001like to call the meeting to order. Roll call. Mhm. Yeah, >> it's spinning. Just give me a second. >> Sure. >> Yeah. Board doc slow. >> You're in second. Almost there. You have any hard? >> I'm in. I'm in it. Okay. It's launch. >> Thank you for your patience, >> Miss Connor. Here. I'm >> I'm now going to take the take the role. Sorry. Thank you for the pause. Miss Connor. >> Miss Katrz >> here. >> Miss Nyman absent. >> Mr. Brad Upgrove >> here. >> Mr. Roger Up to Grove >> here. >> Dr. Weir here. >> Dr. Wy >> here. >> Mr. Broofphy absent. Mr. Panerell >> here. >> Seven present. >> Let's rise for the pledge of allegiance in a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
002of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. There's no one signed up for a public com period number one. So, we're going to go to uh discussion information this evening. We have uh a facilities presentation for you with a plethora of items that we'd like to bring back to you for discussion information. And we have Mr. Bramble, director of facilities here this evening. We also have some guests in the audience that are going to assist. Mr. Bramble um and one of which you've heard from Mr. Crum from Suburban Water Technology. We have an update on some of the questions that we had with regard to that. We also have Bob Ramsey from Bash High School. And as we get into some of
003the auditorium discussion, we're going to invite Mr. Ramsey to the podium as well. So, I'm going to put it in Mr. Bramble's hands to begin the presentation. >> Good evening. The first item, the project to project to um repair the uh chiller, number two chiller at Bash and to repair the number two chiller at uh Middle School West. Currently, the uh Bash chiller is being disassembled. Um, and uh, that's progressing. Nothing unexpected so far. Uh, when the motor comes out, that'll be sent back to the factory. And then when that gets back, everything will be wrapped back up. Um, that, um, as had been asked, will be test run when it's put back together. But the, um, let me see, I have the text here. Uh, that'll be test run when it's put back together.
004But the 12-month warranty on the repair won't start until the official spring startup. When JCI comes back to do that, uh the work will the warranty will start then for the air cooled chiller at Middle School West. Uh uh this work is actually complete. Uh JCI did they replace the failed fan VFD. They replaced the failed compressor heater and repaired the leaks and recharged the chiller. Uh that was testr run and completed on January 18th. Uh now as far as JCI goes, the bash chiller and the middle school west chiller service contracts will expire at the end of June. and the middle school east uh new chillers, their warranty is up the end of May. So, I'll be asking JCI to give us a quote for uh the York chillers at all three schools. And
005JCI is a um co-stars vendor. Um there are other Co-Stars vendors. I may solicit at least one more price just to make sure that we're getting uh the best deal on that, but it has to be in my mind someone that specializes in York. So there's only a couple other big vendors in the area that do that. Any questions for Mr. Bramble on chillers? Can you give update? Was the We were successful with the replacement at East last late spring, early summer, ran okay through the summer. Is that correct? >> Yes. Yeah. The the chillers at East have been running good ever since I've been on the scene. >> Okay. >> Like I said, the warranty is up, so we want to get them under contract for PMS and we get preferred rates on service.
