 Good evening, everyone. My name is Jeff Thielman. I'm the chairperson of the Arlington High School Building Committee. And we look forward to speaking with you tonight about the high school building project where we are with that project. And we look forward to answering your questions. We go to the next slide. You'll see the agenda for the evening we're going to give you a project recap. I'll introduce the project team. The project team from Skanska, the owner's project manager, we'll talk about logistics coordination and our experience. A phase overview and mitigation measures will be given by Consigli. That's the contractor for the project. Skanska is our owner, our project manager. We'll talk about project resources and then we'll answer your questions. So, as a recap, if we go to the next slide. The Arlington High School Rebuild effort began in 2014, shortly after the New England Association of Schools and Colleges ne'est did a visit to our high school and re-accredited our high school, but said that we had to make significant changes to the physical plan. We began a process which culminated with the town of Arlington being awarded a grant from the messages school building authority MSBA to a feasibility study. We did a feasibility study. We were accepted formally into the MSBA process. I'm sorry, we sent a letter or a statement of interest in SOI, a statement of interest. We were formally accepted into the process in 2015 and in 2016 we formed the high school building committee. Our high school building committee has been working together for six years. In 2019, the town of Arlington voted overwhelmingly, 77% of the voters voted to support the new high school. And they voted to support a $290 million high school rebuild on the existing site. I'm happy to report to the community this evening and to those in attendance that the project is on time and on budget. Our plan remains to complete the new school by 2024 by the fall of 2024 and then complete the fields by the spring of 2025. Next slide. If you take a look at the site plan, you'll see where we are building our new school. The new school is going to go over most of it over the existing school and in front of the existing school. When you take a look at this, you'll see fields in the background. Those are artificial turf fields. The advantage of those fields are that students can have longer seasons. We can have more gym classes and more activities outdoors. There's a connection to the bikeway that will be finished towards the end of the project. And you'll see the learning courtyard, the amphitheater, the entrance on Mass Ave. And that's kind of a good footprint, a good look at our new school building. Next slide, please. In the presentation timeline, we're just going to go into detail tonight is as follows. Our current plan is to move into phase one classrooms and move into the new building that you're seeing constructed on Mass Ave. By February 28, Monday, February 28. During March, we'll start the demolition of the old school. In April, we move into and can start using the auditorium. And then through September of 2023, we'll be doing the construction of phase two of the project. Next slide, please. I want to take a second to recognize and acknowledge the folks who will be speaking soon in this in this presentation. First of all, an important partner for the town of Arlington is a Massachusetts school building authority. The better known as the MSBA the MSBA has is contributing $86 million approximately to this project. And that is saving the taxpayers obviously a considerable amount of money. We have been partnering with the MSBA. Once we submitted the statement for the, the, the statement of interest in 2015. And since we are accepted in their project, they have been partners with us, both in terms of financing and in terms of technical expertise. HMFH is our architectural firm. They've been our partner on this project from the very beginning. Lori Cole's the is our lead architect on the project. And is the owner's project manager. The firm is a nationally of world-known firm that does does owners project management in many areas, including school construction and consigli is our contractor consigli has been working with us over the past several years. This team, the MSBA course many, many years of experience in school building projects, HMFH, Skanska and consigli have been working together. Other high school building projects and they bring their expertise to this project. Next slide please. So, as I said, and I'm going to turn this over in a second to Jim Burrows of Skanska, but this project team has quite a bit of experience on these projects on complex projects and I'm going to let Jim Burrows from Skanska take over from here. Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, so obviously the high school projects a highly complex project both in the building itself and just the logistics. So as Jeff said both consigli Skanska and HMFH as long as as well as the MSBA to have a long list of projects that we've done that are that are phased occupied buildings such as this each project is obviously unique but what we what that brings to the table is we're able to bring our lessons learned from previous projects to have foresight on issues before they become issues. Myself and John Lamar who's on the call tonight actually both worked on Winchester High School that was also an active school, very close neighbors. Those lessons learned. What we've learned over all those projects is that it starts with early pre planning. And that's meeting with the school meeting with the town understanding the challenges well ahead and planning for those. And we've started that the logistics plans that we'll be going through with consigli just a minute are have been developed over the last year and a half. So as the project was designed, it was also planned for thinking about logistics thinking about the school traffic flow, all those pieces and parts. The other piece of this is the robust communications plan really digging in and understanding who needs to know what and when we've actually already had some early meetings with some of the building managers in the area for for the apartments and offices. Ultimately, what that all comes down to is minimizing the disruption obviously this is a large project there will be some disruption. And really it's just that planning piece of it. We have in phase one the Schuler court court folks were obviously very close to the construction and we're able to successfully navigate that phase, and work well with them. And what I think was a successful phase for for those reasons the early planning and communications. So, with that said, I'm going to turn it over to john Lamar who's a senior project manager with consigli and he'll go through some of the finer details of what phase two entails. Thanks Jim good evening everybody john Lamar senior project manager with considered construction. I actually work on site full time. Every day and reports of the island high school project we have a staff of nine. And then to three slides and an animation to show you how we're going to demolish and struck what we call phase two. But going back to the staff of nine and Jim's point about Schuler court with we here every day. We feel that we're part of the neighborhood. And that's how we, how we like to approach it every morning myself and have another mitigation manager we drive the perimeter streets the area to make sure that we don't have a stray truck someplace queuing up before hours. There's certain blackout hours when you're certain times of the day when you are allowed to bring materials in and out and certain times when you're not. We're going to piece it ourselves work closely with the school and the budding neighbors as Jim discussed here. So on this slide, going to get into a little bit of detail to orientate yourself and we did do this a butter meeting several probably year ago plus or minus maybe a little year and a half ago so not sure if I'm still speaking to the same audience or who attended that but phase one as you can see is right there on Mass Ave which was what I referred to as a front lawn. Schuler court to your left. What was Pierce practice field to the left of this document where we've got a parking lot for our construction staging area. And then to the right mealbrook drive and what was tennis courts and parking lot that we created for the staff. We maintain and actually achieve more parking spots onsite and previously existed, meaning that whenever we shut down the parking here we make sure that we return in kind the same count. So we're not pushing or forcing anybody from the facility of the staff onto the public streets they may they maintain on the campus here. So, phase one we just talked about finishing up in February and getting ready for the next slide please which is phase two. So phase two. In essence is we've created a you were taking out what is known as the column column building and the auditorium building and creating another classroom wing and administrative district three story building. The logistics that Jim had talked about earlier and the pre planning. The only way to get in and out of this area is through mealbrook. The access road as you all may or may not know or I'm sure you do as you live in the area is, there's a tight corner around the red gym and another tight corner around the blue gym. It does not allow for any large vehicles to pass in that area. So, all of the materials coming in all the demolition material is going to be going out and all the new materials coming in they're all coming off the middle street and mealbrook. Well, maintaining access to the main entrance number two main entrance number two is at the corner of the downs existing building that was set up in the summer of 2020, 2020, actually. There's also another remote outpost for check in the students so this main entrance number one on Mass Ave main entrance number two are the downs building. The intent is the new schools opened up Mass Ave there's a no parking along Mass Ave is for all the students to get dropped off and picked up on Mass Ave use the new main entrance number one. We're still trying to reduce the amount of traffic to main entrance number two. So therefore it's not congestion with construction and staff in the public. We are also creating what's not shown on the slide because it's happening as we speak is the existing baseball field. We're creating a another staff parking lot over there to alleviate some of the traffic coming off mealbrook and mill street. So we've got the cursor appreciate that coming in off a shula court. So, just taking a look at before go the animation. I'm sorry the next slide please. There we go. So this is a higher