[0:02] There you go. Perfect.
[0:04] » I am now
[0:09] a dull moment with these.
[0:17] » All right. Um,
[0:22] » Susan, do you want to kick us
[0:24] officially?
[0:26] » Yes.
[0:28] Okay. Good evening everybody. Welcome to
[0:30] the River High School building meeting
[0:33] committee number 94 I think. Or should
[0:36] this be 95?
[0:38] 94.
[0:40] Today is Wednesday, August 26, 2026 and
[0:44] the time is 5:53 p.m. Linda, roll call,
[0:49] please.
[0:50] » I will do roll call. Mike Bardi
[0:53] » Here.
[0:55] » Stacy Rizzo here.
[0:58] Susan Graalisi
[0:59] » Here.
[1:01] » Dr. Kelly
[1:02] » Here.
[1:03] » Carl Spenson
[1:05] » Here.
[1:08] » Uh Steve Chinosi
[1:14] » Here.
[1:15] » Did I get that last name right? Steve,
[1:18] » It's Kenosi like Keianti.
[1:21] » Kenosi. Thank you. Duly noted. I will
[1:23] get it right the next time. Um Rich
[1:25] Visque. here.
[1:29] » Don Surmela
[1:32] absent. Nick Rystrom
[1:34] » Here.
[1:37] » Mayor Keith
[1:41] not here.
[1:43] Tom Skarowski
[1:45] » 5.
[1:46] » I'm here.
[1:48] » Thank you. John Stomattopolis.
[1:51] » I'm I'm here as well.
[1:53] » Thank you.
[1:55] Anthony Coglandro
[1:57] » Here.
[1:58] » Thank you. Don Martelli
[2:03] absent.
[2:05] Joshua Miranda
[2:07] » Here.
[2:09] » Chris Camela
[2:13] absent. Okay, we do have enough for a
[2:16] quorum. So, thank you everyone for your
[2:19] patience.
[2:21] Next meeting will be a completely
[2:25] different setup.
[2:28] Um we have um first off, apologies.
[2:33] Brian Denon is not here to attend the
[2:36] meeting today. He is caught up in a
[2:39] extended doctor's appointment
[2:42] uh that was not planned. So, uh, we're
[2:44] going to jump right into our agenda for
[2:47] today's meeting, which first off, we
[2:50] have approval of meeting minutes. Um,
[2:53] and as the packet that was sent out
[2:56] yesterday indicated, we're actually
[2:58] recapping meeting minutes from both June
[3:01] 17th and the July 15th meeting. And we
[3:04] will do two separate votes for these
[3:07] meetings. So we will start with an
[3:09] approval of meeting minutes from June
[3:12] 17th if there were no comments on the
[3:16] minutes.
[3:17] » Motion to approve.
[3:19] » Second.
[3:23] » Motion made by Stacy, second by Mike
[3:27] Bardi for roll call. Mike Bardi.
[3:30] » Yes.
[3:31] » Stacy Rizzo.
[3:33] » Yes.
[3:34] » Susan Graalisi. I was absent in that
[3:37] meeting, so I'm going to abstain from
[3:38] voting.
[3:40] » Thank you. Dr. Kelly,
[3:42] » Yes.
[3:43] » Carl Spenson,
[3:45] » Yes.
[3:47] » Steve Kenosi,
[3:49] » Absent as well abstained.
[3:52] » Thank you.
[3:54] » Rich Visque.
[3:55] » Yes.
[3:57] » Nick Rystrom.
[3:59] » Yes.
[4:01] » Tom Skarowski.
[4:03] » Yes.
[4:05] John Stematopoulos.
[4:06] » Yes.
[4:09] » Anthony Cogleandro.
[4:14] » Thank you, Joshua Miranda.
[4:17] » Yes.
[4:19] » Okay, great. Thank you. Next up, we have
[4:23] the July 15th meeting minutes. Um,
[4:28] looking for a motion to approve if there
[4:30] were no questions or comments on the
[4:32] meeting minutes as sent.
[4:35] » Motion to approve.
[4:39] » Second.
[4:42] » Thank you.
[4:44] Roll call. Mike Bardi.
[4:46] » I'm abstaining, Linda. I wasn't there at
[4:48] the July meeting.
[4:49] » Perfect. Thank you. Stacy Rizzo.
[4:52] » Yes.
[4:54] » Susan Graalisi.
[4:56] » Yes.
[4:57] Dr. Kelly,
[4:58] » Yes.
[5:00] » Carl Spenson,
[5:01] » Yes.
[5:03] » Steve Kenosi.
[5:07] » Absent. Abstain.
[5:09] » Thank you. Rich Visque.
[5:11] » Yes.
[5:13] » Nick Rystrom.
[5:15] » Yes.
[5:16] » Tom Scarowski.
[5:25] Looks like we lost Tom.
[5:29] Let me see who's in the waiting room.
[5:33] It's Claudia. Okay, looks like we lost
[5:38] Tom. So, um I'll come back to that. John
[5:42] Stematopoulos.
[5:44] » Yes.
[5:46] » Anthony Kaggleandro.
[5:48] » Yes.
[5:50] » Joshua Miranda.
[5:52] » Yes.
