 Good evening, everyone. My name is Jeff Thielman, a member of the Arlington School Committee and the chair of the Arlington High School Building Committee. Thank you for joining us tonight. This is a very exciting time for Arlington. As you see when you drive by the school on Mass Ave, in a little over two months, we anticipate opening parts of our new building. Tonight, Dr. Janger and the project team will give a preview of what to expect during the upcoming transition in February and March of 2022. Construction of phase one is nearing its end and we will soon open the first new wings of the school. Phase two will begin immediately and will entail demolition of parts of the old school and building the next phase of the new school. As you can imagine, there are quite a few logistics we want to share with you tonight. We have allowed ample time for questions and answers at the end of our presentation tonight, so please submit your questions in the chat. In addition, the building committee has created a number of supporting materials for this transition, and you can find them now on our project website, www.ahsbuilding.org. Before I continue, I just want to have everyone on our screen introduce themselves. I said my name is Jeff Thielman, and I chair the Arlington High School Building Committee. Lori, you want to go ahead? Thanks, Jeff. My name is Lori Coles, and I am the architect with HMFH Architects. Thank you. John Lamar. Good evening, everyone. John Lamar is a construction company. I'm a senior project manager. Dr. Janger. You're muted, Dr. Janger. I'm still Matthew Janger, and I'm still the high school principal. Thank you, Dr. Janger. Dr. Holman. Hi, everyone. My name is Liz Holman. I am the superintendent of schools for Arlington. Jim Burroughs. Hi, Jim Burroughs, senior project manager with Skanska, and we're serving as the owner's project manager. And Mr. McCarthy. I'm Bill McCarthy. I'm the assistant principal at Arlington High School. Great. Thank you. I think I got everybody. On behalf of the building committee, I want to give a brief update on the project. We began talking about a new high school in Arlington in 2014. We secured approval from the Massachusetts School of Building Authority, better known as the MSBA, to conduct a feasibility study in 2015. In December of 2016, five years ago, the town officially formed the AHS Building Committee. After a lot of deliberation, we decided to build a new school on the existing site. The total cost is $289 million, with about $86 million coming from the MSBA from the state. The school is designed for 1,755 students, and it can serve more than that if necessary. I am happy to report to the community this evening that the project is on time, slightly under budget, and is scheduled to be completed in 2024 with the fields and site work done in the spring of 2025. Next slide, please. The town has many partners in this complex project. On the screen, you'll see the logos of the Massachusetts School of Building Authority, Consigli, our contractor, Skanska, our owner's project manager, and HMFH architects, our design team. Next slide, please. So in this slide, you can see the site plan. As you can see, we are building a new school on the same site as the current school. And behind it, we are improving our fields with artificial turf so we can have longer seasons and more time for outdoor activities for all students. This slide shows you the connection to the bikeway, the location of the amphitheater, learning courtyard, preschool, and parking areas. Next slide, please. On this slide, you see an overview of the various of the project phases. As you can see, we are completing phase one construction in the front of the existing school. And we are this is the steam and performing arts wing. Phase two is the humanities wing, central spine, cafeteria, library, preschool, district offices. Phase three is the athletics wings, and phase four, we finish the new school. Next slide, please. As you can see in this slide, we are completing phase one construction in front of the existing school. That's the purple area that you see. And behind the purple area is of the phase one construction zone. You'll see the existing structure of the existing school, the structure of the current school as it is designed at this moment, or as it's operated at this moment. Next slide, please. In phase two, you see in this slide phase two, the construction zone for phase two, the yellow area shows the active school, and the green area shows the phase two construction area. We'll learn more about this tonight. The next slide, please. As you can see, our plan is to move into the new buildings on February 28 begin demolition of the old school in March, complete the auditorium in April, and complete phase three of construction by September of 2023. And related issues have forced the delayed opening of the auditorium. However, all spaces in the performing arts wing that are outside of the auditorium will be functional when the steam wing opens in February. Next slide, please. In the next few slides, we're going to show you visuals of the Mass Ave lobby, steam wing and performing arts wing. I'm now going to turn this over to our architect from HMFH, Lori Coles. Thank you, Jeff. Advance one, please. So this is a view I'm sure many of you have seen from Massachusetts Avenue. It is the new Mass Ave entrance for the school. To the right on this slide is the steam wing. To the left on this slide is the performing arts wing. And you are seeing the canopy, the entrance canopy for the school. And just beyond the wall of glass, you are seeing the discourse lab, which is a unique space for the new building. Next slide. Now we're inside the lobby and we're looking back at that entrance canopy back towards Massachusetts Avenue. And just above us, that