006>> Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> How long is the warranty on them now? uh once you uh re-up on them, how long does that go for? >> The one we had was 3 years, so I was going to solicit for another three years. >> Okay, >> thank you. >> Um Gilbert'sville Elementary, the uh water quality update. Uh suburban Well, I don't know. Jeremy, do you want to Sure. >> talk first about that? Good evening everybody. Thanks for letting me stop out again to talk to you about the water quality at Gilbertville Elementary. Um, after the last uh meeting when I presented about the options for different types of water treatment to treat the POS and PO in the water. Um, I looked at resin manufacturers and we wanted to get an idea of how long
007the resin would last so that we could budget for maintenance. um Resident Tech is the manufacturer that we would use for purchasing the resin. So, they gave me a list of different ions in the water that we'd have to test for so they could put it into their model to determine um an approximate lifespan of the resin. Um I got the data actually yesterday. So, I apologize. I don't have any slides to show you, but the data I've received yesterday. I I gave that um to Resent Tech today and they put it into their model and their best estimate is the media should last us around 10 years, which was amazing to me. Um not going to lie, I thought it would be less than that. And I obviously I can't look into a crystal
008ball and guarantee that it's going to last for 10 years, but based on the levels that we have, being that we do have such low levels, they're expecting the resin to perform very well and last a long time. So cost um estimates, I would say if you break it down per year over the that 10-year period, you're looking at about $1,000 a year, which honestly is amazing. You can't purchase water for that. So, um I think that this is very um optimizing it. It looks good that we can treat the water for a relatively low cost and maintenance isn't going to break the bank. So, it was very positive. >> Mr. Crum, can you take us take the board back to um decision of carbon filters versus resin? Why why why did you land on
009resin? >> Um I was explain. >> Yep. No problem. So, I was leaning more toward resin. Um, historically we have used carbon because that was the only technology available. Now that the resin has been tested and proven and the DP has a lot of experience with this, the resin you need less of it. So you need contact time to remove certain parameters from the water. Um, carbon in order to remove POS and POA it takes 20 minutes of contact time whereas with resin it only takes five minutes. So you need far less volume of the resin than carbon. Um the resin does cost more per cubic foot, but you need far less of it. So there's less vessels, less mechanical parts, less maintenance. Um the carbon that we've used um has not lasted that many
010years. Um and I wouldn't expect it to last 10 years. So when I saw that this resin can potentially last 10 years, that was very good. And you've seen success with this on other entities that you've operated on and being other schools and other public facilities and private facilities. >> So, we haven't personally used the resin. Um, I asked D for their input because obviously they see more of it than I do. Uh, we operate 250 water systems and we've only had to treat four systems so far. Um, I do have four more that I'm going to be treating in the near future and I've switched those proposals to the resin um for the reasons I specified. It's less of it, less maintenance, um, smaller vessels, less cost in the long run. So, I'm we
011personally have not, but I, you know, talked to D engineers and they've told me that other facilities have absolutely used this and had great success. Hi. Um, I had read up on the difference between the two of them and it said that the resin doesn't taste as good. Have you heard anything like that that the carbon tastes better? >> I have not. Um, the only thing I could think of with that is carbon naturally takes out any other taste and odors in the water. So maybe there was some underlying factor that the carbon inadvertently treated something else that was in the water so it made it taste better. >> So it's not like a known thing and it doesn't taste awful. >> Oh no, no resin. So just to give you an example though, I
012don't know if you have a water softener in your home. Um resin is used for softening. It's used to take out iron, manganesees, other metals. So it's it's a different type of resin than what's than what's in a water softener, but it's similar. So, Mr. Bramble, if if you would just stay at the at the podium, Jeremy, but um can you share with the board a little bit of what you from Aqua? We've made contact uh on a couple of occasions and just where we stand with that. I know the question came up came up in discussion at our last meeting about um public hookup. Right. >> Right. I uh contacted Aqua uh and talked to the regional engineer and I was directed to go to the website and fill out the application for service.