[5:54] Thank you. Let me just see who's Tom is
[5:58] coming back into the waiting room. So,
[6:00] I'm going to let him back in.
[6:03] » Tom, we skipped you for the roll call
[6:06] for uh the second set of meeting
[6:09] minutes.
[6:11] » Um, yes.
[6:13] » Thank you very much.
[6:14] » And Linda, I also see that Claudia
[6:16] Koreah joined. I'm not sure if she's
[6:18] stepping in for Mayor Keefe.
[6:24] Hello.
[6:25] » Hi, Claudia.
[6:26] » Hi. Hi. Hello, everyone. Yes, in case
[6:28] he's not joining again, then I am
[6:30] stepping in on his behalf.
[6:32] » Okay. Thank you, Claudia.
[6:35] » Not joined. And we just did um motion
[6:39] and vote for the meeting minutes from
[6:42] the um June 17th meeting and the July
[6:46] 15th meeting.
[6:57] Okay. Uh we will continue through the
[7:00] agenda then. Um the next up we have our
[7:04] um July invoices.
[7:06] » Linda, do you want me to share the
[7:08] screen? Will that make easier?
[7:14] Do you have approval to
[7:19] » Can you Can everyone see it?
[7:21] » Yes.
[7:22] » Yes.
[7:24] » Can see your agenda?
[7:26] » Yep. Do you see invoices now?
[7:29] » Yes. Thank you.
[7:31] » Okay. So, first invoice for approval. as
[7:33] a left field invoice for the
[7:35] construction administration phase in the
[7:38] amount of $185,274.
[7:43] » Motion to approve.
[7:47] » Second.
[7:52] » Thank you. Um roll call for left field
[7:56] invoice. Mike Bardi.
[7:59] » Yes.
[8:00] » Daisy Rizzo.
[8:02] » Yes.
[8:03] Susan Graalisi.
[8:05] » Yes.
[8:06] » Dr. Kelly.
[8:08] » Yes.
[8:09] » Carl Spenson.
[8:10] » Yes.
[8:16] » Yes.
[8:21] » That did not sound like Steve.
[8:24] » Oh, yeah.
[8:25] » I'm sorry, [laughter]
[8:26] » Buddy. It's okay.
[8:29] » I thought you said keep. Sorry.
[8:31] » Yes. Me too. [clears throat]
[8:34] [laughter]
[8:35] » Rich Visque.
[8:36] » Yes.
[8:38] » Nick Rystrom.
[8:40] » Yes.
[8:43] » Claudia. On behalf of Mayor Kef.
[8:45] » Yes.
[8:47] » Thank you.
[8:48] » Thank you.
[8:49] » Tom Skarowski.
[8:51] » Yes.
[8:52] » John Stematopoulos.
[8:54] Yes.
[8:56] » Anthony Kagglandro.
[8:58] » Yes.
[9:00] Joshua Miranda.
[9:02] » Yes.
[9:04] » Thank you everyone.
[9:08] » Next invoice is for Briggs Engineering
[9:10] and Testing. They are the third party
[9:12] testing agency for the project. Their
[9:14] invoice this month is $38,37525.
[9:20] Does anyone have any questions in regard
[9:21] to their invoice?
[9:25] » Motion to approve.
[9:27] » Second.
[9:32] I will do roll call. Mike Picardi.
[9:35] » Yes.
[9:37] » Stacy Rizzo.
[9:38] » Yes.
[9:40] » Susan Graalisi.
[9:41] » Yes.
[9:43] » Dr. Kelly.
[9:44] » Yes.
[9:45] » Carl Spenson.
[9:47] » Yes.
[9:49] » Steve Kenosi.
[9:50] » Yes.
[9:52] » Rich Visque.
[9:53] » Yes.
[9:55] » Nick Rystrom.
[9:56] » Yes.
[9:59] Claudia on behalf of Mayor Keefe.
[10:01] » Yes.
[10:03] » Tom Sarowski.
[10:05] » Yes.
[10:06] » John Stomatopoulos.
[10:08] » Yes.
[10:09] » Anthony Cogle.
[10:11] » Yes.
[10:13] » Joshua Miranda.
[10:14] » Yes.
[10:16] » Thank you. Brian.
[10:19] » Yes. Next up, Perkins Eastman and our
[10:21] consultants. Uh Perkins Eastman for the
[10:23] construction administration phase. uh
[10:25] VHB's traffic study and then GZA who is
[10:29] monitoring the geothermal installation.
[10:32] This month's invoice is for $394,000
[10:36] $477.17.
[10:40] » Motion to approve.
[10:42] » Second.
[10:50] » Roll call. Mike Ricardi.
[10:53] » Yes. Stacy Rizzo.
[10:56] » Yes.
[10:57] » Susan Graalisi.
[10:59] » Yes.
[11:00] » Dr. Kelly.
[11:01] » Yes.
[11:03] » Carl Spenson.
[11:05] » Yes.
[11:06] » Nosy.
[11:08] » Yes.
[11:10] » Rich Visque.
[11:11] » Yes.
[11:13] » Yes.
[11:15] » Dick Rystrom.
[11:17] » Yes.