curved space is actually the underside of that discourse lab. And again to orient you on the right of this slide would be the entrance to the new auditorium. And what you're seeing here is the beginnings of the installation of the flooring, which is going to be a beautiful terrazzo. And that has actually progressed since this slide and it's stunning. Looking forward for you all to see it. Next slide. So now we are in the discourse lab up on the one floor above Mass Ave. And the image on the right shows that we have tiered seating, and it will be seating for 120 people. But it will be a light filled space with the ability to turn dark, depending on the presentations. And you're also seeing the in process installation of the ceiling in the space, which will be quite unique, both for its lighting and the acoustical properties of the different ceiling tiles that will go in here. And this is a view of one of the 17 new science rooms that will be in the upper three floors of the steam wing. You're seeing one side of the room with the full wall of built in cabinetry and storage. There's a second wall of that with sinks. And they will be beautiful, highly functional science rooms for the future. Next slide. So in an effort to make corridors not feel like corridors. The corridors in the steam wing will be activated by a number of, with a number of treatments, one of which is the use of light wells. The image on the right is the larger one. We refer to it as the ellipse. It goes through the full height of this wing, and will bring natural light down through all the windows to every floor. And similarly, we have a narrow sort of triangular light well that's on the left image, and that will do the same and bring light to all of the spaces. So part of the activation of the corridors, not only is to bring light to all of these spaces, but also to provide different gathering or common areas within the corridor. And so this image on the right is showing that elliptical light well with with a counter all the way around it. And so it'll allow the students to sort of stop and gather, put down their laptop, and so on. And the image to the left is showing again sort of the view into the light well. And you may notice a theme of the cool colors in the light well in the excuse me steam wing, where we have blues into lighter blues and darker blues. Next slide. And this is a view from the balcony level of the new auditorium, which will seat 826 people. And what you're looking at is the view back towards the stage at the rear of this image. And no, all of that scaffolding will go away. It's in fact already gone as of today, but it is under construction and looking wonderful. Next slide. And so in the performing arts wing, we've created sort of a hub zone for the students. And it's going to double also as sort of a back of the house when when performers, musicians and the like are waiting to enter the stage for performance, but also general hangout for the kids so you're seeing in the image on the right which is a rendering built in bench and seating and the colorful image you're seeing on that wall is a full two story height wall graphic that is has representative images of all of the performing arts and the image on the left is showing the space under construction. And so I am now going to turn this over to Dr. Matthew, Matthew Janger, the principal of the high school unmute Matthew. I think you got me one slide early but that's okay. So in phase two, which is while we are in phase two so we'll be in the steam wing, and a part of the old building, what is going to be built next is the humanities wing, which will be English history. The world language and family and consumer science as well as the guidance offices, the media center the cafeteria, it will create that learning courtyard, the district offices in the preschool be at the end of that space. So that that's what we built in the next year and a half, after we make the move. Next slide. So in terms of just working through the details. And I have to give a massive shout out to Bill McCarthy, who has really been I think them that for our building and instructional move manager managing a giant spreadsheet, both in his head and on paper of where everyone's going to go next. So I'm going to give a high level description of some of the logistics of that, but I want to assure people there will be multiple opportunities. If you share this information out there'll be another forum next month which will be focusing more on details of this move. And there will be advisories with students FAQ which will be posted and shared with folks as well as a quick guide with new maps of where things are. So we're going to try to put the information out in pieces so people can absorb it as we move forward through the phases. So the first step that's going to really start the move is happening right now. So the blue gym is being converted to be a temporary cafeteria and over break old hall will be converted into a temporary library will move those spaces. So we'll have an extended homeroom on the first day back in January, just so we can explain to students where they go and where things are going to be. We have more seating actually in the blue gym in the pit, then we currently do in the cafeteria. So we will be able to continue to spread students out during the winter months. In February break. The plan is to have a half day on the last day before February break, which is February 18th. So students will be dismissed 1130 in order to give teachers time for last minute planning, although we have been meeting with them regularly and people who have been packing since this summer. And then on the day back February 28 will have an 1130 delayed start again to give teachers an opportunity to come in unpack and get ready for classes that afternoon. And