well come to our p t o meeting and today we have a guest speaker principal richard that it's going to talk about the new building that high school is going to built pretty soon after the presentation i think he will take the questions thank you great thank you committee want to hear me ok ok i'll try not to yell at them like on thank you for coming tonight and thank you for all the fund raising the p t o does the  funding the wish list each year is a huge help and accomplishing what teachers want to do and i will have that list to use shortly but i thank you in advance for your dedication and for the pop up pizza which is really been  kids so thank you for being creative and thinking outside the box as well so i want to present we were at with the high school project if you're expecting a design of any kind or model to be presented tonight that's way too early in the process i'm going to take you back to a romance situation that we're currently in belmont high school and then going to walk into the m s p a the massachusetts school building authority and their process a process so i'll start a little bit by just talking about the enrollment of belmont high school and what i want to show you here is a comparison of the in roman between two thousand and ten and two thousand sixteen you can see there are roman it was one thousand one hundred six students back in two thousand and ten and this is our official october one report and then in two thousand and sixteen it was one thousand two hundred sixty four were today around one thousand two hundred sixty seven sixty six around there where you can see that we've had a jump of one hundred fifty students during that time and you may think that may not be a lot but what it takes to service a student at belmont high school requires a lot and also don't forget there's a seat for each one of these kids in each one the classrooms and services that they need so the first bullet underneath the two thousand and sixteen i want to show you here is the increase in class size this is an example of graduating classes and not to what classes are for a p c p but if you take a look at all our graduating classes we have jumped from two hundred fifty nine students average to currently three hundred fifteen and we're expected to be at three hundred fifty and so you can see that the school is growing this is all based on numbers that m s p a has put together and also with their own demographer so a combination of the two actually says that we will be graduating graduating classes of three hundred fifteen kids compared to the two hundred fifty nine ten years ago so you can see that we are growing fast and we need to prepare for that increase in teachers sharing a room there is no expectation that a teacher has their own room at belmont high school they we do share rooms but sharing rooms has increased and you can see appear on the screen that we have thirty two teachers that were sharing rooms and this could be sharing rooms of two teachers to a room or three teachers to a room at times for teachers to a room and it's all based on scheduling and how things work so we're forced to add teachers to the room and then we've actually jump to this year thirty six teachers are sharing rooms and again that could be two people three people and rare cases four people so you can see there's a lot of pushing of carts as a lot of gathering of material moving from over here in the math wing to over the foreign language wing and we do our best to consolidate those folks in a common area or a general area so they're not traveling so watch but that's always not possible based on the schedule and based on some specialty rooms as well you know a foreign language want to be near the following language lab so you can see that we have jumped in sharing rooms as well we have an increased demand on services in this usually this is something that you don't see of the numbers that are presented you can see class size jumps of individual class size jumps but the services don't jump up as much or the required services for kids and we're talking about the guidance counselors and we were fortunate enough to add a guidance counselor from the override and we now have six which is made a huge help in that argument with social motional learning providing supports for kids college planning w we're never a kids in crisis the guidance counselors are jumping in so they're kind of a social worker slash college planning so that's been a great help but also which you don't see are the services that are being put on the nurse  being put on the secretaries the school psychologist and along with athletics so we have an increase in those folks but the number of students have increased and they demand those services in order to operate and don't want high school so you can hear see the strain on those areas but we've also seen an increase in demand for additional space i would have to say that i have bedding is creative as i possibly can with spaces with help with the p t o with the project rooms dividing up the mezzanine into a classroom in a language and then a computer lab and also just grabbing any closet or whatever and convert we pretty much have converted everything over and even our closets represent something of a need and that goes from music to p to classes to language labs so there really is no more magic in the had to pull out to say well can you create another classroom because we pretty much have done it and there's nothing else to swap at this time so at this point i want to know paint a picture of where we're at with enrolment and answer any questions you may have before i go into some of the models going forward yes  the numbers up here represent the growth at the january in the elementary schools so we're predicting those that is the prediction of those classes coming up to belmont high school  yes to build a trick losses within our current footprint know if we really are kept out within the footprint of the school if you're talking about adding modulars to the front lawn or to the parking lot that hasn't been