Special Board of Aldermen 03-21-2022 Page 6
Franklin Street away from me and put it in Ward 4 who knows but while it’s in Ward 3, I’m going to make a lot of noise.
So anything that we can do sooner than later. This is a priority. It is a true safety issue for families and so on.
Just a quick question putting all that aside. When we move the Brentwood Program and all the other programs
basically up under this roof, | Know we had to move them from being under the JSSBC. I’m aware of it. There is cost
savings also isn’t there to moving all these under one roof, not having to transport these students. There is not quick
as much of an emotional toll on them as well putting them in one location. Is that correct and do we have any
numbers as to - you probably don’t have these numbers, but.
Shawn Smith, Director of Plant Operations, Nashua School District
| can speak very broadly. | think, again, don’t quote me on these. | think for Brentwood we were probably paying
$150,000 rent give or take.
Chairman Dowd
$200,000.
Shawn Smith, Director of Plant Operations, Nashua School District
It probably started at $150,000 and over the years it went up a little bit. | don’t Know what we're paying for church for
the Title One Program that was moved. | think the same is also going to be in staff. Brentwood probably isn’t going to
change except they will use the same nurse that the preschool would use but | would think for the preschool program,
that’s where you are going to start seeing the savings and staff - not the teachers themselves but the people that
would have to travel from school to school - psychiatrists, OT people, that sort of thing. But that’s really not my - | do
bricks and mortars and HVAC.
Alderman Klee
| think for the public to hear, | think it’s a cost savings. It’s an emotional savings not to have to transport them and
there must be a transportation cost because we were busing them to that location and there were other issues of
students needed to have a half day and so on. | do remember hearing at the JSSBC a lot of the issues that were
brought up to the School Board.
Speed bumps - Mr. Hudson is on it. The City seems to frown against speed bumps because of the plows but anything
we can get to slow that traffic down | would be very happy. Thank you.
Alderman Wilshire
Thank you. So Shawn | know you said you’re going to be replacing the asbestos containing sheetrock walls on the
third floor? Would you consider putting something other than sheet rock back up? | know where | work we have the
same population. They were really good at punching, and making holes, and then they’d fix it and the next day they
do it again. So it’s kind of like a game. So we ended up putting like a thicker board - like maybe four feet up because
when you punch up, you lose velocity a little bit. Just wondered while you're doing construction if you considered
something harder than sheet rock?
Shawn Smith, Director of Plant Operations, Nashua School District
So there’s actually abuse-resistant sheetrock that is much harder. Back when we built the South High School, we
gave Tim Nickerson a sledge hammer and we put some of these boards against the wall and we dared him to break
through the abuse-resistant sheetrock and he couldn’t. So we would probably do something like that up there.
Alderman Wilshire
Okay. Thank you.
Alderman Cathey
Thank you Shawn and thank you Chairman. This is the permanent long-term home for these particular
programs?
