 Good morning, everyone. This is the April 14th meeting of the elementary school building committee and I'm really delighted to see you all again. It feels like a long time since we were last together on screen. Once in a while I get to see people in person, which is also really nice. I'm going to call the meeting to order seeing that we have a quorum and do a go across the screen to make sure everyone can hear and be heard in just the order I see them on my screen Sean. Yes. Paul. Doesn't. Mike. Present. Jonathan. Good morning. Ben. I'm here. Phoebe. Hello. And Alicia. Here. As others join, I will just try to make sure I recognize that they're here. We've we've got, as you know, we're, we're nearing the date of the vote. So this is sort of an interim meeting because we have a bunch of invoices and then there's some thinking forward. That'll be just a discussion today. So, Morgan, if you want to pull up the agenda, it's, it's pretty simple on what we hope to accomplish today. Okay. Can everybody see that? I can. So I think that means your screen is showing a mind. Yeah. Okay. So as Kathy said, it's pretty brief. I think we're going to get Kathy's going to give an update on outreach and opportunities to be involved. We're going to have a bit of a conversation about the subcommittee discussion that was started before our last vote. And then we have, as often happens at the, the stage of the project is slew of invoices to catch up on. So there are five. I'm going to go to you last night's because I know it's hard to see what's going on, scrolling through them all, but we will do that as our last item. So that is it. Okay, so I am the first item on the agenda. And I was just going to do a really quick report on the activities since we last met and I shared with everyone we were trying to set up a series of presentations. To the community that I pulled together a chart set and the goal of this was really to get information out and be able to hear questions and get answers. And in the course of that, we have a good morning, Rupert, let's make sure Rupert, can you, you Rupert just joined, can you hear us and we hear you. I can hear you. Great. Good morning. So in the course of those we've been enhancing the website, so that Amherst school, Amherst dash school dash project.com website has a very much expanded, frequently asked questions and answers and actually most of them have been frequently asked, including we've been expanding and I work with Margaret and she has a terrific person working with her to make it easy to it's quite long at this point but you can click around and find the topic so if you are all asked questions. You don't have to just delve into your memory bank to remember when we talked about that but there's an expanded set. So at this point I've, we've done. The rough count is about 14 presentations. And a couple of them are, you know they sometimes been small groups. Yesterday, there was a group called the Amherst neighbors which is a volunteer organization that does a lot of work with seniors and others that are living at home, but need support systems you know, sometimes just people to talk to and we had about 20 people because the league was the League of Women Voters has come out in favor of the project which they basically never do. And so this was them explaining why they think this school meets the educational needs of kids and is an asset to the community. And I did the amazing video that Dinesco produced for us that excites everyone because you can talk through the aspects of what the school has and is offering to kids and the community. And a lot of the questions needless to say have been about how much is going to cost me. And Sean has done a lot of work on this so if you get that question there is a and we'll make sure you all have it. There's a website on the town side on the, the debt exclusion that all a person needs to do is plug their address in, and you get the assessed value of your property. So, one of the things we've discovered is because of the newspaper headline of $500 or almost 500 everyone thinks they have a $500 increase, and even though their property is at half that value, so it's trying to say no. And then when, when am I going to see it so Sean is done. It's made it really easy to answer those questions that people have it. The council, I gave you that update the council voted to move forward with the debt organs authorization and to take $5 million of the capital stabilization fund and put it into this which lowers the tax impact and Paul has pledged to talk about other ways to mitigate the impact, particularly focused on income, and that he will be coming back with up to $5 million of different kinds of ideas and methods not all at once, but by the end of November I think it was your target date Paul, if I'm correct. So there, so that has gotten a lot of positive news the climate action people are out talking about the school in terms of the net zero features of it. There have been a actually a fair number of opinion pieces of viewpoints articles submitted to the Gazette people are copying me, and I haven't seen any of them so we may or may not think is that in the bulletin so, you know, we may or may not see them but our enthusiasm and support. The two that are coming up and Phoebe I just, I'm about to end but the two that are coming up. They're only two more public, you know this information where we said, you know, we'll go anywhere if you want to hear more about the school. And these are really not a vote for the school but here's information, you know what's, what's the climate side, the two that are coming up as we're going to be at Applewood tomorrow morning and the we as Lynn grease more has come to virtually all of these we did a radio show on Thursday. Yeah, so we did tried to do some media to my radio piece, but Lynn has been coming to a lot of them and Mindy Dom is going to come she came to a one we did