001get started. It is June 3rd, 2025. This is our 5:00 p.m. board meeting. We're going to begin by indicating who's here. Julie, why don't you start? Julie Jackson, Kim Chandler, Connie Burgess, Chris Win, Karen Winder, Clark Nelson, Todd Hopper, Ben Horsesley, and Nicole McDerman. We're going to turn the time over to Justin and Chris to give us our update. Take it away. Thank you, Granite School District Board and District Leadership. We will I've been told we'll do a quick version through here talking about some some dates and then focus on some of the change order. That's my understanding. Okay. So, stop me if I go too fast and you want to talk back up and talk about projects. But generally speaking, um we um have our big projects started abatement in multiple places. Uh Brock
002Bank and Magna L are two of our hot buttons this summer. As you all know, we've uh Micah Murphy and her team have been rock stars. Moved out uh the schools last week. I think Wednesday she had Brock Bank moved out entirely and I think Friday Magna was moved out entirely. Uh huge kudos to her team and and and uh and her and Rex. Um and abatement starts started uh getting all my dates confused but started last week goes for a couple of weeks and then construction was working alongside as we can get in there and when things get cleaned and clearances are given. So those are two hot button items. Um we're pushing hard on on it's the same contractor on both of those um uh at uh at Brock Bank and Magna. Other
003projects we've got flooring going on at at Cotland High School. the it's actually the third phase, but it's the second year. We we jumped phase two and phase three around. Uh Hunter. Hey, Justin. Yes, ma'am. When does that one start? Which um we have a baitment that starts I'm 99% sure it's sitting in front of you to approve. And then once that's approved, they start on the 9th and we can start flooring on the 19th. There has to be a 10-day off gas period between the last uh abatement. And so there's a 10-day window. So the construction will start the 19th of June. The the uh abatement starts the 9th of June pending board approval. So there's a cuz I know there's summer groups that meet there. Is it just not happening in that area
004or what? Correct. We have worked with the administration and others to make sure that we aren't uh blocking somebody off and if and if so we've got another way around it. And part of that was reason why we jumped phases two and three around. We're doing phase three this year and phase two next year was for that as well. So I think we're I think we're in good hands. Last I've heard, we've been working with the Ames principal as well because it has to do with their area and we've worked we're working on that. So, Okay. Thank you. Does that help? Yeah. So, uh Hunter Junior High, I've uh it says on here 70% remodel complete. Um I was told on Monday yesterday that basically everything but the AV is done and they're they've done
005a really good job there. That's internal. Our own GSD folks, Troy Anderson and his group have done a great job of remodeling uh Hunter Jr. So, that's a great uh kudos to them. Uh Silver Hills, the partition door is is complete. Uh the track at Hunter High is 97% complete. We're waiting on the last components of the uh 88 bleachers that will go in there. So, we're wrapping that up this summer. Uh the preschool courtyard is within a rail or two of being done, so we're real close there. I mentioned the Magna and Brock Bank. Taylorville High Auditorium house lighting project uh begins um has already began already begun and is ongoing this summer. Spring Lane abatement is I will be we'll be done in the next week. Uh and then it's a matter of
006the demolition and taking the building down. Um just got a call this afternoon from uh one of the city people wanting to know when they can get their trusses. They want to make a pavilion out of that or whatever. And so we're working on that. But that's going really well. transportation fueling station is uh set to be complete here in the next few weeks. They they've added the fuel to the tanks. The asphalt and concrete are down. There's just a few things to button up there. And then they move to sorry that was maintenance and they moved to transportation, replace those tanks. So those are two big projects that the state is uh required that we got we get done and we've updated those. So that's a huge a huge piece to have behind us.
