001the loop, please. All right, fantastic. Uh, we do not have any public comment uh that have been submitted and I believe there's no public comment from the audience either. So, we'll move directly into the main topic of our meeting this morning which is a study session on the uh field turf and Wilbur Rep Center updates. And we're joined this morning uh thank you Brent for uh waking up early with us here from NAC Architecture. Uh uh we'll maybe just turn it right over to Brent uh if you don't mind. Brent. Yeah, he's joining us on video for those of you who are tuning in. >> You bet. Good morning everybody. Um thanks for uh the opportunity to share how the progress is going on the projects. As you mentioned, I'm Brent Harding with NAC Architecture
002and uh we we have been um working on the two projects referenced as well as many past projects for the school district. So, we came into this with a pretty deep understanding of the culture and and aspirations of the school district. And so, we're trying to carry through on those visions. Um, and of course this ALS comes in the back of some uh high school long range planning that was done recently as well. Um, I can be a little long-winded, so um, feel free to interject anytime you want. I don't I don't mind interruptions. I'm happy to answer questions as they uh, cross people's minds. So, um, please do um, inject. I'll try to to pause occasionally to make that uh so it's not awkward. Um I'll start by saying we've we've been working with
003um great committees from for both projects uh folks from uh district administration um including um maintenance and grounds um for the turf field and and the CTE project. uh as well as educators uh from the high school and folks in the in the athletic department. So, we're getting great input from the community and we really appreciate that because it is what makes a design project uh successful. uh it isn't about what NAC architecture and our and our consultants bring to the project, but rather um what what we hear from the the people that are going to use the facility. That's that's what makes uh these things tick. Um in both cases we've in both projects we've recognized that um there are uh past donors um that are important to the projects. In the case of
004the turf field of course it's Carl graph field and so we've we've had some discussions about how to honor that on the CTE project it's the Wilbur Rep um donation um that was made. Um, and so again, we're we're looking at ways that we can um honor that uh that uh great gift that was given as well. Um I'm going to jump into uh sharing screen here. Um as far as cost is concerned, I'm going to start by saying we're on budget. Um, and then I'm going to put off details about the budget until after we look at um at the designs and the and the concepts. So, uh, we will swing back to that. All right. I'm hoping that you are seeing um an image that that says Sila High School, Carl Graph Field,
005Turf Field at the top. >> Yep. >> Great. Okay. And that's where we're we're going to start. Uh I'll go over the the project schedule briefly. Um we we worked through schematic design, came up with um some the and we worked through schematic design with the u the committee. They had great aspirations. Um went a little beyond u where the project could uh actually support from a um financial standpoint. So we had to gear back a little bit and find some ways to incorporate savings but still um meet the the needs of the project in terms of the most important aspects. We then we shifted into that sort of um cost savings um uh phase with the design development and just wrapped that up recently and transmitted the final design development to the uh district
006and that's what I'll show you when we get into the concept. So we're now in production of construction documents. There is a sepha process ongoing. We we haven't received any um comments at all. So, that's a good sign that that'll be essentially a rubber stamp. Uh that should wrap up here pretty quick. The goal is to uh get the project in for permitting by the end of November. uh then wrap up final construction documents in December, put it out to bid in early January because um a it's a great time of year to bid work. Contractors are gearing up for their, you know, their their construction season. They want to get some book work on the books. So, they tend to be competitive. We we're anticipating a good uh competitive market at this point right
007now. Uh I think things are setting up well from that standpoint. Uh there's a couple there's a few weeks in here for the contractor to mobilize and get get under contract and then they'll hit hit the ground running in March with the idea of wrapping up the turf project um by the end of summer so that it can be utilized in the fall of 2026. Any questions on schedule? >> Oh, looks great. Thank you, Brian. All right, jump into the field. I'm going to rotate this just because I I even though we've got north up right here. Um I for some reason I like looking at it this way better. Um this is how your this is the view that your patrons would have from the grandstands down here looking across the field. So this
008is a good way to look at it. Um the the the um the plan for the field is is pretty basic. It's a a rectangular turf area. It'll be elevated a little bit from the existing grade line. So there is some fill work to do around this uh east side. East is up now. Um because this the natural grades slope to the east. We do we'll we'll have to do a little cut and patch of the existing asphalt back here to to um set the line of the field. It's positioned east west to allow for the future track to go around it. So dimensionally we need that was our our um sort of driver of the positioning. It's it's rough the the football field is roughly in the same place as the existing football field.
