HomeMy WebLinkAbout1996-06-05-PBC-min.pdf TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
PERMANENT BUILDING COMMITTEE
Minutes of June 5 1996 Meeting in Room 111 , Town Office Building, as
approved December 16, 1997
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Bruckman at 7 47 p m with
other committee members Edson, McCabe, Scanlon and Touart present Also
present were Joseph Dini , new representative of the School Committee as
well as John Moynihan Director of School Buildings Operation
Harrington School plans are not out for roof , including water and ice
shields , flashing and galvanized leaders In addition, the drainage
system needs renewing Old plans for the building were found There is
no venting for walls up to the roof New dormers in the plans will
provide ventilation A vent will be installed in each dormer and its
ridge New metal frames and doors will be supplied, with the old wood
to go out Trim will be cream and doors will highlight entrances with
dark green There is a 30 percent allowance for fixing inoperable
windows , and John Moynihan is to determine which ones ($450 ,000 for
replacing the windows was taken out of the contract)
Harrington was built in 1956 and additions were constructed in 1961 and
1966 Its lies on the largest school site is in town - 27 acres -
except for the high school In the 1960s the heating system was
converted to a hot water system Plans were to convert the hot water
boiler to dual fuel Now there is a deal available with the gas company
for gas to be the primary fuel There also will be two gas hot water
heaters
Architect Doris Cole has been 0 K to work with Plans went out to bid
today, and already four calls have been received Filed subbids for
electrical work are due June 20 , with general contractors ' bids due July
5 The job is supposed to be done by September 1, and the boilers part
of the work by September 15 Asbestos has already been abated, except
possibly the fire box in the furnace Archetype' s estimate of $125 per
window (for replacement) was utterly insufficient The price is closer
to $414 Moynihan explained that he is not using Archetype for job
costing In some instances they even were wrong on square footage
At Diamond Middle School conversion of the industrial arts room into
classrooms will soon be underway The space measures 104 x 105 feet and
will be for small special needs and other programs Bradley of
Lexington is doing the plans A home economics room will become a
classroom and a large computer lab The sewing room will become
classrooms and the sheet metal shop is to become a computer lab
At Bridge and Bowman partitions will be moved Lots of shifting will be
done at Clarke Middle School , and the high school is moving and creating
spaces There no doubt will be "many homeless people" among the staff
There will be no more changes until after the space utilization study is
completed, except for one A reconfiguration of A-House is to be done
by the LABB program for $40 ,000 LABS parents have purchased the paint
The RFP for the space study of the high school and other secondary
schools will go to the committee at the outset Committee members asked
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how the new study (to cost between $40 ,000 and $80 ,000) will differ from
the work of Archetype Moynihan responded that the study will be an
analysis of each building and how it should serve the program and
anticipated enrollment A total of 987 , 000 square feet will be included
in the study Edson questioned the scope of the study Committee
members commented that the high school is too scattered Both program
and space changes are envisioned Asked who would work with the study
personnel Moynihan said that the latest in system and equipment would
be requested - State of the Art , in other words Many meetings with
teachers will be planned A good contractor is to be sought
Networking and telecommunications with an electric work filed subbid
request for proposals is going out Each building is to have a server
In the elementary schools there will be five computer drops per
classroom; in the middle schools three and in the high school two The
system would be functional and expandible Work would be done in August
and during school vacations PBC members Bruckman, McCabe and Touart
will review the proposals about July 10 About 10 to 12 proposals are
anticipated
Minutes of March 20 1996 committee meeting were APPROVED as corrected
Committee membership Jim Scanlon announced that he must resign from
the committee because he is moving to Bedford This is the last
committee meeting he will be attending
Meeting adjourned at 9 15 p m
Respectfully submitted,
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Erna
0/42-4–e—Erna S Greene, Secretary
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