[11:19] » Claudia on behalf of Mayor Keefe.
[11:21] » Yes.
[11:22] » Tom Skowski. Yes.
[11:25] » John Stematopoulos.
[11:27] » Yes.
[11:28] » Anthony Kagglandro.
[11:30] » Yes.
[11:32] » And Joshua Miranda.
[11:34] » Yes.
[11:35] » Thank you.
[11:38] » Final invoice is for Conigley, which
[11:40] would include their fee, the bonds, the
[11:42] insurance, and then all the trades that
[11:44] are under contract with Conigi. This
[11:46] month's invoice is for 8,276,000.
[11:51] 276,264.98.
[11:55] » Motion to approve.
[11:58] » Second.
[12:02] » Roll call for Conigi's invoice. Mike
[12:04] Mccardi.
[12:06] » Yes.
[12:07] » Stacy Rizzo.
[12:09] » Yes.
[12:10] » Susan Graalisi.
[12:12] » Yes.
[12:13] » Dr. Kelly.
[12:14] » Yes.
[12:15] » Carl Spenson.
[12:18] » Yes.
[12:20] Nosy.
[12:21] » Yep.
[12:22] » Rich Visque.
[12:24] » Yes.
[12:26] » Nick Rystrom.
[12:27] » Yes.
[12:29] » Claudia on behalf of Mayor Keith.
[12:31] » Yes.
[12:33] » Tom Skowski.
[12:35] » Yes.
[12:36] » John Stmatopoulos.
[12:49] John, was that a yes?
[13:01] I'm not sure. I don't see him as muted,
[13:03] but I can't hear him.
[13:11] » We can maybe circle back at the end.
[13:14] » Um, Anthony Aleandro.
[13:16] » Yes.
[13:18] » And Joshua Miranda.
[13:20] » Yes.
[13:22] » And calling back on John Stomatopoulos.
[13:24] You can hear us.
[13:31] Looks like we just lost him.
[13:32] » Yeah.
[13:33] » Talking about me or Rich?
[13:36] » Oh, there he is. Stamatopoulos.
[13:38] » Sorry, my Wi-Fi went out. I'm back. I'm
[13:40] assuming you're waiting for me to say
[13:42] yes. I'm I'm here.
[13:43] » Thank you. All right, thank you very
[13:46] much everyone. That covers invoices.
[13:51] Uh, next up on the agenda, we have um
[13:55] the donor supporter design update.
[14:00] Um, and we're going to turn it over to
[14:04] uh
[14:05] Dr. Kelly and Dawn
[14:09] to talk about this.
[14:12] » Um, sure. Don, do you want to start?
[14:15] » I sure can. Hi everyone. Sorry I'm not
[14:17] on camera, but um on the screen you can
[14:20] see what the design working group
[14:22] collectively agreed uh would be a nice
[14:25] donor wall installation. Details are
[14:28] still forthcoming, but the idea is that
[14:30] there's sort of this um uh implied
[14:35] crashing of a wave. sort of the bubbles
[14:37] that um occur when a wave crashes in the
[14:40] ocean to sort of build on the um the
[14:43] wave concept that the entire building
[14:45] has. And they looked at a couple
[14:48] designs, color schemes, and collectively
[14:51] decided this was uh visually appealing.
[14:54] It's basically the south wall on the
[14:56] upper right. You can see a key plan
[14:57] there. Um it's the south wall of the
[15:00] heart of the school. So the second floor
[15:03] uh which gives it plenty of height and
[15:05] width to um I think it's 60 plus feet
[15:09] and 24 feet high. So visually appealing
[15:14] from across the room. That's quite a big
[15:16] space. You can see it directly across
[15:18] from where one enters and exits the
[15:20] auditorium at the at the um top of the
[15:23] community stairs. And what we decided
[15:27] was it sort of gives an out of the root
[15:30] path for people to not walk by it all
[15:33] the time and um potentially damage it.
[15:36] The details were still working out, but
[15:38] it may be like a third dimension that
[15:40] pops out and has a texture that um
[15:44] supports the color. And again, a lot of
[15:46] this and it built [clears throat] from a
[15:48] concept that we looked at together, but
[15:51] a lot of these circles have um colors
[15:53] and textures related to nature. So, uh
[15:56] our hope is to tie it all back to um
[15:59] Ravier and a lot of the history of
[16:02] Ravier and the beach and textures and
[16:04] colors um that exist in your community.
[16:07] And then on the upper piece where you
[16:09] can see sort of a scale laid out in all
[16:11] the different bubble sizes, uh the group
[16:14] spoke about doing I think it was an 8
[16:16] in, a 12 in and 18 inch with names.