discussed but we've done that in the past when we had the wellington school here and we decided to take the parking lot in the no student parking was on campus i guess if it comes to that those option is probably will be discussed but they're not being discussed at this time or i should say mandates come forward so what used to be a sewing room is now the i think the science lab what used to be the typing room is a physics room and what used to be home ec is now the ceramics world so that's a great question because a lot of people think that we built this school for a size of whatever the sizes and it's larger than what we have but mandates have dictated that for example special ed classes cannot be clustered together they must be dispersed throughout the building and then special ed has increased with special ed laws and over the years you didn't have an alternative program back then and we do now  now we have two separate rooms because of the needs that we're seeing so you can see the education has evolved since that time and his needs have and so have has the building so we built it for a certain size during the sevent but in fact the mandates have dictated that we implement much more within this footprint which makes it difficult to accommodate that number so difficult to accommodate our current number of full capacity now so we have received a we have divided we have built we have split everything in order to accommodate those mandates and also just education in general helped build the project rooms in the back of the library here they can do apple television to the projector on the wall you don't have that need anything else in a roman before i move forward instructs that you must follow through their process and there are eight models and we're currently in the second part of the description they have here is kind of vague description but i can explain a little bit of the modern one and two  as we move forward on the slides but i want to provide this document for you so that you understand the building committee or the new school building committee must follow through with their process and their deadlines and this is what it looks like ok so you can reference this as i go through the presentation i want to do now is first talk about model wanted which we completed so maad one basically is for s b a to ask us to show our need and our size and our population that we need to building forward their numbers so modern one is started in february and concluded in november basically modern one is an invite to participate by m s p a it's not a guarantee that will work s but you have to complete this in order to be invited so and then invitation to qualify if you want to look at that like the school building committee must be formed there are guidelines on who's on that school building committee and we've met those  requirements and that committee is up and running and operating full steam a summary of the district's existing maintenance practices you may find this a little interesting they don't want to invest in us if we're not investing in our own building so a lot of questions erupt passes why invest in belmont high school if we think we're going to get a new building if they see that we're neglecting our own building and they're not going to contribute to a new building wood over that looks like so we had to show our mate instructors that we are maintaining our building to the best of our ability but we're still in great need of a new building certification up in rome and basically five guesstimating  with their formal and with our demographer on what the in roman should be that we should build for we landed at one thousand five hundred forty one students give or take a student a too it doesn't mean if we get ten students were crowded it means that building can accommodate will bill for that particular accommodate up to sixteen hundred or sixteen five so that number please don't get stuck on that if we go over that they you we can accommodate more students and that's how they feel but we have to start from one number and that's where we landed and then of course a few feasibility study agreement for reimbursement of expenses basically what this is is do we have the backing power to go forward through this process a strong interest to see this process and we demonstrated that because without a strong interest of they're not going to invest in us so we've demonstrated  odd one really is a lot of paperwork crunching numbers not very eventful not very exciting just meeting their deadlines to make sure that they're comfortable investing in us and we've met that and they are so that's our first maad that we completed and you probably didn't hear much about that as we were in office as crunching numbers my two is a little different this is where it kind of kicks up a little bit with the community and with interest if you take a look at the green sheets i'm going to reference that on the fall for some bolette what we have done through the recommendation is of people who've gone before us and have built a new or renovated or new and renovated building as they have always brought in an education specialist planning specialist and the germans name is frank locker that we're working with right now and we've had one meeting with him already what frank walker will is he's an education specialist to create the vision of education what is belmont's a vision for teaching and learning not building and just teaching the learning what do what does the community the school community the students and business leaders the leaders around the community what do you envision for education in belmont we need to start with that barrel or that bucket first before you start designing anything and i'll give you an example on the situ it they went through this process and they went through it with frank locker and they came up with project based learning is something that they were interested and designing a school around while they were aware of that until they went through this process with him of just creating a vision and that's how