001Moving on to 11 uh 1.02. Pledge to the flag. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. May we have a roll call, please? >> Elizabeth Dalderman >> here. >> Mary Lee Hall >> here. >> Samantha Hall. >> William Hall >> here. >> Jeremy Hash >> here. >> Jennifer Hankle >> here. >> Nathan Hankle >> here. >> James Holly >> here. >> Joseph Wilson >> here. >> Thank you. Moving on to 2.01. Approval of the October 20, 2025 board agenda. I would like to make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> Any nays or abstensions? >> Hearing none. Moving on. >> 3.01. Approval of the October 16th, 2025 minutes. I would
002like to uh make a motion to consider approval of the October the 16th, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Any or abstensions? Hearing none. Motion carries. Moving on to 4.01 procedure for public comment. Um we have one indu ind individual down uh this evening for public comment and we did receive um a precursor uh to your comment. Um we uh discussed this and although it does not uh have any pertinent information to uh this evening's meeting um I am inclined to allow this individual to speak. Uh, is the board in con congruence with me on that? Sure. Okay, thank you. Um, I have number one Steph Muer. Good evening, Steph Muser, Kadoris Township. I'd like to speak briefly about a student safety issue. Several weeks ago, Reddit posts
003came to my attention that included reviews of sex workers and comments on a porn site where men fantasize about swapping their daughters for sex. Recently, as I was reviewing the May financial report for the SYC pack, the pack that helped elect seven of our nine school board members, I noticed that the pack address on the report appears to match the address that is associated with the username making those sexually inappropriate posts. When I made this connection, I took several actions. I contacted the school administration. I reached out to the state department of education to share what I had found. Since this potentially involves the conduct of sitting schoolboard directors or candidates who may become schoolboard members, I'm calling on the administration in cooperation with the state department of education to conduct a thorough investigation into
004these allegations. It was important to me to share this publicly and it is my hope that the findings from the investigation will be shared publicly with our school community once they are complete. While the investigating is ongoing, I'd like to request that all schoolboard directors be required to provide advanced notice of their visits to our schools and that they will be chaperoned by a member of school staff when act interacting directly with our students. Thank you. >> Thank you. Do we have any other public comment? Moving on to 0.0402 board discussion of public comment hearing none moving on to 5.01 presentation by site uh logic on the guaranteed energy service act proc and I uh project and I believe uh Sue you would like to start us off there. >> Sure. >> Thank you. Just
005wanted to do a quick introduction on how we got here um before I turn it over to site logic. So um if you remember back a whole year ago in October of 2024 uh the board approved uh the architect to start the feasibility study um Beers and Hoffman. So they began um right after that October board meeting to uh get working on the feasibility study to look at our buildings and what needed to be done. Uh then in April um at the April 10th board meeting uh we presented a proposed schedule for the feasibility study and potential greatest needs projects which includes the projects that will be discussed tonight. Then at May 6 at the buildings and grounds meeting we discussed the feasibility study and these specific greatest needs projects. Um and if you remember
006that was a pretty long discussion as we worked through what those projects would look like. Then in May on May 15th, a couple weeks later at the actual board meeting, we discussed those projects, a potential contract um with the architect and a potential need for construction services. Um so we went through all those meetings with not having a vote, kind of just working through the process. Then we asked on June 19th for the board to approve those greatest needs projects and the contract with Beers and Hoffmans to work through these um these greatest needs projects re really with the goal of being able to um do the construction mainly in the summer of 2026. We will have, as we'll hear tonight, there'll be some pieces that'll be done during the school year, um latter part
007of this school year, but that will be done on second shift. Um really our goal is always to try to do these projects um with the least disruption to our students. Um so we're really aiming for those summers. So after that June meeting um then in August um we came back to the board and asked to go out for requests for qualifications to you to do this project as a guaranteed energy savings project. So we talked about that extensively and then on October 16th we approved Site Logic as the energy services company. and this evening you're going to hear um their findings and their process that they went through um for the project. So I'll turn it over to them. >> Thank you, Susan. Uh my name is Mike Arnold with Site Logic. I serve
008as the vice president of operations for our company. With me tonight is Damen Spar. Damian is the program executive uh in charge of of the Southern New York school district. So wanted to start off first of all by thanking you all for the opportunity to present tonight on the greatest needs project and also for the work that we are able to do for you for the for the high school project as well as construction managers. So um tonight we're going to talk uh brief agenda um and we will go through kind of a a quick review of the benefits of of the Giza delivery. I know that that's been discussed obviously with with the group, but I just wanted to kind of level set and start off there. And then Damian's going to talk a
