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Miss Higgins said architects presented a layout with more pros than cons but that parking remained the largest unresolved issue. The draft plan would provide approximately 450 parking spaces — about half of an ideal count the committee identified — and the district currently depends on parking on state hospital grounds for many events. Higgins noted that the steep grassy area at Memorial Field is not suitable for low-cost parking without substantial grading and expense.

Committee members discussed egress and transit lanes that the redesign would improve, but concerns remain about how to meet recommended parking capacity for a facility with multiple fields. Miss Higgins said the committee will consult the city about formal agreements that would permit the district to rely on state hospital parking at certain times and will ask the city how the process works.

The committee will not vote immediately; Higgins said the city has included design funding in its budget and that the board will need to decide in October whether to fund full design work when the district finalizes its budget. No formal board action was taken on Memorial Field at the Aug. 4 meeting.

Next steps include meetings with the city to determine parking‑use agreements, further review of site design and a budget decision in October if the board opts to fund full design work.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Concord School Board Monthly Meeting 8-4-25","oneSentenceSummary","A Memorial Field committee update outlined a preferred stadium layout but persistent parking shortfalls and reliance on adjacent state hospital parking remain unresolved; the city’s design-funding decision in October could affect next steps.","taxTitle","Concord School District, School Districts, New Hampshire","taxId",60242,"location","New Hampshire","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6144152,"Concord High dehumidification project nearing completion; refrigerant supply and culvert permit delayed construction schedule",214,374000,588000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5535199-5c4c92d401fe51ed136f9f562bf15880&start=374&end=588","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5535199-5c4c92d401fe51ed136f9f562bf15880/thumbnail_374000.jpg","/articles/6144152/New-Hampshire/Concord-High-dehumidification-project-nearing-completion-refrigerant-supply-and-culvert-permit-delayed-construction-schedule","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6144152-2ecb8660d2e3986a428c0bc7e3b93bde/orig.mp4?Expires=1770698239&Signature=GnkAH4w0bYSA75rrztHVMePFjcwB7ARt~tgtWp6BBzIC~Wifkog2S1C5HfQyxfyBl9JLC4AYvoJ1qI6RGva8PBis5tjfjBFI4d4Ve6SIZssKSQ8BP~LdF~oI~vgd0ZEMyVsXPwE2HNlX7P5O~TW8psh-eMPGepnRhWFM7XiHNBI0GCZGK88uGEC9WtC2p8NnJpqJ1NALoaC~9oo9hHHV79UaYi7J478OOq9eAyULLlKjbgcRif91b9EOJz494S29axcxWgd~R8DGMe5Wt~TI9unE7JOGGp64lsmoXSmfUBNUvkH2XkcDlUUkw6sl2KBi7RJV5qIhiD0ZkZb~qP-o7g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","District facilities staff told the Concord Board of Education on Aug. 4 that the Concord High School HVAC dehumidification project was largely installed and that systems would undergo certification testing with Concord Fire before full operation. Facilities staff reported that 19 HVAC units were removed and replaced with 19 dehumidified air units and that the project’s construction and steel work were about 90% complete.

Facilities staff member Mister Cashman said the district expects a substantial completion milestone on Friday, Aug. 15, with power to each new unit and planned system testing with Concord Fire over the following two weeks. Cashman cautioned, however, that the district still awaited delivery of refrigerant identified as “R‑454B.” He said there were positive indicators that the refrigerant would arrive soon but that staff would not declare the system fully operational until it was on site.

Cashman also described a separate but related issue at the campus: a degraded culvert in the area referred to in the discussion as the “trap pond” or “sinkhole.” He said the culvert replacement required multiple rounds of review with DES and that the permitting process delayed material delivery and scheduling, pushing the district to order and store materials with the contractor as a hedge against further delay. “The long and short of it is that delay is causing the actual delivery of materials in the construction to go into the fall of the school year,” Cashman said.

When asked whether delaying the culvert work would limit student access or activities, Cashman said no immediate restrictions were expected and that the temporary plating done previously had held through heavy rains. He said that if an emergency arose staff would take immediate action, but that sequencing the invasive replacement during summer avoided major disruption to bus lanes and pedestrian routes.

Board members asked about construction duration and storage risks. Cashman estimated a three- to three-and-a-half-week construction window for the culvert work and said Merrill Construction would store the materials in its yard. When asked about potential cost increases from storing materials and delaying labor and equipment rentals, Cashman said the primary charge anticipated was storage and that, overall, securing materials was preferable to facing a 4–6 week lead time later.

No formal board vote was required at the Aug. 4 update. Staff recommended moving forward with material procurement and preparing to schedule the culvert replacement during a summer window to minimize disruption.