[16:19] These were options. So I've highlighted
[16:21] the chosen options. Um but you know sort
[16:25] of a small medium large option to give
[16:28] donors uh some you know choice and they
[16:32] can they also aren't just color but like
[16:34] I said there'll be a texture within the
[16:36] color that um in theory the donor could
[16:39] choose if they decided they really liked
[16:42] a certain texture and um so this was
[16:45] just sort of first go at a design and a
[16:49] color scheme and a pricing scheme that
[16:52] I'll let Dr. Kelly speak to um but if
[16:56] everyone's in agreement, we'll start to
[16:57] figure out how it actually gets
[16:59] installed, what it needs as far as um uh
[17:03] you know, design within it where like
[17:05] these circles may protrude out an inch
[17:07] or so from the from the wall and then
[17:10] the name would be like on a on a surface
[17:13] that's on the outside. So, we're
[17:15] thinking through it. We have some ideas
[17:17] and the actual uh detail and
[17:19] installation would be forthcoming. So,
[17:22] Dr. Kelly, if you want to speak to sort
[17:24] of the sizing and the the cost. Um,
[17:28] » Sure. I think one of one piece that um
[17:32] the team really thought about is
[17:37] » Sorry, what was that, Don?
[17:38] » I said, did I forget something? By all
[17:40] means. Um,
[17:41] » I No, I don't think that you forgot
[17:43] anything. I was I was just going to say
[17:45] one of the things that the um the team
[17:47] was thinking about was how to uh kind of
[17:50] maintain the themes that we had already
[17:52] done through the design planning
[17:54] process. Um and we liked this particular
[17:58] uh motif because it's dynamic. It
[18:02] doesn't need to be completed before we
[18:04] open the building. Um these bubbles as
[18:07] part of this piece of art um will all be
[18:11] installed. So the artwork is complete
[18:14] and then over the years somebody could
[18:16] say, "Well, I want to buy a largesiz
[18:19] circle for a loved one or a remembrance
[18:22] or because I'm new to the REIT community
[18:25] and we could take that piece down, have
[18:27] it engraved or whatever the process is
[18:30] that this comes out to be, uh, and then
[18:33] put it back up. So, it's it it felt to
[18:35] us like a good option where you didn't
[18:38] people didn't have to decide before the
[18:40] building is finished whether or not they
[18:42] want to engage. Um, this could be
[18:44] something that could uh feed into the
[18:47] high school. I'm going to forget the
[18:48] name of the account, but Rich Gay will
[18:50] remind us um the account that's set up
[18:54] to pay the ongoing cost of the high
[18:55] school um in the years to come because
[18:58] the debt certainly isn't going to be
[18:59] gone as soon as the building opens. Um,
[19:02] and so that was one of the key reasons
[19:04] that we selected this option over some
[19:06] of the other ones that felt a little
[19:07] more like you have to decide now if
[19:10] you're going to be part of this process.
[19:12] Um, and then, uh, the other thing that
[19:16] I'll point out is the the piece of art
[19:18] itself will have all different size
[19:21] circles, but we tried to pick a few that
[19:24] we thought um,
[19:27] PE might be somewhat affordable to
[19:29] people u, but also represent a
[19:31] significant donation um, to the school.
[19:34] And so that's why we went with the three
[19:36] sizes that Don mentioned that are
[19:38] outlined in red there um with those
[19:40] particular prices.
[19:43] And I I'll ask Susan and Stacy who are
[19:45] both part of the team if if they if
[19:47] there's anything else there that we
[19:48] missed.
[19:50] » Um no, I don't believe we we missed
[19:53] anything. Um that was what we came up
[19:55] with. Um we think it's going to be a
[19:56] beautiful piece of artwork and you know
[19:59] years to come like Dr. Kelly said,
[20:02] people can add their name to it. So, we
[20:05] liked it and we hope everybody else
[20:07] feels the same way.
[20:10] » And Ditto, I agree with everything they
[20:12] said. Um, it was hard. She brought a lot
[20:15] of information. Um, but we feel that
[20:19] this best represented our new high
[20:22] school and it being in Re
[20:27] » And I believe it was the stabilization
[20:29] fund that I'm going to. Rich can correct
[20:32] me if I'm incorrect.
[20:35] » Um, yeah, high school building
[20:37] stabilization account.
[20:39] » There you go.
[20:40] » So, comments from anyone with, you know,
[20:45] our design choices.
[20:48] » I'm sorry, you guys might have said it,
[20:50] but where is this being displayed
[20:51] exactly?
[20:53] » It's going to be on the um back wall of
[20:55] the heart of the school. You know, the
[20:57] big open cafeteria space, Rich. So,
[21:00] it'll be on the second floor
[21:01] [clears throat]
[21:02] of um if you walk into the main
[21:05] entrance, what's proposed to be the main
[21:06] entrance, it'll be on um the back wall
[21:09] there.
[21:10] » Oh, okay. Very nice.
[21:12] » I do see Claudia has a question.
[21:15] » Uh yes, uh definitely beautiful piece of
[21:17] art. It's great job. Um question. If
[21:20] people decide to um have their names um
[21:25] based up there, how long are they are
[21:28] those names going to be up or if more
[21:30] people decided to participate of this
[21:33] great idea and there is not enough
[21:35] circles to to put their names on like
[21:38] what's is there a policy that we thought
[21:40] about? Is this is their name going to be
[21:43] there for posted for 10 15 years?
[21:47] Well, the great part of it is once they
[21:49] choose a bubble, their name is there for
[21:52] eternity. Um, and the way this is
[21:55] designed, more bubbles can be added. If
[21:58] we had an overwhelming response, it's a
[22:00] huge space. So, right now there will be
[22:04] a lot and um, you know, the blank ones
[22:06] in between will fill in the artwork
[22:09] until they're filled with names. But um
[22:11] bubbles can be added throughout the
[22:13] course of you know the eternity of the
[22:16] high school.