009It's a little off by a few feet but not dramatically. Um so your experience from the grand stands will be comparable from that standpoint to to what you have today. Um the city in the course of our our pre-application conference the um they did ask for an asphalt uh turnout right here. It's not showing yet but it will occur. It just a widening of the asphalt so they can park emergency vehicle down there and and make turns without going into the grass. um the field um there's a there's a lot of technical um stuff about uh turf fields that I can't speak to very well. Today we're going to have a an indepth um meeting with the district upcoming with three two to three different vendors coming in to talk about their products so that
010the school district can sort of understand all the the um ramifications of differenti decisions about the sort of specification of the turf itself. But the the field itself from a design standpoint, the width was established by the a a standard uh 210T wide by 360t long soccer field with a 10- foot uh safety border around the south, west, and north sides. es and a 15 ft safety border on the east side. That extra 5T on that side is so that guest the guest teams have a little space beyond the the 10-ft uh border to to sit and put their bags and stuff. Um currently there's no um there isn't any uh fencing of the field in in the the project budget or plan. Uh that was one of the things that had to be uh
011removed from a cost standpoint. Um, Frank uh Reno has the has plans for adding fencing at sometime in the future, near future when uh he can do it affordably from um the his budget. So, uh that there is a plan for that. But in the meantime, the the perimeter fencing around the facility um is great. uh it'll keep people from driving out there and and potentially driving on the field. That's the the biggest concern uh relative to fencing. Uh but that is protected. So, and then of course standard um 100yard um football field. The the coloration is the concept that um the committee landed on. uh the the dual double the two-color uh green for the yardage uh layout. The of course the Viking um blue and it looks a little more purple than it
012will be, but um the intent is the Viking blue and then uh gold lettering on the ends of the field. There is still some conversation about what font and and whatnot relative to the Carl graph field text. Um, but we'll we're working through that with the district. I think that's enough my presentation for that. Any questions about the design or the scope? >> No, I think we're good. Thank you, Brent. >> Okay. And this was just one another option that showed a different uh style of lettering for the callraph field text. Um so with that I will shift to the tech center. Um and first talk about schedule similar in terms of the phasing just a bit longer just because of the level of detail it takes to do a building compared to a field.
013Um we again we worked through schematic design. Um it it too um uh crept above the budget and we had to go through an exercise to bring the the cost down. Uh we did that within the schematic design uh phase and then started into design development. And design development is where we really dive into the details of every space. In schematic design, it's more conceptual in terms of just the organization of the plan um the basic circulation, making sure all the the major features of uh uh elements of of the functional aspects of the facility are represented. But in DD, we really get into uh the detail where where are all the outlets, what's the configuration of cabinetry in terms of doors and drawers and what kinds of sinks are used, etc., etc. And we're
014we're about uh 3/4 of the way through that, getting ready to print at the end and get another estimate done to validate that we're still on track. Um and then we'll jump into produ producing our construction documents um you know late in the year with the intent of again getting out to bid in that early spring uh time frame. This is still a good competitive time. Um and and we're bidding this with a longer um mobilization phase. Um, we're going to hold off on start of construction until school gets out. Um, but this gives the contractor lots of time to order um, you know, pre-order uh, any longer lead items, get all set up and ready because again, we're going to be working in a occupied uh, facility and that uh, impacts the the efficiency
015of of construction um, and they have to, you know, work around existing conditions. So, it gives them lots of time to get their plans ready and and be able to hit the ground running when school's out in June. And then we have about a 10-month um construction phase um to get it done in midappril of 2027. So, it'll be done before the end of the school year that year. Um we tightened that up to save some money. We had a longer construction phase. In talking with contractors, they said, "Hey, let you can this project can be done in in a shorter time frame and if if you give us the time, we'll use it, but we'll put the money in our in our bid for the extended overheads and stuff." So, we tightened it up
016and uh that was part of how we we brought the pricing down. Any questions on schedule of of uh CTE? >> I think we're good. Thank you, Brent. >> All right, I'll jump to uh the plan concept. So, this the the diagonal hatched gray area is the existing high school. The the main this is and at the main this is all at the main level. uh the the north south corridor comes through right here. You can kind of see the doors right there at the end of the hallway. So this is coming out that those doors and developing the area where uh the south uh existing canopy occurs right here. And the green houses currently sit in in this spot right here. get you oriented. Um, from a site uh design standpoint, we've tried to