at the bank center. I'm doing an undercount now that I think of it but and Mindy is out at the state level talking about what she can do for this project but strongly in support of it so it's really nice to see our legislative reps. So tomorrow morning we're at Applewood and then UMass has agreed to host us at the old chapel, and that's late breaking news that just came last week, and it's at April 20 on at six o'clock, and they're putting out the word to the faculty to graduate students with the educational design and the climate climate benefits so if you know people on the UMass campus who may or may not have come to this it's a terrific opportunity to reach a different group. And these are all open to all of us I know Ben has participated in a couple of the community activities just a visibility around the school. So anyone who wants to be more involved just get in touch with me because there's a lot of you know just one on one kinds of activities that are going on. You should know the mail ballots are out people have called me to say they got their mail ballots. If you're asked early so early voting starts on the 24th is that right Paul. Yeah. Yeah. The last day to register is April 21. So if you happen to find someone who wants to vote who's not registered they can still register. I'm finished. So TV, just any questions comments. Be glad to hear. Yeah, so I was just going to ask do we have a general sense of how many like unique people have been at all of these. You know, not the sort of diehards that come to every single everything we do but do we have an idea of how many community members we've reached with these. The answer is I could go back some of them are been very small in terms of the number of people. But what's been interesting is they've been mainly unique people, you know I haven't seen the same person coming to all of them, and a few. So, so PB, I will try to tally that you know I have a rough sense okay there were 13 at this one there were 20 at that there were a few of them were as small as five. The district meetings, and we got snowed out but in a few of them. There were people who came who asked for the chart set. So I think they are also going out and wanting to be able to talk about it so it's not just people as you know residents trying to figure out how to vote but also people who like the league. They're asking me for my charts, because they want to do a piece on it so it's it's a mixture of the kinds of people who are coming also. None of them have been very large and we went, we did one, we had, we had to at the bank center anyway, we did at the bank center specifically for seniors, and then it was not a good day for a lot of them to come because of the and we got asked to come over to green leaves which is a retirement center, and we had 20 and then another five. We had two different sessions so some of it is, they couldn't come to one and they asked us to come to another. So we're trying to do this, where that we could at least gather more than it's not just one on one, but groups. Jonathan. I mostly just wanted to point out that I think a couple more people have joined us. Thank you. Thank you. So, Angelica. Can you hear and let us make sure you can. Yes, thank you. And Simone. Yes. Well, I just want to make sure we stay don't get into strategizing that we stay with the this is a building committee. It's not an advocacy committee and that we shouldn't be strategizing talking about how to reach more people and stuff like that that's not our role in this capacity so that's why I say, stay on the straight and narrow that we can. I am done. I am completely done on this and it's just, you know, I, the advocacy things I think have mainly Dinesco has given us such a wealth of information that people are able to take it and run with it. And that has always been there. So as I said, if any of the next event and Allison has joined us, Kathy Allison, welcome. Hello, thank you. Great. Thank you all. So I'm going to get now turn it over to Dinesco. And as I said, contact me if you want to be involved or if you even want to think of, you know, having committee members show up at some of these has been great. Several people have. And if it's, if it's nothing else just to show support for the project it's been really appreciated. Thank you. Donna, the floor Donna and Tim the floor is yours. We're going to just stop a little bit briefly about some of the process as we get into more detail design after the vote. A lot of the, you know, we've gotten into detail before and but we've been talking about things in general and as we move forward into design development. Can I share my screen. Sorry. Do we have to make Tim a co host I think. Let me see. What I was going to share was just a list of a few. You're now a co host so you should be able to. Thank you. So here's just a list of a few potential subcommittees there will be a lot more work that will have to be done, probably with a smaller groups of people however those groups are formed just so that we can get input in a more efficient way for more people and more aspects of the project. Hopefully the sustainability net zero committee, which was started early on will continue to operate and we'll look at more things. The big decisions have been made but there's definitely a lot more that has to happen. One of the sub points under this committee is integration, we've talked about monitors in the building that can act as a teaching device but you know that this is just a sort of a preliminary outline and maybe that has to do with educators and the sustainability committee but these are discussions that we have to have. Obviously there is a lot of input that we need to gather on site design, because the community at large will be using most of the site. So we just have to figure out the best way to get input from all of the stakeholders, and then some very specific working groups on playground equipment