which there's really no other a direct access. So we have a number of ill children that may be coming in to see the nurse that have to flow through a community area to which we may have healthy individuals and visitors and and so forth in. So it makes more sense um for us to have a direct access and it's been investigated. uh is certainly something that we we would need to apply for permits for and and so forth. That
034would allow it to be just a a more seamless process for individuals to visit the nurse and and in in in their suite there. Next slide, Gilbert'sville. So, Gilbert'sville steam boiler replacement. Um it's well past its useful life. Um that impacts our ability to have consistent heat throughout the building. Um, certain areas are extremely hot, certain areas are extremely cold. And again, I'll pass over to Mr. Yunzi for more information on that. >> Yes, these are extremely old. I believe as old as the building boilers if I'm not mistaken. Uh, again, they are functional. Uh, however, being old, uh, we have the the pipes, the the steam pipes that are connected to them because it's steam heat that it uh generates, uh, they are in dire need of help. We have sometimes our plumber, others
035will go down try to manufacture those pipes, replace the pipes as they can. Certainly not the most efficient and effective way to do it. Uh so with the new with the replacement, you're going from steam to water. The the steam then goes to a heat exchanger that runs the heat through the building. This fix would then just be hot water running through the building and wouldn't be as inconsistent, spread out more evenly. Uh so again they're useful or functional. Yes. Getting beyond useful for sure. I think the piece that becomes most uh concerning are the parts. Um for us having to manufacture certain parts to to make for that since um I don't know that this uh make and model is is manufactured any longer. it is harder to get parts >> and and more
036and more difficult to find those types of parts for this. So, this does appear to be the year of the boiler. Seems like a common theme uh throughout some buildings. Um but again, we want to be a little more ahead of this. It's still functional. There's no safety concerns that we have, but it is something that we're addressing almost on a daily basis to be able to allow it to run and function and and uh do the things uh boilers do inside of the building itself. So, um we have some estimated costs of being in that. Certainly not an exact number. that would be something if the board considers this to move forward in the budget that we would uh start to go out and get some better pricing on what exactly we're looking at
037um in terms of those. So any final things would certainly be brought back in front of the the committee here and brought back to the full board for your consideration of approval. I will say that after speaking with Dr. Bergie, the principal at Gilbert'sville, he is concerned about two unit vents uh in rooms and one outside in a hallway that do get extremely hot when the boilers are cooking and uh you know the the fear there is the safety of the children if they touch them or bump into them or whatever. So uh he had asked me to or urged me to uh to make that make that statement and make that point that as Dr. Dr. David Heiser said there are no safety issues, but they would be the only ones, and obviously they're
038great ones because of the children. Thankfully, there has been no uh evidence of of harm at this point, but we always want to be careful. Next school in New Hover. So, um New Hover, um you'll see also later at another elementary, um stage curtain replacements. um in particular um you know the uh cording that is with those um has to be a certain type. Um the type um is not code um which would mean if there was a fire it really goes up uh fast. Um with that also um the curtain at your handover is torn. Um so that's slated for for replacement. Um tile in the back hallway. Mr. New can speak more about it but it is popping up. Um so to to replace that area um and then for uh safety um
039this has come up a number of times um a walkway for student drop off area um so that it's very clearly delineated um aligned with with drop off um at new handover student. >> Yes, thank you Mr. Slence. Um the stage curtain replacement first uh after examining the stage curtains front and back stage curtains are in bad shape. There are a lot of holes, stains, and whatnot, and they look like they're original to the building. Um, and the rigging with the ropes, as Mr. Lent stated. I spoke with Mr. Ramsay from the high school who does the stage production there, and asked him was their code because I know that they use hemp type ropes currently in their uh staging productions. and he said that there's I need to check with Sapsis the group he
040used to get the quote for his project but there's supposed to be a vinyl coated rope that is used a certain diameter what we're using on these right now look to be the same as a closline rope say uh and it has broken and at Colbergdale which we'll get to but at new handover it's also uh fraying the the rigging ing systems are coming up from the floor. So, that again is uh probably in in the worst shape of the two. As far as the tile replacement in the back hallway, uh I mean it's in it's becoming more of a trip hazard every day. Uh tiles do pop up. They are old. We have had our uh one of our maintenance persons uh go through and just you know go through them continuously laying down