017keep the the footprint as small as we can to to um, you know, keep the cost contained uh, and and really focus the dollars on making sure we are able to do the project the best it can be. uh as opposed to letting the the scope bleed out and spending more dollars out beyond it take away from that because it is a limited budget. Um so the the sort of orang-ish area is the new addition. This lighter gray is um rework of that corner of the workard and expanding it. This little um darker gray represent is the where the wall currently turns. Um so we are expanding the yard out to the south along with the building protruding out that direction. Um it's it causes us to sort of tweak the trajectory of the um
018of the um fire lane and access down to the field a little bit. Uh paralleling it up with the building. Right now it kind of comes through more angular. Um, we have to we we have to do it pretty wide because of the fire apparatus requirements in the current uh fire code. Um, they require the apparatus to go by at a certain distance away from buildings. So, we we made that wide enough to accommodate that. Um we are enclosing there's a there's a dumpster or two down here currently that's used um primarily by the CTE folks. Those are required by municipal code to be enclosed. So this um uh this project triggers having to do that. So, uh, those are being relocated, um, to a little fenced area here where dump, uh, garbage trucks can
019back straight into them. And the the shape of all this out here is evolving a bit. Uh in a recent design development meeting um it was brought to our attention that there are some tractors being stored in this yard that there's a desire to get them out of the yard to make because they want to maximize the useful area of the the shopy yard and they want to retain the tractors because they have some historic value. Um, so we're looking at configuring this area down here so those tractors can be parked and not just parked but put on display. Um, they're they're pretty cool. Um, they they're some of them are very old. Uh, they give some they have some historic context to them. So that we kind of see that as a great opportunity
020to enhance this whole area aesthetically as well. We don't want it to look like a junkyard. So, we're thinking about how can those be arranged in this area so that they can be sort of a display maybe with some plantings uh you know some simple plantings around them to to enhance that and soften this area. We do. It is um really important that this project uh be a way to to tidy all this area up down here because it's it's pretty unsightly as it is right now. And this is a great opportunity to make a for a a pleasant um access uh a path between the parking and to get down to the playfield and the bleachers. So that's part of the project as well as an aesthetic enhancement. Um they the the CTU E
021folks have some um ConX boxes and trailers and things that need to be parked. So that'll be part of this area. the fence that currently comes through straight along that line, you know, connects from here to the retaining wall up there. We will redirect it around this area so we maintain that security of the of the uh school site from the gravel lot to the south. Um the greenhouse is being relocated. Um and we are going to create a a fenced um secure yard in front of it that becomes a place they can keep all the um the materials they need in terms of so bags of soil and those kinds of things. some tools um rather than um in the classroom where they store it at at this time. Um so and the ConX
022containers are getting to be pretty ancient and I think u Frank has talked about the potential of replacing those with some some better ones. Um >> what do we have for lighting there? That's a pretty common path to get to the uh football soccer field. >> Yeah, great question. We will um we will definitely light that path through here. Not sure whether we'll do it um entirely with new poles or if we'll do some of it as lighting mounted on the building, but we're working through that detail. Uh but we do know it's uh definitely part of the plan to to light that pathway. other site plan questions. >> I'm just making sure the students were good. We're good. Any other questions? Okay, we're good. Thank you, Brent. Um, one other comment while I'm on
023site is um the the building addition does tear uh off uh one of the two um existing canopies and so we're replacing that with new canopy out here. It's not quite as large an area, but um we've been working through how they want to use it and it it seems to be uh adequate for the need. the the basic thing is that they need to be able to store uh materials in a dry location and that um they're they're okay with work yard being out at an un uncovered area. So, and this is what the budget will cover. Um so, the building plan um is simple. Um this again here's the corridor exit and the stairs that go down the steep grade uh on the outside. Um this dashed line is that canopy I just
024talked about and it's it's directly outside the construction lab that would have a rollup garage door to get out there as well as a couple of man doors. Um the primary access to all three of the new spaces would be to come out the the the corridor doors and come around and come into the building from these exterior doors. And inclement weather um people will be able to come from the corridor through these two classrooms and come in. They'll we'll maintain the existing door from the metal shop to the a lab. So, they can get in that way. Uh they can get in through a new door that this is in where the there's an existing rollup door here in the existing metal shop that's going away, but we'll put a man door in there.
