001my oh gladys is tuning in if somebody else i don't know who the other person is that might be rich yep okay let me see let me check down here louise said this is kevin walton i am listening by yourself on item music festival here in danbury great thanks kevin thank you should we give him another minute mike yeah i know he was he was trying to hustle back home he was gonna cut it cut it close he was watching the gps tick down no problem any exciting guest speakers tonight bridget oh i don't i don't know oh here i'm starting luisa um we're just waiting no nothing you just used to say we're just gonna kind of catch up since we didn't have one last month i figured this was a good one to
002just kind of catch up on everything that's been going on and get some information out to us okay but uh joseph did tell me he saw you the other day al oh yes i saw him yesterday and he thought you perform oh he's going to take the bar fairly soon good for him yup yup it was the uh police memorial event and um i was playing taps no thank you for that al that's wonderful thank you for doing that very nice all right good okay i see we have rich on so let's call the meeting uh 602 welcome everybody to sites and facilities on may 19th um thank you to all my committee members for being here today and for the other board members that are here and thank you to our district uh sites
003um people for being here as well so i'm gonna um turn uh the meeting over to dr selig so we can start um with the items on our agenda and some uh information that's been going on in the district so floor is yours mike thank you thank you chairman um hi everybody so there's four items on the agenda today um and rich gelbert and i are going to sort of tag team these since they're varying levels of specificity and expertise so um first one is updates on the cardis site of the new danbury career academy uh i mean there's a couple things that happening over there with respect to the cafeteria and food services and i'll let rich tell you about the meeting he just had uh thank you mike um so the architect has
004had a consult their consultant food service consultant go through their inventory of course equipment and determine uh what salvage bowl and appropriate for uh you met with the two managers from sodexo and uh the architect to review the area um i think that exo is very happy with the existing conditions uh um there's the salad bar that they would love to see steve i think you know because we have to be concerned about uh to get the uh suitable amount of uh seating um i think i'm having a connection issue here did everybody hear me okay you cut in and out a little bit rich i'll just recap it so yeah so short version of it is that um they're concerned there's a salad bar there now which was you know part of the existing
005structure and in order to get the enough enough seating in there to accommodate the number of kids we may have to get rid of the salad bar and then there's some other other mitigating issues just with um with space and just you know workflow and all that kind of stuff so are you doing red she's still there i'm still here okay that's perfect so we're going to be meeting with the school lunch again to uh to you know come up with the menu mix so right now they have a nice pizza the oven um it was really set up pretty nice so uh sodexo is very excited about uh coming up with a good menu for the for the career academy yeah i hope the board offices get to go eat in there too so
006i'm looking forward to it as well um i'll take the second one just real quick we're going to be meeting with sta student transportation um to begin talking about buses expectations and needed bus routes we don't really know yet what what the ballpark number is um but of course the academy is going to be picking kids up from all across the city so we at least just want to get have a start conversations with them so we you know they know this is coming they have a sense of how many kids will be moving and how many buses they'll need and then we can start figuring out the routes so that meeting will be happening um i think it's next week great okay so that's about it for cardiff unless rich you got anything else
007for cardis yeah okay so the second one that's it i think we have some questions oh sure yeah just uh where do we stand for putting out the mass phone call on our call system advising people of the bond issue so um my understanding is we're not going to be able to do it um just because of the legality of uh using the school resources that was how we were guided by our general counsel um my understanding is the um cea is going to be taking the lead on promoting the issue cea did i hear that properly yes okay yeah we say the last time uh i don't remember which time we met that the city is that what you mean when you that the city was going to be sending out the informations we
008had you know some concerns that we were going to have an issue yeah i know the city's doing some of their own stuff i i know the the mayor was going to be doing an op-ed um but with respect to the phone banking i i don't know to what degree they were going to do that um there had been a request in a different committee that we use our our you know robocall auto dialer system on on um through uh parent square to do it and when i went back and checked with our general counsel they said advise best advice not do that yeah may i ask one more question sure how many how many students are we looking to accommodate in the uh cafeteria right i'm going back to rich do you know what