041new tiles but you're just doing patchwork at that point really should be and this is now this is from if you're familiar with new handover from outside the one conference room and cafeteria all the way back to the dock is what this back hallway is. That's how far it stretches. It's not a big piece but it's it's enough. It's it's used widely. Uh so again that's uh that's one of a few things there for their tile. But the cement walkway is something that I just spoke with uh principal ran about uh actually earlier in the week. Uh he had come up and he had asked us myself and our head grounds man Jeff Pender uh to see if there's something that we could do to bring a safety to resolve a safety issue that he's
042been dealing with for six years. He was asking us maybe to paint some lines or bus lines or whatever safety walkways. And the more we talked about it, basically what I asked him was what, you know, what do you feel would be the safest uh way to go about this in this resolving this issue? And he said a walkway. Now, if you're familiar with New Hover, the the parking lot that faces 73 Big Road right now is only used for buses. And it's used after they drop off, they pull in because there's a line of buses that snake its way out to Hoffman'sville and uh as well as parent vehicles. and the local police department is having a little bit of a fit having to do traffic control there and they're constantly speaking with principal
043ran and he's handled it very well. But we're just trying to resolve a bigger issue here for him getting these getting a walkway. What we would do is we would take away parking on the side of the building. We would redirect it to the back parking lot that I initially spoke of. Then we would use that empty parking area to have a a sidewalk that runs from close to that back parking area all the way up to um near his door. We wouldn't go all all the way up and then make a 90° angle because quite honestly it's a more expensive alternative. But we can veer it off to the left around a tree that's there, a healthy tree which we wouldn't want to cut down. We could veer it off to the left, add
044some new uh widen the sidewalk that's there now and have a perfect eightwood 8 feet wide path that would accommodate not only dropping off but also picking up and he feels as though after six years this is probably the best option for him. Uh and obviously the safety of the children and having watched it a few times I I would I would agree with them. So >> yeah, I can concur. I I spending a month out at New Hanover and seeing and walking through that multiple times with Mr. Ran. Um it it's probably the best option. It's not a great u situation that exists right now with the amount of parent uh drop off and pickup that we are that we have and that you know connection to buses as well. I think this really
045separates the two, makes it safe. Um, and it's something we looked at um, considerably when I was out there during the month um to really and and that I would support this wholeheartedly support this plan to move forward with. Um, number one, obviously for safety, it just better coordinates um, every person a little better than we have right now. cones can only go so far and um you know we're trying to do the best we can out there right now but there's a lot of volume coming at a very restricted point in time and um this will certainly help that next slide final school um for slated projects Colbert Brookdale Dale stage curtains these be the front only also replacing the ropes for code requirements Mr. community for additional information. >> Yeah, as Mr. Lens
046said, um front curtains only. The back are fine. Again, we're seeing the same rope issue, the same rigging issue, uh that we see present new handover. Again, uh age of the building, I'm sure probably have never been changed out. Uh they have I don't know how many productions they do, so I would imagine uh it doesn't get used as much, but I could be wrong about that. But at least we would save something on this only having to replace uh a few of the curtains. But again, you're still looking at the rope and the rigging and the safety issue that that entails. Great. And so on the next slide, when we look at these projects individually, we need to consider the total. So when we look at the projected capital fund balance that we'll have
047in place, uh we're looking at $1.3 million of capital projects. also having uh a transfer that's part of our budget for 2627 included in there. Um that brings us to 24 a.5 million. The other variable um is we do earn interest on these funds. Um that currently is around $70,000 a month. So that also continues to get added to those funds um to maintain uh a balance in capital uh project. So, um I'd like to think it's well thought out with regards to what we're spending, what we're replenishing, um how we're maintaining that. Um and then we'll be looking forward with updated um information on our five-year plan for um the next uh fiscal years. Final slide brings it all together. So, we fund these in capital projects. There's no bond issue. um our total
048of 1.3 um kind of next steps um would be to um secure our actual pricing for a lot of these projects based upon the nature of them. Um they'd be from co-stars vendors um getting multiple uh quotes for costs um bringing the best quotes back to the board for approval in April so that we're ready to get um out of the gate on these projects for um the 2627 school year questions on the Gilbertville boiler. >> Yes, sir. >> Um, that's one big boiler for that whole story. >> It's actually two boilers. >> Oh, there are two. >> Yes, there are two. >> Okay. I was just wondering, are we putting one in or two? >> We would probably put two back in. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Any other capital project questions?