we will give students an opportunity to come in in the hour before school which we always do and be prepared for them to have tours, or to have people who can show them around as they are obviously going to want to go look around the building. So in April, the auditorium is slated to be completed. Next slide. So one of the things that's really been a major piece of this effort has been ongoing communication. We meet weekly with the architect and design team. We meet weekly as part of the, the, with the construction team, and we're now as we've been moving into a more intensive interaction with the instructional space, we've been increasing those communications. So now the construction team is giving us weekly updates of project impacts and activities that might be happening near the instructional space. And we're going to make every effort to really minimize that, that impact. John Lamar will talk more about this but student areas and construction areas have been separated by fencing and walls and will continue to be separated during the rest of the project. So we will have most likely daily communications, we will map out both instructional activities that might impact, sorry, construction activities that might impact instruction, as well as instructional activities like testing or exams that will require us to not have particular activities going on in order to work closely with the construction team. And that bullet actually I'll come back to later about passing time, but we are also aware that in the new building, both, that there's going to be some challenges in terms of flow. And, you know, right now we will have a new four story building, there'll be one passage way into the next building, and then students will still be using Fusco house, which is the oldest building and down south which is where the history department will still be over by the fields. Next slide. So a little recap there so right now the library will move to old hall, old hall is the 100 year old gym actually in the old building but which we use as a study hall, the study hall in old hall will move to the pit. The cafeteria will move into the blue gym, which will be a temporary space for them. And then, when we go, let's see, the primary and so that that's what's going to happen right when we come back. And then in February. The primary entrance now will shift because the horseshoe the circle that we use in the back of the building will no longer be there that'll be part of the construction zone. In the back of the building on the Milbrook entrance, folks will be routed through those new parking lots. And in the front, which is where we would really like most student drop off to take place. There'll be a drop off zone along Massachusetts Avenue. At that point, all of the science, technology, engineering, visual arts, mathematics, family and consumer science and ELL classes, as well as a handful of other classes will move into the new steam wing. And then it starts on the second or third floor depending on how you count, but it'll be a second floor in the new building. And then there are four stories above that. So all the performing arts classes will be in the new band room in the discourse lab, initially and then in the theater, and in the new chorus room as well as in the new production studio. And then as I said in April, the auditorium is slated to be completed. Now one issue that's come up recently. There's been a question which is sort of in discussion and being decided on right now, which is, we moved initially the play for the spring, the spring musical I'm sorry, to may to give us the possibility of being able to do the performance in the new auditorium at this point, given the challenges of construction and the fine tuning of it. We are obtaining a new space so that we can do the performance there in a professional theater. We, we are, we are still hoping that it will be done in order for the seniors to be able to experience it and come into it but we're planning to have the musical elsewhere. Next slide. So now I'm going to turn things over to john Lamar, who is the senior project manager for Consigli. Thank you. Good evening. A larger picture. The construction started in March of 2020. So we've been on campus for a good, almost two years. And phase one, the front, what I like to refer to as the front line has been going quite well in respect to our separation that Matthew Jenga talk about talked about protection of staff students in the public. We as consigli have a lot of experience, many projects myself, I'm a film in high school, Winchester high school that were occupied with innovations. I'm on site full time. Every day of the week, staff of 10 people. So we are here seven in the morning to like tonight, eight o'clock. But we are here, we interact daily, sometimes not hourly but Mr. McCarthy Bill McCarthy is always there, taking our calls and coordinating. And I'd like to think what we've done to date has proven that we can come on this Lee work and build a building and students can still productively learn. What we'll do, I'd like to get into some specifics just about what we have been doing and I'll just touch on it for dust control, for example, during the summer months, so we're gravel, we have a full time water truck on site. And that also does the average actually the campus paved road just to make sure that there's no dust there. Same thing with a street sweeper we bring a street sweeper in once a week, but as needed if we're hauling out materials that may be tracking onto the public streets of the campus. And then when demolition occurs, we will be having a full time fire hoses, watering down dusting for those of you that may have been familiar with the DPW project adjacent to us. That's what they did and that was a very successful very little dust. All