009we're going to do like three or four waves i i don't have that yes i can speak to that mike um i believe uh they plan on doing a total of four waves uh one for the middle school which would be about 400 and then splitting up the high school into three waves so somewhere around 350 360 per wave with a high school great thank you anybody else questions on cardis or granville no right way to get to granville okay so granville um we made a couple updates we've had um some concerns um for some time and miss cooper uh raised these um in a previous meeting uh just about the traffic and the sort of speed of the cars that we're going down the street so we've now stationed an additional safety advocate there
010um during pick-up and drop-off times to just sort of slow down the traffic uh and make sure the kids cross safely and then we've also got um we'll be starting tomorrow a slow school zone sign it's one of those yellow um diamond signs and it'll be on one of those orange and white um striped cones um and we'll take it out it's just our sign we'll take it out put it in the middle street um before drop off starts take it back inside and then bring it back out when um when pickup starts so and in the meanwhile you know we're hoping we'll still be able to to you know work with the city on getting a more permanent solution to this but in the meanwhile we've just um we've just taken the initiative to
011to sort it out ourselves okay great all right could i just say uh thank you today was the first day that i saw the walkway that was painted and it looked like all the appearance that was coming uh was using the walkway instead of getting out this car crossing here and the cars flying up there it really looks nice and i just want to say thank you thank you yeah i'm glad to hear that that's that's terrific yeah granville granville's always kind of uh i just i feel like there's never we can never do enough to keep granville greenville safe all right um there's no more question on granville we can move to the sort of long item here um summer repairs list and rich and i'll bounce this one back and forth um so
012the first one i'll start with is the high school gym um i'm sure many of you have seen it developed some humps over the last few months due to some flooding that we had uh back in the winter there we had a sprinkler pipe that broke in one of the elevators areas it ran down the elevator out the shaft and then into that lower gym area it damaged the ceiling of the wrestling room and then ran into the gym where it got under the wood floor and once that happened the floor started bubbling up and developed these as we call it it started to look a little bit more like a skate park than a basketball court so uh we we've done some initial repairs on it um to get it to lay flat but
013those repairs didn't last long because the issue is really with moisture that's now trapped in the floor and can't get out because of the seal that's over the wood so it just bubbles up in different areas depending on humidity and moisture and it now travels so these humps are not just stagnant they're actually traveling humps on the gym floor so uh we had to go and talk with kermah our insurance company and we met with a flooring uh repair company and then also to look at just all the the other damage and we're going to be putting together a claim um and we are we are very hopeful that we'll be able to um to do this with um with kerma um we we have a deductible of about 250 000 and my expectation is
014that the cost of these will exceed the deductible uh we're waiting on final estimates to come through uh but we think there's going to be um this week already and rich you can jump in because i know you just had a conversation with uh with the company where they're going to come in take a look at exactly what is underneath this floor we think it's the original floors which makes it 65 years old more and depending on what's underneath they may be able to repair it in um but it's we're sort of getting the sense that we may have to rip out the whole floor um give it the time to properly dry so that when the new floor is laid back down these bubbles don't keep popping up so we're hoping to learn more
015about that in the next few days um rich if there's anything i left out on that one um sure so from speaking to other facilities directors it can be a long process i spoke to another facilities director who had a similar issue and they had to do relief cuts in the floor sand the floor and on a weekly basis they would monitor it to to make sure that all the water uh was out of the floor um so i think our two options are at this point are one if if the floor isn't in that bad of a shape we would we could do a repair sand it dry it out or clear it repair any rotten wood and then refinish it which could just the repair could cost anywhere between 50 to 70 thousand
016um the replacement uh at this point we're estimating would be about two hundred thousand and then um mike mentioned a control board on the elevator uh that had to be replaced uh public buildings is replacing that 25 000 and then whatever the cost of repairing the weight room uh ceiling so we could very well be over that two hundred five fifty thousand dollar deductible uh daily and flooring came out um with kermit to look at the floor and they're gonna be coming out most likely tuesday monday or tuesday to do the initial cuts to open up the floor and investigate and they're going to continue to monitor it yeah we're hoping that if we get going with this right now so the gym's already been shut down uh if we get going with it right