Background: staff said the HVAC project had significant crane activity over the summer; staff will coordinate with Concord Fire for unit certification and must await refrigerant delivery to activate dehumidification systems fully.","Facilities staff said 19 HVAC units were replaced with dehumidified air systems and projected substantial completion Aug. 15, but availability of refrigerant R‑454B and a DES permit for a culvert replacement delayed full activation and downstream work.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6144158,"School officials outline Runlet Middle School design timeline, staff secure materials after permitting delays",2091,300000,2391000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5535199-5c4c92d401fe51ed136f9f562bf15880&start=300&end=2391","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5535199-5c4c92d401fe51ed136f9f562bf15880/thumbnail_300000.jpg","/articles/6144158/New-Hampshire/School-officials-outline-Runlet-Middle-School-design-timeline-staff-secure-materials-after-permitting-delays","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6144158-01a8b22cf61f413187e65beaeb41d63b/orig.mp4?Expires=1770698239&Signature=MawYeqn3ypBynHTlFiTDwIzBcETcmCneyiAO-ebiRaHxXsxcCImOe73dzZbKgdcw6m-1iCQlIU3Uey4kE610E47SSrLFisPqSSAVdnvM572JRJzc9gr6V8AizLBXUr3-H4Kberh7lQ9HbCmbkuAb8FXv6sOo-UMwbuETPKm3IZ2FU2YAEPJWb5dazKl~Qhzs2i1TDVtmbVRqWE9ljXEvYyVZ2wdgSGq4r29REK7iO25Kr9c2Rmp9yh4WwfZ8gjeHiGNc-lmxmeIFs9tyaEtqnXXy9Km25z4trfVtUp~5g8mcUIA3Gv1TT40W5~ZGI3izOkkAfNVF8H79nbrX7UenVg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Staff told the Concord Board of Education on Aug. 4 that design and testing work for the Runlet Middle School project is advancing and that the district is securing materials now after state permitting delays. Assistant Superintendent Kim Murlett and facilities staff said geotechnical reporting, hazardous‑material identification and the next phase of design development will be reviewed in a building committee meeting and in a design-cost review due shortly after the fifteenth of the month.

The assistant superintendent, Kim Murlett, said district staff met with architects and consultants on July 10 and will review design updates, geotechnical findings and value‑engineering options at a forthcoming building committee meeting. Facilities staff said hazardous material areas identified in recent surveys will need abatement and that those findings will factor into the cost review.

Facilities staff member Mister Cashman said the district has had trouble obtaining a DES permit for a culvert replacement at the site commonly called the “trap pond.” He said the permit process involved multiple back-and-forth reviews and that the permitting delay pushed the planned delivery and installation of culvert materials into the fall school term. To avoid further schedule disruption, Cashman said the district has placed an order for the materials and will hold them in the contractor’s yard until the work can be done. “I think it is in our best interest to secure the material, have it on hand, plan for it to happen next summer,” Cashman said; he added that materials will be on hand for an emergency if required.

Cashman said the district’s engineers and contractor believe a prior temporary plating repair has held through two heavy summers of rain and recommended scheduling invasive culvert work after the school year, estimating a construction cycle of about three to three-and-a-half weeks. He said the work would be invasive, would require excavation and dewatering, and would affect the bus lane and adjacent pedestrian routes. When asked about timing, Cashman said he would like to plan for work “immediately after school that’s out in June 2027,” while another speaker later referenced the repair buying time until June 2026; the transcript contains both references.

Public comment at the meeting focused on Runlet’s long-term design and district building‑aid decisions. Charles Russell of Ward 5 questioned why the proposed new middle school is three stories when the previous building was two and asked for utilization studies of athletic fields before building additional outdoor facilities. Russell said, “Before we start going out and building all these other facilities, we ought to see what we already have out there.”

Jeff Wells of Ward 5 asked the board to explain large cost increases tied to the district’s school building aid application, citing the application figures included in the district’s materials. Wells asked what changes, additions or inflation adjustments drove the jump he cited from an early $85,000,000 estimate to a $176,000,000 figure in later documents and whether the expanded scope affected the project’s competitiveness for state building aid.

Board members and staff responded with procedural notes that the building committee and city processes would continue to evaluate design, costs and use of existing fields, and that final budget decisions tied to design funding are expected in October as the district reviews its budget. No formal action on the middle school design was taken at the Aug. 4 meeting; staff presented updates and recommended further review by the building committee and the full board.

The discussion identified next steps: continued design-development work, further value‑engineering to control cost, and a follow‑up with the building committee to review the geotechnical and hazardous‑material reports and the finalized cost review.

Background: staff said the district held a July 10 design-and-review meeting with architecture/consulting teams and expects a design-development cost review shortly after the fifteenth of the month; the culvert replacement requires a multiweek invasive construction effort and was delayed by permitting steps with DES.

For now, the district plans to secure materials to avoid months‑long lead times if a later emergency requires immediate work.","District staff updated the school board on Runlet Middle School design work and related summer capital projects, saying geotechnical testing and hazardous-materials reviews are underway and that material procurement was used to mitigate DES permitting delays. Public commenters raised questions about the project's size and cost escalation.","actionData","errors"]

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