007There's a small portion of Churchill Jr.'s roof that didn't get finished last summer. It has some to do with some drainage. So, we're going to go back in and just open that up a little bit, get the drainage taken care of. So, that's all buttoned up. That will help and happen. I think there's a change order uh pending your approval tonight on that. Uh Hunter High site drainage starts this week. Um there's a there's a little um issue that seems like we have a flood at Hunter every August and we're trying to get that fixed so that doesn't happen again. So, that project kicks off here um this week. And then um Valley Crest. I believe we have some photos of Valley Crest. Here we go. Uh you can see the new office there on
008the left and the bathroom behind. It's a sick room and and restroom um for the students there. So Valley Crest is about to move over to the new portion and then we'll go in and remodel the um what was the office and turned into itinerant spaces. So that will be done by the end of uh July, just in time for the teacher when they come back in August. We have a bunch of carbon monoxide projects we're getting out to bid. Those are required by the state that all of our schools have a detector that lets you know if we have um high levels of hazardous material and or gas in our building. So, we're wrapping up those up as well as a few remaining HVAC uh projects that um are still we're still working to
009get those buttoned up. Those are the big ones. I don't know if there's questions before I turn over to Chris uh to talk about Skyler and Cyprus, but any of those have anybody have questions on any of those projects? Okay. Thank you. Good evening, members of the board. uh and staff. Uh just a very quick o uh overview of what we have going on Cypress. We are we're scheduled to be completed at the end of the month. So we have a massive massive amount of work going on there right now in all of the areas throughout the building. As you can see from the list, that only is a very general overview. Um, Westland has a large workforce out on site and we've been working closely with the contractor and architect teams to uh ensure
010that we're going to be hitting there. Don uh Jones, the project manager for the school district, has been managing the furniture uh and other items of coordination with the school um with the existing Cypress High School staff. And there's a lot going on right now. And uh I think that probably suffices to say what's going on right now. Um there are some lovely pictures of a nearly complete school from the outside. The tennis courts, the sports facilities, the parking lots. Um the athletic facilities are are looking pretty amazing right now. And uh I'm sure everyone's very eager to get in to the school later on this summer. Um there's still a considerable amount of work going on as you can see from the photos. The culinary arts equipment, the kitchen area, the uh large public
011gathering area and everything are it's hard to say where we're done and almost where we're still storing stuff for for other areas. and all the furniture showing up is a massive massive part of this uh process right now. So I have a question. So there's a lot of rumors in my community that we won't be able to start on the starting date of school and I always right. So there I've heard anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months of online school because we won't be done. So, can we just kind of get a tentative move move in date or do we have that? We're we're moving in before school starts and we'll be operating. Yeah. Okay. I just wanted that on record. We will be moving in before school starts. Thank you. Do you have
012a date of when we take possession of the property? Yeah, right now it's the end of June. Um, we have I was just going to say we have every day we have shipments of furniture and equipment arriving. So, we that's just from stuff we purchased, not from the existing facility that needs to come up. As Chris said last month, the migration hasn't happened yet, but um I believe it's the 28th of June. We're working with Westland and uh we want to make sure that uh there are a few changes. Some of those have some days, but right now I believe it's the 28th. I could be off by a day there, but that's Sorry, Luke. But that's the date uh of when we can take occupancy pending. Um, we have to have the a few
013things taken care of. A health inspection, uh, elevator, fire marshall. Yeah, the elevators, things like that. So, in the next few weeks, so we are pushing. They're running as fast they can. Um, I don't know where that rumor started. I'm sorry to hear that. I had not heard that, but no, we have no intention of doing anything online. Uh, it's probably the same people who said it last year at Skyline, right? Probably. So, thank you for reassuring my community that this is and our and this is happening and happening right on time. Yeah, I'm I have all the confidence in the world in you guys because I've seen the progress and um but just wanted to make sure it's out there. We have a an actual move in day. I I believe communications just filmed
014a video update on Friday that we can send out with an update to the community and push out on social media to help address that. Perfect. Thank you. And as you as you know, there will be things that we're always chasing and wrapping up, but we will not uh stop learning and we will not put anybody in in harm's way. We'll make sure it's safe. The state requires that as well. So, yeah, we there's a lot to do, but it's obtainable. Thank you. I I will say this just uh for teachers learning from what happened at Skyline is that, you know, sometimes, especially with the electronics, you don't know it's not working until everybody's in there trying to use it. And so I just would encourage teachers to be understanding that like those first few