of that dust is monitored by a third party. McPhail Associates, who works for the design team. And again, we've already done that a couple, couple summers now. So when we're moving dirt, they are monitoring air, just to make sure the dust and the particles are contained. In respect to noise, noise mitigation. This may be something that maybe people don't even realize we're doing. We all have backup alarms, you go to the stocking shop, you go to the Whole Foods, you hear the trucks backing up. You don't hear backup alarms on our project. We have a white noise or a squelch backup alarm. That's because that's for every piece of equipment or lift that here on the site because we're adjacent to the building. These are the type of things that we've learned over the years and know over the years are successful in trying to mitigate. Mitigate that noise, mitigate that, the dust. So all about communication. We make sure that we're communicating with the school, as Matthew Jenkins said, and Bill McCarthy in advance, if we have large deliveries, large equipment going to be coming to the site. And we coordinate around testing, MCAST, PSATs, SATs. We try to plan ahead accordingly in advance, not the day before to make sure that we're trying to stay away from that end of the building. And if we can't, again, working with the school to make sure that accommodations have been made to minimize that noise. There is a slide coming up, two slides coming up, but one, the last slide is an animation that we're going to show you. What we're going to do to take the building down and put the new building up for base to right now we've been in the front lawn, but now we're going to be in your backyard and we'll show you that in that animation in a moment. So next slide please. Matthew had mentioned the, noted the traffic pattern. So, right now in the back of the Millbrook and Mill Street, everybody comes in and drives around the circle for the rotary. We're still going to have that same ability. It's just going to be shifted to what is the temporary parking lots that we've created on the softball field. Again, the best approach is to use the main entrance. Number one, Mass Ave. Because if you're coming by now, you can actually see that there's a nice driveling there. No, there's no parking. Students can drop off and come into the building. There's also going to be some new staff parking created in this phase just to make sure that the staff has ample location to park. And the front lawn on this particular slide, because we're turning phase one project over in February, we can't at this point do grass plantings or shrubbery. So in the spring, as soon as Mother Nature allows, we'll be doing the plantings and shrubbery, but you'll be able to still use the sidewalks and walkways as shown on that document, this document to get into the building. And the slide is the animation. So this was put together to show what we would refer to as the heavy construction, the demolition and the structural steel and the superstructure as we refer to it as. Sorry, just see if it looks like there might be an issue there. See if we can start that again. Okay, so this is going to be a temporary connector building. The slide right there that temporary connector is actually a heated covered walkway lit with fire alarm and fire protection. So the students will be able to go from the new building to the existing buildings. We've seen in phase one covered walkways will have the exact same covered walkway approach to make sure overhead and lit in a safe walkway to go from the downs building to the courtyard. What we're seeing now is the superstructure or the existing buildings coming down. But as you can see, we're sandwiched in between the new phase one buildings, the downs and the Fusco building. The timeline is to drive the piles or do the foundation work in the summertime as you can see in the chart of the graphic below there in August, you'll see the foundations going in. And later in the season or toward September and October structural steel being erected. This is taken from an airplane view looking down to just to try to give everybody a nice overview of we're going to be as I started in my presentation here in your backyard. And we'll do everything we can with all those mitigation measures we just mentioned to work with the school, the staff and the students and obviously the community. At this point, I'd like to turn it back over to Dr. Janger. So, if you could just go back up to slides I want to talk a little bit about the access to the building. I think it's two slides. Yep. So, as John just talked about, we have two entrances to the building one is on the Massachusetts Avenue side, and that's labeled as main entrance number one students will be able to do arrivals and dismissals at that location. But that's not the main office that is the principal's office so to the right of that entrance will be the principal's office. So if you look on the Milbrook side of the school, which is going to be a busier and more constricted area so if you're driving to the school we really recommend you use the Mass Ave side. But for pedestrian you can come in and loop around through the parking lots, and then students can walk in that way, as they have been through the, through the park that goes alongside. The main entrance to and there'll be two entrances there over time that'll shift there'll be signage. So at that location is what people have been calling the main office, and that's the attendance office. But you can check in and do it rivals and dismissals at either location. If someone sends you to the principal's office, it's going to be off Mass Ave. If someone sends you to the main office or the attendance office. It's going to be off main entrance to on Milbrook. So you can go back down again. All of