001Middle Sex renovation project. Those systems would need to be added back into the capital 5year plan. Most notably, the roof and the boilers. Those are now almost 25 years old. Uh we have series of leaks that crop up during significant rain events. We patch them as we go, but the the roof membrane is dry, brittle, cracking, and starting to fail. Uh the boilers, same thing. You know, they they do work. We are not in a situation where we don't have heat, but they're getting past their useful life. So, this is a good time to start having those conversations so that we don't get to the point where we have catastrophic failures. Um what these numbers don't take into account are design fees. Uh what else? Escalation and ultimately uh it would need a committee input
002no matter which way you go whether it's a full major capital improvement bonded project or through u regular capital. >> So are there any questions on Middle Sex Middle School? Please. >> Sorry. Uh Kevin, did you say that there would need to be a building committee even if we were just doing the capital project for the roof and the boilers? >> Anything over a million dollars requires a building committee? Then we go for state reimbursement and that process as well. >> Okay. Thank you. So will we need maybe I'll jump in. Will we will we need a building committee to replace the roofs at the high school? >> Uh yes potentially. That's right. So typically if it's a projected event building >> um if it's like a larger project like again or >> I think
003my my personal only concern with this is that you know I realize we have to get this done but then just rolling out the numbers in 28 we're talking $8 million for the high school roof and $9 million So all of a sudden we're fairly flat at a million, three million, something like that. And then all of a sudden we go to 14 million and then we're back down. So >> exactly >> that's the my only concern is trying to balance that out. But I don't know how you balance out when a roof costs $9 million. A roof cost $9 million, you need to do the roof. So >> exactly. I think that's why we we go with this approach. We would also have a request in the operating budget for a study of the
004high school. Uh I think we put it in last year which I believe it was cut but we'll ask for it again so that we can always stay um lined up for these different studies and projects as they come down the pipe so we could plan accordingly. >> Yeah. For me I just would rather have a smoother curve or line. Sure. So >> please. >> Thank you. Um Kevin, um I'm assume that you've been in contact with the study since it began in the summer and that's progressing and um all the components to it are are going to be covered in terms of um helping us to understand economies of scale and and future failures and how >> Yes, we we had a series of meetings over the summer. Mr. Mullis, the principal um some
005of her teacher um constituents attended, Dr. burn as well, Nester, myself, and we we discussed every topic you could think of. How art rooms are being utilized, how um locker rooms are assessed, you know, things things of that nature, you know, what could we do better or different? And KG&D is doing a really good job of thinking creatively of of, you know, what could the middle school look like going forward. >> Great. That's good to hear. Thank you. >> You're welcome. And then if if we decide to do I guess option B and and do a full capital project on the middle school, what what would the timeline of that be? >> Sure. So their study is reflecting fiscal year 28 uh construction dates. So we would do one year to design and then one
006year to build >> and you got and that's okay for timing with HHR and everything else. So once they present the uh study to the board, if board decides they want to move forward with a full uh building project, we'll work with KG&D to create EDS specs and then the board will have to create uh approve the EDS specs and that town you're turning it over to the town to request a building committee. Um so that would be the first step and then they'll end up hiring architects just like we went through with KG&D um or excuse me with HHR and Ox Ridge. Um, and that process typically takes about a year. And then, um, that's when you'll finally start to see like the construction bit go out. >> And, and I would also add
007that, you know, part of the study reflected that structurally Middle Middle Sex is in very good shape. Uh, it's got very good bones. The addition was put on in 2001. So, you know, a new school is not necessarily something they would recommend or that we would need, but it would be very similar to what we're living with with Hinley Homes and Royal. you know, you're gonna have to do major work while juggling with, you know, students learning in the in the building. >> And the study is reflecting projected enrollment growth. So, it's the building is built for 900 and we're up we anticipate being almost close to 1,200 in a few years there. >> And then, sorry, one last question for me. So if we if we do option B and in and option A,
008we have a roof starting in 27 and you were saying the project doesn't start till 28. Can we ride the roof out another year? And >> yes. >> So even when you get uh an appropriation uh in that first year, so the state requires the municipality to appropriate money and then that first year, what you're really doing is you're going through the state process to get approval and uh line everything up for reimbursement, get the architect to draw out the specs. you don't actually end up starting the construction, but you have to actually request the money and has to be appropriated before you can kind of go through the motions. >> Okay, any other questions? I >> think we're good. >> Okay, so to close out the the capital ask for the year. We do
009have u a number of uh asphalt replacement projects. Those have been on the capital plan for a number of years now. Uh they're not in the scope of Henley Homes and Royal. So, we're getting nice new buildings, but the parking lots were not touched as part of those ED specs, and this was done purposefully. So, um you know, we've we've had a good two-year run of repaving middle school, half of the high school last year, so this is just a continuation of what we've been doing already. Um replacement cycle for fleet vehicles, school radios, so that we have communications with PD and others. That's also reflected in the plan. And interestingly enough, I actually put in a generator transfer switch for central office because it is old, antiquated, and starting to give us problems in
010a week when we had two power outages at two schools. >> It's pretty timely. Okay. So, this the switch does not replace the generator itself, but it will give us the ability to communicate when we do lose power and reestablish power from the street. Any questions there? I I just have one quick question. My me my memor is faulty, but I seem to remember when the the Darian Foundation Athletic Foundation came with the fields at one point. Some of those fields were they they said that they would do the replacements themselves. Am I wrong in that recollection or >> No, not at all. I had a meeting, I believe it was last fall, about this time last year with some of their representatives and we were talking about the same thing. So, while we're not
011ready for replacement just yet, they are very interested in in partnering with us in that process. Um, but in the interim, we have increased the maintenance of the fields with the grooming and the um repairing of seams and things like that to get some more years of life out of them, but they are in very good shape. Uh, very much playable. And are are all the fields the same or is there like two fields that were grant that they said that it would replace and another field is not? That's exactly right. Okay. >> So, Centerville are older by about two years and then East Stadium and baseball are a bit younger. >> Okay. Any other questions? All right. We can move on to public comment. Any public comment? >> We have no participants for public
012comment. >> Okay. Motion to adjurnn. So moved. Thank you very much. >> Thank you.