[22:17] » Got to know because I'm sure there will
[22:18] be people eager to to donate. It's it's
[22:21] beautiful. It's a great cause. So okay,
[22:23] great job. Thank you.
[22:24] » Thank you.
[22:32] See, does
[22:33] » So I don't know if um if we I don't
[22:36] think we need a roll call, but if we
[22:38] could just if anybody's opposed to it,
[22:39] let us know. Otherwise, we'll assume
[22:42] that we have the approval of the school
[22:44] building committee and move forward with
[22:46] the plan.
[22:49] » Yes. If nobody says no, then we will
[22:51] take that as we should go get pricing
[22:53] from the for the project
[22:56] and find a vendor.
[23:01] Brian, we'll draw some details first.
[23:04] » We need to detail it. And yeah, but that
[23:07] was this was kind of step one. Get the
[23:09] design in front of you,
[23:10] » Get a you know, sort of a nod and an
[23:13] approval and then we'll figure out the
[23:14] actual how it, you know, will be um
[23:17] either etched like Dr. Kelly said or um
[23:20] you know, actually put onto the bubble.
[23:22] So, that will be forthcoming. We'll work
[23:24] with the design working group as far as
[23:26] detailing. Um yeah, and then get some
[23:29] pricing on it.
[23:32] » So, how how about just a motion to move
[23:36] forward?
[23:39] » That someone
[23:41] » And then we can just do all in favor,
[23:43] all opposed.
[23:44] » Yep.
[23:44] » Yep.
[23:47] » All in favor? [laughter] I
[23:50] » I
[23:51] » I
[23:54] I
[23:56] » All opposed.
[24:02] All right. Well, we're happy to see that
[24:04] everybody liked, you know, our idea of
[24:06] that. Don came up with quite a few
[24:10] ideas. She had some great stuff. So,
[24:12] » We're happy that everybody agreed upon
[24:14] this.
[24:16] » It will be lovely when it's complete.
[24:18] So, good job everyone.
[24:21] » I look forward to it.
[24:25] » Job.
[24:25] » Okay,
[24:28] I guess we can move on to the next
[24:30] agenda item. Linda,
[24:32] » Thank you. Um, we're going to turn it
[24:35] back over to uh to Brian. Um, we have
[24:40] the monthly report overview um that was
[24:43] also sent out. the rather lengthy
[24:46] documentation.
[24:48] Um Brian is uh presenting here the the
[24:52] one-page budget update. Um and we'll do
[24:55] the onepage schedule update like we
[24:57] usually do. These are all part of the
[24:59] monthly reports that get sent out. Um as
[25:03] well as the uh Conigley's full monthly
[25:07] construction report. Um but Brian, if
[25:09] you want to just show the highlights of
[25:11] them.
[25:11] » Yeah, definitely just to highlight it.
[25:13] Right now we are 20% complete for the
[25:15] project and we have used no owner hard
[25:19] cost contra contingency or GMP CM
[25:23] contingency. So as you can see we are
[25:25] very financially stable and we still any
[25:28] current exposure. We still have
[25:30] earmarked $10,000 which would be for FFN
[25:34] in tech insurance and then $200,000 for
[25:38] miscellaneous costs which would be
[25:40] really to end grid for any transformer
[25:42] and switch cost that comes through and
[25:45] we're still holding $1.5 million for an
[25:49] FF in [snorts] tech overrun if there is
[25:52] one and it's the will of committee that
[25:53] they would like to spend.
[25:58] So, in summary, once again, very
[25:59] financially secure. I don't know if
[26:01] there's any questions. If not, I'm going
[26:03] to go right to the schedule.
[26:08] It is I'm going to go right down to the
[26:10] bottom here. Um, as you can see,
[26:12] substantial completion is 44 days now to
[26:16] the good. Um, so that's meaning that
[26:18] Sigley is doing a great job sequencing
[26:20] all the work on site and we have
[26:23] improved by 44 days off the GMP schedule
[26:26] substantial completion date of 118 2028.
[26:31] Um, it's not a it's not a we don't have
[26:34] a slide to show but also do want to
[26:36] mention that in the monthly report there
[26:38] was a uh concrete cracks were mentioned.
[26:41] We are tracking three concrete tracks in
[26:44] building E on the foundation walls. Uh
[26:47] the project team through Kigley has been
[26:49] monitoring monitoring these for many
[26:51] weeks now. Uh we've brought in many
[26:53] experts just to make sure there are not
[26:56] too many concerns. Um as you can see we
[26:58] just talked about schedule. Schedule is
[27:00] a like a priority here, but quality is
[27:02] even a greater priority. So we do want
[27:04] to make sure everything is on the up and
[27:06] up and there's not going to be any
[27:08] long-term issues with any of the walls.
[27:10] Um to date all of the consultants have
[27:12] said that there's nothing wrong with the
[27:14] soils underneath the foundation meaning
[27:17] the ground improvements are working as
[27:18] designs and are installed correctly. Uh
[27:22] we're still working through
[27:24] um a fix for the cracks in parallel with
[27:27] just while the consultants weighing in
[27:29] on what took place whether that's an
[27:31] unforeseen or means and methods. If you
[27:34] have any questions please let us know.
