001Good evening everyone. It is May 20th at 7:02 p.m. and the board is open its, um, work session and we will do so by and the work sessions for the purpose of discussing the capital project. Um, and we'll just start our meeting with a pledge to pledge. Allegiance to the flag. America for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good evening. Uh, thanks for joining us this evening. So we just completed a walk through of our ongoing capital project. Uh, we're joined this evening by our, uh, construction team, Joe Fuller from Fuller D'Angelo architects, Ken Sawyer from Train Construction, our director of facilities, uh, Glenn Fire and our board of education on the support team strategies toward our ongoing construction. So with that, I'm going to click through
002a few slides and, uh, turn it over to our construction professionals. So just a quick recap. A lot of these slides are repetitive. Just quick recap again. We have six projects in total that have all been approved by the New York State Police Department. At this point, uh, the first five projects were included in the proposition one vote in March of 2023, and proposition two was a separate, um, separate proposition. Voter phase two, uh, also approved by the voters in March of 2023. This evening, you'll see, um, the, uh, ballot and had, um, a another proposition requesting your funds transfer. At this point in time, we, uh, are recognizing that we have a surplus with our phase one projects and a projected deficit with our phase two project Fieldhouse. We're hoping that the community is
003going to support the funds transfer that it will allow, uh, allow us to transfer those surplus funds through the savings from phase one to phase two at no additional cost to the taxpayer, no additional tax levy impact. No. You can observe no borrowing or debt, merely just transfer, uh, to helping our community will support us. And we cut back to the timeline and ask, uh, Mr. Sawyer to present our timeline for each of these projects. Thank you very much and good evening, everyone. Very happy to be here with you all tonight. Um, because I'm really excited to talk about all of the upgrades and the exciting things that are happening around the district. Um, but the first thing we want to let you know is that, um, uh, on the four year timeline, the timeline,
004it still remains the same. We are on target for completion of all our projects. As we had originally discussed, uh, with the board the last time we were in, uh, a board session. Uh, the projects that you have up there on the board are the, um, security vestibule, which, as you know, the walk through, uh, is now opened, occupied and being used by the public. Um, the existing stadium out in the field. Uh, the original field was, uh, was completed over the summer. The new synthetic turf field, which is the third down green line is is currently, as you can see, moving along quite nicely. Uh, we're excited, uh, to start seeing the creative carpet, uh, be delivered here in a couple installs here in the coming couple of weeks. Uh, so let's see some
005really dramatic changes in terms of color. Um, very, very soon. That project is also planned to be completed, um, in May and June. July is summer anticipation for your athletic, um, programs signing up, um, for the school year. Then we have CV star Kappa Tau in addition, which is also moving along quite nicely. Um. Um, and uh, also the and we have the, uh, the field house project, uh, which is, um, uh, soon to be awarded. Uh, and then following that is, uh, Mr. Stem and JROTC, uh, which is, which corresponds with, um, uh, the, uh, the field House project. And, uh, so the important takeaway here from, from today is that you're on target with all of our anticipated timelines from when we had originally planned, uh, at, uh, at our last board meetings
006where we are today. Um, and we have a whole bunch of really exciting pictures to show you in the Q uh, and, uh, I think both of us will take a shot at, uh, the, uh. Right. As we gather. The budget. Yeah. You touch him and switch. So, as you know, we've, uh. Just opened this, uh, front entrance, uh, at the high school. The letters on top of the entrance were actually moved to the front of the building for a better view. There's always adjustments that happen as we, uh. Uh, designed and constructed that, uh, it was a much better solution. Um, moving forward here, you can see from, uh, September of 20 for the upper right hand, we were still, uh, excavating and constructing, moving forward. Uh, February roofs were going on, metal deck
007was going on. And here, uh, a few months later, we have the finished product. Um, just opened a couple of days ago. Uh, the new front entrance at the Brewster High School with a, uh, secure vestibule, the security office and a new main front entrance. Right. The roof was also. Uh, recovered. And on the upper right you can see the new letters. In the upper left, the new, uh, lettering, which was passed down to, uh, on our road, is a much better way than on top of the canopy looking eastward. So we really hope you enjoy this new space. The security office that we see very well, uh, from this location out to all the areas. And there's also a camera, a set of cameras. I should say that that's the main parking lot for