013Uh I did that, submitted that and heard back from them the end of last week with a couple of additional questions. Uh I answered those. uh they're going to evaluate the request and they will let us know a if public order is reasonably available and then if it is what it would take to get it to the uh school. Um but then if if it is available then we would have to have it engineered and go through a lot more detailed application process to get the public order. So, it seems like the most expedient thing to do would be to move ahead cuz um the filtration system from Suburban uh can be installed and up and running a lot quicker than we would be able to get public water into the facility. And the I
014guess um pot of gold at the end of the rainbow might be if someday the EPA declares the Boertown Landfill uh super fund site, then the EPA would pick up the cost of installing public water for all the facilities within the zone and the school is within the zone. >> Mr. Crum, would it be possible for you to give us uh back to the board a uh written proposal of the cost structure time period and a little more formal I know you presented some estimates formalized some of that um I think one of the recommendations having spoken to you numerous times Mr. scramble our discussions among the administration staff at this point in time is we have known detection um you know to the board I think in our best interest for all of our
015students all of our staff that we move forward with a known plan to which we can remove and reduce BFOS PFAS in the water if there is some opportunity for us in the future to hook up with public water um that can be certainly something that we can look to Um, right now there does not seem to be a rush by Aqua. We don't even know where a main would be. It could essentially be 2 miles away that we would be responsible for hookup for that or it could be right next door. We're really not sure exactly what or if it's available, but we do know that we have an opportunity to move forward with the possibility of reducing these in a fairly reasonable amount of time, which would probably be close to the start
016of next school year in a four to six month time period based on some of the things that you discussed, >> right? >> Is there anything that we'd be missing that we haven't talked about with any of the systems? The system essentially is um a large majority of canisters, right, that make up most of what the the system is is itself. >> Yeah, there would be two or four canisters once I finalize the design. Um I can submit that to you for your formal review and then timeline. Um I would say we're looking at installing during the summer at this period. Um because with by the time we get approval from the board, our engineer put the application together, submit it to D, then they have a few months to do their review. I would
017say we're looking at summer, and then we would have it up and running before the next school year. >> So, I know it's pretty small, but we have space to do that. There's an area where those canisters can go. There is with the resin there's there's enough space to put the canisters. >> Other questions, thoughts from the board in regards to where we currently are? Would the board uh be okay with us receiving a formal proposal from Suburban Water? Um Mr. lent in terms of financial means. Um, Mr. Crumb had mentioned that probably estimated around a $30,000 project with 15 of that >> for engineering engineering purposes. I was going to ask how the board would like the proposal. Um, do you want a lump sum proposal or do you want the professional service of
018the PE separate from our installation of the media? >> Yep. So, it's a great question. So, we'd like the professional service piece broken out. And the rationale is that uh professional services do not have to be bid. So, if there was ever a question because the $30,000 project total exceeds the threshold for building bidding and in particular prevailing wage, having that professional service agreement come in separate clearly delineates the service from whatever the I'll say equipment, materials um with the the resin installation that would be taking place. And you just mentioned prevailing wage for our section of the installation. Would that fall under under prevailing wage? >> Prevailing wage doesn't have to be paid if the total cost is under $25,000 for labor. >> If it's under 25,000 for labor or for labor and materials
019>> for the labor. Oh, if it's anything under >> correct, which is which is why I'm requesting that you give two separate uh proposals to the district that tied to getting this project completed because the professional services can be approved by the board for the professional service piece separate from the equipment piece. Mr. Sultanic's nodding in agreement to me. >> I can't see you, but >> for the for the for the >> You look wonderful though. The other thing is to to answer Dr. David Heiser with regards to funding. Uh we would pay this out of uh capital project funds um for for the completion. Um and again we we'll continue to talk how those funds get replenished and are scheduled to be replenished in our budget planning. Um so we do have those funds
020available uh for this expenditure. >> I think Mr. crumb. One two other things that I we first is the uh is a is a proposal on this as quickly as possible. We can bring this back to the board for their consideration and as soon as if we were to get their approval, we can move as quickly as possible. Then the second would be the two our two other weld buildings. Then um making sure that you're able to get out and understand the the concepts similar concepts to those buildings while we don't have detection right now. um forming up a proposal for each of those buildings in the similar way that you would do GES so that we can bring that eventually back to the board as well. Um >> I'll prioritize Gilbert and I'll have