025um they'll they'll make a sort of backdoor route for those situations where it's not very uh u pleasant to go outside. Um but most of the time the access will be from the exterior and I'll I'll show you how that works in the long range plan in a few minutes. um because we we we did have that in the back of our mind as we were working with the users on the configuration. Um the the con so on the ground floor there's a construction lab. Um I can't remember the exact square footage but I think this is in the 2400 square foot range. Uh there's a classroom associated with it that has windows so it's observable. um that's about 875 square ft and then uh the A lab is about uh,100 square ft. Um and
026we have started to develop some details in that of that. If you want me to to to go over that, I can. I'd have to find the drawings and pop them up for you. Um the the construction lab um has stairs up to a storage mezzanine. Also in that mezzanine is um a compressor room because the existing canopy has a little room. We need to relocate the compressor. We'll enclose that in a CMU uh space that acoustically separates it from the building so it won't uh trans transmit that noise. And then mechanical electrical space uh to serve uh this will have equipment to serve all three of the rooms. Then we we have some three-dimensional images. Uh these are again these are from the schematic the end of the schematic design phase. We're actually working
027on some um spruced up uh updates uh that'll be part of the upcoming design development package. But this gives you a sense of how the addition uh masses out with the existing building. This um parapit here is the existing metal shop. Um so we're matching the height of that and coming out. We have the the new canopy sort of hugging into the corner. Uh it has our our uh signature V column uh that you might recognize from the gym edition on the north end of the building as well as down at uh Lent Kindergarten and elsewhere. Um we hope it's not becoming cliche. Um there is there's a second garage door from the uh wood this new uh shop space which is primarily woods but has the flexibility to be used for other um you
028know CTE programs as well. It's basically just a big open uh space and I'll show you an interior image in a minute. Um trying to get some natural daylight to all the spaces with some glass. Um the this is the the construction lab um classroom and the mezzanine above it. So it matches the same height as the as the construction lab. And then the a lab drops down and it's at the same height as the existing classroom wing beyond. That's the existing wall right there. um green houses, uh they're or they're they're oriented 90 degrees from how they currently sit, but um in talking with the users, it uh doesn't make any difference apparently. Um another view, uh Brent, this can either be a you question or maybe a Kevin question. any concerns with all
029the additional uh exterior exit entrances we're having kind of with some of the talk to school school safety and all the vestibules we've done. Is that become an issue at all? >> I I can speak to that. Um it definitely is um not optimal. Um but the the school currently manages kids coming out this way to go down to the uh portables. And so in the I'll call it the short term uh the next 10 years um it would be comparable to that. In the long range plan, um, when this building is likely expanded, the intent would be that the corridor system would enclose that access and and solve that in the long term. But without a doubt, um, it is not optimum u to to access spaces that way. It'll be fenced, which is
030be helpful. Um, >> yeah, I mean, it's fenced in terms of the the security fence that's along this line, but um, right now there is not fencing. Um, otherwise, there isn't another line of fencing back here. If we were to do that, you would end up having to do some sort of a um security gate with uh access control of some sort um you know to get uh out to the portables as well. Um because you can't secure it all the way across. Well, at at some point it's people are using the greenhouse and using the outdoor space as part of the learning environment as well. So, there's going to be some inside outside. >> Yeah. >> I wonder if we can do things with with key cards. You know, if you said access control,
031if there's some way to do that. >> Yeah, we could definitely do electronic access control on these doors um from a security standpoint that way. Okay, thank you. >> You bet. Another view. Um, Wilbur Rep Center. Um we we haven't gone over this with the user group yet, but an idea that we have is to put a um dedication plaque uh suspended into the V uh column here so that as people walk by they would be able to see that and read about um the donation and uh dedication. And this this text on top of the canopy is similar to what we've done in some of the other uh school projects in the district. Um it should be visible from u North First Street as people drive by. It's it's up high enough that it
032should be visible. And then we just have a simple uh image on the interior. the the um wood shop and showing that it's very open to the um mezzanine. We want to make sure that's not a a place that kids can sneak up and hide. It's very open with a railing. There'll be a removable section of railing so they can use a a lift to set some heavy stuff up there. Um so that's I'll show this is u I think you're familiar with this image from the high school long range plan. Um this is the tech center that we've been talking about. It is a little different shape now. Um, it is now the the shop is a shape like that and this is the little classroom and then the egg classroom got a little
033larger. U but it still fits in the the long range footprint nicely. Um, I said I would swing back to cost. Um and so um I'll just in big big numbers um the the and I apologize that I it doesn't look like I'm looking at you because I'm looking at a different screen so I can see the numbers. Um the turf project is about a a $3.2 million project. The CTE project is about a $4.9 million project. It gets close to $900,000 of state assistance. Um, and the that state assistance is coming uh from unhoused student uh uh funds. there. You know, in the state's calculations, uh, currently your enrollment is high enough that it's above, uh, the square footage. It it, um, there's a there's a quantity of students that that uh, translates to
034square footage eligibility for new construction. Um and the o another piece of the state assistance is derived from the demolition and replacement of that canopy. Um the canopy counts as um square footage on the square on the facility at half of its actual square footage but that is generating a portion of that state assistance. It's about a third of it. Um, and so, um, when you add the two, uh, projects together, that's about 8.1 million less than 900,000 of of, uh, state assistance comes to about 7.2 million in local funds. Within that master budget, there's a number of contingencies. Um the each of the each of the projects has its own master contingencies. Um there's a there's a scope contingency um that the district elected not to use in the um in the in the
035cost reduction exercise after things kind of snuck because we wanted collectively to be cautious about cost and potential the potentials of escalation. Um there that's about $100,000 on the on the turf project. Um and it's about 170,00075,000 on the um on the CTE project. There's a additional change order contingency of uh about the same amount for each project. So about 100 thou 115 on,000 on the turf and 175,000 on CTE. So that's a total of uh like 700,000 in contingency. Um plus within our our estimates we include escalation contingencies and design contingency just because at the early stages of design you don't have enough detail to do um deeply detailed estimating. You have to make some assumptions and of course those assumptions um become um more definable as we go later in design and subsequent
