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Facilities committee motions: track repair, waste contract, HVAC payments, flooring abatement and other approvals
Summary
The Facilities Committee recommended several motions to the full board: approve track repair funding with a donor contribution, award a five‑year waste contract, pay vendor invoices, authorize a boiler/hot‑water notice to proceed and choose a contractor for JM Hill flooring abatement.
The East Stroudsburg Area School District Facilities Committee approved a package of recommendations and payments and forwarded them to the full Board of Education. Committee members voted on motions covering athletic‑field repairs, a five‑year garbage contract, consultant invoices and several capital project steps.
Votes at a glance
- High School South track repair: Committee moved to accept Miller Sports Construction’s $8,000 proposal for long‑jump/runway repair, with $6,000 identified as a private donation to cover most of the cost; motion carried by committee vote.
- Garbage contract (five years): Committee recommended Waste Management as the lowest bidder and to award a five‑year refuse and recycling contract with a total contract price reported as $838,573.92 over the five‑year term; motion carried.
- CHA invoices: Committee recommended payment of CHA invoices (items a–d); motion carried.
- High School South field house equipment: Committee recommended payment No. 3 to Scranton Electric Heating and Cooling Service for $28,226 for progress work on the field house boiler/hot‑water heater replacement; motion carried.
- JT/High School boiler and hot‑water projects: Committee recommended issuing a notice to proceed on the JT boiler and hot‑water heater replacement project (move to proceed to next steps); motion carried.
- JM Hill flooring (abatement): Committee recommended awarding the abatement portion to Shade Environmental for $63,900 for JM Hill flooring abatement under the environmental cleanup grant; motion carried.
- North Bus Depot: Committee recommended proceeding with Option 3E (addition and upgrades to the existing auxiliary building, rough estimate ~$125,000) and referred the recommended option to the full board; motion carried.
Where numbers or details were not specified in the motion language presented to the committee, staff supplied the contract totals or grant references during discussion. Several motions were described as "recommended" to the board; formal contract awards and payments will follow the district’s procurement and board‑approval processes.
The committee’s actions also noted external grant support: several capital projects discussed during the meeting (boiler replacements, data cabling and a floor environmental cleanup) had received partial funding via state DCED grants, which was cited by staff as reducing the district’s share of project costs.
All motions recorded in the meeting were passed by the committee and forwarded as recommendations; where the committee cited donor or grant funding, staff said that those sources will offset the district’s expenditures. The committee did not publish a roll‑call vote with named individual tallies in the meeting transcript; minutes will record the official board actions.