021that to you next week then. That way you can start looking at the proposal. >> Yeah, that would be great. We we we do have a meeting a week from today. Oh >> and if possible to bring that back in front of them um one week from right now. Okay. Would be great. >> Thank you. Anything else in regards to the water? question. >> What's being done in the interim? He's saying this would be in place over the summer. >> Yeah, the interim is we're maintaining we're well below the thresholds to to which and um Mr. Crum's presentation last time questions came up about, you know, should we be servicing water through water bottles, things of that nature? And you know, I think knowing what we have versus what we don't have um often times
022is um probably best served that we're meeting the needs and the requirements under we have known detection and that's okay. Uh we want to make sure we we can drive that down in a reasonable amount of time to do that. So um in the interim is that we are maintaining status quo and that's upon the recommendation from Suburban Mr. Crum, do you want to speak to any of that from a professional mindset and and you know what professional from a professional service? >> Yeah. So, what we're seeing across the board with other facilities is as long as you're meeting the requirements, they're basically just letting it not I don't say letting it go, they're just serving the water because it's it meets the MCL. meets it meets the maximum contaminant level that the D has
023outlined. Um Boyertown School District by these last two meetings that I've attended is going above and beyond and treating the water even though they're not mandated to treat the water. So that's again very kind of the district to do. Um, we have other facilities that are much closer to the MCL and those were urging to, you know, maybe start thinking about treatment sooner being that Gilbert was 8.4 parts per trillion and so they're almost half the MCL still. So, we haven't had that sense of urgency. Um, but being the district is is moving toward treatment regardless of the MCL being um exceeded, um, we're going to expedite it as fast as we can. If we get the permit back sooner and and the district would like us to do the install before the end of
024the school year, we certainly can. Um, this equipment's readily available. We could have it within days. So once we get the D permit, if the school said, "Hey, we want you to treat it in May or April, whenever that time frame is," we would certainly do it sooner. You we could address that once we get the permit. >> I have a hypothetical for you. What happens if a Were we testing monthly? >> It's quarterly. >> Quarterly. So what the next quarter it's an 18. >> Then what would happen? >> Um the running annual average is what they go by. So they take the last the the the previous four quarters and they average. >> Sorry, I I understood that because we we talked about that before, but I'm just wondering like if it's 18, our
025kids are still drinking that water. That's while the average for the year is fine. Obviously, it wasn't fine then. >> Then I I my opinion would be that we address it as a group then and we could even at that point um apply for an emergency permit with D and that would possibly expedite that process where we get that permit quicker. Um, I've had times where facilities have had E.coli in the water and we've expressed our concerns and asked for this emergency permit and had it granted within days and then we could install it right away. Okay. >> So, that's option one. Option two would be to go to bottled water >> for the short period of time until we get the system installed. Um, so I think that if that happens, I would really
026advocate for coming up with alternative source, either bottled water or getting an emergency permit because even though like you were just saying the running annual average may be still below, that's that's the most current levels. So I think I would push for doing something else first. >> Okay. And again, Mr. Crumb, maybe you speak to the bottled water thing, right? That's a that's often a go-to. Why aren't we replacing with bottled water? uh currently speak a little bit to that if you want. >> I think currently because the levels are not over the MCL, not close to the MCL, that's why I'm not really pushing for bottled water. Um to your um point, if if it were closer to 18, I think it would be better for us to be going to bottled water, but
027being that our levels aren't close to the MCL, I think that we're okay to keep using the water as is. And I also think that as a whole I don't even know do they use water at the schools for food prep or do does that not happen anymore? >> They uh they use it for mostly in cleaning cleaning products not so much in the cooking. Most of it is is fully prepared. It's heated so forth. We're not making >> you know we're not creating soups and and things of that nature that I would be you know the the bottle fillers. Well, that's the other thing that we could discuss too. um those bottle fill stations, if the school has those, LK is probably the brand of bottle fill stations you have. And they do make
028a filter that removes and reduces POS. So, that's something else that could be discussed if those levels start going up that we could put those in for temporary and and the D allows that. >> Oh, maybe we should just do that anyway then. What would something like that cost? >> Did you filters are less than $100? I investigated that, but the bottle fillers we have are older models and there's no filters in them. I could probably have a plumber do something with the piping and cut those in. Um I was hoping it was just a matter of unscrewing the regular filter and screwing in um the filter that takes out POS, but that's not the case. >> Can we get a price? I mean, well, I guess we have to ask the board. Would the
029board be interested in getting a price on that just as something to tie us over for the next six months? >> That would be a couple hundred dollar, but there's only two and there's six more water fountains in the building. There's two bottle fillers and six regular water fountains. >> Well, we I could take a look at those with you because if the water fountains have water lines that are accessible, we have filter housings that you can install. >> Oh, okay. >> Um we could we can look at that. >> Sure. It's like he said though, for a couple hundred dollars for each fountain, typically there's some way to do that. Um >> I think that would put the public's mind at ease in the interim. >> Mr. Crone, what's the what's the success rate