[27:36] We did just want to give you a high
[27:37] level overview of this and I know the
[27:39] construction team is on as well so we
[27:41] can field any questions.
[27:49] I just have one quick question. Um says
[27:52] ready for the first day of class would
[27:54] be December 1st 2028 and then move in
[27:56] date would be well the first day of
[27:59] school would be January 2nd. What's
[28:02] going to be happen in the interim of
[28:03] that month? What's going on in the
[28:05] building? Is it just like furniture
[28:07] moving in or?
[28:09] » Yes. So, FF and tech uh move in,
[28:12] teachers moving in um over the winter.
[28:14] So, really just
[28:17] if we can't do even better on the
[28:19] schedule and move in over the summer,
[28:20] then we'll just be really completing
[28:23] punch lists, any commissioning that's
[28:25] outstanding, and really just putting a
[28:26] bow on the school.
[28:28] » Okay. Thank you.
[28:37] Okay. Construction update. Darren, did
[28:40] you want to take this one? Sure. Um, so
[28:45] as we covered last month, this is kind
[28:48] of our [clears throat] overall dashboard
[28:51] of the project. Um
[28:54] it's separated into three parts with the
[28:57] financials uh the executive overview and
[29:01] schedule and then uh some quality uh
[29:05] basically technical aspects of the
[29:07] project. Um I'll go back to financials
[29:11] again. As Brian said, [clears throat]
[29:14] the project GMP uh for Conigley and the
[29:19] construction team is 395
[29:22] million and those are hold all those
[29:25] numbers are holding steady as as Brian
[29:29] indicated. Uh it's very uh healthy. the
[29:31] contingencies being protected as you can
[29:34] see down below on uh these uh categories
[29:38] with regards to allowance contingency
[29:40] and and hold statuses. Uh we're in real
[29:43] good shape. Uh I don't have any really
[29:45] anything to add on that front that Brian
[29:48] hadn't already covered. Um
[29:51] the executive [clears throat] overview.
[29:55] Um, again, for those that haven't seen
[29:57] this before, this is just kind of uh
[29:59] outlining specific details of things
[30:02] that we've done throughout the last
[30:04] month. I don't want to belabor that too
[30:07] much because I think that we have a
[30:10] slideshow as we normally do for this,
[30:12] and I'd rather defer to the slideshow to
[30:15] show you our progress over the last uh
[30:19] uh since our last SBC meeting. Uh but
[30:22] for those that haven't seen this, this
[30:24] is a narrative of what has transpired
[30:28] along [clears throat] with what again
[30:29] the schedule milestones correlate to
[30:31] what Brian uh just indicated on the uh
[30:35] onepage schedule summary. So um and then
[30:39] uh again on the right hand side is is uh
[30:43] some technical aspects of tracking in
[30:46] regards to quality. So, uh, submittals
[30:49] where we present, uh, the design team
[30:52] with, uh, all of the components that
[30:55] make up the design scope of the project
[30:58] for their review and approval and where
[31:00] we stand on that process. You know,
[31:03] we're pretty uh, we're still, as Brian
[31:06] indicated, in the early stages at 20
[31:09] percentile. So, we still have a ways to
[31:11] go on that process, but we're making
[31:13] good headway with the design team.
[31:18] Um and then RFIs are simply uh questions
[31:23] that we pose on behalf of our team or
[31:26] the subcontractors
[31:28] to uh get clarification when it comes to
[31:32] uh questions on the design documents. Um
[31:35] and then there's other aspects here.
[31:37] Again, if anyone has any questions on
[31:39] these, please feel free to to ask. Um,
[31:43] but that's kind of the if if I can take
[31:47] over, Brian, unless anybody has any more
[31:49] questions on the dashboard. Um, I could
[31:52] take over and show show the slideshow.
[31:56] Um, so just one moment here while I uh
[32:01] share.
[32:03] » And a majority of the people were out on
[32:05] site too earlier this week or last week.
[32:09] » Exactly. [clears throat]
[32:10] Exactly. Um, so I'm going to go ahead
[32:14] and uh share here. So, um, hopefully
[32:17] everybody can see uh what I have on the
[32:20] screen here.
[32:22] Am I sharing yet?
[32:24] » Yes.
[32:25] » Okay, good. So, [clears throat] this is
[32:28] the current status of the project. Now,
[32:30] I I do want to um toggle over just so
[32:33] you can see the dramatic change for
[32:35] those that maybe haven't been able to
[32:36] drive by the site or been on site. On
[32:40] June 15th, if you can still see my
[32:42] screen, this is what we look like. This
[32:44] is [clears throat] what we uh showed the
[32:46] the the uh team uh the SBC last month.
[32:50] Can you see this? June 15th.
[32:54] » Oh, July 15th, is it?
[32:55] » July 15th. Sorry. July 15th. Yep. and
[32:58] and uh so there's been quite a dramatic
[33:01] change now that we're in uh as of this
[33:04] was as of Monday.