036estimates will account for that. And the at that time um those contingencies typically drop down while the the nuts and bolts take offs uh and uh get dialed in and those numbers tend to go up a little bit. But the intent is the bottom line is still on budget. Um >> quick quick question probably more for Chris. Um on this is the biggest project I've been involved in that's not bonded. So with bonding projects and we have contingencies we then have to save those contingencies to use them for something stated whether I think it was safety. That's how we end up with funded vestibules in this case here coming most of the fund coming from inhouse or uh a donation. What can we do with those contingencies? Will they be earmarked for something or can
037they go back into the capital improvement budget or back into the general fund? >> They stay in the capital projects fund so they can be used for other capital projects moving forward. So, it's it just stays in the same fund and it'll be available for use later. And um the the Wilbur Rep is kind of interesting and because there there's about $4.1 million of uh funds there from Wilbur Rep. We need to make sure that the project costs at least that. Um, so we're kind of we have to be in a window of the allowed budget, you know, below the allowed budget but above the Wilbur Rep um uh amount so we don't have funds left over there that can't really be put to the its intended use. Of course, there's a safety gap net
038there in that um these kinds of projects always can use uh funds to buy um expensive equipment. Uh that uh you know tools and um uh gizmos that are handy for teaching different CTE subjects. So that it can be used that way. I think >> kind of pause in there. I'll have Chris go through that the Wilbur Rep budget just so you hear. These are not exact numbers, but they're round enough that they make sense in the whole project. So Chris, you want to go through that budget page? >> Yes. So, um, the total cost CTE edition about $4.9 million. Um, Wilbur Reps is a little over $4 million right now with interest. As you know, it's um the donation has accred over the last, has it been three years since he um donated. So,
039uh he started with $3.7 million donation. Now, we're up over four million. So, uh that will be utilized. As Brent mentioned, we do have just under $900,000 in state assistance funds. And then the difference will be funded by the capital fund from the school district. right now it's not it's just upwards of a h 100,000 I think is um where we're at on the district's portion but uh so total funding uh total cost of the the project is 4.9 million for the CTE addition so like Brent said if we do end up under that um we can use that for FF&E for equipment for CTE and that would be within Wilbur's intent when he donated so >> yeah so Brent also mentioned some important uh with regards to contingency funds. Uh there is contingency funds
040in the budgets for both projects. We Chris and I felt really strong about making sure that those stayed and became available if needed and not get to a place where we have to further reduce at least we've got a little pot of money. Um, I think Brent would tell you as well, any project that I've been involved in throughout my career, something comes up that you're not expecting and you do need the resources to be able to handle that and handle it appropriately and keep the intent of the original project. Many of those are not known going in. They're surprises. Some of them are underground or things that uh were not planned upon when we started this whole thing. And so it's nice to have those funds available. We did not want to try to
041go find another pot of dollars to cover something that could take away from the project. So we left those in there. Um we hope that there's plenty there. And we also hope we don't need them. And that's one of the best things about giving our architects enough time to do really good drawings and do a lot of investigation. So there so we limit the possibility of surprises. those contingency funds are not used, then they can be used to again supplement the project if we feel it's necessary or they go back into the caval projects fund for other other projects in the future. >> I'll add just um one thing that we've really appreciated over the years in working with Knack and Brent Harding is they attention to detail and very solid cost estimates. um our
042percentage use of our contingencies is very low working with NAC um over the years and so we we appreciate their uh their accuracy on that. It's much appreciated. We like that outcome a lot better than the other way for the obvious reasons. And and we strive to to to do a good job to, like Kevin said, make the construction documents super detailed and uh accurate so that there aren't things that the contractor has to guess at on bid day or or have holes that they then come after in terms of change orders or stuff. That said, every project has change orders. It's it's the nature of the beast. Every every construction project is unique and uh it's it has sort of its own um research and development aspect. Um, and so, um, please do expect
043that there will be some change orders during construction that will use some of the contingency, but as as Chris mentioned, we've we've had a great track record uh, on CILA projects of of staying well below the the allowances that are plugged into the budget for those contingencies. And there's there's typically been money left over. Um, so there we did have one exception to that with the transportation project and that that we had to uh squirm a little bit to get that under contract, but at the end of the day uh that too came along very successfully. So, um, we're always there to to, uh, help in the eventuality that there's a market situation or something that that causes an overage, we'll we'll step up and do our part to to make sure the project uh
044can go forward. And um >> hey Brent, you talked about uh when you went through the the uh schedule uh how what you thought maybe about those contractors who would bid this job. And I wanted you to reiterate these these are not going to be bid together. They're they're two separate projects. All right? Now, a contractor obviously can bid both of them if they choose to, but they are separate projects. And then Brent, you mentioned that the environment as we know it right now looks to be good. Can you expand on that a little bit? >> Sure. Um, for for a while we were all in our industry were very nervous about tariffs and what impact that was going to have on construction. It has had impact on some some uh well it's had impacts
045in various ways. Um some elements of of construction have been impacted upward and other words have others have come down a bit and so in in on um you know in in the whole um it's been pretty stable but there is not a lot of construction uh coming up. Most firms uh do not have schools on the boards right now. Um and in the private world, uh you're seeing lots of construction around right now, but there's not a lot that people are aware of coming up. And so, um we're starting to see some bids come in lower than anticipated. And we think that's because there's a a a bit of a der of projects out there and contractors are likely to get a little h more hungry uh as we go into the winter months.