030on that? Are you seeing um drawn down? >> Well, they they I've actually seen them take the water down to non-detect. >> Okay. >> And and with even higher levels than what you have. So, they are they do work well. Let's see what we can do on the two obviously the two um fillers that we have but if there is other something outside that that can be attached on the line on fountains alone we can do that in the interim. >> Yep. >> Yeah. So if you can have that back to us next week that would be that would be >> I'll do my best with that one. That one I have to investigate those fountains. So we'll I'll do my best for that one. >> Okay. >> Just one more clarifying question. How often
031is the water being tested >> for for POS and PO? It's quarterly. >> When's the next date for testing? >> I have to confirm. I believe we did it in January. >> I think late January. >> I think it was January. So, it would be April. >> Mr. Co, why don't you and Mr. Bramble, now that we're on the the sense of water, why don't can you go through a little bit more of the depth of what we test, what our draws are um and the different types of things that we're testing on um that are more recurring. PFOAs and PFA OAS um have just been a entity that's been tested over the last couple of years that's come into the into the fix but we've been testing on those weld due to the fact
032that we are technically a tell us what the well is again >> it's a non-transate non-comm community water system so what happens is is every year the D they don't publish the calendar it's just it's just there just readily available to the public and it shows you what's required for each particular a year. Um, other things that are tested on a regular basis are nitrates which are from fertilizers, um, caulifform bacteria. Um, obviously the harmful caulifform bacteria is ecoli. That's a more acute health risk. So, we do those monthly. So, anything that would be something that you would get potentially sick right away, it's tested more frequent. Um, things like nitrates are once a year. Um, lead and copper is every three years. Heavy metals like arsenic are typically every three years. So these things
033are tested on a regular cycle so that we can make sure that there's no long-term exposure. Um even things like radiologicals like uranium and gross alpha those are done every nine years. So there are different parameters that we test for all the time. So, what we do is one of our staff members, um, she constantly looks at that D website for those calendars because, like I said, we operate over 200 water systems and they're all on different cycles. So, we have a a master spreadsheet that has every water system that we operate and then we have every water test that's required each month. Um, furthermore, we also visit the school weekly and we have to test for the disinfectant residual, which those schools all use chlorine. So, we're monitoring the chlorine, the pH, um, every
034week, and then that all gets reported to the Pennsylvania D, too. So, those are all things that we continuously test for to make sure that the water's safe. >> So, obviously, there's a lot that goes into into wells and most especially public wells that we that we have. Um >> and obviously due to the the land that become more recent and the detection of PFOAs and PFOs in the water systems um has drawn to this. So, um I would I would yeah I would suggest if you could get to us by next week something on the on our local filters what we could do as a possible preventive uh leading up to a larger scale of the full water system there. >> Yeah. Because even if it's an external filter that's mounted somewhere near the
035fountain, I mean it's it's it's not going to look pretty necessarily, but it's going to serve a function and it's only temporary. Um, so that's what we could look at and and do something for temporary. >> Yeah. Were you aware that Aqua wants to put a water tower on top of the dump? >> No, I'm not. I wasn't aware. >> Yeah, they want to put a water tower on top of the dump. >> And I was also told that they're running out of wells, that some of the developments are being turned down. told that they have to drill their own wells for their own supply for the developments because Aqua is running short on supply. >> That happens. >> I know the township meetings. >> Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah. I mean, I'm not affiliated
036obviously with Aqua, so and I don't know any of their history and background, but it's something that happens. You know, you build more and more developments and there's only so much water. Um, so I could see that as a potential. Uh we have another uh public water system on Gilbert'sville Road um that we're doing POS treatment at. We're just waiting for the permit. And they I think attempted to hook up to Aqua, but they were turned down as well. >> It's an apartment complex, so there was a too much demand, they said. So we're they're going to stick to their wells and we're doing treatment. We're just waiting for the permit. >> All right. I didn't know if you knew that or not. >> No, that's Yeah, I don't that's kind of odd, but I
037I don't know. Thank you. >> Oh, of course, sir. >> Anything else for Mr. Crumb? >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Oh, you're welcome. Happy. >> Appreciate it. Look forward to that next week. Thank you. >> Okay. Next is the uh Boyertown Area High School stage rigging. This is the new auditorium. When the auditorium was built, um the rigging that was installed was the industry standard. What you see on the back wall there that looks like stripes are hemp ropes or manila ropes, I'm sorry, that move the lights and move any scenery that's hanging and also uh control the fire curtain. Um those ropes are original. Um there was a safety assessment done in 2022 and there were a list of uh deficiencies uh that were no longer compliant because the standards have changed.