this will be outlined in the FAQ and will be in the student quick guide as well, and we will go over it with students. As we go into those phases. So, in terms of pedestrian safety and access to the building. The Mass Ave as we pointed out is significantly less problematic in terms of crossing patterns. We've done everything we can on the Milbrook side to route the student walkways through the park, and then on part on sidewalks that go around. But as we know, students don't always follow those sidewalks. And so there is some crisscrossing of potential patterns, which is why we'd really rather people don't drive in the back if we can avoid it. John has talked about the noise and air mitigation measures. There's a lot of work done on the construction side, in terms of timing things so that they're not disruptive school and in terms of, you know, dust mitigation with watering and monitoring and all those things. At the same time within the building. We've really focused on trying to make sure that the building functions and that they're able to have comfortable classrooms. And I want to be realistic about this. The current building has never been very comfortable. Some of the rooms get very hot. Some of the rooms get very cold. And we've been doing a lot of repairs around ventilation and a lot of upgrades as part of COVID preparation but also as part of preparation for this to make sure that all of the rooms have adequate ventilation and that in rooms that are not able to open their windows. On the east facing wall of Fusco, the north facing wall of Downs and the south facing wall of the new building that there's adequate ventilation and accommodation for comfort on the east facing walls of Fusco which is the old building. We've installed air conditioning which required electrical upgrades throughout the side of the building in the new wing you've got triple glazed glass and new HVAC. And so the sound mitigation there should be pretty good. And then there's, there are a small number of classrooms on the north wall of Downs house. Those have adequate ventilation they will be more shaded actually, and they have been in the past because of the new building. And if necessary, we will do shifting of classrooms around but we think that those should be adequate to navigate the construction project. So as I mentioned before we have been coordinating on a weekly basis, we will move to coordinating on a more daily basis. We have already and we'll go over again the school calendar so that things like the MCAS or PAP exams, we're able to take shifts so that we're not making noises right outside the window because those are times we really want to make sure that there aren't interruptions. One of the concerns we've had is around student mental health now as we've said, we really hope that the new setup does not interfere with the process of class. However, we know that change is difficult. And right now we have a very stressed out student body more so than usual, because of all of the disruptions and changes in the last couple of years. So we are going to be alert to student mental health in terms of changes, trying to do this in small pieces trying to be understanding about expectations, you know, travel time is going to be an issue and we really want to communicate. Just to be clear I said I was going to get to that later. So we have on the calendar three minute passing time in the current building, if you're coming from one far corner to the other building. That's not really a realistic time. The three minute time is there to emphasize that we expect students to go from one class directly to the next. We actually don't use bells in the school. Teachers that dismiss the students in a timely fashion, and the students arrive in a timely fashion, and the teachers are going to understand that we're going to need to adjust to the travel times that are going to exist in the new building. And so that's the understanding if we change it to five minutes, that wouldn't solve the problem what's going to solve the problem is us being alert to the challenges and making sure they were communicating specific groups of students and special education or other programs, where we have concerns about their navigation of change. We're already working with those staff to plan and make sure that they are able to preview the changes and understand and address what's going on in athletics. We've already obtained and made plans and schedules for fields off site where necessary for gym facilities off site doesn't gymnastics when necessary. We are going to lose use of the blue gym for athletics, so there will be a little bit more trading off of use of the red gym, but we've already worked that schedule through, and I do want to give a shout out to our custodians. As well as our coaches were really going to be flexible in terms of needing to transition the space is more often, and knowing that that's something that they're going to be doing, because for example the pit, which will continue to be used for wrestling is also going to be used as a cafeteria site so we know we can move the tables out and bring the mats in, but that is one more thing that the custodians are navigating so I really want to appreciate them. And in terms of special events. The big events that people worry about graduation. NHS induction award ceremony will be be able to be housed in the school. NHS will be before we move out of the old auditorium award ceremony and graduation will have use of the new theater, and the pierce field as we've done in the past. And then other activities like the prom happen offsite. So we will still have the use of different facilities for other and prompt to activities that students often plan in the spring. I believe that's the end of my slides. Next slide. So now I'm turning the microphone