Live reporting - Facilities

Mike D'Angelo

Any structure that is owned by the town we cover. Electricians, plumbers, roofers, etc. We handle all major construction.

Everything I touch cost more today, plastic bags, etc. The labor market hasn't changed much but all the supplies have.

Signed a natural gas and propane contract, only going up 2.5% is great. It is a significant piece overall but controlled.

Electric put in at a 15% increase.
Water/sewer up due to the rate increase.

Telephone - bringing the police online so all the buildings will be connected and on the same network

How many FTEs?
35 full time, 10 part time and then 4 management staff

The things that are hurting me. The cost of the products that we are buying to replace are killing me. Not labor, just parts.

Will you exceed the $362,000 this year?
I can't. Stuff won't get done.

Remington-Jefferson is 14 years, no longer new; Keller-Sullivan is not new
The King St Fire Station is 10 years.

Can we look at a 5 year period?
But we have new buildings, new town hall, senior center, fire station...
Need to look at the increase in square foot increases year over year, at window sq footage, windows need to be washed

The telephone consulting is actually giving us money back. Reducing lines, keeping numbers. Eventually we want to go with fiber optics, that will help us save more.

5 leased, 4 at Parmenter, one at the High School. All the original ones were leased to own.

Bartlett - What is the life expectancy?
At 15 years, you might expect a total replacement. We did 8, 8, and 10. The first ones are 10 years old.

If you can help us with a narrative description?
Yes

You got to fix the things that you need to fix. As you go towards the end, you hope things don't break that cost a lot of money. You make it though the heating season, and then adjust.

Request is to add staff back at both the school and town. We lost 8 custodians. we clean bathrooms, we clean cafeterias, the rooms are lucky if they get cleaned once a week.

You can always make the schools look good on day one. Going through the year, it gets tougher.

We lost 8 out of forty, that was 20% of the staff. When a custodial system starts deteriorating, you go down a trouble road.

At an elementary level , the standard is a custodian can clean about 25,000 sq feet.

The high school is continuing to grow, maybe it will stop in a couple of years but it is a constant activity day and night.

We would add back four in the first year plus some part timers.
We don't pain enough, we could use the summer help to paint at least in year one. Then try to get the proper amount of folks in to maintain it on-going.

Using students as the part time help, gave them a job and ownership. They gained some respect for the work and effort to paint, clean the school. They would help police the other students to not write on the walls, etc.

Big difference in using students for help between what you can do with a public school versus a private school.

How much more do we spend at the high school due to its age versus the other schools?
I budget by school so I could look at the details. we actually have replaced a lot of systems there with 20/20, etc. If we had not done that, I'd be in trouble. A new high school will increase utility costs but reduce maintenance costs.

No more presentations for next time. Let's start to work on the model.

Look at minutes for the 4th and 18th to see. We should have them on the agenda to approve them next time.

Motion to adjourn.

live update - building use policy

First reading of the building use policy KF.

Fee schedule will looked at quarterly to see and ensure that the fund breaks even.

Kelly - question on need of inspector to check the connections?
Trahan - will check on, don't believe so

Kelly - does fee schedule cover the custodial services?
Sabolinski - yes, that is built into the fee structure. The building coordinator was not previously part of the fee structure, it is now.

Looking to cover our costs and to provide the buildings for the community to use in a fair way.

Mullen - finds a number of minor typos and inconsistency all minor and no real issue of policy just looking to make the document read well. This is a nice document and well done.

Folks have already been told that the new building use fee schedule will be coming as of July 1.

Rohrbach - have prohibition against alcohol and smoking, what about adding drugs?

Motion to move to second reading
Approved

Fire Station Open House (audio)

The ceremonies from the Fire Station Open House on Saturday. The speakers were in order: Lou Allevato, Building Committee Chair; Chris Feeley, Town Council Chair; Rep Vallee and his special assistant; Chief McCarraher; and Father Bob from St Mary's.

Time: 17 minutes, 50 seconds



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Franklin Fire Station Open House 4/12/08

Franklin Fire Station Open House 4/12/08, originally uploaded by shersteve.

The speakers (in order of appearance) at the Fire Station Open House held Saturday 4/12/08:

Top left - Lou Allevato, Building Committee Chair
Top right - Chris Feeley, Town Council Chair
Mid left - Rep Vallee and his special assistant
Mid right - Chief McCarraher
Bottom left - Father Bob
Bottom right - the flag raising

Boston Globe gets to the high school renovation

The Boston Globe Sunday edition of Globe West caught up to the FHS renovation or build a new school question, both of which are rather pricing. Yet, with a warning already we could loose the accreditation and jeopardize the plans for our students unless we do something.

The question is what? and for how much?

Read the Globe article here

Pictures from the FHS presentation

Option One - the new auditorium and science wing would be added to the right of the existing facility

Option Two - the auditorum would be added to the right (as in One) but the science wing would be added to the left

Option Three - the auditorum and entrance would be re-done up front, the science wing wold be added on the right and more would be done in the central sections of the building

This a rendering of what the new school would look like from the air above Oak Street for Option Three

This rendering depicts the new school option building on the left of the existing field house, coming into the tennis courts and baseball/softball fields (but not to the new track). The fields used in this new building option would be relocated to the space where the old building stands now (after it was torn down).

Franklin High School Renovation Alternatives (audio)

The presentation by Kaestle Boos on the options for renovating the existing building or building a new school around the existing field house.

Time: 13 minutes, 28 seconds



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