038There's no building code governing governing these, excuse me, but there are ANIE standards. um the cabling isn't correct anymore uh for the heavier stuff. So the uh we had Sapsis rigging come in in 22 do an evaluation. There were some repairs made back then and what we're proposing now is the next stage of repairs to change everything on that back wall. And there's some other things that you can see on the wall behind um the front of the stage that would be changed also. Um that's the uh 3/8 manila line um with fusible links. Uh that can stretch and shrink and also dry out over the years. And that's going to be replaced with cable. Uh the rope locks that were installed um were installed improperly for today's standards. So the rope locks will be
039changed and uh the Manila purchase lines uh are showing signs of wear and dry rot. So they will all be changed also. Uh that would be done by Sapsis rigging. Uh, SAPSUS rigging is a co-stars vendor and uh, they gave us a proposal which is uh, I had them update it for us 69,955. The other vendor was a company in Pittsburgh. They were 99,800. Um and um I spoke to SAPSUS and they would be available to accomplish this after school is over and we would like to get that on the agenda to be approved for summer work um for the auditorium equipment. >> So I know you have Mr. Ramsey here in the audience and I know Mr. Ramsey, if you wanted to step up and just share some some insight, just share with us
040um if you would just uh your bash teacher, other titles that you take on. I know there's multitude of of those titles, but share a little bit about that and background and obviously you can speak a little bit to this this process that we're in right now. My name is Bob Ramsey. I am a business teacher at the high school and then one of my stipen positions is the stage director. Uh I've been doing that since uh 2017. Um, and the auditorium since then, uh, the amount of use that it gets has easily tripled with the number of renters and people that come in and use it. Um, and it's a phenomenal space. Um just one of the problems that we're running into is um we need to do some maintenance um and try to
041get onto a schedule so that it's not a $70,000 bill all at once, but something where we get it fixed now and then keep it going. These are uh pieces of equipment with the fly rails that students use um for all kinds of different activities. Uh right now we're getting ready for Drowsy Chaperon and uh one of my students will be flying a plane out of the ceiling um using these ropes. So we want to make sure that they are as safe as possible because these are things that are holding hundreds of pounds of weight uh over top of the stage. Um so that's what we're looking to do today or to get pushed forward today. So again, I think one of the things this is this came out of an original study in 2022.