049Okay. Well, that'll take us to item C then. and we wanted to just share with the board um and the committee um some more current and upcoming upcoming projects. So, Mr. Yanuzi, I'm going to have you at the podium and Mrs. Moyer, if you can bring that up for us. All right. So again some of the key efforts that we uh want to try to address and have been addressing safety is always first and foremost when we look at a lot of our projects that we have a lot of the break fix things that u deal with infrastructure that might be environmental factors um um and and some of and some of the things that really try to minimize disruption for our students and for our staff so the focus can truly be on teaching
050and learning. Um some of the current projects that we have right now and uh first one out of the gate is the security camera add-ons project. This was part of capital projects last year that we had shared with the board. Um most of the cameras have been installed at Middle School East and at Bash. A lot of those were to fill in a number of voids that we had a lot of stairwells that we didn't have um real access to. Uh, so this was a project that we targeted um in the budget for this year to accomplish a lot of that. And Mr. Yanuzi, correct me if I'm wrong, we're we're are we completed at those two two buildings? I know they've been >> they have completed east. I believe they've completed Bash as well.
051>> Okay, good. Good. And you're going to hear we have a kind of part two of that and that's an addressment to more of our elementaryaries a little later in this presentation. Um the next item there you see the Envirra Health air quality testing. This kind of goes and is tied to the Boyertown Elementary School project just as you heard earlier in the presentations from Mr. Lynch. Uh one of the things that staff and one of the things that we wanted to address was take an air quality test of the building pre and post from taking down if you would you heard from Mr. lynched the removal of all the ceiling tiles inside of the building. So we wanted to test the building for its air quality related to asbestous testing. The abatement of the
052asbestous in the building took place in 2023 I believe. >> That's correct. >> And um so we did some of that. So the asbestous testing results really came back from an asbestous side that all samples were below the analytical detection limit. The levels obtained represent clean air via phase contrast microscopy from the um organization that of Connell Green environmental consulting. So there's a positive results as we would expect with asbestous really being out of there that there was really no um detection uh it was well below any detection limit to those. We also then did a and wanted to do a air quality testing on the bio bioerosols and which are really testing the mold values inside the building. Um it's always a comparison of a sample outside and inside of a building when you
053look at that. So some of the results that came back sampling conducted of the ambient air of all indoor uh locations took place. All indoor samples were within the normal limits based on both the indoor air quality agency guidelines and the outdoor sample. The indoor samples had low total spore counts and and no indicator of other organisms and that were pres present in any of the samples and based on the results there's no proactive remediation for mold related issues necessary at this particular time with regard to that. positive results with the air quality testing. What we plan to do is a couple of week or week or so after the removal of all the tiles, go back and do the same testing again to make sure that we've maintained an environment that that is safe
054for our staff, for our students uh in that building as we move forward. And as you recall, all of the tiles will will stay removed in the hallway areas throughout the course of the remainder of the summer all through next year. um classroom tiles will stay intact. Uh but it is going to be a different look in Bordertown Elementary for a full year. Uh in terms of that, um Mr. Yuni, you want to just talk a little bit about the generator repair at Nohanover? >> The generator repair was completed today. uh Alberell electric came out and uh what they did was we have a diesel motor on our um generator that it was for the radiator that runs the generator that runs the boilers. Uh so we were having problems with all this so just
055about a month or so ago when we still had some bad weather going on. But the came out they they um corrected everything they tested it three times. Everything did exactly what it should have done. Uh so the last report I got from the head custodian at that school was that they were good to go and it had been repaired. Okay. Takes us down to PFOA water treatment. As you recall the board had given approval and we move forward with the application phase with suburban water technology. Uh that's been that application's been signed. It's been notorized. it's been sent to the PA D uh for their consideration of a resin filtration system, a full school filtration system. In the interim, um we did put um localized point of use uh filtrations on bottle fillers, fountains,