over to Dr. Homan, who will lead us through the q amp a session. Thank you, Dr. Janger. I want to actually why don't we take the slides down. Amy we can stop sharing so that we can see everyone and I don't have any questions right now in the chat so I'm going to go to some of the ones that were pre submitted to us but I want to remind families that if you have any questions about anything that we've presented there is a chat in the bottom of the lexiki platform and you can leave us any questions and we'll be sure to answer those. So in some of the pre submitted questions we have several questions about the opportunity to tour the new buildings excitement about these beautiful new spaces and questions about when they will be able to have a chance to see the inside of the buildings as parents of students at the school or members of the public. I want to address that. I did want to say if any alumni are on and they want to tour the old building. Please reach out to my office, we will be running towards this weekend. We still have some openings for those who are interested. The question is about when when transparency the building I think the building committed to work with Dr. Janger to schedule sometimes we do certainly for those members of the public or members of town meeting one of our goals is to get all town meeting members into the building prior to the start of town meeting in April. And I know Dr. will work with Dr. Janger and his staff on something for parents. Thank you. And then there's a question about the demolition of parts of the old building and whether that will be happening during school hours I know we spoke about dust and noise control. But perhaps, John you can speak a little bit more to sort of how the team is thinking through hours and what's going on during school hours, a little bit more. Yes, the demolition will be occurring during the school year. The way it's aligned with the schedule starting in late March probably mid March, the demolition will commence. We recognize that we have students adjacent, as well as as an apartment building off on Millbrook. So there is no easy way of doing a staggered started midday and demolition and then go into the night because then you have got the flip side of the neighborhood. So it will be a 7am start. And we are looking at extended days. But it's very large building. So we have a timeframe of approximately six weeks to take the demolition down, take the buildings down obviously not all at once as the animation show. There is a question about when the bike path will be accessible to the high school from the bike path to the high school. There's no one to take it. I can speak to that it's a, it's phase four. And phase four is May of 2025 or right around that time frame is when that would be open to the public. John, maybe we can stay on a bit of this question because there was also a question about how many phases there are as part of the project, which you just sort of answered, but we can talk through each of the subsequent phases. Sure. So phase two we just spent a lot of time on today. That finishes roughly September of 2020. My number is my years mixed up at 23. And then phase three is taking down the fuss go in the blue gym and putting up a athletic facility, a large athletic facility gym and locker rooms supporting it. Phase four is then taking down the downs and the red gym and creating those synthetic turf fields. The way that schedule falls is the synthetic turf fields cannot be put down in the wintertime. So the buildings will be torn down the fields will be prepped. And that's why we're going to go into the May, April, May of 2025, put the synthetic turf fields down before phases. Phase one is nearing completion. I have a question about how traffic on Mass Ave will be managed during the drop off period in the morning. I think maybe Matthew or Bill would be best to answer this one. I mean, so we as a, as an educational staff will not be traffic officers. So our expectation is that people will follow traffic laws there is an extra lane. And we pull over to that extra land. It's just as if you were what used to be parking. So you should be pulling out of traffic there. And then unloading. I think if, if after we open up we find that there are difficulties with people obeying traffic laws we will probably reach out to our school resource officer and the Arlington Police Department to help us direct traffic in order to train folks but I'm assuming that folks will come in a timely fashion and figure out the pathways. One of the challenges we talked about when we designed the project in the beginning was the traffic during that brief window of rush minute in Arlington is challenging in that area might take you an extra five minutes to sort of pass through that area of the town. We are not able to handle traffic better than in the past, but we are not able to handle traffic perfectly. So I think people will have to be patient and plan accordingly that there will most likely be some slow down on mill, and then as you come along massive. So that's about the time it's going to take the kids to walk from, for example, the CBS end of the steam wing to the farthest end of downs and questions about class passing time, and sort of mitigating the challenges for the students of getting all the way around the building. So as a, as I tried to explain before and I talked about in the FAQ. Right now, we have a mile and a half of hallway. And so our three minute passing time is there with the understanding that not all students can get from one class to the other in three minutes, or we don't use bells as I explained. So it's not like you've got a, and then it's a race, and then another bell goes off teachers release their students. And then teachers start their classes when all the students are