042There was some work done as part of that study. This is the back end of the other items that are now come due. Um we would estimate and I don't know you have an idea would this be summer work? >> Yes. >> And could it be completed over the summer? >> They tell me it could be as they said a couple weeks. >> Okay. In terms of getting done. All right. Are there any safety concerns in the immediate future like through spring? >> It's been there for as long as it has and we're trying to make sure that we fix it be before it becomes an immediate safety issue. Um so no, I don't feel like right now it's an immediate like we need to do it today. Um but we need to get it
043done as soon as we can. >> Okay. While we're looking at uh rigging uh curtains, how are they on certification? >> They're current. >> They are current. Okay. When's when when's the next >> I off the top of my head, I can't tell you, but I know that they're all current. >> Sure. >> The understanding with the curtains that we have now, they're not treated curtains. They are inherently flame retardant. So, they don't have to have that repeat uh treatment. >> Yep. Okay. >> I know when Mr. Shield was here, I went through and gave them all of the manufacturer dates. Um, and because of the dates, he said, "We're good." >> Yeah. Just And again, while we're looking at rigging, might as well look at the curtains because if it's a year, you know,
044might as well add it into this. Again, like to your point, we're going to have another bill, you know, on top of this. So, okay. >> All right. Any other questions on auditorium rigging? >> Mr. Ramsey, thank you for joining us this evening. Appreciate that. Absolutely. >> Thanks, And we asked Mr. Bram, we'll just update the committee here on just our two larger capital projects that will be starting um as soon as this spring, probably early April, which involve both the turf field and the bees project. So, Mr. Bramble, why don't you continue? >> Okay. We had the um kickoff meetings, Zoom meetings for uh well, first here we have the Bordon uh the Bordontown Elementary School project. Uh there was a meeting, the three primes were involved. Um uh just some of the basics
045at the start of a project. Uh principal points of contact were identified. Uh all the contractors um have to submit to CHA their safety programs. Um there'll be project meetings uh bi-weekly. Once the project starts, those meetings will be in person, not virtual. Um they'll uh they were given instructions on applications for payment. Uh instructions for submitting prevailing wage certifications. Um the contractors are responsible for daily site cleanup and that's something that we facilities will also supervise. Uh the work will start um after spring break to remove the ceilings in the hallway. That's been coordinated with um Mr. Keale uh the principal. Uh they want to get the uh ceilings out of the way so they can hit it hard once school is over. Uh everything will be secured. Uh there's nothing that's a concern
046as far as safety. Um it it won't be pretty, but the and that will remain the ceilings will remain out uh for the whole following school year. Um and again, we'll monitor the conditions for safety. The contractors uh if they start earlier uh will be in at night after the students leave. Uh, and we'll be leaving uh with our custodians at 11:30. >> And that's just the plenum area in the hallways, correct? That's not in the classroom. Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's not the classroom. The classroom ceilings will remain until after school's over and they'll be replaced. The classrooms get worked in will be replaced uh before school starts. Uh other things. Um I know the roofers have been crawling around on the roof to uh plan because we accepted the uh option to have
047the whole roof done in one summer instead of two. So they want to make sure they get their ducks in a row to jump on that right away. Um and other details like the the parking won't be an issue. There's plenty of parking there. So the contractors who are working at night will be out of the way. They won't obstruct the parent pickup or the teacher parking. Um and um that's basically everything for Bordon Town L. Uh the turf project uh is pretty much the same basic um kickoff. Uh points of contact established uh for both projects. Uh Jamie Lynch is heading it up for CHA. Um the contractors again are responsible for safety. Uh since the contractors will be doing some work before the school year is over during the day at the high
048school, we emphasize the um etiquette of working when the students are around, smoking, uh things like that, uh music, um the things that aren't permitted to, um keep the site tight and not be disruptive. um when they have materials delivered, there's an assigned layown area for the equipment and the materials that'll be there and for the contractor parking areas. They can't really do a lot because uh one of the things they'll need is fill dirt that's being removed from the stadium. So, but they can get a lot of the staging done and there are things that need to be moved out of the way. uh soccer goals and things like that. We have to get all of them moved. Um and uh substantial completion for both turf fields is August 28th. And again, um we'll