009bit more specifically about the greatest needs projects uh the pricing of all of that and and kind of a schedule and and moving you know moving forward how we how we're going to move forward on the on the project. So as far as the Giza is concerned uh you're all familiar that in the state of Pennsylvania uh for most scopes of work you have to follow uh design bid build process where the low bidder of each of the packages the minimum of four prime contracts are awarded similar to what happened uh at at the high school project. But there are there is a law in place to allow you to do work via a design build approach which is using the guaranteed energy savings act agreement. Um, and this project, the greatest needs project, really
010fits in nicely for that. First of all, it qualifies, but it it is a it really is a perfect Giza project because of the scope that that is that is provided. So, as far as just some of the highlights, um, it it it really helps with accountability. Uh, when you when you hire, uh, a Giza contractor, um, it's it's a single source kind of responsibility. You don't have a a whole bunch of prime contractors. the fingerpointing that may relate from all of that and we've seen some of that obviously through through the history of of working in construction management. Um it allows for for local partnerships and project control. Um on this project we you know we worked with the district to identify preferred contractors subcontractors that we went out to bid with uh so
011that when we did competitively bid it, we knew that whoever was was the lowest responsible bidder was a qualified bidder. That's not the case on the public bid, you know, delivery. Um, and the added value of, you know, in our Giza agreement, uh, we have all of the services that that pertain with the construction management, um, delivery, you know, as far as, uh, on-site supervision, the quality control, etc. But in addition to that, we're doing the commissioning of the systems that are installed. There's extensive training, and then, of course, we have the measurement verification that goes along with the guaranteed energy services uh, act. Um, in addition to that, we have a reduced risk for the district. You do have that single source. we're carrying all the risk um the bonds, insurance, all of that.
012But also there is a guarantee of no change orders. Um uh and on public projects where you you bid them publicly and the design bid build you run into that that that you know possibility of having changes on your project with the guaranteed energy servings services act that is eliminated. Um so moving on to the guaranteed you know savings. Um, so that's kind of I I explained a little bit about the procurement process, which is a really, you know, big advantage of Giza, but obviously what goes along with that is you're inherently going to get guaranteed energy savings from that. So, we collect all of the utility bills associated with the projects and the buildings um that we are working on and we use those as the benchmark. Uh and then after the energy efficient
013measures are incorporated into the design and ultimately into the construction, we're able to calculate what those annual energy savings will be. So that's all part of the agreement. Um we're right around 17,000 a year from the from the projects that we are proposing here tonight. Um so and if we don't meet those savings, then we we have to write a check back to the district. So if we only save 5,000 a year, then we owe you 12 $12,000 a year. So we write that check. That's all part of a guaranteed energy savings. Um, we confirm that by what's called the measurement and verification process. So, that's something that keeps us involved in your project. It it it kind of um makes us do those uh calculations to show you that you've you've saved that that
014that amount or you haven't and then we we make good on all of that. So, didn't want to gloss over the whole the Giza process, but wanted to kind of just, you know, touch base on that as well before we get into the project itself. So with that, I will turn it over to Damian to go through the the project specifically. Um we do I'm sorry one more slide as it relates to and I did touch on this already just the fact that even though it is not a publicly bid project, it is still competitively bid. So we were able to have in many cases four contractors competing for this work. So that ensured that you were getting a competitive price. Um and it also showed that the documents were were very tight because a
015lot of those the pricing was very close to each other which is always tells us that they were seeing the project the same way they understood what the design was um in that case. So uh we're very happy with the coverage. Uh you know sometimes construction projects you don't get a lot of coverage you know interest in these projects. Uh part of what we do is we we solicit we make sure that we we generate interest in the uh in in the projects that we're providing uh this service on. So with that, turn it to uh to Damian to talk specifically about uh the scope of the project. Thank you, Mike. Hi everyone. I'm Damian Spar and what I'd like to do is talk a little bit about the greatest needs projects and I'm going
016to start with the the ideas that were behind the greatest needs. So this is kind of the why do you take this approach and the reason that I like this approach so much is it's fiduciarily responsible. You have needs, you have buildings to maintain, but you do the right things in maintaining and you you do what you need to do. When you start to touch an area, you you do it intelligently that if there's something over here that needs to be fixed, we're going to take care of all of those things. But if something has 10 years of life in it, we're not going to change that out because we want like like a car we drive, we want it to last a little bit longer. So, some of the things that we we know