there the expectation for students is that they go directly from one class to the next. And so, you know, most of your class if you're in downs house will be able to get there in around three or four minutes. If you've got one kid that's coming all the way from the chemistry wing. It will take and we'll learn over time, but the teacher is going to know that that students coming from the chemistry wing. And if they're there within seven minutes. The rest of the class is able to adjust we have talked in the past about lengthening those passing times, but the reality was the lengthening of the passing times let students to linger in the halls, which meant the passing was slower and harder for students. And so we really just want to emphasize you go from one class to the next directly and then we start class when everybody gets there. So we we will and I think this is important because it's actually funny that there's apparently a thread online of students complaining about other students walking slow in the hall, making them late to class which is a wonderful thing about our students. But we know that some students aren't clear on those expectations. And so we will make sure to re emphasize those multiple times to students know that they should move quickly, but without stress from one class to the other. All right, there are questions about biking, a couple of different questions about biking and it may be that some of these are ones that we may need to take back to the town and consider with members of our town administrators there's a question about what what's being done to make sure that it's safe for students to bike on Mass Ave because that's where the car drop off zone will be we have students who commute to the different side of town, long Mass Ave and also where bike parking will be on Mass Ave or on Mill Street. So, again, bike travel is not going to change on Mass Ave as a result of the new building. So bike parking will be better in front of the building because there's a large number of bike. As part of the design which is a leads, we believe gold maybe even platinum building design there are a lot is a lot of bike parking, going into the new construction. And we're going to take the bike racks that we have in the front of the building and move those to the back so we should have a fair number of bike racks in the back of the building, so that students can walk up their bike. So again from the Mill Brookside. There is actually a bike ramp that comes down by Shaddix by the ace hardware there, and then students can come in on the driveway and come around on the park, and then use to decide what the kids to do the school. There's a question about air quality and reporting will you regularly report on air quality and ventilation, especially in the rooms where kids are eating and are unmasked. I'll start with this question and then I may turn it over to john, but we in all of our rooms in the current building and all of our rooms in the new building. Any rooms where students are eating in our unmasked we have extra air purifiers in those rooms we have tested ventilation repeatedly in those rooms and whenever we have concerns about the ventilation we retest to make sure air exchange rates are turning the air over it at an interval of every minutes if not more often. So in terms of COVID safety, we've done those ventilation air exchange checks and that's what's really important for eating and unmasked when it comes to the pandemic. But in terms of the actual building projects and air quality and ventilation I'll have to turn it over to one of our building construction folks. I don't want to neglect to talk about that in the air my section about the air so we have a baseline established once a month we have a third party independent industrial hygienist that comes in and walks the actual existing building once we turn it over, verifying the air quality. So, when the students in the building we do a baseline. And then we take that baseline and make sure that the air, the particles in the air on elevated due to construction. I think I touched on before we've been doing this now for over a year and a half and all of the regions have been coming in fine and if there should be an odor or smell there on call to come to the project and do an investigation. See if there's a sometimes it's as simple as that there could be a mopping solvent. You know that was more robust and it should be but the date we haven't had that and that's all documented monthly and that report is provided. So I'm just going to ask her and then to the town. We also have a note that the monthly air quality reports are posted on the project website if anybody ever wants to go look those up. And I have two questions for Lori, I think what so verse one is what lead certification does a just meet Dr. Janker just referred to this and somebody's curious what the lead certification is. And one was whether or not the there would be bricks you being used to face the phase two building similar to the phase one. So, yes, we are absolutely lead gold. And we are quite close to the platinum. And so we are making that push as a whole project team to achieve that so fingers crossed that we can get all those points. And then the whole the whole building is masonry. And it's a combination of brick size and larger size, which are referred to a CMU and all sides, you know, the rest of the building have both both of those materials. Is there any plan to consider the ease of academic workload homework etc to accommodate the transition into the new building and during demolition. Dr. Janker. So that's always a challenge I mean we are and have been really working very hard on pacing of work around reasonable expectations for students. And we will continue to do so if we find that there is, we're always telling