001E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, I'd like to go ahead and call the public hearing to order, make a consideration of motion to accept the agenda. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: second, all in favor. Aye, alright. So that'll get us right into our presentation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, so today, we're having the required public hearing for the use of funds from the repair reserve oops. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There you go. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So for the park. This is a part of it on your side. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anthony, how do I get to this? Just this page what happened here? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good slideshow? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you have to go up to the 3 dots. E2 Gowanda HS Library: How about that? E2 Gowanda HS Library:
002Put in the presentation? I did. But then it jumped pages. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anybody anybody escape? For a second E2 Gowanda HS Library: it worked earlier, I promise. Well, I'll keep chatting. You figure if you want to figure this out. So on the Repair Reserve. So this was created by the Board of Education, December 20, th 2023. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The voters approved to originally fund an amount. So with the repair, reserve, the voters must vote to fund it, and then we have to have a public hearing to spend the monies as long as it's not an emergency. So we currently have 1.3 6 million dollars. We use the funds for the pool and the track. So that's where we we had a million and a half E2 Gowanda HS Library: review, some.
003We added 1.2 5 back. So we're at a million point 3 6. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The purpose of the reserve is to fund repairs to capital improvements or equipment that do not recur, and like annually, or at shorter intervals. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then, in non emergency situations, we could. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we are required to have the public hearing. So we are having this hearing to use the funds to perform additional work on the district parks. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So the parking lots. We originally approved the $500,000 E2 Gowanda HS Library: that we used in the general fund to basically, as you noticed, mill and repave almost every lot in the district. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: This is twitching. Okay, very touching, very touching. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
004So then, as part of the capital planning process, because we originally were talking about having parking lots. In the capital project itself. We had geotechnical slash asphalt coring performed to determine the condition of the binder, which is approximately the 2 inch on 2 inches underneath the top layer of the asphalt that you see, when you're in the parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So based on that testing that was performed, we did expect that there would be areas that would need to have the binder removed and replaced before we had to repave it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But until you really get in there. You don't know necessarily how bad or which spaces the coring. Just kind of gives you special samples. That picture up there is. If you've gone through the parking lots after
005the place. You kind of saw those holes, and they were marked and numbered, and stuff. So that's kind of what that was all about E2 Gowanda HS Library: once the binder was exposed that we've been doing around E2 Gowanda HS Library: the whole parking lots where they've been billed. There were, in fact, areas that with visible cracking that are requiring the replacement of the binder to meet the industry standards. So there's 2 locations that we've talked about thus far, which is the high school main lot, and then the middle School bus loop E2 Gowanda HS Library: touch life. E2 Gowanda HS Library: This was the high school main parking lot after it was milled. It's not necessarily easy to see what's going on there, except you can kind of see there's multiple layers, and there's
006cracks throughout that parking lot E2 Gowanda HS Library: free to touch it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There we go, middle school, and then the Middle School bus loop. You can see along the edge there that that kind of was all E2 Gowanda HS Library: kind of cracked was there cracking over there on the edge, and our architects at BCC. Have been helping Rich and his team kind of walk through the parking lots with the contractor to evaluate what are areas that probably are highest need. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we are proposing to use an amount not to exceed 400,000. As the full accept needing additional work is still being determined. E2 Gowanda HS Library: These are significantly needed and much desired improvement, I think, most importantly, which is, I put this in red. This
007will help the district to include more desirable things in our capital project that we're going to hear about tonight, and it will help E2 Gowanda HS Library: the parking lots obviously are getting fixed sooner rather than when the project really starts, which is 2 and a half years away. So we're kind of fixing this now. And as we're if we're replacing the binder. It's really a long term fix. So we hope to get 10 more years out of them instead of constantly this E2 Gowanda HS Library: kind of milling and paving, which is how you just kind of end up with that crappy looking parking lot in the high school. So that's kind of the intent of what we're trying to do here. So the resolution to use the repair reserve for an amount not
008to exceed the 400,000 has been prepared and approval for the next upcoming meeting next E2 Gowanda HS Library: 10 min, but then only the actual amount that we spend would be transferred. I think right now we're up to about 318,000 is the estimate for all of that work to be done. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The additional work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and that's all I have on the on the any questions house. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we'll defend this. We don't get any State aid back on it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No. E2 Gowanda HS Library: if it's part of the project, and it's part of the site work which we'll talk about. You're not necessarily getting aid back on it, anyway. So it's E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're trying to maximize the aid within
009the project, which is what you'll see what happens to the millions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Some we put across from the bus garage, that is all milled and flat, looks very nice, and then the contractor, by the by, his contract gets some of them back as well. The others. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess, for the public's sense. And E2 Gowanda HS Library: what's going on with the elementary school. Is there a reason that that wasn't addressed, or there isn't any work being done over there? Well, that's all torn up. It's all torn up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So the only lots well like mentioned, though I guess E2 Gowanda HS Library: these were the ones where we had to do. The additional binding had to be redone. So the every lot, except where rich
010parks has been touched. Does that mean? That's a good thing, then, that the elementary school is not getting touched? It's not. We are not needed. We do not need to do that additional work there, but the parking lot itself is being done, and then you'll see. One of the proposals of the project is the other lot over there. We're going to do something different with that and change E2 Gowanda HS Library: the traffic patterns to get cars off the off of Aldridge. So you'll see that, as in the project. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the proposed project. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and there was truly only 2 2 parking lots that we aren't touching at all, and that's that one down by Kroll. E2 Gowanda HS Library: which is, would be in the capital project. And
011then my parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And we're just doing minimal in mind. And that will also be in the project. So yeah, cool E2 Gowanda HS Library: everyone else, almost, Jamie. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But we took an inch and a half off the top, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: every parking Lot's been stripped for the most part. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Any other questions, but nothing further to make a consideration of the motion, to adjourn the public hearing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So on a finger. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You could stop the recording and then E2 Gowanda HS Library: get ready to go for that.