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Facilities Committee
Facilities Committee Attendees: Don Berger, Jon Powell, Jeff Kenney, Jess Garcia, Steve Hodgdon, Rebecca Kirstein, Kim Ray, Aparna Chatterjee, John Miller, Shannon Clark, Julie Hartz and Dennis Hoyle. Committee members began the meeting with a tour of the Dining Hall, Fine Arts Center, and selected areas of the grounds. Fine and Performing Arts: Michael Hayes visited the meeting and answered questions. In addition to the rationale for the need of a 350 seat Concert Hall MH stated that storage space would be opened up and that the Black Box Theater would then be able to be used as it was intended. The air-conditioning duct will need to be moved if we install a new winch handset system. There was a recall on our current winch system and the replacement locking system makes it time intensive and physically hard to use. The replacement or refurbishment (dipped with fire protective coating) of curtains could be moved to deferred maintenance if the Facilities Committee recommends this. Some costume items could be stored off-site in a temperature controlled environment. General comments made were that the MS Head doesn’t want the MS play area disturbed. Costumes are the most expensive elements in plays. The challenge is a new concert hall will not be small; it would have 1 floor with a central theater and “arms” extended which would be 3 large rehearsal rooms. Business Office: Debby Reichel visited the meeting and answered questions. She would prefer additional office space which would be contiguous with her current space. There needs to be significant planning involved with the upfit of the Dining Hall. SAGE may possibly pay for a portion of the upfit. General comments made were about the involvement of SAGE and specific plans for the Dining Hall need to be developed. Our recommendation is that they undergo a design planning phase for the Dining hall. Should money be allocated? Library: Don answered questions. Items listed as priority 1 could be moved to our annual repair and maintenance budget. Archival space is also listed under Advancement’s needs. The Facilities Committee can make the decision whether changing around the multimedia center should be “sent back” to be paid through Capital Requests. Grounds Committee: John answered questions. The Grounds Committee would like another crack at an enlarged patio area behind the Middle School; something of a whimsical nature and temporary due to the possibility of using space eventually for another building. Priority 2 ties in with the Upper School’s request for an aesthetically pleasing and functional entrance from the US parking lot. John would like to see a design phase begin for creating an attractive area b/t the SEA and the Fitness Center. Facilities: Jess answered questions. The committee asked why Priority 3 isn’t on the Physical Education’s divisional requests. Jess and Jon will talk to MJ about a large shaded area for the playing fields; would this satisfy the MS needs. The request to install permanent bleachers on the west side of the tennis courts is for seating purposes only; not necessarily a shading issue.
The next meeting will be Tuesday, April 25th at
2:30 to group prioritize the requests.
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