017are highlights for the board and the district was that commitment to improving the learning environment and providing a healthier building that happens through warm and dry projects. In this case, it's replacement of boilers, um, pumps, roof at Shrewsbury Elementary School, and some of the other rooftop equipment at Shrewsbury Elementary. Environmentally, we're removing some fuel oil tanks. We we take the risk of that being a future problem away. One of the things that we do as site logic is we're looking for ways to bring funding to the district. And what we're going to be doing, and this is something that we do for our clients, it's it's not necessarily part of energy savings contract. It's part of what we do for our clients is we write those grant applications for the district. So when the budget
018gets passed at the state level, we will be writing grants for the Pennsylvania school improvement uh grant and PSFIG and we will we will work with the district to figure out what scope we want to write that for. We'll apply. We'll also provide adv advocacy with uh your local representatives and senators at the state level to try and get funding for the district. We talked, Mike talked about local commitment. We worked with the district administration and talked about contractors that have done excellent work for the district, reputable contractors in the area, came up with a list of those subcontractors. And we went out and we solicited them to bid. And with the the sole loan exception of our controls provider, who is a preferred vendor, we received um at least four bids for every package.
019and I'll talk about those in a minute. So, we had that coverage that Mike talked about. Finally, all of this lends itself to long-term planning. So, Beers Hoffman has provided information here that's that shows all the things that that could possibly be needed in your buildings over the future several years. We're going to take that and to put it into a tool called my site IQ which allows you to do planning through as many as 10 years out if you want to do it that way. And we'll work through that um with the administration be able to show that to to board committees in the future. And we'll uh we'll be able to demonstrate how easy it is for you to start to plan continued greatest needs projects as you look forward years ahead and
020make it easy for Mrs. screen to do budgeting and so forth. What I'd like to do now is go over the scopes for each building. And I am going to take a moment to to make sure that everybody understands what those scopes are. At Shrewsbury Elementary School, you have replacement of the boilers and and the hot water pumps, including the controls for those boilers. We put variable frequency drives, which is basically like a dimmer switch for a pump that turns it up and back as needed and saves energy because it's not all on or all off. Same thing with chilled water pipes for the air conditioning system. There's variable frequency drives go with those as well. There's some exterior chilled water piping that gets replaced. Water heater gets replaced, including the pumps. And at Shrewsbury
021Elementary School, there's an underground storage oil storage tank that gets pumped out and and removed. At Shrewsbury Elementary on the roof, we replace the roofing with a rubber roof. That's what's EPDM is, and I won't bore you with all the all the words of the the letters, but that will have a 20-year warranty. We are um making sure the lightning protection is in place and reertified. There are five packaged rooftop units that get lifted off the building. They serve the gym, auditorium, nurses suite, um, and admin areas. They get replaced through the project. And there's, uh, kitchen makeup air units as well as some roof exhaust fans that while we're up on the roof, we're going to take care of these things that are nearing the end of their lives. At Southern Elementary, we have
022similar boiler room scope as Shrewsberry with the boilers and the pumps and and the variable frequency drives to be able to control those. Same thing with chilled water. And here we have an above ground oil tank that we're going to take away. At Southern Middle School, uh once again, it it's very similar. We have another water heater at Southern Middle School like we did at Shrewberry Elementary School to replace along with the boilers, the hot and chilled water pumps, and again an above ground fuel oil tank. So you can see what we're doing. It goes back to the idea of warm and dry. Those are the basic needs, and that's part of the tenant of the idea of how this district is approaching its projects responsibly. So this sheet shows our pricing and it shows
023um an estimate that we had earlier in the year. That estimate earlier in the year which is the second column total $7,240,832. That's our estimates of all the costs of the work plus the estimates of soft costs which were the architects engineering fees, builder's risk insurance and advertisements. So we we had those costs figured um in an estimate and that was before we went out to get pricing. We went out and got pricing and we had um mechanical contractor, plumbing contractor, roofing contractor and tank removal contractors in addition to the controls contractor. Now, all of all of the first contractors that I noted, there were at least four firms that priced each one of those scopes. And in all the cases except for roofing, the numbers of the two lowest biders were very, very close.