049be monitoring the sites u between us and I'm sure uh Nick will be out there also looking at his turf fields. Um, but we'll be monitoring the sites to make sure everything's clean, there's no debris blowing around, and um, the project manager for the turf project is managing the site. >> Do all of the workers have clearances, child abuse, and those type things? >> Yes, I believe that the board and town l have been submitted already. um and the turf project are coming >> and they get reviewed also. Any anything in question comes through our HR department as well and gets reviewed by Mr. Han and myself and making decisions on on any of those components to it. Um last evening, uh just to update the board, the Colbertdale Township, um took a vote of
050acceptance of the final plans. The record of plans now are being processed um for the turf fields. Our solicitor's office will be getting a copy. Um and um what that triggers is we work closely with the Burks County Conservation District who heads and oversees um many of the requirements related to everything that we're doing underground um the earth and soil and all the things related. So they they're interested in a uh pre-construction meeting. Um now that the plans and everything's been adopted and accepted, that meeting can take place. So we do look like we're we're we're on um we're on schedule. It looks like while we had recommend or thought March was probably going to be the time that they they may put some shovels in the ground, it looks like that will probably won't
051happen until May. And most of that is because of the linking of the need with where the two fields are going to work. um together into some of the soils that are going to have to be transferred from one to the other. Uh it won't delay the projects in any way. It's just going to um push the start date um back, but that the work itself um shouldn't be delayed. So, Mr. Um, Paladino was excited due to the fact that that field, we may be able to optimize that field, the alternative field for lacrosse field for uh, a great bit of the spring and not have to give that field up as we once thought we were going to have to do. So, that's a positive on that. Substantial completion by the end of uh,
052I think it was the 25th, 26th of August for both fields has been identified. That's the schedule. Um, and we've already made some corrections to the scheduling of some events. Uh, making sure that, um, you know, we can fit everything in as ne as needed and necessary for those for those u events. >> Dr. David Heiser. >> Yep. >> I am going to uh I'm probably going to jinx this, but uh I'm assuming Mr. Paladino has um alternative um fielding for you know in case this gets pushed past the August 28th deadline or or expected completion date you know with the rest of the pack. >> Yeah, we've we've already started to move some things making sure you know we're well beyond Labor Day with really hosting on any of those two sites uh with
053the idea that substantial completion may not allow us final approval to be actually participating on those fields. So yes, we've taken taken that into consideration and I'm certain many of our opponents would welcome remaining at their place rather than than ours in most cases. But uh yeah, he has coordinated a number of those things. So fingers crossed that we have a relatively decent summer of weather and that everything can remain on schedule as as as it is. Okay, Mr. Bramble, anything more? Uh that is the facilities presentation. >> Okay. Any other questions from Mr. Bramble? >> I do want to give a large shout out to Mr. Bramble, his team, our grounds crew, facilities folks. It's been a daunting two weeks as I'm sure you're feeling it in your own driveways or have felt it
054in your own driveways. Uh multiply that out a 100 times, you know, with some of the lots and the work that we're doing. We're still continuing to do work even today. Um, we've partnered with and outsourced with a landscaping company to actually push snow piles, remove snow, um, front end loaders that are that have, uh, taken snow away and larger dump trucks to to really remove it as as needed in preparations for obviously in order to get our sight lines better and trying to pull it out along some corners, but also trying to uh prepare in the inevitability of um, you know, future snow. It does look like it's going to get cold again come this weekend and possibly into next week. So, not a lot of melt is happening, but he's done he and
055his team have done a a fabulous job in getting things ready. Um, Quigley has done a wonderful job in getting buses and lots and and everything, getting us back up and operationalized. Um, you know, after two days with with substantial snow and the cold that we encountered there was was really well done. and we were able to get back to normal schedules Thursday and Friday um for everybody and I think that was it was a a real big feat. So, thank you. >> Yeah, nice job. >> Thank you. >> And I did verify I looked at the calendar there's no more snow scheduled for the winter. >> Yeah, right. >> We'll hold you to that. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Burmel. >> Thank you. >> All right. That does end our um information for
056the uh for the facilities committee. There's no one signed up for public com period number two. So, we'll be coming up to the updating meeting minutes, which it looks like we have an upcoming facilities committee meeting March 24th at 6 p.m. Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. >> Second. Meeting adjourned.