017now we might be able to get it done and of course there's supply chain issues all these other mitigating circumstances but we're hopeful that we can have it done by the start of school if everything goes right so fingers crossed so the plan is to have the floor replaced completely we'll go with the recommendation right rich so if if they think they can do it with patchwork you know i i don't my sense from the conversation we had was that that's not gonna work because we've already done that once or twice and it just came back so yeah because it didn't look really it wasn't like little bumps it really looked yeah and like i said that moisture is traveled so even if they repair that section there's still moisture trapped in other parts of
018the gym floor so i i i don't know i'm not a flooring expert but my sense is it's probably going to be a complete okay we do do we know when it went about we might know for sure which do you think we'll know more in the next uh week and a half two weeks once uh daleen flooring opens up the floor and and can do an exploratory to to see you know what condition the floor is underneath okay great okay the next one on the list is ellsworth annex uh rich if you have any updates on that uh sure um everything is is uh running on time as far as the project the the latest struggles we've had were um actually the technology package uh this the the the server that were ordered from
019projects um aren't expected to be nation and and game planning with the construction services and our iot department and actually what iit is going to do they are going to free up a server from danbury high school get it installed at the ellsworth annex and we'll be we'll be able to use that until we get the uh the actual server in that's scheduled for the project um the the downside if we were able to do that you know that would affect quite a bit in the annex it would it would affect our security system comes our cameras internet for the school cameras and our voiceover ip system so i'm happy to say that we're going to overcome that obstacle right well we're looking forward to that one with central registration kind of being such an
020important part of the way we welcome families into the district i'm i'm thrilled that it's gonna be at this brand shiny new building it's really gonna be a great first impression that we make on new families coming in to register so i'm very excited about that um and everything having everything just in like a logical flow so you're not like running up and down the stairs and trying to you know all the stuff happening right now over it um in immaculate heart so um okay the next one is uh the danbury primary center in brookfield um just in case folks don't know we've been renting a school in brookfield for a preschool center and that is uh that lease is going to be terminated as of june 30th and we're going to be moving them
021um back into uh other schools around the district um all the teachers are planning to move out of there they're already starting to get packed we're optimistic that we'll be able to hit the june 30th deadline and uh by working with teachers riches guys are are going to be spending some time um loading that stuff out of there and getting it back to the classrooms around the campus so uh rich if there's anything i missed on that one that pretty much sums it up we're coming up with the game plan we have approximately 240 desks and chairs to to move we're starting to drop off moving boxes and tape for the teachers uh i estimate we're probably going to need about 250 to 300 boxes and uh we'll be starting off with moving south street
022first there's four classrooms that are going to south street uh four classrooms two stadley rough and then three classrooms to ellsworth madam chair go ahead bob question and with this latest coverage covet string god forbid that the numbers go up do we have a plan b can we go back to brookfield if if necessary or is that just not anticipated at all because things won't get to that point over that's a good question um well the lease is terminated um i i don't know if there's another tenant lined up um if there's not i suppose you know there's always a chance to return i i don't know um but we've we certainly didn't budget to keep um paying the rent on that place either so um i think that would be a pretty a pretty
023big maneuver if we decided to do it but to your point mr russo yeah if if we need to spread out you know plan b just just just asking yeah yeah thank you let's just hope the cove would never say stay don't don't go up yeah anybody else questions no okay okay um the next one uh is i'll talk about the g building a little bit at the high school um louise and i took a a a little tour of the g building yesterday to look at some of the um air flow concerns that were raised in our last board meeting and that we've we've you know kind of slowly been learning about um so we went and uh you know we were we saw that the air conditioning had been repaired some of the
