Committee members present: Central office Staff present:
Jean Tremblay Patrick
Low, Superintendent
Bob Demers
Reed Lieberman Public
in attendance:
Jo Anne Carpenter Keith
Parent, Principal
Dennis Pednault
Jeff Hill
Joyce Scott
Meeting called to order at
Minutes were accepted as presented.
The
There was no old business noted, and no new business added to the agenda.
Reed Leberman indicated that his commitments were making it hard to attend all
meetings this spring as chairperson. At the next meeting the committee needs to
identify a Vice Chairperson to facilitate meetings this spring.
The committee then began to prepare a report supporting the budget request for
the $15,000. This report will include:
i) Organizational Information
(a) Mission Statement (renovate or replace k-12 facility on site)
(b) Culture or Ethos- All committee members want to provide the best value for
the investment. We want to continue to demonstrate pride in the community as
well as depart family values and capture what we are good at such as
environmental education, community service learning and experiential education,
at the same time improve on the access to technology and special education
services
(c) Membership for the past year
(d) Past building committee reports and capital investments (during the
fourteen years after the 1969 wing was added there was minimal investment in
the GMHS building. And for the past decade only a 2% investment in capital has
been made, so the town should not be surprised that the building is falling
down around the children.)
(e) Desire subcommittees to divide some of the work load, but hampered by lack
of enough people on committees
ii) Fact Finding Process
(a) Review new building methods and environmental issues
(b) Site visits to energy efficient buildings
(c) Reviewed consultant reports on the buildings
(d) Determined the basic condition of the buildings
(e) Walked through each building
(f) Discussed how Cost Estimating for these projects are done
(g) Read the NEASC reports and responses and the health report for the Ed Fenn
iii) Focused on Ed Fenn
(1) Reviewed in detail the Barker plan for the Ed Fenn
(2) Reviewed the revised wish list for the Ed Fenn as developed by the staff
and principal
(3) Developed a request for design services from Kyle Barker to give the
committee a better idea of the costs for renovating the Ed Fenn School
iv) Looking ahead
(a) New committee members and mission from the
(i) New Mission statement from
(ii) Members from all three towns
added
(iii) Walk Through and Fact review
for new members
(b) Randolph and Shelburne towns people have not had experience with bonding of
this size, so we need to transition these towns into this project
(c) Focus Groups could produce a better understanding of building needs and
community desires i.e.
(d) Committee needs to evaluate all outside reports concerning the building
needs and the educational delivery systems desired (i.e. special education
evaluation report and current NEASC communication)
(e) Consultant may be needed to determine the most cost effective solution for
the Middle High School
(f) Local leaders need to explore collaboration with the Technology Center, CLL,
NHCTC in light of the investment that the Federal Prison and Wal-Mart are going
to make into the community
(g) Architect will be needed to finalize the design and cost estimate for the
Ed Fenn
(h) Architect will be needed to finalize the design and cost estimate for the
GMHS
(i) Bond vote will be needed to fund the project estimated to be between
$10,000,000 and $15,000,000
(j) Construction must be completed by 2009 to maintain accreditation
Next meeting will be May 3rd 6:30 p.m. at the FRC-Board Room to complete the
report to the
Meeting adjourned 8:10 p.m.
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Randolph, NH 03593