 Hi, everyone. This meeting is being recorded. It will be uploaded in a few days to the town of Amherst YouTube channel. And at this time, I would like to turn things over to Margaret minor one. Hi, I am the owners project manager for the Fort River elementary school project and I'm going to give a little bit of an update on the project explain what's happening on Monday next week. And then I'm going to hopefully that will be brief, no more than 10 minutes. And then we're going to open the meeting up to questions. And if folks come in late, I can recap some of us. So thank you for joining today. So the first thing I'm going to say is if you are a parent or a staff member of the school, hopefully you are aware that Amherst is getting ready to build a new elementary school on the Fort River site. And it's going to be on the south, south end of the site of the existing school. So I'm just going to share a site plan quickly from Google Maps and kind of indicate to you where the building is going to be. So if you can see this, the, this is the existing school. This is southeast main street rolling by currently traffic comes in to this entrance the school and moves through and goes out. The new school is going to be built approximately where my cursor is. And in order to do that where the contractors actually going to be taking the southern half of the site in order to make a safe construction area. And that's going to bring some really big changes to the operation of the cars and buses coming in and out of Fort River. So, before I go there, I just want to go into more detail, I want to just point to the project website. So, this project has its, it's very own website, it's, you can find it by googling Amherst dash school dash project calm. And at the top of the screen, you can see, there is a weekly construction update, and that is updated every week. The director came on site a week or two ago to get started doing some enabling activities, but this text each week will give you a very brief update. And it's also going to link you to a page with more details, but I also just wanted to let you know, you haven't looked at the website before it has information about what the new building will look like. There's a timeline for construction. For the purposes of this meeting here I think the important thing to know is that we're going to make this change out but we will be in construction with a southern part of the site out of commission until the winter of 2026 we expect the school to be open in the fall of 2026. But that's going to be followed very quickly by the demolition of the existing building and cleaning up what will now be the open northern end of the site. So this change that we're here to talk about tonight is going to be in place for a little while. So take a look at the other pages there's lots of other information about the projects, but I want to just point you to the last page what's called the FAQ frequently asked questions page is right now has an update which I'm going to sort of be leaning into for this discussion today, which explains and let me just switch screens here. We can use this one. What explains is that with the closing of the southern entrance to the site. All of the traffic will now go in and out of the northern entrance to the site. And what that means is there's going to be starting next week on Monday we're going to have police out front to direct traffic and everybody will turn in no matter if they're coming for north or south they will turn in here, and they will circulate around if you're a car, you will circulate around the parking lot in this direction or actually restriping the parking spaces over this weekend assuming that the traffic clears up in order to make the make this work and the cars will for people who are dropping off or picking up will sort of line up here and then come around this way as you would today to pick up students and the loading area for the buses here students will be waiting who are being picked up will be weighed inside and the lobby and then they'll be called based on the order that parents are showing up. Depending on the buses will have a different experience the buses are going to come in where the cars are coming in, and then the buses are actually going to circulate around the back of the building. In order to get them oriented in their correct direction for picking up students. So, you know, I think most people know buses can only load on one side the right side. So, students who are getting on buses will come out of the school at the north end of the school load up on buses the buses will then toodle around and exit with the other cars going out onto southeast street. So, that's the overview of how this is going to work. I think that the, from what we've seen the school staff is kind of expert at directing traffic and this pattern of sort of drop off and pick up was developed with the school staff and I see we have principles to make sure that all of them daily is here. In case anyone has any questions for her, but this will visit development, hand in hand with the superintendent and the principal. And it will keep everybody safe and allow the contractor to operate without interfering with school activities on the south side of the site. I think that was the major information that I wanted to share. Mostly I want to turn this over to any folks we have who may have questions. Angela, is it do we have anyone in the audience. Yes, we have three people who are attendees, we have three. So, maybe we just anybody have a question that they want to ask it doesn't have to be about this particular issue but if you could raise your hand and let us know if you have a question. And if you came in a little late and you need me to go back to the beginning I'm happy to do that too. So no raised hands as of yet in the attendee room. Okay, well, the, I guess the other thing we should mention, I think, I assume I'm pretty sure the school community probably knows about this but we picked a very special day in the celestial year to do this. Because Monday, in addition to being the day that the traffic changes on the four river elementary school site is also in the afternoon, the eclipse coming through New England. So it's my understanding that it's going to be a half day of school on Monday. And so the good news is we will not be dismissing students at the time that the daylight quality of daylight will be affected. But it does mean that it will be a good practice run for day two, which will be a sort of more normal day. I think that I want to actually what I should do is point everybody. If you sort of want to recap this I'm going to just point back. Point back to this page of the website. Everybody. Yes, that looks like the right thing. So on this page, in addition to the diagram that I walked through of how the traffic is moving through the site. There are also links I'm not going to click on them here, but there's a link both in English and in Spanish to a video that kind of walks through the traffic circulation. So, please, if you are a member of the school community, and you have friends or colleagues who are not aware of this, but this big change coming on Monday. Please let them know. And also, the same page at the bottom there's a there's a very detailed set of frequently asked questions about the project. But there is also this pay this tab the get involved tab. There's an opportunity to submit questions. So if you have questions as a follow up to this presentation, you can go there and send a question that comes directly to me and my staff. And we can either respond to you directly or get information out to school community if you think there are issues that you see that should be addressed we would really appreciate hearing about it. So, I'm just going to stop again and see if anybody wants to raise their hand or ask a question. We have two attendees now and we don't see any raised hands. Okay, so principle Sullivan daily do you want to say say hello and goodbye to your audience because I think Well, thank you. I'm really excited to be here. I'm sorry that more people haven't shown up but that's okay. I'm going to send out my newsletter tomorrow and I'll make sure to include the link. I also plan on handing out just a paper version of the map so all families that tend to drop off and pick up their students will have that as well. So I think that the town's done a really amazing job of putting out those signs to make sure that anybody that's that's right there and Southeast Street knows that construction is happening. And I'm sure there will be some surprises, but hopefully what I like about this plan is that I think it builds on the part of what how you operate now and sort of just sort of and re jiggers it to fit this and I will also just say in conclusion that when the when the new building is complete, the traffic pattern for cars will be similar. So you could consider this, you know, a bit of a vision of the future bosses. When the new building is complete will enter and exit at the southern entrance. So the buses and the cars when the building is complete will be separated as is ideal for the sort of circulation the school staff managers really well with them all being kind of mixed up together. But there will be an added safety factor when the building is done. So thank you to everybody who is listening to this either live or canned later. And thank you for helping us take the next step here because it's a big change but for good reason. So I think that's it Angela. All right, thanks everybody we're going to stop this recording and as I mentioned it will be uploaded to the town of Amherst YouTube channel and then linked to the project website. Perfect. All right. Thank you. Tammy talk to you Monday. Can't wait.