024rooms we were in uh were had very cool air in them um and we would learn today from uh from the folks at the city that the air handlers uh are working um we had a few follow-up questions which we've not had a chance to talk through with them um but they're they're working with us we're collaborating we wanted to get more specifics on all the different classrooms versus just the air handler working on the roof um because we know that there's sometimes that it may not work in certain pockets or it's just you know it's there's a room that's too far away from um from you know where the handler is located so we're going to be following up with them and uh just getting more information to get back to the teachers because
025they just want to make sure they they feel safe in their rooms anybody have any energy building before we move on you're on mute michelle all right all right go ahead i i just want to say thank you for um for getting on that so quickly uh that's that's great with the uh hvac i think that's great thank you i spent a lot of time in in sweaty classrooms i i i can empathize with uh yeah with that uh feeling so and mike once you once you and rich find out will you um get that information back to us so we know absolutely you know what they find out and making sure that it's all getting back to them and getting back us absolutely we'll make sure it's on the agenda for the next uh
026committee meeting as well i appreciate that okay perfect okay um next up uh staircase at ais rich you want to take that one sure actually uh one of the things i'm considering we lost you rich [Music] uh partially because it's a supply chain issue hello hear me now it's fading in and out hello i'll recap this one for rich um so there's supply chain issues that may delay this one anyhow so there's a possibility this one may uh be postponed um especially if we need to use some of these funds this is an expensive project if we need to use these funds to get the high school floor put back together so we'll have more on that as we learn more about the floor and we get more information about the materials that we need
027for the staircase and can you just yeah can you just review which like what this which staircase it is and what's happening with it yeah uh i i so there's rich can you are you are you there i'm here i'm not sure about my connection can everybody hear me that's better yeah okay great so um a few years years ago we had a uh a fire drill and during this fire drill we had a medical issue where a student needed attention and they were on one level and the nurse was on the other level so you know the nurse had to go through the oh no building yeah so there's no way to get there outside the stairwell would solve that oh so we we dealt with mac passive emergency management director our first thought
028was to get a role that would uh block to the upper lap and hear me now sorry i guess i need to my uh millibytes on my bandwidth over here [Laughter] well there was there was discussion of the road we ended up going with the staircase and so first that didn't yeah that worked out so now we're we're working on a stairway and so could you describe uh to to luisa can i just ask a quick question for the minutes absolutely absolutely uh could you describe the stair while project just a little bit uh in a little bit more detail just so that i can reflect it accurately i would appreciate budgeted project that will connect the lower level to the upper level outside and allow somebody to move between those two levels without having
029to go through the school great thank you very much i appreciate that sure anyone else no all right move on all right richard do you want to try to talk about the any of the flooring it's it's these are much smaller projects at this point sure pembroke school we have a project in place to replace specific rooms that have uh carpeting uh we have a large special ed population and these floors they they tend and to get a lot of bomb but it's special other stuff on there so it looks really sharp am i good no you're fading it out i'll just do a quick recap of pembroke so it's a special ed um classroom so there's uh just a need that you need to be able to clean it up um you know things
030bodily functions fluids all that kind of stuff as well as food and you know so uh it just needs to be a floor that you can sweep and mop easily right now it's carpeted and we want to uh just make it more sanitary okay to to louisa uh our food chair what kind of what kind of flooring are you replacing it with oh that's a rich question uh what do we got there rich it's actually called luxury vinyl tile um it it's a vinyl tile that you don't have to uh strip and wax every year so it cuts down on accidents you know every year stripping and waxing you you always have somebody that slips on the floor um you just have to keep it clean which it's less maintenance uh our guys can spend
031more time uh doing detail cleaning and painting walls than stripping and waxing floors and it and it's and it retains its nice look without having to wax it thank you for the explanation you're welcome rich you want to try to do any of these other ones the partitions or the uh the ksi floor sure um now that ann taught me this trick about turning my camera off um hey so so the uh the partitions uh we have a special ed room at king street primary and a lot of you may know that king street primary it was built as a open format so there's no walls on our classrooms uh so we're just making up we're just looking at making this particular classroom uh a little bit more private um we're also looking at doing