level what we just looked at with color coding for construction zone give you a better visual of traffic students again that main entrance number two. There's an existing rotary circle there now that becomes a footprint of the new building. So we're shifting any parents or students that are dropped off at main entrance number two of the downs. They now would circulate through the temporary parking lots. Again we touch base on that red gem up a left hand corner in this document. You can only basically get a pickup truck by through there so there's nothing. There's some site constraints that does not allow that error to be revised or regraded. So we are constrained to that limited turn radius there. And big picture in February when we open the building it will be open for massive but the shrubbery plantings and higher escapes will not be in place because it's it's a dead of winter and we'll come back in early spring and put in the shrubbery greenery sidewalks will be in place. There is a note on shula court there's I think it's an additional 17 spaces being created. There's many gap parking as well as electrical vehicle charging stations. So, before we go into the animation that's going to show the process of the demolition and the superstructure being constructed. This is phase two phase three, I don't want to go into a deep dive but on the same slide here is the fuss go and blue Jim get taken down. New gym facility or the athletic facility there and then phase four, the red Jim and the downs building get taken down. So as Jim talked about earlier. And that gets turned into synthetic turf field so there's a lot of moving parts here, although they're not moving quickly because every phase is 18 months 15 months and a year and a half type of approach but we'll continue to work with the community and your butters and the staff and the school and the town. As I like to say to be good neighbors to the project to the town. So next slide is the animation fire that one up please. So there's a timeline on the bottom here, you'll see. So the demolition and construction of the superstructure. You'll see that in a moment here but so there's your main main main entrance number one. As if we're flying by in a drone at a higher level. We still, there's a temporary connector that goes from the new building, the existing buildings. So the students walk the new to old and the covered connector building. There's the main entrance number two that where I was referring to earlier. And now you can see the timeline on the bottom here starting in March going to November of the demolition of the existing building and the construction of the foundations and superstructure so anticipated to be approximately 30 trucks a day, taking out the demolition material in between the no delivery time zones when students have been dropped off and picked up there are piles, we will be driving piles as well for the foundations. And the building is a structural steel structure. And it's looks, it's almost identical to the phase one, in respect to metal stud framing brick and roofing and windows that you see on the mass that phase one. So this is again a high level, just to show everybody what's happening in that you between new and existing and accessing Milbrook and mill street. Yep. Thank you john. Yeah, so john touched on much of this here that recognizing the challenges that we have and putting in implementing mitigation measures are the key really the pre planning. So we've touched on the truck traffic, making sure that we don't have trucks coming in at the same time as pickup drop off, both for safety and as well as just the, how much traffic that would be on Milbrook. Dust and noise are obvious, obviously big concerns, especially when there's demolition and steel work and piles. So the dust. Obviously, it's sprayed down during during construction phase one, I think we had minimal complaints on dust consigli in their subcontractors are a great job with that. Noise mitigation that that's going to be difficult with this phase with just the activities that we do have. Obviously, as things come up, we have to abide by the work hours set in place by the town. So it is also a concern as well with the kind of work that we're doing. So those we have we did have some in phase one, those are reviewed, sent in into the project, reviewed by the pest control consultant that consigli has on board. So environmental. This is another big concern. Obviously with all of the dust. There's dust monitoring throughout so that we can recognize if there is an issue. So again parking drop off the car circulation around the site. I think John touched on much of that. And then just the overall pedestrian safety and access to the building. And John touched on much of this. So, again, just to reiterate the pre planning, the communications, understanding what challenges we have, and also constant maintenance of that plan throughout the phase, so that if we do are getting complaints on a certain certain topic, we can work with consigli consigli have been great partners all through phase one to see if there's any type of solution to work around an issue that comes up. So again, it's about minimizing the disruption and to echo what john said just being good neighbors. So I think jump to the next slide. Any questions and answers Jim. Yep. Okay, I'm gonna, I will, you know, let people raise their