024And one of the things that we do through this process is we work with the contractors to identify problems. And and Mike mentioned there's no change orders. The reason there's no change orders is because it's a collaborative process with these contractors. So we identify those problems up front so that we're not having them during construction. So in all those cases with the exception of the roofing, the two lowest biders were very very close and and that tells us that folks are reading the documents and understand it and we're getting kind of a validation for roofing. While the bids were close, there was a bit more of a gap instead of being it was close but not as close as all the rest. And you can see that there we actually were able to um be
025under our estimate for the roofing and that had more to do with the roofing than the rooftop equipment. Related to the controls, you have a vendor that's been working at the district for years and does a very good job servicing the district and keeping the district in a place where it's comfortable with the automatic temperature controls. Site Logic estimated what the cost of that work would be and compared it to their bid. And I can tell you that their bid was actually under our estimate. We told them to be be good to the district and give us a fair number and they absolutely did. They they honored the district that way. We were um exceptionally proud of them and and we like to have them as a partner. When you start to look at these
026these line items across, you can see the mechanical scopes, the pure mechanical scopes, our estimates were a little bit low. And part of the reason for that is we continue to see mechanical equipment and the work related to them just going up in cost. And so we didn't really like that, but it wasn't particularly surprising. The good news is that we have a roofing contractor that was very very interested in the work, a reputable one, and their number was under our roofing budget. And so when you start to downtotal that and we actualize the cost for the AE fees and the soft costs, we found ourselves at a total project cost that is 7.3536 million and about $117,000 higher than our estimate. Nobody likes to have a number come in higher than an estimate. I
027feel better about it when I know it's within about 1.6%. So, it's darn close. Uh, we worked very hard to make sure that we could get that as low as we can. We're actually still working on that to to provide options that we might um have in the final analysis a lower cost. But what that's done is it's left that Guaranteed Energy Savings Act project at 6,948,695. So right now we are working with your builder's risk insurers, your your insurance carrier uh or agent to get quotes for builder's risk and um Mr. Buffington and I have already talked with the architect engineer. So we know that that uh amount of money that we have in there for their cost is good. So all these costs have kind of narrowed down and there aren't a lot
028of variables left. This is the schedule for award and the important thing is that we're here tonight to consider this a as a vote for for the board in November. Um really now coming up on less than three weeks away. We we will be back here to talk to you a little bit about what we learned about skylights at Shrewsbury Elementary School. We're looking at the standing seam roofs and the canopy and gutters. particularly the skylights because of their propensity to either leak or be problematic. While again, while we're doing that roof, we want to think about what we want to do to the skylights. It may be replace. That replacement is rather costly. It may be refurbish them so that they have a longer life. And honestly, what probably will be the most cost-effective
029option is to take the skylights out, put roofing over it, and do something underneath and and actually remove those. That's not to say that the board may not want to go one way or another, but we intend to be back here in November to have that discussion and and provide some options so that you could maybe consider that as we go forward for summer 2026 work. Here you're seeing we're procuring in the fall. Construction is spring to summer of 2026 and and we finish in August. And here is the detail of that. Couple of important points without going through each line item. We want to replace the chilled water pumps when it's still chill chilly outside. We don't need air conditioning. So we're looking at doing that in March and April. Then as it starts
030to get warmer, those chilled water pumps will the new ones will be on and the chilled water system will be running. As we get to last day of school, we'll start to look at replacing those boilers going building by building either concurrently or a little bit of a lag. We're going to do what we can to keep those boilers running so that we can provide any dehumidification. And if we can't have the boilers running, we're going to provide the dehumidification that's needed for that. That's going to get us really down to construction completion before the first day of school. The good news is this work that's happening isn't in the classrooms and is not disrupted that way. We do need to get off the roof at Shrewsbury Elementary School. If for some reason we have