they built their school that's how they design their school so we can put the cart before the horse we first need to touch base on education as we see them bell mile which we wanted to look like and he's going to guide us through this process through surveys of community dialogues and then presenting it off to whatever groups that we would like to this process  probably take a while because there's a lot of stakeholders and i envision the rusted this year he'll be doing his work and i imagine the beginning of next year he'll still be doing the war an order to formulates what that vision looks like the green she is a description of what frank does and you can see that he's a planner of buildings are all visions to create buildings he creates a twenty first century learning for schools and what schools do you want he initiated now co teaches at harvard university graduate school of education graduate school design course for education architects and he's been involved in several project united states and abroad so we're fortunate to have frank with us and again here's a sheet for you to reference and please don't mind the the whiteboard snapshot that was just a brainstorm that he took us through the process to get to a goal of his for that meeting but he'll do this often and just capture our thoughts and feed him back to us so that is frank locker and that's the workday hill be doing for us is already started and will continue to do for us the owners project manager and you're going to hear o p m often rate now we're in the process actually as of on the first of the deadline for all interests business organizations to submit an application to be the o p m of this project the o p m is basically the owner's project manager exactly what it says here she works with the principal and the building committee and with the construction company you wouldn't expect the principal put down go out to the construction site which will happen but the o p m will communicate our needs and what's being done and what's not being done to the construction company this is an important relationship here that we're looking at because i will be working with this person often what is happening what needs to happen or what's not and communicate to the construction of focus so tomorrow is our building committee meeting we will take a look at the applications and narrow that down and i do believe on the fifteenth we'll have finalists that will interview and again that's an important relationship that we really need to nail down so that we have that go to person between the school and the construction company office treating everything for us so you'll hear o p m the owner's project manager of then eventually get them on board a goal really is to get the o p m and they architect hired towards the end of frank lockett's work so that the voice of the community school teachers and everyone and students is heard by these two groups by are all an architect we want to make sure they hear rather than just wanted to people here so that's our goal and we're hoping to meet that it's an aggressive goal but we're going to try to do that when you see architect don't panic that the building is going to be designed they have some tasks to do in the meantime such as there are three models being proposed by an s b a they must create three models of each model for us to look at so they will be busy creating nine models for us to look at and i'll go through those models in a second when they present those models it's not final it is an overview of what the school look like so there's plenty of time for feedback on common areas learning commons like the library here programs so their first proposal is not a final proposal there's still plenty of time there will be pl for that and then of course a fuse abilities study and taking a look at the land and everything around it to give us the feedback that we need in order to build so any quit work early and mog two questions on my job before i move on they they have approved to work with us so here we go and this is actually my two is ok let's get to work with this so we're no longer in the honeymoon phase they have taken us on we qualify based on the data and information and model one that we presented so they have accepted us they have adopted us and here we go  before in modern one all the numbers that we presented to them they come up with a formula and which they reimburse us for and then from there the percentage can change and fluctuate based on how we design the building to give you one example if we go very green then we get more points for it so they usually range around the thirty's to forty percent around there i think we fell in the mid thirt as reimbursement for buildings so it is state reimbursed and town funded it's a combination of both you get so many points for your application going in and for what you decide to design so right now we're in the mid thirty's on a reimbursement that kate go i'm sorry yes reimbursement from the state and then the rest from the town and that can go off based on what we decide to put into the school yes there is a window on each  one the first model was i believe two hundred and forty days around there and we had that time in order to get our stuff and then we got in on time and about the same thing from odd too and then eventually as we get further up with the odds it's hard to close out a school even though we're in it we're operating the punch list items there's always the last things to do and they're a little more flexible on but in order to stay on track because there are other schools are they want to adopt us and they want to get rid of us so they can take someone else on so we have to stay strictly to their schedule there is a time frame for each one as we get to closing the school  eight which could be ten years down the road doesn't mean that we enter the school in ten years we could be operating within the school but there's still the punch list item and the other questions on how the minds work one t build another elementary school with this approval you