and things like that. There's specific needs, some communities really like swings some don't for safety reasons so there's some nitty gritty that we have to get into that we can't really parse at the level of the entire committee and then certainly design the exterior of the building we have started, but we'll probably break it up to an interior group and an exterior group. So we have selections on the exterior talk about detailing and composition. And then on the interior will talk about colors that look and feel of spaces how that affects way finding how it affects what can happen in those spaces and learning. And then rounding it out. There's been a robust conversation about including art in the project and there's even the requirement so you know what the best. The best is itself where it exists in the building or on the site. All of these different aspects of the project are going to need different voices different people and we want to, you know, as soon as we hit the ground running after May 2nd, start organizing these groups and I asked everyone here to think about who would the best voices be to contribute to all of these conversations. I wanted to give an overview and get you thinking that that's what we have on that. You know, so I just wanted to, Tim had run this list quickly by me, you know, some of these could be official subcommittees of the committee and the way we set up the sustainability committee. So I'm, I'm, you know, we can hear more from you after May, you know, I'm thinking that it's the school and Mike helping organize teachers, parents around these, you know, so it's not so much driven by the an official subcommittee, but and includes more than our membership is a different group so we can just think through this. And, and Paul you had early on saying if we're going to officially set up a subcommittee we should have some sort of charge to it you know what you know parameters around it. We tend to staff them particularly if it's not just a subcommittee of our 13, but if we expand the group at all. So this is just a list to be thinking about. When we come back together that we will work with the nisco to figure out the best ways of organizing that so Paul do you want to speak at all to that because I know you, you didn't want to reach get to a decision point today it was more just a thinking about where the, what kinds of groups we're setting up. Yeah, thank you Kathy. So, I think that it's when we when this committee sets up a subcommittee it means that they it's publicly posted meetings and all that kind of stuff so in minutes and, and 48 hours notice and things like that. I think that we, we definitely want to divide up the work with this group and have some committees like that. And, but if we have a whole like, if we have six or seven different subcommittees that's going to be a really onerous task to do all that. So I think there might be some other ways to involve the community in some of these decision making processes, which is I think the goal of this is to get input from the community, ultimately to bring to here. Yeah, I appreciate you sharing this list I think they're all really, I mean, I think a lot of us would be like one of you on a lot of them so they're all interesting and I think they're, but we can limit the number of subcommittees we actually create and then figure out other ways for the community to be involved in these because I think we have a lot of talented people in our community who will have really great ideas on things so yes, I want to make sure we get a copy of this. Yeah, we can, we'll put it in the packet and Tim you can just send it out to everyone. And I don't know whether anyone, once you get it since you're seeing it on the screen right now. If there's another group that you want to ask about what we're going to come back to be talking about this. I'm not saying she's coming soon. Sorry. The, the art piece we have in the percent for art bylaw we actually have specified a process so all I need to talk to you about that separately. If we're doing any kind of commissioning, you know, as opposed to the teachers and students getting into putting artwork on the wall. So there is there's a process to that and and that would be done over the beef. It would be normally be done, along with starting to get through the dd like where's it going to go what is it. Is it a pick a mural on a wall is it a is it some nice kind of thing to sit on outside in the playground that's that's attractive so so that we can at the I'll make sure everyone sees a copy of the bylaws probably what what I should do I'll just send it and put it in the packet for the next time but we don't have to do that right away. I see Alicia's hand is up. Alicia, Alicia, if you're talking we can't hear you. So Tim why don't you take it down for now. I'll be on the screen. I think Alicia, maybe she's probably coming back. She had this issue before and when she rejoined we were able to hear there she is back. Can you all hear me now. Yes. Okay, great. I was just saying I think having the subcommittees is actually a really good idea, but I do hear Paul and not having a lot might make it hard to manage. And so I'm wondering, and I know we said we were going to talk about this a little bit more later but I'm wondering if we can just combine some of the issues because I mean people who are looking at interior and exterior and even art I feel like all of those things could be together in one committee. And I feel like the site plans and the playground could also be one committee or something like that combining the issues might be helpful. It's definitely flexible to the process that works best for the town we just know that there are a lot of ideas and a lot of students to be making we want to, you know, structure it as the best that works but if combining them is going to be the best process then certainly and there might be committees that we didn't