The USD 489 Facilities Needs Committee has a new look. USD 489 Board Members Darren Schumacher, Greg Schwartz, & James Leiker resigned from the committee last week to remove any perception of there being a conflict.
With the addition of Josh Waddell to the USD 489 board on July 1, the Facilities needs committee would have had four school board members.
The minutes from the April 26 meeting are below.
Facilities Needs Committee Meeting April 26, 2013 – 7 AM Toepfer Board Room
Attendees: Nick Schwien, Brian Weimer, Josh Waddell, Aaron White, Tom Drees, Pat Lowry, Bryce Young, Tammy Wellbrock, Paul Briseno, Todd Powell, Will Roth, Mark Hauptman, Francis Hammerschmidt, Richard Cain
Visitors: Judy Sherard, Lance Bickle, Greg Schwartz*, Darren Schumacher*, James Leiker *
Mark Hauptman reviewed the Special Education Addition Concept with the committee (see attached). He covered the needs and concerns involved with appropriate Special Education building space. The drawing was designed to represent the “ideal” space for SPED services.
- Est. cost per suite is $2,000,000.
- Tom Drees asked about the increasing % of the student population in Sped. Reasonsvary: better identification, environmental issues, and societal issues. Mark does not see this % going down. Will added we are doing a much better job of screening with MTSS.
- Mark said we currently have approx. 85 kids now that would need a facility such as this. Each functional room could handle 10 to 11 Sped students. Current functional rooms are located at Roosevelt (2) and Wilson (1).
- The high number of restrooms in the suite were questioned. Mark indicated that some days all would be needed.
- Mark stated ideally we would need 2 of these suites at 2 elementary buildings and 1 suite at the middle school.
- Question asked about fitting these suites into “repurposed” gymnasiums. Could encounter issues with plumbing, would be a good question for the HTK architects.
HVAC,
- Francis said we are waiting for results and the BOE to receive and act on the proposedEnergy Conservation Program.
- If we move forward with an ECP, what would be left to include in a bond issue? Francisindicated some minor individual building issues.
- Any new building additions would be the most energy efficient possible.
- Paul asked that we include the city on water issues when we get into the investmentgrade audit. They may be able to help us out.
- Greg asked that the committee to keep in mind 30 years out as we design and ask forcost estimates and to remind HTK of the same.
HTK – Cost List from Identified Needs
Bryce said he did not want complaints in the future that we as a committee didn’t consider all options
and missed something.
- O’Loughlin
- RED indicates a section has been edited by Will and Richard based on possibleneeds 10-15 years in the future.
- Question asked if O’L is a “long-term” building for the district. Bryce said wehave already agreed that O’L was a part of the 10-15 year plan.
- Roosevelt and Wilson will be the major building additions in this project.
- Add Computer Lab estimate from HTK.
- Lincoln
a. Good as listed
- Roosevelt
a. Include SPED suite and reduce new classrooms accordingly. - Wilson
a. Include SPED suite and reduce new classrooms accordingly. - Washington a.
- Hays Middle a.
- Hays High a.
- District Re-roofing a.
Washington, Hays Middle and Hays High will be addressed next meeting.
Bryce will not be able to attend the May BOE meeting to report. Patrick will cover May and Bryce will cover June.
The committee will NOT meet on May 3rd.
Next meeting – May 10th. HTK will be in attendance with estimated costs