056nurse suite, nurses suite, the um kitchen areas and waited the the uh um recommended wait time was uh allowed about 2 weeks and we tested those after approximately 2 weeks. I'm really happy to report that the ranges um in there, if you recall, we were at a building level of about of 8.68 on on the quarterly. The running annual average um for the building was 8.68. If you recall, um, the parts per trillion regulation, uh, for PFOAs up through until 2031 is 14 parts per trillion. We were at 8.68. And the localized point of use has brought the range brought the the levels down. And we have a range anywhere from 1.66 to 1.87 87 right now across those point of use um filtrations. So the localized filters h have have done some job and
057really brought them down under the four point parts per trillion um which is the federal guidelines. You have until 2031 to reach that, but we've we've dramatically brought that down. Our hope is that with the full tr uh resin filtration system that we would even bring that down further and maybe have no detect, but we'll we'll wait to see. So, we're happy to report that. So, we'll be communicating that to the Gilbertsville families and just keeping them in the loop of of those um of that change to to the waters. So, again, we had applied also to Aqua um for consideration of a public hookup. We've still yet not received any communication back from Aqua as it's come to that. And we've actually put in communications for both New Hanover and Earl which are no
058detects right now for PFOAs but uh did put a applica or did put communication out to them in a similar fashion to see if there's any possibility of public water hookup at those two buildings and have not heard back yet at this point. So again, fingers crossed we'll hear back from them, but um we'll keep you in the loop as far as the um application phase for the resin at at at Gilbert'sville. So our next area, there we go. >> And I'll turn this over Mr. Yuzi. Spring break your construction. >> Before I before I address this, uh just I misspoke. Uh it the generator doesn't run the boilers. I have boilers boilers on my mind. Uh it runs the major appliances, fridge, freezer, security, that type of thing. So I just wanted to bring
059that to your attention. Uh Springbury Construction, we've had Uler Construction come out to do the or going to finish u a lot of the steps that we've asked them to repair. They're going out to the high school during the u Easter break and they will repair I believe it what is it the uh east entrance? Yeah, the school's east entrance. There's only there's these steps are on a on a point on an angle. So the the ones that really need to be repaired are from that angle or point toward the wall and uh they're going to take care of that alone. Now certainly they've suggested that the other steps that are that are around there should be considered but that is the most dire need. So we've asked them to uh concentrate on that. Uh
060I've also asked them to look at the education center steps out here in the front just two or three steps out there. they're they're uh going to quote us a price for that to repair them because as we go around and as you all know if you've been in the district for a while there are many tris trip hazards that we're trying to address and there's a few ways to do it. One is through just the concrete work. Others are through an organization we use uh that uses foam to raise up the sidewalks to meet the curbs and uh to level everything out and remove those trip hazards. We just had them complete that at Gilbert'sville. uh where all the teachers uh and staff park and it it came out wonderfully. They did a great
061job and uh Cobricdale. Now, Drumheller Construction is a an organization that we were using prior to finding Uler Construction. Uh Mr. Drumheller, uh we lost contact with him. He had a quote for a couple things to do. Unfortunately, we don't know what happened and uh we wound up find out he was in the islands for a period. That's all I'm going to say about that. But we moved on to someone else and we still stay in touch with them because obviously we are not looking to rule anybody out. Uh you know we're always going to get our two three quotes but u as of this point Uler Construction is doing an amazing job for us but we have given uh Drumhellard the the they've gotten the quote and accepted the quote for Colbertdale Elementary to