031work if we have some bad weather over the summer, etc. And we need to work beyond when the school year starts. That is going to be done on nights and weekends. We're not going to be working when the kids are in the building earlier on when we're doing that work with the chilled water pumps. We're going to do that on second shift as well. Again, I think u back to the importance of don't disrupt the educational process. So, looking forward, we talked about writing grants. I talked a little bit about my site IQ. What this will allow us to do if the board so chooses is to start looking ahead and doing that long range planning with data that we have from Beers Hoffman. Kind of seeing that in a different way with my side
032IQ and being able to plan with it and looking at potential future greatest needs projects or however you'd like to take that with facilities planning. Um, every school district looks at that a little bit differently and we'll be able to um, adapt it to what your district would like to do. So, it's more really important that when we start to do this, Southern York County School District's, you know, really purpose and intention is is in that whole process. And that's what we'll be looking to do to make sure it suits the board and the community. What I want to do is show you a couple of things quickly about my site IQ. And I'm just going to show you some screenshots. So, what you can see um on the left side is you'll you'll see
033um a drawing of the building and plan. It looks like a building map, but it'll start to show you where there's information and data. You will see if you look on the right, you will see um like lists of projects. You can't make them out here or maybe even on your page, but that's where all those projects live. And you can start to say, what if I do this project here and this project there and lay them out over time so that you can have a long range facilities plan. And all of that sums up to uh budget dashboards that you can see in the middle that start to say there's this many dollars in HVAC projects or the projects are funded one way or another. and you can start to work out over years
034that we want to try and spend only a certain amount of dollars each year for for budgeting and and level that out as you move projects around. I think that we covered everything that we wanted to in the agenda and I'm happy to take questions and I don't know if there's anything else that maybe we missed. Mrs. Green and Mr. Buffington for now questions from the board. Um, quick question on the uh the energy cost savings. >> Um, >> I'm assuming you're not using just like the electric bills, but you're using the consumption. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> We are. >> Obviously, consumption, all that. It's Yeah, it's a lot more complicated than just exact to your point. >> Yeah. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. So we're so we're looking at um our savings
035will be calculated based on like kilowatts per hour used as >> and really we we end up guaranteeing the units because we don't know what the price is going to be. So it's really about guaranteeing the units of of savings and if you really look at that a little bit further in there we have a little bit of money showing that there's going to be some operational savings. I know from talking to Mrs. Green and Mr. Buffington that you've spent, you know, a a lot more than what we're showing year-over-year and that in in fixing those boilers up and doing those things. For us, it doesn't matter so much. We just want to be able to call out there's going to be savings here. It becomes very important to the business office where that money
036goes and how that budgeting happens. Um, but that's that's noted in there, too, kind of as a footnote. >> Yeah. I just I was I was wanted to make sure we were using I figured you guys would be using that. >> Yes, sir. Um, the other question I had is, you know, no change orders on this project. >> That's right. >> Um, I know in our high school project, we ran into asbestous. >> Mhm. >> Um, is there any I mean, I guess so. I I I tell this story all the time when we we talk about no change orders and and typical unforeseen conditions. All the this was this looks a little different and we could see it. We take care of it. It's required for code. It's required for operation. That's all taken
037care of. We right now do not we're not aware of any asbestous in the building. Not where we're working. Not not on the roof of Shrewberry and not in the boiler rooms etc. So typically that that bears out. I can give you an example where we had a school district in southeastern PA and they said the ceiling in the nitorium does not have asbestous on it. And we got up there and looked at it and said, "You really ought to make sure this is doesn't have asbestous." And sure enough, it did. And the school district then had to decide what they wanted to to do with that. Do you want to leave it? Do you want to take it out? Or whatever that was. >> So there can be those types of thing. And I
038think here any of that any of that concern is related. >> And again, the age of the buildings factors in probably not Shrewsbury. It was really >> Yeah. Let me let me speak to that a little bit. and and if you look at the board briefing um that we attached um we did talk briefly about environmental concerns. So um the the two that's potentially there for for these projects um we have these underground tanks. We are not aware of any leaks. We are not aware of any anything like that. But if we were to have that and there's contaminated soils then that would be ours. >> But we look we didn't put a budget for it because we're not aware of anything. Um, but at the end of the day, it's already contaminated if if
