Special Board of Aldermen 03-21-2022 Page 4
good situation. That’s that side. So we've hired a traffic consultant to help us with this. They have come in and
started to do traffic counts. They've studied the site. They’re supposed to get back to us by the end of this month with
some recommendations. So currently there is about 80 students in the preschool. There are two sessions - morning
and afternoon. All of them are dropped off by their parents. There are no walkers at all. So you can imagine there is
quite a bit of traffic.
The Brentwood Program - High School Program - has | believe about 18 high schoolers enrolled currently. They are
all bused. There may be a couple that get dropped off by their parents, but mostly bused. So those are two or three
small buses that drop them off. Some of the ideas we’ve had is to go just past the main entrance off Franklin Street
and do a cut in for people to pull in to drop off kids. There is a fair amount of real estate to the left that we could cut in
as well for the buses to drop off. We've talked about the Winter Street, which is also a residential street and very
narrow so that’s the street to the north or above the school. We’ve talked about making that a one-way street, making
it so there is no parking on the street while school is in session. Those are things that your purview as Aldermen to
consider but | think we all need to wait for that traffic consultant to get back to us. We’ve also involved Dan Hudson,
the City Engineer, and he is aware of what we’re doing and he’s been part of our discussion. So those are the traffic
considerations.
This just gives you more of a surface level view to the left, you’re looking towards Main Street. You can see that’s just
a single lane going each way and then to the right is looking up Charles Street to the north. To the left, you’re looking
up Winter Street. You can see the Church in the background so you’re facing Main Street. There’s about 6 parking
spaces currently there and the center slide is the same street, just looking in the other direction. Then finally the far
right is looking up Locust Street. So that’s kind of the view around the site. You can see it’s basically a postage
stamp in the middle of the City. It’s not much land around it, not much room to work with hopefully working with a
consultant.
We've also talked to the Pastor of the Church who ran a school there before and how did he do it because had a first
through twelfth grade school there before. He actually used a parking lot. So there are four parking lot bays between
us and a church. He used one of them - the cued up the parent through one of those parking lots. So we currently
have easements to use the two center parking lots, so maybe we can work out something that way. That will be part
of what we look at.
These little snapshots are just pictures of the main entrance on the top left. The overhang is in pretty sad shape and
we're looking to do some work with that with bonded money. The next one over is the rear entrance. We’re looking to
replace the overhead door which is on the left-hand side of that.
The next slide over is the conference room which is on the second floor. We want to be able to close that in so you
can have some privacy when you’re having your conference rooms and right where that column is, is where one of the
ADA bathrooms would be constructed. Throughout the school, we have these old water fountains. | have no idea
how old those are. We have done water testing throughout the school and found for lead primarily. We found that
there is no lead so we’re in good shape that way. Bottom row, just different pictures of the basement. They’re
primarily currently using the basement for recess. So if you have inclement weather outside, then they'd go down
there and play. The other thing | want to do with the fire extinguishers on the right-hand side, they're just hanging on
hooks. Probably not a good idea. Both the preschoolers and high schoolers, so we want to put those in fire cabinets
inlaid into the walls so they don’t become something for kids to pull on.
We anticipate because of all the ESRA funded work is taking place this summer. The sum of our work is going to take
place the following summer so the bonded money is really a two summer issue. We do have asbestos in the school,
particularly in the flooring. Old carpeting being held by asbestos containing mastic or glue so we want to replace that.
When they constructed the school, the sheetrock itself was fine but the joint compound they used contained asbestos
so we have to be careful when working with that. We are actually looking to replace the asbestos on all the walls on
the third floor. I’m trying to figure out how to say this delicately - the clientele on the third floor can have control issues
and sometimes they put holes in walls. When you have sheet rock walls with asbestos in them, we have to call in
asbestos company to do the abatement then we can replace the sheetrock. So that becomes an expensive
proposition over time. So our feeling is let’s just get rid of that stuff and it’s not a hindrance, it’s doesn’t come with a
health threat for anybody, it’s just the best way to go. We'd do that the following summer. Roof membrane - we’d like
to replace. It is getting old. There’s a lot of roof penetrations that we'd like to get rid of that are no longer needed and
eventually put solar on the roof to reduce our footprint and reduce energy costs.
Some more pictures. The left-hand slide that shows very old carpet. | have no idea how old that is but it does have
mastic underneath it. It contains asbestos. The tile floor right beside it is asbestos containing tile. Typically if those
