HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-06-03 Kittredge School Building Committee Minutes
Kittredge School Building Committee
Meeting Minutes
June 3, 2024
Present: Laurie Burzlaff, 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: Maureen Sakakeeny and Jim Mealey,
Meeting was called to order by Laura Bates at 4:00PM in the Select Board Meeting Room at Town Hall.
Vote to approve minutes of May 6, 2024
Denevan O’Connell made a motion, seconded by Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues, to approve the minutes of May 6,
2024. Motion approved 11-0.
Budget update
Phil Palumbo provided an update. The feasibility study is on budget.
Schedule update
Machado is on schedule with PDP submission which is due July 18, 2024.
Educational visioning update
A group of building committee members toured 2 schools which was very productive. Two visioning workshops
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have been completed with committee members, parents and Kittredge staff. The last one is on June 12. Also had
a working group meeting with teachers at the school.
Feasibility study update
Jeffry provided some pictures from the visits to Amesbury and Danvers elementary schools. They are taking all the
information and trying to establish priorities and program requirements. Also looking at organizing the building,
neighborhood clusters, exterior site requirements, site development strategies and then developing a design.
Input from the visioning sessions outlined certain program priorities. They were citizenship and community, critical
thinking and problem solving, creativity, collaboration and teamwork, emotional intelligence, joy of learning and
growth mindset.
For the components of the program, MSBA provides 58,660 square feet as the area they will fund. The gym should
be scaled for the population. The gym currently is smaller than what MSBA would allow. From the visioning
sessions, they heard there is a need for a sped classroom, small group room and breakout space for every grade.
There would be about a 17,000 square foot overage from what MSBA would pay for so how do we get closer to the
MSBA number? Jeffry reviewed different configurations for each grade. Teachers will have input at their workshop
in a couple of weeks. Committee suggested a set up where teachers could share breakout spaces. Ms. Lathrop
indicated that there is not a need for a sped classroom for each grade but there is a need for flex space for each
grade. The committee felt the center pinwheel model seemed to be a good solution.
Jeffry showed some site plan options. Must provide all options to the MSBA in the PDP. The committee would like
to explore whether we can move the gym so we are not just throwing away.
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June 10 Community Forum/Workshop update
For the community engagement workshop, the first 15 minutes will be presenting the project. The building
committee chair will kick off the presentation, then the OPM will explain the project and superintendent will speak
to timeline/process of getting to where we are now.
Review and approve invoices
Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues made a motion, seconded by Denevan O’Connell to approve the invoices as
presented. Motion approved 11-0.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion made by Laurie Burzlaff, seconded by Eva Hamori to adjourn the meeting at 5:30PM. Motion approved
11-0.
Documents used at meeting:
Machado presentation