015weeks, the electronic system is a little troubleshooting. So just be if you're prepared for it, if you know it's coming, I think you're going to or a lot of troubleshooting or a lot of trouble. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for being honest. Well, I mean, let let's just be frank about it. And you know, the district staff last year per performed a heroic level lift in in working on that and making sure that's done. And they've got another huge lift this year. And and I'm not joking. It it is it's one thing when we're moving things from the academic building into the auditorium building and then from the auditorium building into this. But at Cypress, we are literally moving miles away. Even even a couple miles. It's all got to get on a truck and it's all
016got to get moved over and it's all got to get unloaded. And Weson's working really hard right now to get the three elevators completed because it will take all three elevators to get everything to multiple levels of of classroom buildings. We're it's a half a million square feet plus. So their theme this year was lifting the anchor. So literally they're lifting an anchor from that school. If they could leave all their ballast and their anchors at home, that would be helpful. That would be great. That's heavy weight, right? Thank you so much. I'd like to make sure we're giving um those Cypress teachers some of their professional de development days to move in. Right. We've not had that discussion, but we'll work with the community and those teachers as necessary because we want to make
017sure that they get plenty of um time. I believe we did that at Skyline that they had a day. So, we we got to really make sure that they know that we're going to take care of them. Um, and then the other question I had is are are teams going to be able to start their August training on the new fields or how's that going to look? Sorry. Sorry. The slide keeps Yes, fields we should not have a problem with at all. Um, we could be able to get and use the fields. It's just not going to be the start of June. And so we've had a conversation with some of those camps that happen right now, basketball and volleyball. Maybe they're going to continue to have those at the old gym, the existing gym.
018and it July 1 if we can move everything over that'd be great. That's what we'll do. And if they want to make the switch and have the rest of the camp at the new gym, great. If they want to finish at the old gym, you know, that's up to them. But for the seasons, yes. Great. And and we've seen that already that it's been that Yeah. This is at the old main gym, the basketball camp has already started cuz they need us get going on some certain things or summer camps for our students, you know, the kids. So yeah, the aux gym is off limits because it it means storage. It's full of stuff. It's the main gym. Rock bank is full of Yes, wherever they can find a space right now. I didn't touch
019the computer. I just moved the microphone. Ashley. Okay, that's not better. He was fixing it. It is. Okay, maybe we'll do that. Okay, if you'll stand if you just stand right there. It's like when we were all kids, you know, and you your dad made you move the antenna around. We're all old enough, right? Next slide. Next slide, please. So, the audio enhancement, the auditorium, actually, uh what you're not seeing right now is all the auditorium seating going in right now. So, that's been the activity the last couple days, which is really uh neat to see. And as you I mean, it it it is it is a massive campus. I don't know what else to say. I I've worked on colleges that have smaller campuses than this. So, this is a this is a
020a huge lift. and what Westland is working diligently in order to complete the things. So part of the two changes that we have in front of you is some of this some of these things that we've been discussing for some time. Uh for example, the first change we have is the HDMI changes. So this is an actually an equalization of changes we made last fall uh when the teachers were moving in to the academic building is that um I wasn't part of the design process but basically there was two teacher stations set up in each classroom but however only one of them had HDMI and other electronic capabilities. one was basically a main location and the other one what I would describe as an auxiliary location at best but it didn't have the same capability
021and so at Skyline last fall we made some and that's was part of that big lift by the district and so this is making sure that we have the same facility um and this has actually been something we've been working on since last fall just to make sure one we were doing it correctly uh we met with considerable amount of district staff had some interview with um the Cypress staff to make sure that we were getting buy in and doing this right. And that's why it's it's a significant it's a significant change, but it's basically increasing full capability for the teaching staff to run the classroom um in a manner that gives them flexibility and it wasn't built in the into the original design. Is there is do we not have wireless capability? Why? Why
