Middletown School District board accepts completion of four HVAC indoor air‑quality grant projects

The Middletown School District board voted Friday evening to accept as complete four HVAC indoor air‑quality grant projects awarded by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services, district staff reported.

Natalie, a district staff member introduced to the board at the start of the special meeting, told trustees that the district was awarded four DAS HVAC indoor air‑quality grants on May 16, 2024 for projects at Beiel Elementary School (project 083‑00001), Farm Hill Elementary School (project 083‑004), Moody Elementary School (project 083‑00003) and Snow Elementary School (project 083‑00002). "The four HVAC indoor air quality grants were completed on November 30th of 2025 with no punch list work outstanding," Natalie said, and added that final invoices were issued through that date by the vendor Action Air Inc.

The board was asked to accept each project as complete. The building committee had previously approved the final invoices for Beiel/Befield, Moody and Snow on Dec. 18, 2025 and for Farm Hill on Jan. 15, 2026, the presentation said. The board then moved, seconded and took roll‑call votes on each acceptance.

All four motions carried. The record shows multiple trustees voting in favor on the roll calls; members recorded as voting "yes" across the motions include Miss Clowski, Miss Reordan, Mr. Grant, Mr. Pancier (also transcribed as Panciera), Miss Owens, Mr. Cardella and Miss Daniels. The transcript also records at least one abstention during the meeting, but the record does not attach that abstention to a specific trustee by name.

Project cost and grant figures were provided in the presentation for each school. Where the transcript is clear, the figures are: Beiel Elementary project cost $290,563 with a grant amount of $191,974.97; Moody Elementary project cost $425,244 with a grant amount of $280,958.71. Portions of the Farm Hill and Snow grant figures appear garbled in the transcript and are noted below as transcribed values rather than verified totals.

The motion language recorded in the meeting was to "accept [school name] HVAC indoor air quality grant [project number] as complete." The motions were seconded and approved by roll call; the meeting record does not identify who formally moved or seconded each motion by name.

The board adjourned after completing votes on the four projects.

What happens next: the board’s acceptance records the projects as complete in the district’s minutes; any final accounting or grant closeout would follow normal administrative procedures with DAS and the district’s finance office, as implied by the presentation and final invoices. The transcript does not record any further follow‑up tasks assigned by the board.