032two classrooms at south street the two kindergarten rooms and it's a similar situation where they have half the floor is is vinyl tile and the other half is carpeting so we're we're looking at getting rid of the carpeting because uh carpeting can look nice but uh it tends to hold on to the dirt a little bit more than a hard floor surface smell too yeah yeah of all the the education fads i've seen come and go over the years that that open concept one i think is one of the more bizarre ones i've i've seen it's it's hard to believe there's still uh still relics of it so uh one one more thing mike we're still looking at uh removing uh high school chemicals from the science labs um you know with the pan endemic
033we didn't have to worry about it for a few years but we still built up a a good amount of inventory of chemicals that will need to be disposed of properly uh so we're looking at taking care of that this summer as well great okay i think that wraps up our list um any more questions about those projects i have an issue the microphones at uh the board of education meetings terrible terrible i mean i've been not doing i've been doing this a few years and i realized my hearing isn't the best but why can't we have a robust microphone so in front of everyone that functions so we can hear everyone very well uh there's also there's also a challenge with uh you know when we have a guest speaker or public comment sometimes
034and uh so please if it's i can fix this with a few batteries please do that all right i'm true i i can speak to that a little bit al um and talking with my telecom guru ed lathrop um i i believe when we put in the new microphone system we put in a few too many wireless microphones and with the amount that we have there it just doesn't work properly there's too much as uh not to throw out too technical of a term but there's too much peristatic oscillation um so i've had a company look at that and i'm working on getting a price for more hardwired microphones that you wouldn't get that feedback well i'm a radio guy rich you know peristatic oscillation [Laughter] all right so so you are working on it
035thank you for allowing me to vent it's just when it works it works very well when you get a microphone it works but uh there are usually speakers that and i like a robust listening conversation and uh and i i realized most of my school board meetings have been remote due to covet but i guess we're back in business and anything you can do to uh entertain you would be well appreciated i am sure thank you we'll see what we can do peristatic obsolete oscillation gotcha [Laughter] all right uh so the last item is um accreditation at the high school uh the northeast association of schools and colleges neasc um gave us a list of a few things that we needed to do to satisfy requirements um it's primarily about the elevators uh rich i
036understand those should be fixed by the end of next week and then there are some issues with the science lab you could tell us a little bit about those yep the uh the science labs um aside from the newer edition and see the the original edition is pretty tired um we need to replace gas valves uh water um really needs an upgrade and i know the city had put in a proposal for the design of that um so we'll have to check with the public works to to get the status of that a few of the other things that came up during the report were uh bathrooms being shut down due to uh repairs needed um i'll follow up with the city on on the bathroom repairs water fountain was mentioned and also there is
037something about high school administration having access to the city's work order system uh right now uh the the high school administration they put in work orders through us i can see the work orders but but the uh at the principal level they can't see it so i'm working with sean and and with our work order company to see if we can get a better solution for that be great i have a question all of these items that were on that um that list did we have a time frame to get all this done i am not sure of the time frame i know dan donovan would have that okay are the science are the science lab ones that are on the list to be are they scheduled to be updated well i know they they
038start with getting uh putting out a proposal for the design of the renovation so they've stopped uh doing the renovation though okay so it's it's this is going to be on the city side yes okay thank you i think that's all we have louisa okay does anybody in the questions go ahead michelle yeah i do i had spoken with a parent who had mentioned that the um showers at danbury high are not working or they kind of are not operable or something can you speak to that at all or is my do you know anything about the locker rooms and the showers in the locker rooms not being accessible or maybe not working at the moment is i don't rich do you know anything about that no that that's actually the first um uh hearing
039of that but i'll be happy to look into it thank you yeah we'll take a look and next meeting on the agenda thank you welcome anybody else on the committee board of ed no all right well if that's it i guess we can um motion to adjourn pick this up next month i moved second second all right obsolation