062do all the curbs around there and the the u the center island as well. Any questions about that? And forgive me if I misspoke. No. Okay. Uh water pump, I'm sorry, water pump replacement or Earl Elementary. Uh we have two pumps that pump the water through Earl Elementary. Uh currently pump one or the one that is leaking. Uh we we found this out through a power outage and uh we do have pump tube working well. They are both functioning, but this leak we don't know how long it's been going on because you know they didn't need to be checked because everything was working well. But now that we have checked it, it's certainly something we should address. We've had a quote for it uh from Guringer Mechanical for uh 9,400 almost $9,500. uh and u
063I wouldn't say it's it's tough to say with pumps. I mean once you start seeing them leak as you know that might not take long with that pressure uh to uh stop functioning but uh I I believe it is a good price for that but u you know we're going to we're going to try to move on that as as quickly as we can. A lot of these projects as you know have to take place either when school is out or through the summer. Any questions on the pump? >> Yes. >> Is this a water pump or a glycol pump? >> It's a water pump. >> It is water. Okay. Chiller 2 repair uh at the high school. I know this has been talked about a lot in the last year. Now before they do
064the final repair of the chiller of chiller 2, there was a piece uh in the compressor motor that they found that one wasn't under warranty and two needed to be repaired before they could do the overall repair. So um I I have that quote in here. If you need to know it, I can tell it to you. Uh but they feel that if they don't address this problem first, they can't do the bigger uh finish on the chiller. So uh obviously we we got JCI usually does this for us to come out and give us a quote on this. And uh once they have that part in, which they say, as you can see, ships on 46. So we'll get it sometime third week of uh April. And then they're saying by the end of
065April, the total chiller project will be complete as far as chiller 2 because we need that stress off of chiller one as soon as we can get that to happen. No. Okay, moving on. Uh safety camera add-ons here. As Dr. David Heiser told you about the other two schools, we have Earl Elementary, New Hover Elementary, and Middle School West. Uh, so we've decided to take it as I've just listed it. Earl, all the cameras at Earl are all exterior cameras. So it's easier for them to go down and use ladders to do these. That's what they did at the high school and that's what they did except for the higher elevations. Uh, and they did this also at East. Uh, we have a lift that they can use to do interior cameras. However, at Earl
066and New Hover, there's no way they're getting that lift in that building. So, they'll just use ladders due to the interior. And if they need the exterior, we can take it up because right now it's sitting at Middle School East. And then, uh, we'll have it moved by the time they get to Middle School West, we'll have that, um, lift for them to use both interior and exteriorly. Uh, but again, these are for the blind spots. These are for the long hallways with the lights at either end of the of the hallway that you can't see in the middle. And again, student safety. Uh, speaking with uh, principal Dumbrowski at Middle School West says it's just of the utmost importance because of all the collection in the areas. I think the students know where the
067cameras are as well. So, uh, we have to get more in there. Any questions about cameras? Okay. Our our our last You got it. So the last the the last item in here is and again for the committee and our board who are well aware we had a catastrophic failure of a boiler at Pine Forge. This is the elementary school that had been closed for a number of years reopened last summer as we act and the BCIU rents space from us for its early intervention programs. So uh it's a two- boiler system. One of the boilers did catch fire. Uh there was fire uh uh department on site and um thankfully no one was injured on on on the on site when it came to this. No students nor teachers were there. We were fortunate
068to have a couple of custodians who reacted well to that um scene and um really were able to address it as quickly as possible. So bringing Pine Forge back um uh to a two- boiler system again obviously is going to take the replacement of a boiler which um uh will need to be removed and replaced. So we've gone out sought out three different um uh quotes for um this and you can see they're they're stretched a little bit differently. We do have an update on three Bs and Mr. Inuzi can fill you in on that. Birkshere who uh was the contracted service provider for the BCIU um did come in with the lowest quote. These are all co-star vendors. Um and we are really recommending um based on the price tag that you see there,