hands and talk but we got some questions that have come in first. First question from one of the attendees Jim. And, and john is what are the official working hours. So, go ahead, John. You got it Jim. Yeah. So the official working hours the typical working hours are seven to three 30. We do have limitations on heavy equipment on weekends, as well as the start time of those as well. So, it's typically seven to three 30 is the typical day, they'll probably will be some extended days but we're limited by the town on the back end of that. And Saturday work because of the tightness of the schedule, we will need Saturday work, most likely throughout phase phase two. Thank you Jim. So, we'll go to the chat and then I can call on folks the first chat question is, will the butters be provided with details for when the demolition will occur specific dates and times. Jim or john. In advance we've bought an update just can't get with our details of what may or may not be impacting the streets and large activities and then Jim can explain what they do with those updates but the other part of that question is demolition will occur. Again, Jim mentioned heavy equipment, we can't start heavy equipment for the town of Arlington until eight in the morning. And depending on the time of the year or the weather, we may extend that an hour, if we have, if we have the daylight hours at the, at the other end this particular case we will, because the demolition is anticipated to start in late March and April and early May. Thank you, and Jim, if you can touch on what the announcements, the weekly. Yeah. So the, the weekly updates go out at the, I believe it's on Friday they go out you can sign up for those and I think that's the last slide that will show with resources. And they're also posted on the website as well. So, again, that's the week prior, you'll see exactly what's going to happen. And then the overall schedule in March, they'll begin the phase two work right when phase two opens. And right away get get right into demo piles over the summer and then steel work starting at the tail end of next summer. So so that's the 30,000 foot schedule. Thank you very much. Next question is, will on street parking on no book drive be prohibited currently cars are parked by the high rock brick building. So on no milk. Yeah, no book drive all of the any legal parking spots that are there now that will remain unchanged. Okay, so legal spots remain unchanged that's the answer to that question. Next question. When will work on the shooter court side be completely finished. When will the 17 parking spaces be added and who will have access school only or resident and or residents. Jim, I can take the first part, the 17 plus or minus spots will be when we open up phase one, February, the 2022. And I just looked on the drawings quickly channel my shoulder here there's two handicap spots and for the charging station spots. After that, I'm not sure who gets assigned or those are public. Yeah, we would have to check back on with the school administration, as far as where those if those spots will be assigned, or if they will be public so we'll have to get back to you on that. The next question is will shooter court be used to access teacher parking throughout the next phase. So will shooter court be used to access teacher parking during the next phase of construction. Yes, in phase two I touched on that the making a new. I'm going to call it not spill over but we're making a new annex house that that's a good work. I was making another teacher parking lot that they will be using to record access that. Okay, thank you. Another question came in on the mobile drive issue again the mobile drive parking currently reduces the street to single lane, when cars or deliveries are being made at the professional building. Do we have any comment on that. My comment to that was we did meet with the office buildings manager, and that topic did come up. So that's something that we have to work with the town, if there is an issue there with deliveries coordinating that. So yeah, that's being looked at and address. Okay. Okay. Are there any other questions you're welcome as a panelist you want to raise your hand up just when anyone else if anyone else would like to talk. Ask a question I'm looking at all the attendees. Did we answer that question that came in as an email. No, I don't believe we did. You want to refer that. Yeah. Yeah, I'll take the front end of it, john. This week. Yeah, yeah, so there was a question whether construction traffic, or well, excuse me that there would be a connection from Millbrook out to Grove Street. We discussed early on in the project so as it stands right now that will be pedestrian traffic through the DPW over to the high school site. There will be a vehicular gate in between to the both campuses. So that won't be a public road that can be be cut through. So john, did you want to touch on the truck traffic. I think in the presentation Jim we answered the emails question which was a truck traffic can't drive around the blue or red gym so everything is still going. We do phase three which will I'm sure we'll do another butters session like this phase three, the majority of it if not all the construction traffic will be coming in and out on shulok court. Again because you can't drive around the back of the buildings with the live equipment. Okay. So