HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-06-25 Kittredge School Building Committee Minutes Kittredge School Building Committee
Meeting Minutes
June 25, 2024
Present: Laura Bates, Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues, Richard Cushing, Pamela Lathrop, Eva Hamori, Denevan
O'Connell, Kathleen Colwell,Steve Foster, Dave Brown, Diana Beckley, Phil Palumbo,Trey Logie and Brady Doyle
from Colliers Project Leaders,Jeffry Burchard and Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer from Machado Silvetti.
Absent: Laurie Burzlaff, Maureen Sakakeeny and Jim Mealey,
Meeting was called to order by Laura Bates at 4:06PM in the Select Board Meeting Room at Town Hall.
Vote to approve minutes of June 3,2024
Denevan O'Connell made a motion,seconded by Dave Brown, to approve the minutes of June 3,2024.Motion
approved 10-0.
Budget update
Phil Palumbo provided an update. No changes to the budget. Need to do a tax title search because there is not
enough information found at the registry.
Schedule update
Machado is on schedule with PDP submission which is due July 18, 2024.The School Building Committee will
review at the next meeting on July 11, 2024. No schedule changes.The town will set up a Google drive for read
only submissions.
Educational visioning update
Workshops were well attended by staff. Only 2 community members attended the community meeting but the
educational consultant did not expect outcome to change with a higher attendance. Machado reviewed the
educational priorities form the visioning meetings.There were recurring themes throughout. Priority for special
education programs. Presentation lists educational and architectural priorities,focus areas and design patterns.
The guiding principals were a place you want to be;whole child/whole community; neighborhood clusters;flexible
and adaptable spaces;outdoor connections and school as a community resource.
Feasibility study update
Jeffry explained that many things are happening at the same time.The faculty gravitated toward configuration 1
with grades separated by academic core. Both the building committee and faculty gravitated toward the center
pinwheel for individual grades with special education and small group rooms for each grade level.The existing
school has a gross floor area of 38,340, MSBA baseline has a gross area of 58,660. Machado showed a preliminary
gross are of 76,531 based on all the input. Ms. Rodrigues reminded the group that the estimated budget created
with the Facilities Master Plan is based on MSBA area.
Machado presented some site development options.
Review and approve invoices
There were no invoices to approve.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion made by Denevan O'Connell,seconded by Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues to adjourn the meeting at 5:30PM.
Motion approved 10-0.
Documents used at meeting:
Machado presentation