022do we feel like we have to have HDMI instead of just wireless? I wish Rick Anthony was here. Uh there was several meetings to discuss this and I I believe our staff believes that wireless is good to a point, but if everybody is on, they they didn't feel comfortable with everything. I sure hope I'm not misquing. That's not that's not my area of expertise. I think that's the gist the gist of the conversation was from a capacity standpoint from everybody using it. he felt like that that this was what the capability within the band bandwidth of the equipment I think is this has been going for a while back and forth um se months maybe even a year and um we ultimately ended up we're told we're moving this direction so that's what we're putting
023in um I I would dare say that the vast majority if not almost 80% of our hardware is still run using hardwire connections, HDMI and network connections. We don't have nearly the wireless hotspot capacity uh to be able to take on all those pieces at this point in time. We're just we just don't have the infrastructure built in and the stability for that uh to rely on that. Are there any question other questions regarding this change? So the second change at Cyprus relates to one of the differences between the two facilities. Um for those of you who were able to be on the tour or even some of the other conversations we had. So, one capability that is at Cyprus is that the the back half of the auditorium or it's 40% or something like
024that actually is a retractable seating to have a large floor space within the auditorium to make it more flexible in terms of indoor space that might be usable for drill team practice or band practice or any of those other things. And so what happens is is you have that large retractable thing uh the large retractable set of seats and what it does is it creates a fall condition when those seats are completely retracted up at the top. Now, the architect was explaining to me that, you know, originally, um, they didn't put that railing and other things up there because of the way that the mezzanine had been designed. But, you know, through the code review with the district personnel and stuff, it was felt the safest condition was to make sure that when that was
025retracted that that there was a railing to prevent uh accidental falls. and actually um very similar systems like you might see in a gymnasium where you have a railing around the top where you have retractable seats to try to prot protect people and keep people safe. And um this is also a design that we went through probably a half a dozen iterations and reduced the cost significantly from what originally was being proposed by the design team. And this is a design that you know we feel like we need from a code standpoint from and from a life safety standpoint. But uh this was the most economical version of that I would point out too and this design has been inception for several years but this is the first time we've done retractable seating at the
026back of an auditorium to free up space and it's kind of a unique solution and well I would consider this design error um on the front end and there is a process and procedure by which we address that with our design team and go back after the project is complete Um, since we've never done this before, it's on the list. Yeah. Do you mind if I follow up on that? We do uh an internal audit and uh we track all of our changes and assign the responsibility where that change is contribut who who or what it's contributed to. If it's owner requested and and the district is our own worst enemy, many times we're the ones making the changes, but if it's design or if it's unforeseen, we make that change. And then we go
027back to our designer at the end of the day and we talk about um their responsibility in these changes and and come to some agreement about what they need to help us cover some costs there. So we've had those discussions already. We will continue to have those discussions. We wait until the very end of the job. So we have everything all put together and then we uh and then we do have that final discussion with with them on on that. I will say I did look at the numbers before I ran down here and with these two change orders, if in fact they're approved by by you as the board, um that puts us at 2.1 four or five uh% uh change order cost on a project. No one wants to see $120,000 change order,
028but on a project as big as ours, if we can stay at 2% or maybe a teeny bit above, I think that's doing a great job. the state auditor was recently in and and shared their findings. You probably saw the stories on the news. Um I called him and asked him to give us some information about granite, how we are doing, what can we improve on, and what are we doing well? And he said one of the things that we do really well, uh maybe even more so than some other districts is that we really scrutinize and minimize our change orders. Thanks to you all and and to our team, MDK and and our designers and our contractors, we work to minimize find the cheapest possible solution to to cut keep the cost down while
029not cheaping the school or making it so it's not durable and won't last 80 or 90 years. And so anyway, it was a nice kudo from the state auditor to say that we do a good job of keeping those those costs as low as we can even though we're seeing some of these kind of ugly numbers. Are there any questions related to these two changes before we move to Skyline? Okay. So, Skyline projects um the academic phase, we are at the tail end of the one-year warranty on the academic and there's a significant amount of effort being put into it right now to address the issues that were raised during school that we couldn't address during school. So, that's what's uh going on this summer. And then the performing arts building a lot of we