046Um the the the tariffs are still out there. Um and that's um still a potential impact. We uh our estimator um has been cautious about the the unit costing in his estimates. And so we feel like we've got a little bit of sort of additional contingency built into the unit costs of the estimate in in addition to the bottom line contingencies. So um we're hopeful that um that we're reading the tea leaves uh well on that. That was definitely a question I had. Thank you, Brent. Appreciate that. Bet. >> Are there other questions or comments? >> I I wanted to touch on um another thing that uh that I was asked to to touch on. Um these projects definitely will have an impact on the on the the site and school usage during their their
047um construction phase. Um the turf field of course um during that um period that I showed in its schedule um it won't be usable. you know, there there will be uh there'll be construction fencing around um you know, the perimeter of that. It we'll keep it as tight as we can, not letting you know, so that you can use the baseball fields and and whatnot, but um that won't be that area won't be usable during the duration. Um in terms of the um the tech center um this access through here will definitely not be available um for a significant part of the construction. We think there's probably a way we can create a temporary, you know, gravel path around the perimeter um so that people can continue to get down there from the parking lot.
048Uh but we won't be able to go through at some point during the construction. Um the contractor should be able to uh enable uh people to go through. Um but that'll be very late in the pro in the process. Um as far as um utilities um it will have no impact on the existing building. It'll operate as as usual the whole duration. Any uh connections the contractor has to make into existing uh systems whether they're uh communications, power, uh you know water and sewer. Um the we'll make we'll schedule that so that they have to do all that during the summer months um or during breaks when when school is out. And contractors that that bid school projects are all well aware that you know on these uh buildings that are occupied safety is is
049key. Um but we will we will have um you know some notes on our drawings about maintaining uh emergency exiting from this door. Um you know any other um safety things that we need to note up. Uh and then those contractors again are they're well aware that safety is important. They'll work direct they'll work with the district to to um sort of uh detail out their safety plans to meet the the needs of the school. Um the access to the portables um kids will either have to come out the lower doors and and across or they could come out these doors and down the steps and then go across, but they won't be able to um come down the driveway. um as I think some of them currently do. Um the the work yard will
050be impacted a little bit. They should still be able to use this uh this covered yard out here, but they'll they'll of course lose act uh use of that temporarily. Um so that's sort of the one sort of uh teaching or you know space that gets impacted. uh during the construction. I think that's it. >> What are we doing with boys soccer this spring? >> We were just talking about that they're going to have to play at the middle school or have more away games than they may normally or look to partner with another district to be able to use their their facility. I'm sure if be Becky's not already discussing that after this meeting Chris and I will be encouraging her to make sure that that is taken into consideration >> because middle school
051might not be suitable for >> there's a possibility of that and obviously not having lights those games are going to have to be played at different times. >> Yeah, >> maybe the city can set up Carlin Park, one of their areas for a soccer field for us. >> So I'm not sure that those are big enough. I'm just thinking >> maybe a deal with Soozo. >> Yeah. Every construction project and now we Brett and I and Chris had a premeating on this and we started to discuss, you know, we've always been into the we've always all these things are really exciting, but they do have impacts on day-to-day operations uh of our schools and we're going to test that out. And these are not normal. I mean, when's the last time we had a uh
052our our main athletic field not being able to be used? Probably if at any time, I don't know. So, that will be a change and it will disrupt things. And then anytime there's construction on a campus, whether it it's going to have an impact how people move around, uh contractors on site, all kinds of different things going on, it will have an impact. So, it's a good impact and it's worth uh it's obviously worth it at the end, but there will be some challenges that we're going to face. >> Yeah. Yeah. And I I had a similar question about the the egg and uh the wood chopper construction lab. Um will we be offering the same classes while that's under construction or will we have to cut back on some of those classes? At this
053time, there doesn't look like there's going to be any any um adjustment needed for the schedule because all that is new space. Um so, it's not like we're going to have to eliminate classes because uh a current space is under construction. Uh if anything, it will be in that yard and that I would imagine that there's going to be need some be some adjustments by those teachers about how they use that space for the time it's under construction. The other thing that I again like you start to realize things that need to be discussed and talked about we need to make sure with that greenhouse what what's the impact of of moving that greenhouse to a different location with regards to our curriculum and when the greenhouse is being used because it's not just being
054used at the very end when we sell plants to the community. It's used throughout the year of growing the plants. And so how does how does that greenhouse get moved? When does it get moved? How do we make it operable? So maybe we continue to be able to offer the same program uh just in a different location. But those are all questions obviously as every time I go through these things uh new questions start to come up that we need to get some answers for. And again we when we started this you know it seemed like a long ways away when we started to have these discussions a few years ago. It seemed like oh that's a long ways away. It's not a long ways away. It's just months away now >> before we actually