[33:06] Um so again, just to get everybody
[33:09] orientated on the the the project here
[33:13] uh and the school layout. So the large
[33:15] the area in the rear here that I'm
[33:17] toggling around is is the gymnasium. Uh
[33:21] this uh this next area in the foreground
[33:24] is uh what what is going to be the
[33:27] courtyard area between the gymnasium and
[33:30] the actual classroom building. These
[33:34] tall columns you see here are the back
[33:36] side of the uh classroom building over
[33:39] what we call building A and partly
[33:42] building B. Um I'm going to move down
[33:46] here to a little more of the progress.
[33:48] So, uh, as you can see here regarding
[33:52] the f overall foundation progress, uh,
[33:55] again, gymnasium in the back, uh, with
[33:58] the courtyard area. And now you can see
[34:01] the whole frontage of the school is
[34:03] really outlined pretty definitively with
[34:06] all all of our foundation walls across
[34:08] the frontage of the of the school. What
[34:11] we call uh, a buildings A, B, and C. But
[34:14] again, that's one contiguous building.
[34:17] uh we just separate it up for for the
[34:20] sake of um organization and coordination
[34:24] with the subs uh subcontractors. So you
[34:27] will notice that these foundation walls
[34:30] here that you see in the front that is
[34:33] that is the foundation of the garage or
[34:36] I should say the front of the garage.
[34:38] the building itself uh will will uh
[34:43] extend uh four levels above those the
[34:46] top of those walls. So, if you can kind
[34:49] of get a an idea here, if I uh I'll zoom
[34:52] in a little bit, but uh just to get a
[34:55] kind of a sense here, your your building
[34:58] is going to be four four levels higher
[35:01] than the top of these walls. What's what
[35:04] you're seeing in here is are the is the
[35:06] garage sub uh level of uh the first
[35:09] floor. Um so let me get back to regular
[35:15] view here real quick. Um also you can
[35:18] see that we're starting to uh backfill
[35:22] and define what will eventually be the
[35:25] uh main uh entrance for uh delivery drop
[35:31] offs, buses, etc. here in the [snorts]
[35:33] front of the school. This opening right
[35:35] here, which eventually uh will be uh
[35:39] completed with uh foundation walls is uh
[35:43] that will be uh a a main entrance to the
[35:46] school and the cafeteria is is right
[35:50] behind that where this uh large crane is
[35:53] kind of sitting here. Um I'm going to
[35:56] move a little bit further down. You're
[35:58] going to see now, this is uh just some
[36:00] action shots of the gymnasium being uh
[36:03] built, swinging some uh large trusses
[36:07] over the over the top to finish off uh
[36:10] the top of the gymnasium. This was back
[36:13] uh about uh 2 and 1/2 weeks ago.
[36:17] Um so as [clears throat] I'm going to
[36:20] start with a little bit of a time frame
[36:21] here, timeline structural structural
[36:24] steel start. Uh so this was this was on
[36:29] July 27th. Uh again this is the
[36:31] beginning of the erection of the
[36:33] gymnasium which we would say this is
[36:37] about uh let's see 5 days into uh the
[36:43] process of uh erecting uh the suit the
[36:46] structure. Um we'll move on to a little
[36:50] bit further on. Now we're talking about
[36:52] August 10th and the the gym is you know
[36:56] up in place. Um well and as you can see
[37:00] a better a nicer shot of the of of the
[37:04] the foundation walls uh where eventually
[37:07] the auditorium is to the right of the
[37:10] gym. That's where the auditorium and
[37:11] some of the back of house utilities are.
[37:14] And then in the foreground in this area
[37:16] again just to get perspective this would
[37:18] be the cafeteria.
[37:20] Um, [clears throat]
[37:21] and then this area where the crane is
[37:23] sitting is in the garage of above that
[37:27] area and you're going to see in a second
[37:29] is is uh what will be the um courtyard
[37:33] area. If you move, we move down to the
[37:36] next now uh the next week, courtyard
[37:39] steel has been delivered and it's been
[37:41] uh put up and we've defined the backside
[37:44] of what we call building A um with those
[37:48] large columns. Um and that was on August
[37:52] 17th. And then uh as of uh the 24th,
[37:58] this was kind of what you're seeing,
[37:59] which is consistent with what we were
[38:02] talking about on Monday.
[38:04] uh the other beauty shot from the very
[38:06] first pick. Um as you can see we've
[38:10] started the construction of building E
[38:14] which is what we call the auditorium
[38:17] building. So that that is underway. Um
[38:21] and then we're going to move from there
[38:23] over to what we call building D which is
[38:26] the cafeteria building. We also have the
[38:30] the uh that we're going to start
[38:32] erection of building A which is the
[38:35] front the the first third of the
[38:38] classroom building and that that steel
[38:41] is uh in route to be delivered within
[38:43] the next week and a half to two weeks.
[38:48] » [snorts]
[38:48] » Um some other uh aspects uh to note
[38:53] here, you know, uh just to kind of give
[38:55] a perspective here, some entrances to
[38:57] the garage on the what I guess we would
[39:00] call the um west side of the building.