069we believe that the Burnham um oil burner is a sufficient enough um burner for and and boiler for that particular u building. Um, it's matched up against a Will Mlan and a Smith cast iron uh that you see there. There are some differences. We did attach some of the specifications to to it. Um, but we do feel based on the fact that um um this is a rental property which we own, it's sufficient. The last one did run what we factored in to be 16 years, Joe. um which is a bit short for a um for a boiler system and um you know we're pretty confident based on some of the servicing that we would do with this that we could replace that as a landlord. We do have a contract with the BCIU on
070this. Part of that is uh we do and have discussed some things with the BCIU of sharing the cost of this possibility. Uh with that they are amenable to that and splitting the 36,000. Um there is some additional fees to which they've asked us to also um most recently consider. There was approximately $13,000 in in smoke remediation um and some additional costs with repair of boiler one to get it to its place. And they asked for consideration as far as splitting that cost as well in this the insurance we do have a $50,000 deductible. So obviously if you're looking and considering the $36,200 uh boiler, it does not make much sense to file a claim when it comes to to that in and of itself. So um this is something that's going to take some
071lead time to get all the things in necessary for this. I would expect that this to be a summer project to have this replaced in there. Um and um wanted to bring these quotes back to you. You can see they span quite quite a a large array. You did receive today an update from 3B, I do believe, Mr. Yanuzi. >> Yes, Dr. David, we have uh the new quote is $74,5259. So, it comes more in line with the quote from HT Lines at 795. And the reason is that uh it became an applesto apples comparison. Their initial quote was a high efficiency higherend burner and boiler. Uh but compared to the standard linkage boilers that we had up there uh and we kind of pressed them to you know do better because we use 3B
072a lot in our in the district. They do a lot of the work on the boilers for us and so we have a great relationship with them but you know at 1071 and change we wanted to see something better and then we they thought that uh it was a gas boiler. They thought Pine Forge had gas. So when we corrected that then they realized they needed to adjust their price for that as well. So, what you see all here are standard linkage boilers. Uh, the burners, they're all pretty com comparable. I mean, I think as far as the HC Lions and Bergkshire, they're using a Becket burner and Becket burners are you can find them everywhere in the United States. The the parts are easy to get. They're easy to replace. The Reello that um
0733B is offering a little harder for parts, a little harder to find. Uh, not as many, you know, uh, people want to work on them. So 3B does that's great but just again put that's for your consideration. Uh and uh I think the boilers are obviously the the labor is more than than the part themselves but that was the update. So one of the things I would like to get some direction from committee on what you would like to the administration to to to do we are really based on pricing recommending discussions with the IU and their facilities department um do have confidence in Birkshshire and their quote and replacing with a Burnham um again and if that's something that we would like to move forward with we would be the purchaser of the equipment
074to that and um it would need direction from from the board and we would have to bring that back to the board. Again, the IU is amendable to um splitting that cost um and would ask for your consideration for the additional cost that that came about with the remediation and >> they're interested in splitting that as well. Correct. >> Yeah. And that was I >> 13,000 and and a few dollars. So, it's it's in that $6 to $7,000 range. >> I'm in agreement with that. Uh raise raise hands if you're in agreement and you'd like to move forward with the Burnham. >> Is the IU using that building all year long? >> The IU will be using that building. Um there there's going to be a gap I think there's always a gap in the
075in the summer. their schedule is not aligned necessarily directly to us, but they there's going to be enough of a gap that we're hoping that any replacement could take place during that time period in the summer. >> Thank you. >> But again, they are running on one boiler system right now and it is it is sufficient. We would like a you know uh a redundancy and piece to this. We okay to bring this back then through through committee and through Okay. All right, Mr. Yuzi, we've got some marching orders. >> Thanks so much. Appreciate the invite. >> No one signed up for comment period number two, which lead us to our upcoming meeting minutes. We're meeting dates and it's a facilities committee meeting May 26, 2026. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> I'll motion. Meeting adjourned.