030are now moving into a lot of the interior work uh building the building H the social studies portion of the academic wing is progressing quite a bit ahead but even the two I'll say the two classroom wings on either side we have the blackbox theater on one side we have coral and band on the other side are starting to move into the rough in and frame out stages and you can see the front of The auditorium is starting to get uh all the steel done to get ready for glass on the front of the auditorium and it's really starting to look like a building. Uh the quite a bit of significant work will go on this summer regarding the site work both to the west and east of the pro uh projects in preparation for
031the new parking lots and some of the other things that will be going in in preparation for the old auditorium which will be uh taken down at the well at actually beginning of next year in January um after the rest of the abatement is performed on that as you can see this is some of the inside of those areas I was just talking about with the interior concrete all the subfloor plumbing is in and you can see quite a bit of the framing is done and in preparation for the auditorium uh seating areas and stuff the uh once again like I said the metal framing for the interior partitions for for those of you who who have been in the Cypress area all of the different uh the dressing areas, the different small rooms, the
032bathrooms, and all those areas are all being framed out right now within the auditorium. Uh, all of our air handlers except for our famous outside air handler are all being worked on uh simultaneously. So, all all of the boxes have been in um last month and now all of the fan units and electrical work and plumbing work are being going on on those. Um, we have had numerous loads of drywall and different things along those lines. As you can see, we're actually painting in the building H area. And then, as I indicated, there is a considerable amount of sight work. The underground um, and getting ready for to turn those all into parking lots. You could start to see the parking lot start to start to take shape. Uh, that will be east of that
033area. And I know everyone on site cannot be more excited to have more parking or anybody who tries to drive on Virginia. Um, so you can see our wonderful big S and uh the painting of the exterior uh tilt panels that the tilt panels are actually in exceptional shape and especially we were rather fortunate as I mentioned before in terms of weather. Um, you know, pouring concrete panels in the winter is always a little worrisome but uh they've been exceptional the quality on them. So, uh, the change I have before you for Skyline relates to requirements from the city of Mil Creek. Um, they originally reviewed the drawings, I believe, three and a half years ago when they were submitted for somewhere in that that time frame. And at the time um certain portions of
034the sidewalk and front uh all the basically there's a requirement that anytime you put in a new driveway you're doing x amount of sidewalk repair on each side of it. As we were getting ready to do that and that's something we're doing this summer. Um there were some further discussions with Mil Creek about other areas along the frontage that don't meet uh pedestrian safety or ADA requirements and uh are meeting with Mil Creek on site. They were quick to point out some ordinances and codes that require that in the within the city district that uh certain areas would need to be replaced as part of our project and these concerns were not addressed uh originally. So um you know there are this is Mil Creek's fault. Is that what you're telling us? I didn't say
035fault. I Mil Creek's requirements. All city have codes. Nicole, just kidding. Also, I'm not stepping in the middle of that. Also, Mil Creek has been such an incredible partner to us. She's just poking at me and they have no Mil Creek's a great city. Yeah, we've appreciated them all. We love them. Particularly on the on the west end of the project, there's a significant amount of sidewalk that doesn't meet code. And uh this is replacing the frontage basically along most of the entire frontage along uh Upland Drive. So this wasn't included in the original scope and was not uh seen or observed by the city staff at during the pering process. Right. So regardless, we're still obligated under the code for this this piece of the project. So we were going to have to pay
036this piece regardless. just it would have been nice if we had caught it or they had caught it at the front end. And is that fair to say? And we had roughly half of the sidewalk was in the scope. It was this other half that we thought could we could get by and after further examination and we met with John Miller. It was great to come out. We we talked, walked it. We determined it was determined that it would be best if it was removed. I had hoped they would volunteer to help uh partner on that, but uh I think they're not. So that's why you have a ultimately this falls to the owner. and that's us in this particular case. I think that's accurate on on all details. It's the right thing to do.