055get going uh with with somebody as a contractor and then as they begin to mobilize and start actually work. It's months away instead of years away. >> Brent, I've got a very unintelligent construction question. I I think I remember a local project where they were doing an add-on and like the new portion of the building became a dependent part of the existing part of the building like in regards to support and all that kind of stuff. And as they did part of the demo work, there was a little bit of damage that happened to the existing part of the building. >> In this project here, is this really just >> building another part of the building? Connect. Is there any risk of anything that you know like you're cutting a hole in a wall they're
056like well is that a wall weight bearing wall you know stuff like that I mean that's I don't know if I'm asking that correctly but is this just are we just putting two buildings kind of together here or is there >> some dependency on the new part that the old part will rely on. Um there there's always risks um in construction. Things can happen. Um and a more more often times than not that's a result of the contractor's means and methods um because they have control of that. But um from a design standpoint um we are utilizing the masonry wall of the existing um shop as as part of the support for the new roof construction of the addition. Uh the structural engineers have assessed it. They've looked at the, you know, original construction documents
057um and determined that uh those those uh existing structural walls are adequate for the loads that we'll put on it. We're in the there is one location where we have a beam coming to that wall that we determined it was too big a load for the wall. Also, we've added a column uh outside, you know, on the construction side um to take that load instead of putting it into the wall. So, you know, the engineers are are aware of the need to assess the existing condition and and design in such a way that um you know, we're we're not putting loads into the existing building that it can't handle. We've looked at it from a code standpoint too in terms of um you know the allowable area of the building given its construction type and
058we're we're within that allowable area. So we don't have to do new firewalls to separate the new construction from the existing. Um we can rely on just standard uh construction. Um that was good. That was good to be able to do that. It kept cost down. Firewalls are expensive. Um, so we're we'll we're designing to um to make sure that we uh account for the existing conditions uh the best we can. Of course, we're reliant on the drawings of the original building because you you can't see what's buried in the existing walls if the contractor did something differently. So uh when when we get into construction and the contractor is on board and starts to do some of the there will be some selective demolition that has to be done to connect things. If we
059dis if they discover things that are different from what we think they are, they'll bring those things up as RFIs and we'll work through how to solve them the right way. um not the contractor way, the right way. Um contractors have great ideas, um but they don't they can't engineer and they and they don't always see the picture from the end users perspective. And that's where we can help sort of mitigate to make sure um again things get done uh correctly and and with minimal risk. >> Thank you. The the other thing is the school district will take out builder's risk insurance for the project. Um, state law now requires school districts to to to purchase that um rather than through the constru contractor. There's a bit of a of a conflict if the contractor
060provides it and contractors were charging large big uh dollars to to provide those policies in the past. So, the district will do it correctly. >> All right. Thank you, Brent. We uh we really appreciate your time this morning. I I was thinking uh this morning as we were talking about uh how excited Lauren Rice would be about this project and the new greenhouse and egg spaces and the CTE programs that'll come with that. Former uh board representative uh as you know um from the student side. I'm also thinking about Jeff Cochran uh and the groundwork he laid for this with his um with his vision for how CTE fits into our community's needs, our students um interests. A lot of times people ask, well, how can we how can we uh have better attendance? Uh
061well, teach classes that students really want to take and uh there's a lot of interest in this for students in our school district. So, um, I I just see this fitting so nicely with our community, and we're obviously incredibly thankful to Wilbur Rep and his family for the the the chance to get to to really have a state-of-the-art facility um where kids can get trained for for real jobs uh uh and and and to be ready for the future. Frankly, I I like like Jamie said, I mean, I think there's some concerns to work out with the high school in terms of uh egress and ingress. Um uh it looks like those doors are used for portables now. And I know there's another issue with the parking lot down below, but um I think if
062we're creative and we're thoughtful about how we how we manage this, whether it's through staffing or or door locks or fences or something like that, uh that'll mitigate some of those risks and concerns. But really an exciting exciting morning for us here. So, thank you very much, Brent, for for joining us. >> Thank you. >> Are there any other comments or questions? >> I just wanted to add that Kevin and I met with Wilbur Rep's sister the other day. We're keeping her in the loop. I've been in touch with her about every six weeks um for quite a while now. and she came in and we went through the renderings of the CTE edition and it's just I warms my heart to see her smile and think about what Wilbur really was intending when he