list there so you think designing this is going to be the first step. Jonathan, if you hit your space bar you'll learn. The danger of too many screens is your mouse can get lost on on a far screen. My comment was going to be that that some of these, you know, our issues that will have some longevity, you know the sustainability. There may be one that will go on for some length of time. Others may be may have shorter duration. You know, perhaps some of the choices around the outdoor equipment and the outdoor layout may, may be a shorter term thing or maybe some of the ones the, you know, kind of colors and materials are selected. There may be again a relatively short tenured group whether it's a full subcommittee or not. Thank you that. Angelica. And I just had a question about disability accessibility I know that before when I mentioned some issues about just keeping in mind what all of these various issues of not just sustainability but design of the playground interior. I'm not so active of students with disabilities that you mentioned that the building would be ADA compliant, but I guess I wanted to ask, would there be a consultant here that can assist with design choices, so that it incorporates sort of the latest and best practices in terms of accessibility but design choices that are like best. I know for instance with playground so much has come along in terms of choices for students that are not just about accessibility but say having AC communication devices like we have at Wildwood, or, you know, movement, things that are not just for like what the what the PT teachers might choose but just sort of like so that we could have the best that there is out there, since we're investing so much here. Yeah, I thank you. I just kind of a comment response to you Angelica and then Alicia. Some of the items seem like, you know they really belong together, but at the same time the level of detail, and and what we're seeking really belong in two different discussions right the exterior. And what it looks like and finessing that compared to the interior and we're talking about wayfinding and colors and materials are really independent conversations. And trust me, these these can go on and be pretty time consuming so a we're trying to be respectful of everyone's time and then the other component, which is important and to your point Angelica is, we really want to hear from staff as well, especially as it relates to wayfinding interior colors and things like that you have some students that have special needs we want to be sensitive to those so some bright colors or patterns or like it's important to have staff involved in and a lot of the interior conversations. But Angelica to your point, you know we have a playground specialist that will be joining our team. That kind of goes hand in hand with the other comment of merging the site and the playground, the playground, as you've alluded to takes on a life at its own. It literally is going to be an intense time consuming evaluation of playground. Again, we also want the folks from the school whether it's, it's the PT or adaptive P or people from making sure that all students have access and use it we don't want them just to, you know, be able to go up to the equipment we want to actually engage them on the equipment so that really is should be a dedicated separate group from the overall site, but we agree that we absolutely need to make sure that it's fully accessible and there may be certain equipment that not everyone can but we have to make sure that there is enough equipment for everyone to participate in. We appreciate the other thing. Angelica to that point is, I think Kathy, someone reached out and asked us if we were going to go through the access, you know, do a formal like a set accessibility review and we will do that. And this was someone from the community and and Angelica asked, and I see Tammy has joined us Tammy just make sure welcome. Make sure you can hear us and we can hear you. Yes, I can thank you good morning. Good morning morning. We're at, we will in everyone's inbox. I'll make sure we had a list of potential working groups. That going forward some of them might be formal subcommittees. And, and one issue would be as if any of our subcommittees are just subcommittees of our of our committee because if it was something broader Paul gets into an appointing process. So we'll come back to that everyone I think saw that on the agenda, I put the next meeting day, which is, if the school vote is a yes. The next time we meet will be the next stage of this and I decided to go on vacation, right after the vote. So, so right now we're talking about it was in your thing we're talking about May 19. And if you can make sure you hold that time on your calendars, May 19. And, and so we're going to be coming back to this topic and really into the next steps on it. Maybe. So I Kathy I raised my hand as soon as you started talking about like dates that kind of stuff. I'm just trying to figure out. I guess what the schedule of topics we're going to discuss is going to be going forward we've had kind of a little bit of a break. I didn't see I was a little bit surprised to not see on the agenda kind of an MSBA update like those kinds of things. If we can get a little airty there that would be great. Thank you. I'm sure I'm Margaret at or Donna can update you on MSBA and then I think Donna you you have a like a tentative schedule you know again assuming the May 2 vote. Everything hinges on that vote on what we're going to be doing after May. So, Margaret Donna on MSBA. The vote, the MSBA vote is April 26. So, at that point, you know, we will be able to let everybody know that the MSBA has voted. I you know I think it's important to know for everybody's perspective that's, that's a done deal in the sense that they have reviewed and signed off on our submission. They have met with the leadership and reviewed and signed