[39:04] Um so you've got an entrance over here
[39:06] and then another entrance on the uh
[39:09] southwestern side of of the building or
[39:14] south. [laughter]
[39:16] There's been conjunction on the
[39:17] orientation of this building because it
[39:19] doesn't sit uh you know northsoutheast
[39:22] west. It's kind of caddyy corner to the
[39:24] directional but um and then just some
[39:28] some other work that's going on along uh
[39:30] the eastern county ditch area there and
[39:33] uh and what we're doing here with uh m
[39:37] that will eventually maintain water uh
[39:40] rainoff and so rainwater flow and so
[39:43] forth. Um, so that that constitutes
[39:48] our little slideshow for uh this month.
[39:51] Are there any questions?
[39:54] » Darren, I just wanted to say thank you
[39:56] to everyone who set up the on-site field
[39:58] trip last week. Um, even though we had
[40:01] to wear hard hats and it was 90 degrees
[40:05] and sneakers and long pants, which is
[40:08] something
[40:09] not in my closet. Um it was it was
[40:13] extremely great to have that opportunity
[40:17] to see the start of a promise that we
[40:20] have made to our students in the city of
[40:23] Rivier. So thank you for all the hard
[40:25] work. Um I know I truly appreciated last
[40:28] week.
[40:30] » Oh that's great to hear. We appreciate
[40:32] the um uh the feedback.
[40:39] next time. Can we do it in the fall when
[40:40] it's cooler and my hair doesn't frizz?
[40:43] » Well, yeah. There's going to be probably
[40:46] some uh other opportunities coming up,
[40:48] but I'll leave that to Dr. Kelly and the
[40:50] team to talk through. Uh
[40:55] » Yeah,
[40:56] » Anytime. I think our next big milestone
[41:00] um that we've started to talk about uh
[41:02] and I think we anticipate around um
[41:06] Novemberish
[41:08] is the topping off ceremony when we put
[41:10] the last beam on the building. So, uh,
[41:14] we'll know better exactly when that's
[41:16] going to be as the construction
[41:18] progresses, but we'll make sure to let
[41:20] the building committee know, um, well in
[41:22] advance, and we will, um, think of a fun
[41:26] activity like inviting the community to
[41:28] come and sign the beam before it goes up
[41:31] and, um, and things like that. So, stay
[41:34] tuned um, for that coming. And um one
[41:39] other thing I wanted to add just while
[41:41] we are here talking about this uh I had
[41:43] asked this question of the team today at
[41:46] our um OAC meeting uh about you know
[41:50] there's been so much in the news lately
[41:51] about the tariffs uh with Canada and
[41:54] since all of our is coming from Canada
[41:58] um I was thinking you know is that going
[42:00] to be a problem for us especially
[42:01] budget-wise and um Darren and Brian and
[42:04] the rest of the team were great to
[42:06] remind me that we had anticipated there
[42:09] would be tariff problems when we were
[42:10] building out the budget. And so, um, we
[42:13] do have we do have an appropriate budget
[42:17] to support the tariffs that we're now
[42:19] hearing about right now, just in case
[42:21] folks in the community are asking our
[42:23] elected officials or others about that.
[42:26] Um, we did budget for it. We're still
[42:28] hopeful that um things will work out and
[42:30] we won't need to use all of that tariff
[42:33] money or perhaps there'll be some
[42:35] rebates from some things that were
[42:37] overturned recently in uh in the US
[42:41] around charging tariffs. Uh if if that
[42:44] happens, if money comes back, it will
[42:46] come back to the project and back to the
[42:48] city. So, um I just want to make sure
[42:51] everybody's aware that we are focused,
[42:53] we are paying attention to these things.
[43:06] Just jumping back to our agenda. Uh,
[43:10] next item that we usually cover is if
[43:13] there's any public comment, name and
[43:16] address for the record. Scanning through
[43:19] now, we know that there are no public
[43:22] on this meeting because I haven't let
[43:24] anybody in. So
[43:27] I'm going to respectfully uh suggest
[43:30] that we move on to the next item which
[43:33] is any other business and if there is
[43:36] none a vote to adjourn this very lovely
[43:40] meeting today and again apologies for
[43:43] the craziness.
[43:45] » Can I just touch one one bit of
[43:47] business? is I know I mentioned to the
[43:49] team that um Steve would be joining us
[43:51] but since this is his first meeting and
[43:53] the first time you've all got to gotten
[43:55] to see him uh just a formal introduction
[43:57] of um Stephano Steve uh Kenosi who is
[44:02] the new deputy principal at River High
[44:05] School uh and will be taking over for um
[44:08] Chris Bowen who has moved on to Chelsea.
[44:11] Welcome Steve.
[44:13] » Welcome.
[44:16] Welcome, Steve. [laughter]
[44:21] » Get ready for all the fun. [laughter]
[44:28] » Preferably not virtually funded.
[44:31] » No.
[44:35] » Okay.
[44:36] » With that, a motion to adjurnn.
[44:38] » Second,
[44:39] » Third,
[44:40] » Fourth.
[44:42] All right, inter folks.
[44:45] » Thank you very much everybody. I
[44:47] appreciate your patience.
[44:48] » Thanks.
[44:49] » Good night.
[44:50] » Thank you.