can't you must build one building we threw in a few other things and they narrowed it down to these these three options for our application if we want another elementary school or something or a smaller building another building then what we must do is we have to apply again so for this application this is what war is and this is what they told us three models so the first model that too we can choose from is the original application which is belmont high school nine through twelve what that would mean here and what the poem going to scribe this is where the teach are you can see there on the left hand side is what that looks like and how it impacts the chandlery and how it impacts the elementary school because this is being looked at more of a district project than rather than just a high school project because there's a need across the district with a romance on all levels so what we build here will impact the generally and will impact the elementary schools so you will hear a say over and over the district project because that's really what it ends up being so if we build a high school nine through twelve our project in a roman is one thousand five hundred forty one and we got that through a number crunching together with them and if we go over that it doesn't mean we're overcrowded we can certainly still fit more students than that but they need to build number and dresses the facilities which is the boilers the old boiler summer running some don't they're up there down the space the needs that we have in the in roman and they are roaming concerns of the middle school that still is an issue and right now we have six mogs on the tennis courts and will that be enough we don't know but that doesn't touch any of their needs and for the elementary schools k through four it does not address their space and their involvement concerns and adding modulars is probably right down the near down the road the near future and i'm not sure where we are with that so you can see if we build a one through twelve school we still have to address this side and we do not have a plan b for that we're working with the high school right now so you can see that still needs to be addressed by the town we did our original application of was this one right here so what we asked is can we do different versions and they said no to many and yes to two others and here's a second so scenario two is let's build a school eight through twelve and if you do an eight to twelve building you can cluster of classes so you can take the eighth and ninth grade and make it in cademy and then do the ten through twelve separate what i'm asking folks not to do is start getting fearful of little kids with big kids because these models have been built so when they build them separate drop off points separate cafeteria some towns and decided separate nurse some towns have decided complete separation except for maybe a  or music so please don't think that your eighth grade is going to be walking right next to the sr there are models all there that actually are built for separating or creating academ s i'll give you an example beverly high school has decided to just do nine through nine through twelve and they decided to take their ninth graders and place them up on the top four for four years and that they have blended classes limited with upper classman so the ninth graders on the fourth or majority of the day and they're not mingling with the upper classman and those are concerned that came out of a frank locker service and so that's how they built they went for stories up ninth grade on top ten eleven twelve of the lower levels so please don't get fearful of these numbers anything is possible so we can do an eight nine academy we can do a ten to twelve academy no this is final we can keep the eighth graders separate and do nine through twelve that's a possibility and again these are just possibilities and then our roll moment would be around eighteen hundred students for the building now again don't think of this building eight hundred students think about what a new building building would look like or even renovated to build the whatever that model that's not decided yet so that would housed eight hundred students it would address the space facility and they are roaming concerns that we have at the high school but not only would it just the high school it also addresses the channer which could go to a five through seven model that would address their space and roaming concerns and the elementary schools are still k through four and it does not address their space and the roaming concerns and add modular classrooms is still on the table so you can see that we've solved one problem we've solved too and we still have an issue here and we don't have a plan for that now this will be up to the community to decide not the building ok so those are the two models and the third model that's proposed is to build a school seven through twelve you could cluster the seventh and eighth graders than one through twelve the seven through nine model which is interesting because you have three each level seven through nine ten through twelve and then your roman would be about two thousand two hundred students it would address the space facility and the aroma concerns for the chan or a it would address their space in a roaming concerns and be a four through six school that could that could be a possibility and then for the elementary schools and just their space in a roaming concerns and could be a k through three school so this is the model that solves the high school generally in the elementary school with each one there's good and bad and this is what the community will have to decide but i want to go back to what we need to do first and our first task as a community is to come together and think about what does education look like in belmont not building how do we want to teach our children what do we want to do twenty percent real learning looks like this is it community rooms where teachers can take their kids  be creative and spread out what is it that we envision