008ease of overall viewing. Yeah. I also mentioned that all the brick pavers, um, that were existing that they replaced. Uh, they're back. Um, not exactly in their original positions, but pretty close. Um, but, uh, it's nice to see them there and, and all that together. And, uh, so the next, um, project that we have going on is your synthetic turf field and and track. Uh, it's moving along quite nicely, as I mentioned earlier. Um, we're putting down all of the drainage mats of flat drains for the field turf field surfacing over here in a couple weeks. So you'll start seeing that installed, and then once that's all in place and then field installed, it's like seeing the, uh, the track surfaces go down. That'll be really exciting. If you just like to see all the
009all the other, uh, with the sidewalks and plays and lighting all the ramps, uh, and access pads to it, uh, as well as the new parking areas. Um, that would be real parking areas as opposed to just parking on the grass, which has been commonplace here for some time. Um. This is the layout design of the field. Um. Very similar to what we have over at a fuel cell. I need us to three the three field three main. The main stadium fields. Um and you can see that there is a multitude of different colors. And that's for all the different, uh, sports programs that can be played on that field. And then that this is the track design. It's a two tone track design. So, um, it's green and then at these change lanes for
010your relay races. So that would be great. Um, it's gonna be really cool and stuff. Yeah. Uh, so, um, we're really happy with the progress. All the major, um, water piping, uh, drainage, stormwater infrastructure is installed. Uh, we also, um, on the that we have put in some future conduits, uh, for any future lighting or any other power requirements that you might have down the road. Uh, so, um, and then a little pre-planning for anything that you guys might want to improve on these fields. Uh, later on, I think your public is really going to enjoy, um, walking around the street. So here's, uh, some pictures that we showed you back in September. Um, primarily down past, um, uh, uh, stormwater, um, building. There's a bunch of, uh, new retaining ponds back there. So, um,
011quite slow. Um, the water down, uh, it all is coming from the field and surrounding field area. Uh, which we have installed over the last fall. And, uh, you can see this, uh, for example. And then the wonderful mild temperatures in February, uh, then continued to work on developing, uh, and grading out the track, surface, field surface and surrounding areas. Um, we showed this slide also in February. And then it's amazing to me because this picture was taken like yesterday. And there's all these changes as already all the stones more than two thirds down and it's not 50%. So um, great project progress is being made here on the track, so I'm looking forward to seeing that completed in the July. So not the truth. Next is the TV star Computery. In addition, a wedding
012ring that you've been seeing for some time. The main cafeteria building being the large rectangle and the kitchen being the smaller three. Working on the lower left to stage the little pop up that you see. Construction. Uh, as of a couple of days ago as well. Underway on the upper left hand side, you can see all of the shoring which is in to retain some of the soil so we can get down to the footings and foundations. On the lower right hand side. You can already see the formwork for the footings and rebar in place. Everything is progressing, uh, quite nicely and moving forward at a very good pace with this set of contractors. The underground, uh, piping has mostly been all installed and, uh, covered over already so that the existing systems can be
013some of the existing systems can be abandoned. And new piping, uh, which go around the additions are now in place and functional. The next, uh, set of projects we have up and coming are the building condition survey work, including elevator replacement, caving and parking improvements that, uh, want you to, uh, pretty much all the schools. You see these stars getting a new sidewalk and, uh, roofing is happening over at JFK elementary. Well, Wells is getting a new staircase, ramps in the back. And, uh, Hvac system at JFK is a very big part of this, uh, new project, along with some boiler replacements. And lastly, uh, package for the field, which. This, uh, is getting some fund infusion, hopefully from tonight's vote, uh, to transfer funds that, um. It was talked about earlier by Victor. The