039that were the case. So, we do need to take care of it. So, that's not part of this. Um, but again, when we tear things open, we we find things. The second thing would potentially be asis in our two older buildings. Um, we're not aware of any. We don't believe there will be in these these cases, but I did want to point that out, and that was on my little notes to make sure everybody understood. Um, that those particular environmental things we we would have to take care of as a district. that would not be on site logic. >> And that actually goes for schedule as well. So I mentioned what happens if you have a a summer that there's a lot of rain and now the roofers working longer work. The roofer's working at
040night and on weekends and not when they were expecting to work. That's our problem. So you we've run into schedule issues and schedule issues that particularly over COVID when things wouldn't come in when you asked for them. But more importantly, um I if if the school district says we need we need some time here, you can't work right now. We're not putting our hands up and saying, "Haha, you have to pay us." We're saying, "Okay, great. When do you want us to come back in?" And there's not an issue with that. So that that no change order idea carries over into schedule flexibility as well for the administrators of those buildings and for the for the board and community. >> Okay. Thank you. >> So again, the one thing I want to emphasize um to
041this is the first Giza that we're doing in the district. So I just want to make sure everybody understands. So as they shown showed on the slide um we have approximately $7 million um that is the construction cost and then we have the soft cost. So for some reason um if our builder's risk number is a little low again that would be the district's piece. Um we feel very comfortable with the large piece which is the architectural piece. Um as we talked about uh we did uh work with Beers and Hoffman. We feel very comfortable with that number. Um so for the most part again there's not a lot of variance but that that is not on site logic. They would be the the first part of that slide and we would be the second
042part on the soft cost. So I want to make sure everybody understood that. >> Thank you. Yes. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Mhm. >> Uh one one quick question. U Oh go ahead. Oh, either or. Um, I just wondered how many grants like how many schools are you writing grants for the same thing for like >> for the same? Well, kind of I think I'm going to try and answer all the questions that might be around that. >> Last year we wrote uh about 25 grants when this grant program came out. It was the first time it came out and we had a very high success rate. This year, I think we're looking at writing more like 40. Okay. However, there are some school districts that are kind of at the front of the line,
043including Southern North County School District. So, we're writing that, but I can tell you we're a couple of discussions away of knowing what some of those scopes are that we're going to write the grant for and then go ask for that money. Now, what we're trying to figure out is depending on who got money, like which reps and senators got their areas money last year, how does that go over? But the reality of it is we have to ask for things that qualify money for things that qualify. And these great greatest needs projects that not just these, but the other ones that kind of follow are qualifiers for what the grant would be used for. And then we go out with advoc with advocacy because the folks that are asking are going to be the
044ones that get money. The other part of the grants that are important is that the grants we write scopes that are scalable. So for example, if we wrote a scope that said we're going to replace um HVAC units in the classrooms at the middle school, that was something that we were talking about. We could ask for 50 of them and if they only give us the money to do 10, we only have to do 10. So again, there are things that we know to do to make that scalable. Also because we have everything in my site my site IQ that's happening with the Beers Hoffman data to be reviewed with the district. The grant reviewers love seeing that because all this came about because the state wants to know how much deferred maintenance there are
045in school districts and so when they start to see an enumeration like we give them it makes it easier for them to give us money. So >> the other issue is we we also have lobbyists. We have we have dedicated lobbyists on our staff >> that are very well connected um politically and they they do a great job of identifying the representatives um telling the the story. Grant writing is all about telling a story about why why you really need that. >> Um and to Damian's point with the Mikeet IQ, you have all that that planning is all there that they love to see. So you've you you've put some thought into you know your your application. >> Yeah. So in its simplest form, we're thinking about 40. >> It's looking like 40, but you
046people ask for different levels. Right now we're planning on doing everything that's needed for the grant application for your district. >> Thank you. >> Um can you pull up the uh Giza pricing pricing under review slide? So, you'd mentioned that um you're still working on getting some of these costs down, maybe providing some options. Uh I just wanted to ask um is there any uh any possibility for these prices to rise after Okay, so these are the these >> you will not see a higher number than that 6948 >> 695, >> right? And then that's that's the other thing I wanted to make sure was clarified. I think you were mentioning this, but just for anybody who's maybe watching the meeting, the 7 million in the motion refers to that that not the bottom bottom