off on this whole project budget. So, at this point, it's essentially a staff recommendation to the board so I don't want anyone here to think that that's sort of not going to happen for any reason. It can, it should be considered something everybody can anticipate so then that leads to the vote after. You know Phoebe we have not. And I would say that consulting needs to come back together with an overview of what the design development process will look like. What I can tell you is that I, I don't believe we'll have to meet meet as often. I do anticipate that we will continue to meet at this time because having sort of spent some time, a couple months ago, sort of digging into that I think this was is clearly the best time for the majority of this committee. So I think what we should do but I can't maybe Donna can embroider on this a little bit. I'm going to sort of have to lay something out for you. Donna, do you want to sort of just outline the rough way in which you approach this and it seems to me. Sort of thinking about what needs to happen next to a big part of this is really developing more information on the building systems and the building exterior details but why don't you talk about it from the designer perspective. Yeah, sure. And Tim can chime in as well but this, we're not done with design this is a refinement of the design so we do know where the building is going we do know the layout we know the gross square footage. And we really do know where the building is going to be cited on the site. That was important from a whole host of reasons including soils and everything else but now's the time to refine the design and by outlining those sub committees and working groups that that will tell you what it is that we're actually going to be focused on over the next four months. We have, we have design development for four months and our goal is to have all most not all most of the design decisions made over that time period we'll be doing another cost estimate towards the end of design development, just as a check to make sure our design basis of design hasn't changed. Hopefully the market has calmed down a little bit right. We don't have to be talking about changing anything that's already in the project to keep the project on budget but being optimistic for me and then and then for the construction I am optimistic that all of the decisions we've made today will will stand true but so that is kind of the expected process over the next four months and we really don't have a lot of large decisions to be made at the committee level. It's more having input on the small working groups and then reporting up to the overall building committee, if that makes sense so we'll leave it to you to every two weeks is probably too many meetings and we need time to get our work done. I don't know if once a month seems acceptable to you all just because wanting to keep everyone informed as we go through maybe every three weeks would be kind of a happy medium so that it's not just three meetings or four meetings during design development but a lot of the discussion points really need to occur in these smaller groups for us to be able to move the project forward. Can I just add one thing before I take my hand down which is that everybody should have in their calendar placeholder invite for me for May 19. So, you know, Phoebe, and Donna, I think that that sort of organizing meeting of May 19, if we, Donna, in terms of how frequently if we have subcommittees or working groups that our committee members want to be on, and when we're not meeting as a full group that that there's a fair amount of activities there so thinking we should think carefully of when to the 13 of us need to be together, and when are we separately working on things and then figuring out a way of during the time together of having the groups report or getting reports through Dinesco on where the groups are so so that that discussion hasn't. I haven't been in any discussion like that yet Phoebe on a, you know, tell me what we're doing in May what we're doing in June tell me what you know, so I think what what you're asking for is right and I'm hoping we, when we come together again after the vote, we get that schedule on what needs to be happening when to meet this four months of design development. Kathy, well actually Kathy just I'm sorry Jonathan just to respond to that. If it's acceptable to you, maybe what we can do is take that list, refine it, identify, you know how frequent each of these groups need to meet and maybe start throwing some dates or weeks that we would recommend. Some of these conversations might be better held in person. So, we would probably like to maximize our time with you all, maybe spend days. We were, you know, suggesting getting an apartment. We're, you know, it, if it's okay for you or to you what if we map out, you know, this is the expectation and the meetings and try to strap stagger them so that everyone who would like to participate can participate recognizing people have other lives. So that when we hit the ground running May 3 that will be ready to to roll. So, Jonathan, Jonathan, and then I just want to have to be a reaction and whether that's enough, you know, getting a list, go on Jonathan. So I was going to mostly ask that if that was something the NISCO could do which kind of put together a calendar of things, because I expected even even if we were this group larger group was only meeting every three or four weeks. So, certain subcommittees I can imagine meeting every other week, just from the intensity of some of the decisions and some of the review that'll need to happen. So are people comfortable with, if you put together that and then you share it this is a planning document for us where, you know, it could certainly meet earlier than the 19th this was driven by Kathy would like to be at that meeting but I'm, I would be fine with the actually, I can't join