014building is going to be a large indoor field, along with all the support facilities that are required. Including a training room. Um. Restroom. We move. Uh, and the new weight room that allows for other spaces in the building to be and become, uh, the Stem room and also ROTC. Here you can see the new, uh, Stem or Steam lab. Um, science, technology, engineering and math. Uh, with all the computers, a, uh, what we call a clean room and, uh, space, also with maker, uh, CNC machines and maker space, which is in the back and isolated, uh, from the clean room, which is out here, which is more robotics oriented and, uh, science oriented project and other kinds of projects will be, you know, there. Also, the ROTC is anticipated to be completed next fall in
0152026. Thank you. Uh, just wanted to just talk on the, uh. Um, going back to this slide, because this has been a topic of discussion at many of our forums, the importance of, um, expediting the ROTC renovation. So I understand in the, uh, construction schedule that will happen beginning in summer of 2026, the reason why it couldn't happen this summer. We haven't even awarded the contracts for this project yet. We hope to do so, uh, eight days from now at our next board meeting. Uh, but included in the construction schedule is the, uh, expedited expiration of the ROTC space renovation, again beginning in summer 2026 and likely leading into fall of 2026. So there may be some disruption as we enter the new school year. We've already, um, you know, for high school administration and
016even at our, uh, after graduation, I met, uh, at the last, uh, ROTC booster club meeting. We mentioned that at that point, we'll obviously, as we get closer to that date. We'll start looking at our contingency planning for that program during, uh, during the school day and after hours. Um, so that concludes our presentation for this evening. But of course, if there are any questions, we're certainly available. Um. Can you go back to the first picture or take a couple of questions for, uh, which being the first person? The rendering. Yeah. Uh, anticipated completion says late spring 2024. I just want to say, yes, it does get posted and people can reference it. And I don't want people to like you. Go. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. You can hear clearly. It kind of started in late
017spring. And summer was beginning in the summer. Okay. And the cafeteria had a start date. Uh, late spring or summer? Uh, it's right now is late spring and fall into. Right? Yeah. So I know you guys want promises, but it's your optimism. Because if you're able to start to bring up anything. And be able to to do that and then the inside and that, does that help us on our behalf to help us on any of those things before it gets hot? Those are well, with CB star, those are separate contractors. And so for each of the different projects, a separate group of contractors have been awarded those projects. But I just wanted to just refer back to this. Overall, um, I look at the schedule because with with any building additions, especially a massive
018building addition, it's like an 18 month build, right? Generally speaking, because we can have, you know, a month like we just have. We're almost rained every single day, Monday through Friday. Um, you know, that can set you back. And naturally, you know, there is some contingency time built into the schedule, but it's possible to exceed that contingency time if you have, you know, an exorbitant amount of rain in successive week. So I think our our contractors are doing a phenomenal job. Um, you know, again, seeing them here even on a weekend, on a walk, just looking at the, uh, the new track and synthetic turf field contractors out there at 615 at night. Um, and that wasn't at our request for, at our demand or at our or at our cost. Um, so, so again,
019there's, um, you know, there's definitely volumes to the, to these projects and, um, you know, I've nothing but good things to say with the contractors that will work. Can we can we just, uh, add a separate line for the RFP? Because that is a full year later, and every time it just looks like we did, uh, it Kevin had it written on his, uh, on his cheat sheet. So I think that we will do that just for clarity. Yeah. Um, because again, that's been a, uh, point of contention that's been thrown out, uh, you know, by several members of the community, uh, at each of these presentations. So. Yes. One of the thing to respond to your question about the kvichak that we all have to remember that it's a straight, more simple classroom addition.
020We have a kitchen, we have a servery, we have a lot of equipment going in gas, electric. We have a staged theatrical lighting sound system. So there's a lot of people on the inside. Once we have the envelope of the show completed, it's, uh, our remaining space that you have so much you can create by next week. I think you guys remain optimistic, too. I just want you to know that, uh, there's a lot still to be done. Yes. Thank you. And the questions. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you for bringing us. Thank you for watching. Yeah. Appreciate the walkthrough. Yeah. If you're sharing that. I just need a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting. Wait, don't. We have to. We have to vote on something that doesn't
021work, that we ignore on the motions. Got on the second. All those in favor? So she passes six zero. Thank you.