037Um Chris, I wonder if you would just um update the board on what the next year is going to look like for students and teachers. Um the movement, you know, how there's going to be like the closure of the theater and can you just make sure I want them to understand what's happening there. Okay. What I'm asking? Well, I'll I'll give it a shot and then you tell me if I covered all the bases. So, going on this summer, there is some portions of the old auditorium that will be abated. We're trying to speed up the process to where when Christmas time comes, that abatement process goes quickly so that old auditorium goes down quickly. But basically this fall will be the last season in that old auditorium building. And right now what's going on
038this summer is quite a bit of sight work and all the underground utilities and drainage because many of these drainage areas actually run right through where that old auditorium is and connecting to the drainages that are on the far side. So basically the rest of this summer we will continue with the auditorium building and the academic wing H's I and J and then all of that site work will be a cons a in considerable portion of that site work will be done this this fall. The auditorium goes down in January at the end of January following the abatement. those very large panels that are on the outside, those um exposed aggregate panels, I think, is probably the right term to call them. There there's a specific term for those lovely 60s chip panels. Um but
039they are they are massive and they are completely coated with asbestous. And so those panels have to be taken down one at a time. And so by the end of January, the rest of the abatement uh the rest of the demolition of the old auditorium will go down. Then um so that's going to push the access for the front entryway of the academic wing um basically to the very basically we're using the sidewalk around the football field on the on the south end. Uh we're actually going to be putting in an ADA access ramp for people to go around that area to access the academic uh portion of the project. And May, you know, end end of May the the phys most of the physical work on the auditorium building and those academic wings will
040be completed. The last unit, AH12, which is sitting outside, will be taken down and installed, reinstalled inside of the building. And then, uh, while all this is going on, the new long front entrance way, which goes to Virginia, will be constructed and that will be completed August, September, in the fall, I believe. And then the rest of the landscaping along those lines. And then everyone will be moving into those portions and then the portable buildings out back will will go on their merry way to wherever their next destination is. Does that adequately cover so what that means for like students and teachers is that their final concerts etc will happen in December this year. They'll tear down the building. The all of the performing arts and maybe a couple of other classes I believe will
041then at that point be displaced. They will they'll neither have the old gym auditorium nor the new one. So they will go to portables for 6 months, right? Or for the last semester, correct? And um until they can get moved back in a year from So where will they be performing? They they won't be performing. Oh, well the their spring will be at Wasatch. Is that right? We decided I was going to say yeah, there's conversation either Wasatch or location, but but they they're moving all their major production up to December. So they'll have like instead of having a huge endofear concert in spring, they're planning on doing that in December and making it a huge deal. So, okay. We for sure will enable them to have more performances if they want. We'll we'll figure
042that out whether it's at the junior high or school. That's part of their grades is that they have to have performances. You're like, "No, they will be." The real hardship is I remember said that. There's a lot of talk of doing that at Los Angeles. Okay. The real hardship is having those really large performing arts classes not in a space that accommodates them well. Yeah. Not to mention that whatever space they take, another teacher is in right now and so they have to be displaced. So it'll be a little bit of a a juggle for a few few months. The bathroom's great. Anyway, are there any other Did Did I Was there anything else I missed? Okay, if there's not any further questions, thank you. [Music] All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Um, we do not
043have a need for an executive session. So, we are going to go ahead and adjourn for dinner.