047line, but the the subtotal bottom line. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Correct. Correct. Yeah. So, the subtotal. Okay. Um, >> yeah, that was that was helpful that that was explained, but I just wanted to make sure it was clearly tied to the motion there that not to exceed 7 million. Thank you. >> Yes. >> Um, so I have a couple questions. Um, one the boilers that are being speced off of this, what efficiency are they? I'm going to see if I have that in schedule A. They are I don't have the efficient. Do you remember if we were at 95? >> It's an acceptable that you can get it later. >> Yeah, it it's it it's relatively high. I can't tell you if it's 95 or 98, but I think that we're talking that >> one
048of one of the things they are looking at uh is different manufacturers and things and that's one of the items that could be a potential savings, you know. So I know you know looking at alternative um >> yeah that's direct impact >> table as well. >> Yeah. So and one of the things that we're looking at is the rooftop units at Shrewsbury alternate manufacturer. What we're doing right now is going through the process of confirming warranty it and it's it's one brand versus the the other that was originally uh basis of design. But the the deduct and and you could see that in in the contract that's in front of you, that reduction in cost is $70,000. So, we'll look at that with the administration and if that makes sense to bear out, then you'll
049see that number go down by $70,000. >> And that's a a decrease in efficiency that >> No, we we wouldn't necessarily take different rooftops for a decrease in in efficiency. It's just a different brand. >> Different manufactur is um it's a different manufacturer that's >> a little a little bit better priced for really the same thing. >> Okay. >> So, but what we're doing is we're making sure that other school districts in the area that are using those are having success. we already know that the folks that um are likely to do the installation can service that and that your current service contractors can service that particular brand. So, we're just going through that diligence to make sure that we're selecting or recommending the right thing rather than recommend it tonight. We wanted to get
050a little bit more information, but we'll be able to report back to you on that in November when we see you. >> Okay. And maybe it maybe at the same time we could talk about the uh efficiency on the heating side of that and then also the sear rating of >> Yep. >> of the >> In fact, I I'll work on that for Mr. Buffington tomorrow so he can get some information out to you. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I apologize for not having that figure. >> There's still time. There is [Applause] Do we have other questions? >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you very much, gentlemen. >> Okay, moving on to 5.02. I have a motion to approve the initial uh guaranteed energy saving act agreement with Reynolds Energy Service Incorporated doing business
051as site logic uh energy services incorporated for the 2026 greatest needs projects mechanical and roofing work at Shrewsbury Elementary School, Southern Elementary School and Southern Middle School. A lump sum cost not to exceed $7 million subject to final review by administration and the district solicitator solicitor. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Do we have any discussion? Hearing none. Motion passes. >> Oh, we need any we need a vote. >> You want to you want to do a roll call vote? No, just just we have to >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Any naser abstensions? >> Hearing none. >> Thank you, President. No problem. >> All right, moving on to 5.03 transfer from the general fund to the capital reserve fund. I have a motion to approve a $7,360,000 transfer from the uh from the
052general fund to the capital reserve fund to fund the guaranteed energy saving act project energy services act project fund balance from the general fund fund reserve for capital projects will be used for the transfer. Do I have a second? >> Second. Do we have any discussion in that matter? Any nays or abstensions? Hearing none, motion passes. Do we have any other items of business? I do not. Any new business? Does anyone have any new business they would like to bring forward to it? >> Can I just add one thing? Do you mind? Um, so I just wanted to recommend that uh we they talked about my site IQ um and upcoming projects. So I would recommend that uh we have a buildings and grounds committee meeting um probably in the January or February time frame
053um to look at that next greatest needs project. Um and I know you're probably sick of hearing me say this, but remember we always want to make sure that we um have enough time to plan our projects so that we can use those summers. So, we want to make we want to start on the summer of 2027 now um to see what projects we can do during that time and what's most needed. So, I just wanted to point that out and we'll give you more information on that, but to make sure everybody was on the same page. >> Okay. Thank you, Sue. 7.01 adjournment under the meeting. >> I'd like to make a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Second. Any Asia sentence?