remotely based on where I'm going to be but we could meet sooner than the 19th we could meet the fifth we could meet the 12th. I'm just looking at the Friday so I welcome free feedback I selfishly picked a date I knew I could be here. Paul. Thanks for Donna. If we wait till the 19th to meet does that put us behind schedule or anything like that. Tim, it wouldn't, wouldn't it be great to would be great to meet earlier but certainly I mean, DD is four months and you've used almost a whole month. Time is important. I get it. Yeah. Yeah, so. Sorry, go ahead, Kathy. As I said, you know Paul I think that's the right question you know the if, if you all would be ready the fifth or the 12th, you know, those are the two other Fridays. I, my deciding to go up to Norway should not not drive this decision. I think we should have the meeting out there with you. Sure, or, you know, Paul, respectfully, maybe if we met the, you know, in two weeks or whatever the, I don't even know what day it is but the Friday right before the vote, where we could even T people up and ready to go on the committees like roll that out maybe right before the vote so we're not having this conversation after the vote and then trying to mobilize. We can set up organize with Margaret sign up sheets or whatever it is, identify dates that were available and kind of put a plan together so that we could maybe roll this out in a couple of weeks so that that would be the 28th would be August 28 would be two weeks. April. Would that work? It feels like August. I mean that actually then the 19th would be you're already up and running and we could. I'm just looking around the my the faces does that work for people. Yes, thumbs up. Okay, so let's that that great. Okay, so April 28. And if you can also in that the sustainability. Subcommittee come up with a when you think you will be able to reconvene that group with TT so that once having a date for that would be helpful for, especially some of the outside groups in town. So who are particularly interested in participating in that. So Donna, that's just yeah. Yeah, that would be your scheduling when does that fit but having that happen in May would be great. Yeah, we'll definitely want to kickstart that for sure. So, so just to recap then, based on the kind of working groups or so I guess we don't want to calm sub committees but working groups and the areas of design that we want to focus on going forward. We'll put together kind of a summary or a little description of what the expectation is for each of those like what what does it mean when we're talking about interiors what does it mean when we're talking about envelope or exterior. As far as the frequency there might be some that we don't need to meet as frequently, and then there will be some that probably are going to be a little more intense because we want as much information as we possibly can on the design development documents for the cost right. And then, and then we can leave it to you, whether, depending on who's interested whether it's a daytime meeting or, you know, if we need to do it later in the day or six o'clock, depending on people's availability. Some of it will, Mike, Tammy, and Allison, you know we definitely are going to want staff input, and it might even be fun to have kid student input as it relates to playground and the design of the heart surface around the school. Okay, so I think we have Phoebe, fantastic question you just organized us that. Thank you very much. I did just send in a whole invite for that 28 to everybody on the committee. Any other questions on on this, these related topics of what are we going to be doing for the next four or five months and work groups. I don't see any. So the other item, the only other item on the agenda is the invoices, we have a backlog of invoices that we need to approve so some of the people who've been working hard on all of this get paid. So I'm going to, I'm going to pull them up again. If it's easier for you to look at them in your email. Please feel free. I have with each one I have highlighted in what I'm going to show you a little bit of what it is you need to see and I'm working with one screen this morning so I may not be able to see you if hand goes up so let me know if I'm missing anybody. Okay, so let's get this open in a useful way. So there's, there are five invoices in total. And the first one, there's two from Dinesco and three from us. So this first one, this is the end of January invoice from Dinesco. And you can see here on the cover page. They're now sort of close at this point they were closing in on their final billing. So this was this billing of theirs was leaving about 93% left in there and then they also had some billing for consultants a little bit of wetlands permitting, a little bit of geo environmental and a little bit on the rooftop solar so that invoice. When you roll it all in utility investigation when you roll it all up that one is a little under $52,000. Now I'm going to keep scrolling through these on the theory that you may want to take a vote on them as a bunch. So that's the first one. There's a whole bunch of backup here that I'm going to move through very quickly which is the supporting documentation for what the invoicing is for so it includes. As you see before Dinesco's invoice plus the consultant billing so I'm going to move down as quickly as possible. Okay, and then I'm going to go to the next invoice. Whoops, what happened here. Sorry, the screen sharing thing is right where I want to see. You have to rotate it. It's this is the last this last page is This is a reporting on the that that the MSP requires for Workforce participation. The problem I'm having and I apologize I'm going to unshare for a minute is the share icon is right where I need to click on the next item so I'm going to have to reshare. Okay, hopefully this will work. So this is hopefully This is the next invoice. Yes. So this