for teaching and learning in belmont and then from there we'll go into the models of the model one two or three and have that good question with no answer at this time the the school department owns this bizarre wage of land that if you go down to hitting your field the softball field and it just flares out on con rate down to i think is the gas station that is the our last fields and so we have this really bizarre triangle which could be to our benefit and we have a pond that we have to build next to as well so we don't know what land is considered up this time because there is no other buildable land in belmont if there was a lot someplace that we could build a high school separate we would consider a buy that there isn't anything large eno this is on our campus and how it looks is going to be interesting i'm not sure without a land yes the wellington yes that's already near capacity yes and we're not the only telling us how this thing i think m s p in this is what i've been told the m s b is being conservative with their numbers but they have been flexible with them in the last three or four years so it's actually a blessing that we have be our application has been rejected for over ten years we've been applying every year so i'm thankful that were arriving at the time that we are because that some build number that i put up there are one thousand five hundred seventy one give or take  i think they moved on that they did move up on that i think that's been one of the complaints from school systems that were near capacity after we open move off they were as conservative as they had been in the balance of the book and we feel comfortable with this number based on our numbers and based on their numbers we they do take the end of consideration with private schools in a surrounding area that was part of the model one application that we had to submit on so they do take that into consideration and i can say for belmont high school we have already seen a flux of students coming back to the high school and that it's not just this year but the last five or six years i would say basically i had to guess from the great recession on came back to be and boston is booming it is one of the top cities booming right now building companies moving in to serve another company from connecticut possibly coming up and moving into boston and that increases the demand and we're not the only town that's experiencing this and we're also experiencing our e l l students english language learners what used to be considered gateway communities such as  chelsea are no longer everyone is experiencing an increase in those numbers so back to i think it was your question we built the school in one thousand the one for this large number why can't we do that well we didn't have programs back then for english language learners and we moved them out of the smaller world this year into a much larger role because they are  what else can i answer about the building project the timeline for this goes into the fall of the next school year so we have time to work with the architect the o p m get those three designs for each one of the models up there for total nine take a look at them and decide as a community what we want and again the community is teachers faculty faculty staff students parents community leaders everyone what we want and that's what frank's work is as much information as possible and feed that up to folks before they start saying i can never see a school seven through twelve that's impossible old based on your mindset right now on these walls belmont high school i would agree with you but i don't know what the other models look like and i know duxbury i think is one who's done a seven through twelve successfully they have separate entrances for kids drop offs so i want to make sure that my presentation is not put folks here tonight in one camp or the other it's way too soon for that i think there's a there's time to discuss what we want education to look like and then we go from there and then as we explore models see what's out there and how they've done it so i'm hoping that sniping i communicate the message of all do not go in one camp based on your experience because there are other model and what that could look like could be sharing of stuff if you have a lower level more of a vertical line of curriculum we can have department meetings from the younger agrees with the older that's exactly what we're aiming for aids and it's all about the teaching and learning and then building and then how can we get the biggest bang for our buck as far as building this whatever and when i say building it could be vacation no waiting it could be a new school it could be anything and that will also be decided through frank's work still too soon because we don't know where we're going to  go stay in local now all i will say and i'll throw this out there to the audience into the television audience that i do know of all the schools that have tapped into businesses to put together a science wing or a science classroom because that community has a biotech company and that's and they want to work with the community and they actually donated money so that they could contribute to that i don't know actually soliciting right now in this presentation i hope i'm not i don't have permission to buy the superintendent but i do know partnerships partnerships have been forms to help to get state of the art and  throw days because you're held to them and it's way too early in the process possibly a shovel in the ground in twenty twenty possibly it depends on how fast things work with frank's work and with the community dialog or the mossad as well but it's not a walk in the door in ten years says it's starting work possibly point twenty yeah so maybe five years yeah it could be six and it depends too if we decide to renovate belmont high school this will take longer because we'll need to shift folks out of social studies into a new build one run of the their old area take them out of the new area put them in their renovated area so that juggling takes