063donated those funds to the school district and it's coming to fruition fruition and I just um it's pretty neat. So, we're going to keep in touch with her about every couple months. We'll be meeting with her again and showing her the progress and then ultimately when we have a celebration at the end of the project, obviously, she'll be invited to attend. So, I just wanted to add that. >> Yeah. She said if uh if Wilbur was here and he had not made his his determination of who he was going to give the funds to, he would have probably decided to give all of his funds to CILA. and she chuckled about that because I I I can only assume that maybe the other receiver of the funds is not engaging with her as much and
064doing the things that that uh we're doing. So, she was very proud. It was she's what 89 did she say? 89. And she just this is going to be great. She goes, I one of my goals is to make it and live through the entire part of the construction so I can be there when the celebration takes place. and she is healthy and happy and she forgot Chris's name a few times, but that's all right. So, but uh it it was it was a very positive moment and she was really excited to see where the dollars were going to go and how it was going to impact um what Wilbur had always talked about. So, good a very good heartwarming story. >> It really does set us up to be leaders in the valley too,
065I think, on on CTE. continue to be leaders on the valley on CTE for sure. >> There's Wilbur at his finest. >> Hey, nice. Fantastic. >> Great. Well, thank you again, Brent. We really appreciate you uh joining us this morning and uh we look forward to hearing uh uh how the project proceeds. >> Great. I'll be happy to present again at some point in if desired. Thank you very much. Well, we got to put your drone to use, right? >> You know, >> it could be construction guys, maybe. >> Architect offices don't typically have drones. Those that's the contractors. >> I gotcha. I gota like playing with those. I know. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Thank you again. >> Thank you. Byebye. >> All right. Um, do we have anything from the the spirit week
066went well from the board reps? You had a good time. Student board reps. Um, we Okay. School board, any other comments or questions? It's exciting. I I I uh I'm just I knowing what's coming next is really um something that uh is motivating I think for the district and certainly for the board members to to see this um this thing we've been talking about forever, the field. I I I spoke with Vince Lraine last week and talked about the you know he he was a coach for a long time at the old field. Uh, I mean, I think a lot of people are going to be excited and and um uh really proud of the work that the district's doing for these enhancements to our our current facility. Uh, not to interrupt, Dan, but I
067think there there is some work that Chris and I are going to have to do um with regards to communication about the projects as this project becomes more out into the community. Um, you know, I I can only imagine some of the questions that community members may have about how is the simple ones like how's the district able to afford this? Um, and so we we're going to have to communicate effectively um so that our constituents and everybody who supports our schools and and those who even don't understand really how this is all coming about. uh with a lot of that obviously a significant amount of that from from Wilbur and his donation. But uh there will be those I think that we know um the the turf field um has always been part of
068the long range plan which is a positive. It's been a part of that for multiple multiple interitions of the plan. But there will be there will be some push back I'm sure and so we'll have to uh communicate it appropriately. uh give some talking points, give some talking points to you because you're going to be in your circles. Uh you're going to be asked some questions as well. Importance of of not having this be a new bond or a new tax, I think, will be an important piece of that as well. But with any type of construction and and the type of construction that we're doing, um it it will get a lot of interest from our community. You know, it is kind of to the field. The tech center will be its own deal
069and that's awesome that that's happening. The field itself, I was at the homecoming game. How many people are there? Like the stands are packed. There's people everywhere, including parking lots and on the side of the hill and kids running around, that kind of stuff. So, it is really a centerpiece of our community. It's going to be a I think it's I I know there may be a little bit of resistance, but I think holistically it's going to be received pretty well because you know that is a major gathering point for our town. >> Yeah. And and philosophical when we when we went into this maybe it's just me um and I know Chris is in agreement with that, but there's different there's different philosophies for fields like this in different communities. And so if you
070were to go, and this is not a knock on another district, but if you were to go to a district that's a neighboring district who has a very, very, very nice stadium, okay? You can't get in there. That thing is completely locked off from any type of community use. It's used for school district activities and it's used for large events that bring in a lot of other uh schools, but for community use that's not it's just not available. So, our philosophy is that we're doing this first and foremost for the benefit of our students, but it's also secondary benefit for our community. uh the ability to have a turf field will allow that facility to be used a lot more. Now, are we going to have to manage it? Absolutely. We're going to have to
071manage it. We're going to have to ensure that the people that are on it have the appropriate clearances, insurance, and all that. But this this, as you mentioned, will be, I think, a great benefit to our community um to be able to hold not only school related activities, but youth uh athletic activities in general. So, Okay, great.