teachers to sort of think about rigor but at the same time, to be really aware that if you push, you don't get anywhere if you're, you know, just dumping things on people. So to keep the pace of work appropriate to the environment to the school and the capacity of the students to manage it. And so we will, we will adjust as necessary. So we are also going to have to there will be times as we're leading up where teachers may need some release time in order to get stuff ready and we'll do that in a rolling fashion, so it doesn't shut down anything. And we'll take you know adjustments as we can go. So I would say yes. As a practice that we've really been working on a lot this year. And then during heavy demolition days can students have respiratory issues be allowed to miss school or join remotely. I will say that remote instruction is not a model that we're permitted to use per the state so the option opportunity for us to officially give students an in school day or an attendance counted day while they're learning remotely is not something that we are able to accommodate. Dr. Janker do you want to speak to what families should do if they're concerned about respiratory issues. I'm sure I mean if you have a diagnosed respiratory issue you should absolutely contact the nurse and give them information from your medical provider, so that they can be aware of ways that we can support your student. My hope would be and this is the conversation we've had with consigli that the air quality in the school is not degraded. And so unless we are, you know, having an unfortunate situation that we don't foresee the student with respiratory issues should not be impacted by the project. But if there is a student with a respiratory issue that we need to be alert to, in case something untoward happens, please notify the nurse so we know about that student in advance. Will there be air conditioning in the classrooms maybe Dr. Janker and Mr. McCarthy can speak to where that we have air conditioning in the building. So, currently, we have very limited conditioning in the building, we did put air conditioning in the classrooms that will face the direct demolition, and that was done intentionally to mitigate sound and just filtration as well. We do have some air conditioners that were also placed in the building, the Fusco house building facing the new construction for similar reason, as the construction went up on the new building. So those are the two areas that have air conditioning in the classroom areas. Right now the Downs House offices and classrooms. We did a full review of those back when COVID first came out. And the ventilation process in there has been deemed as acceptable. We went through assess the systems and made any repairs to the older system to make sure it was fully working. So we don't have concerns about ventilation in those spaces at this time. Did you say, Mr. McCarthy, the new reminder that the new wings will have air conditioning. Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, the new building will have air ventilation as well. And I just want to point out that in addition to having conditioned cold air in the new building, there's also a HEPA filtration throughout the HVAC system. And correct me if I'm wrong Lori, but there's also UV sort of for virus killing in the ventilation system. We did the building committee did add to the system. It was voted on. Fortunately, we were able to do that before we finished the construction documents to make sure that we were able to provide a more robust system for the building them than what's originally planned for so And I have the moment have one more question. So if families have any additional questions drop them in the chat while we answer this one there's a question about what when and for what will the amphitheater be used. So the end. Go ahead Bill. Okay. The amphitheater will not be completed until phase three. And as the gym facilities are completed, because that's the secondary wall of the amphitheater. Our goal is to use the amphitheater as an outdoor classroom. Also to house theater productions, music productions, outdoor events, and things of that nature so it'll be tied into our curriculum during the day, and as an event space in the evenings. And just one thing to point out that the amphitheater. That faces down to the black box theater so behind the stage there is our black box theater so our theater program or drama program can then use the outdoor stage there with support right out the back so we'll expect that we'll have outdoor performances there as well. I don't have any more questions I do have a thank you for all the great work and for this update. We're back putting on the just put on the pajama. There you go on the mic for that. I think yeah that's right okay so you wanted to put up this last slide. So please make sure that you join us on January 25 as we look forward to that form we're going to be really focusing in on details about the move itself so the families can get any questions answered about what that process is going to look like. There are construction updates and able to it's available for you to sign up for you can go to the project website for that. You can email us on Facebook or email us with any questions or concerns that you have and Mr Thielman. Is there anything else you would like to add before we sign off. No we just thank everybody in town for tuning in tonight and please you know even if you have any questions you can shoot us an email that address and get back to you as quickly as we can. So thanks so much for your support of this project. This is a townwide effort and I think it's going to be a point of pride for the entire community so thank you so much. Have a good evening. Thank you for using the chat. Thank you for joining us. Good night everybody.