is Dennis goes February invoice. And here you can see that at that point on the end of February they were fully billing out for the remainder of their base fee. And there's no consultants involved. So this is shorter. Here's the total. And then the backup is shorter, because it's just their one document. And again here is the end of January invoice reporting. So that's on the last page. So I'm going to keep moving into our invoices. So here is answers invoice from January. So, you know, again different format but what is included here is some of our time. And then we have had consultant invoices also in here with this was our estimating invoice. And as I think you've seen before, hopefully this is going to show up. What is ours are backed up by this kind of hourly reporting, which again I'm going to scroll through quickly. And then that's the estimators invoice. The second invoice that's in here for us is from February. So smaller amount. About 13 450 for us and a little bit for Shelley. And again, there's this kind of detail showing what we were doing in a detailed fashion. And there's Shelley's invoice. Okay, and then the last one. Thanks for bearing with me. Most recent is our invoice for March services. 7534 50. And again, we've got all the detail on here. So I am going to stop sharing and see if there are any questions. I see no hands. Kathy is it okay if I make a motion. Yes. I move that we approve the five invoices that were just presented. Shane seconds. If there are no questions, I am going to proceed to a vote. Paul. Yes. Kathy is a yes, Mike. Yes. Jonathan. BB. Allison. Yes. Ben. Yes. Sean. Yes. Tammy. Yes. Angelica. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's unanimous with. One person absent. I'll just have to count a Rupert had to step out. Okay. Thank you all. Before I open it to. Public comments. Or, or questions. Is there anything else. We need to describe right now. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Pb us about MSBA. I did send everyone the responses. And then the back and forth. One of, I thought the really good news is. Every space in the building was approved. And desi approved the, you know, the various other issues. So we really got a. A strong approval of what we sent in on schematic design. But it doesn't think they follow us closely. They immediately after the council met on. Third said, I think the council took a vote. And they asked for a certified. The tally of the boat. In ink. On paper sent through to them. So they, they do. Really. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Stand by our clerk. Absolutely. You know, so that they, they wanted the official that it happened. So they are really. Following and, and watching. Less and hoping the project goes through. Any other questions. Comments. Then I'm going to. For public. Comments. Alison. I'm going to be leaving. Well, I see. Good. Maria, if you unmute, you have been pulled into the meeting. Okay. Thank you. I was happy to see that there was a meeting today, but. Really confused about why. There we don't have more of a report from the MSBA. I don't have a report from the MSBA. I don't have a report from the MSBA. I don't have a report from the MSBA. Reference. I don't believe that those have been made public. So the last time that you guys met was. On February 17th. And we don't have anything, you know, from the public has no idea about what the MSB and said. About the schematic design. Was it approved? What were their comments? And I believe that there was also a meeting that has been referenced. I don't know if you guys have heard of this committee meeting with the MSBA. But I was hoping that the school building committee and the public could be given more detail about what happened there. Was that a facilities assessment subcommittee? We know that there were changes in the town's share. Of the reimbursement. Again. Was looking for more information on that. But I don't know if you guys have heard of this. I don't know if you guys have heard of this committee meeting. To approve the project scope and budget. At the MSBA. April 23rd. And Amherst is listed on that. I'm hoping that you can. Send your rule about not. Responding to. Public comments, but. Honestly, I think that's, that's what a lot of us in the public. We're. Hoping to hear at this building committee meeting. Thank you. Well, I'm just going to. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If we respond, I sent all the documents, Angela, trying to figure out how to post them. We sent them to the committee. Once we receive them, but we didn't have a meeting and a meeting packet. So they will be posted. The. What they sent to us, they came in relatively recently, but they will be posted. There's a resource page in the website. And I'm hoping that, I'm hoping that, I'm hoping that Angela has to figure out how to do it. Cause we want to keep a record of those as well. And that the meeting is April 26th. Any other. Are there other. Public comments. And seeing none. If there were any other questions from the committee. Now would be the time to ask them, including. Anything related to the MSBA process. Seeing none, I think we can adjourn. At nine 28. Thank you all. And we'll. Get back together on April 28th with. And Dennis go as soon as you can get that to us if, you know, a few days before we'll post it in the packet and share it with everyone with the. And I think we'll be able to do that. I just want to remember to do the percent for all by law, just so you can see what. That more formal commissioning of art would look like. That we have to set up and Paul would have to do. Work to actually create, create that. That's not something the building committee would create. We would. The liaison. With it. And the design team. Okay. And this is great. Thank you all for showing up. I apologize for posting it. With less than the 10 day notice. But. That just happened. So we are adjourned.