there's a question here we know by the way just just to clarify the Millbrook. Double parking issue that that is a town issue. So it's not necessarily something in the building committee in our purview. Will the question that came in how often these webinars held is the best way to sign up for upcoming meetings webinars by the website yes, you can sign up for alerts and information from us on the website and we'll get notifications about different things that are happening related to the building committee the next meeting is the next public meeting is in January. I got to look at that date. There's a January. I believe it's the 25th. You're right is 25th so Tuesday the 25th we're going to have a community forum at seven in the evening. And that's a chance for anyone in the community and ask questions some other questions that came in the q amp a will the presentation deck be made available. Jim and john is our plan is to make it available on the website the deck up. Yes, yep. Yes, so we will make yes we'll answer that. We'll put that on the deck. We'll put that on the website. The next question. Not sure my question was answered when we'll work on sugar court side be completely finished. For example, EG generator removed trucks not operating on that site. John, do you want to take that so when will the sugar court side be completely finished. Are we talking April of 2025 when we're all done with everything. Yeah, probably come back to the fall of 2024. So, yeah, so I guess the question of the answer that question is fall of 24. Everything should be answered should be completed. Next question. Okay, so about notebook drive. This is an issue for people to live and bring them square milk drive is the only access to this 114 unit complex. Yes that we completely understand that a question that's come in about bring them square. It's really a town issue I don't know if Jim or john we can further comment on that in terms of access on the book drive. Do you have anything else to add. I think the only thing that it came on our radar, because it will obviously affect the truck traffic going in and out. So it will affect construction if it is an issue. So it's an issue for the construction project as well. For that we will have to, as you said, have the town address. So it's obviously a concern for the construction project as well. So I mean, it's noted and will will be will be in touch with the town on that. We haven't already. Any other attendee you're welcome to ask questions live if you want to raise your hand or if you want to put in the chat. I'd like to ask the question live I'll just, I'll just allow you to talk. Anybody, anybody have the attendees. I just want to make sure everyone has a chance to speak if you'd like to. There's something on the screen here. Okay, so anyone I just want to make sure everyone has a chance to speak. You have any questions before we sign off. Anyone at all any questions that haven't been answered. Anybody want to. Oh, okay. Do you foresee, wait a minute, there was a question that did come in in the chat. Do you foresee any road closures on Schuler court during phase two I am new to the area so phase two which begins starting on in in the spring. John, no, phase one we did during the summer when school was out we did the majority of what we needed to do to go down to the court from phase one. So during phase two construction, no, during phase three construction, which again is the athletic building, there will be some there will be road closures that actually will be closed off to the public. They'll only be for access for construction. Right. Any other questions folks this is your chance that you can, you can put it in the chat. Or you can go to the q amp a or you can raise your hand and I'll give you a call on you can talk live. Oh, not a question. This is from one of the attendees but I wanted to thank one of the construction people will move construction trash from my front garden, appreciate that. So, thank you to the team for doing that for one of our neighbors. Okay, any other questions just want to make sure we cover this. Well listen we we appreciate all of you joining us. You can sign up for construction web updates on the project website is to then your screen right now the email is a just building at Arlington. K12.ma.us any concerns or questions you have we try to get back to people as quickly as we possibly can. We I just want to say on behalf of the building committee which has been working together now for five years again working as a team in 2016 December 2016 we are very excited about where the project is. We're excited to see students come into the building at the end of February of 2022 it's been something we've been working on striving for for a long time. This is, as the other people on the panel today said, a community wide effort. We've been funded by the taxpayers around him in the state of Massachusetts and so all of us have a stake in the success of this school, and all of us have a stake obviously in the success of the students who attend the school, turn students and future students so we thank you for supporting this project. So we thank you for coming to tonight's session. If you have any further questions, any concerns, just reach out to us we'll get back to you as soon as we can. And we asked everyone to have a great evening, a great holiday season and a happy 2022.