longer so i don't want to throw day to it because we haven't decided on what we're going to do yet but i will say that renovation takes longer it's interesting you say more money because franklin high school was built by the same company same architect or on the same time and i went over to franklin to take a look at what they decided to do and they did a price comparison from renovation to new buil renovation it wasn't much less the new build and that was their situation with their building but it wasn't far off our needs i don't know what they are we to doing so i don't want to say that the belmont situation that was their situation with the builder they'll look very similar to ours kind of eerie similar but yes that is what they decide and they have the land to do it as well i think that's further down the road there isn't a plan in place for that right now i don't know if there is one i think that's a big question that we would involve the union with and have a discussion with them and what  room well that's a good point because there is a neighboring city that has built a brand new building and scorches it's huge on is an appropriate size but they did not increase their custodial so there have been the hardest time trying to keep up with maintaining that building so that is a great question if we build big what goes with it that we need to consider operating can do just about anything so you could probably design as a building if we needed to well i agree but that is a great question there's a great question we have one full time is stored in like a story and here for this whole building and they struggle to keep it the way it is and i give them a pat on the back for the work that they do it's it's a tough job and they do a pretty good job out of what's a double the size of the school but keep the same the sodium that's to have to come up absolutely yes i can only tell you about my experience and i will say i've been preparing for this for two years as almost like the olympics have been preparing i have been visiting new build schools for the last two years and the largest drop the highest school i have seen storywise is four stories and i don't know what this soil can support the all that's in consideration of the feasibility study of the soil testing will reveal what the highest i've seen is for go up instead of yes please don't hold me to any timelines it all depends on how we process through all of these models that would be a shovel in the ground that wouldn't be a move in that would be our first shovel in the ground g so we have several years of working through this process before we actually get to putting up steel and  what concerns might you have at this time i was going to well i can always come back and revisit as we progress through maad two and what that looks like and maybe once the o p m is higher of the architect making them come back and maybe have conversations with them and continue this as we evolve through the process so will the presentation and explaining i prepared a slide for the water fountains because that was a concern that someone brought up dry me just can outside a room to forty two in need of repair the contents had been stripped for all the fountains so we being cannibalizing this fountain in order to keep all the phones going and we're having that looked at to see if that's even possible for repair we have one up near the upper gym that's porcelain i think they're all porcelain well i think maybe a couple are in the cafeteria but majority of them are regional to the building porcelain and it's an obsolete design and i think you may have seen it i think it's a double boiler one is for drinking the i think the other one is just a rinse fountain for spitting i don't know how else to describe it but i think that's what they designed back then so that's an interesting set up and how do we repair that and do we repair that that's a good question but as in hopes elite design i don't think we're designing those kind of i'm not sure so we're going to double phone outside of room one thirty the plumber has been called to assess it and that's because of the pressure is really low and kids don't want to use it and i don't blame them nor would i it's just there's not enough pressure there to really drink out of it so we have a plumber coming in to look for that outside the auditorium and cafeteria is often clogged and the plumbing needs to address the clog and provide solutions and it's because of the design as well back in the seventy's so the inventory on the four that are working that is the state of if you want to call it that and we have work orders in for each one of them and we just need for the work orders to come back  so leave me to my second slide which is a different style of phone and i think this is what i heard from folks about refilling water bottles so we did a little investigation and this model r here you still have your drink in area but you also have a bottle the area where you can refill your bottles and we're looking at this design and this is why we were delayed a little bit on the p t o wish list is because we're trying to get an idea of installment we the quitman plumbing electrical and time to put it in and with all that added up i'm not sure what that cost is and we're trying to gain estimation for the majors department if we were to put this on the wishlist what would we be asking for to replace one or two of them and so that will be on the wish list for this year so we do have the waterfowl ins identified we've got two  tickets in for each one of them to be repaired and i really think if we're going to repair something not to bring in the porcelain even though it's nice and shiny i think we really need to get something to this effect because that's what kids are doing they're bringing water bottles to school you can get it filtered or not so i believe this model can get you the way and we're still in the discovery phase finding out that did the question did come up in the answer is yes i'm not sure if it's that model but we'll find out problem thank you