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I'm going to call the uh this is a special town uh board meeting work session.

Uh it's April 29th, 2025, 6 p.m.

We're gonna start with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge of the leads in the flag

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America.

And general publication, individual

justice for all

recording.

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Yes.

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Record.

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Recorded this computer.

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Recording in progress.

Oh my god, that's loud.

Okay.

So we're here today to talk about the Lancey Hall renovations.

And uh Billy is uh Bill is on also, Billy.

Um Nicolou, he's the uh he's the uh contractor that was working the other day.

So we had a meeting, uh, you know, I can't remember what day it was uh last week, but we had um it might have been Thursday, but we had uh Billy had these folks there taking some of the boards off.

We had um Bob Gabalsi there.

We also had thank you.

We also had the um uh was it Philip, I think from Plan B was there, and um they were looking at the side on the west side primarily of the building, and of course the header beam, the header that goes along the entire top between the attic and the the the uh the second floor.

Um that apparently at one point in time was fairly rotten.

It looks it's stable right now.

I mean it's not powdery, it's I guess I don't know what is this chestnut or something.

And there are a couple of other things that they exposed that needed to be taken out and replaced.

Uh I briefly, and and uh Catherine could talk to this a little more detail, but um the uh the the work that uh was suggested by Philip was that uh a lot of the what he said was a lot of the studs that were put in probably in the 1990s, maybe even before that, actually between the the sill and the the plate on the top, and then a post and beam construction.

I'm not exactly sure what you call that, but you understand that it's the wall.

He said those have been put in, and those are actually supporting a lot of the weight.

It's not really the timbers anymore.

So he told us that the timbers on at least that side on both sides, um, some metal brackets they need to be um bolted into the rest of the structure, the floors uh specifically so that uh nothing nothing moves anymore.

And then he suggested leaving all the wood that the the large pieces that aren't rotten anyway, uh leaving them in.

And um Bob Gabalski, who was there also took a look at the uh siding that Billy had taken off.

Uh the Billy's team had taken off.

And the suggestion was that um it was when it was put on, it was not good siding.

It's not old siding.

Um there were nails there from I guess the 50s and the 90s, and maybe slightly before that.

Um, but uh he said he wouldn't bother keeping any of that siding either.

Um so at this point, um, we have the front of the building that we know at least portionally uh up to where we took off.

We need to do something with the post on the right hand side.

The cells have been cut back.

Uh Billy's team has done that, and we need to make a decision on what we're doing there.

And the windows come into this also on the west side of the building.

We have to take the rest of the siding off, take a look at what we have, what needs to be removed that needs to be removed.

There needs to be hardwood um wedges put in all the uh the studs to make sure they're tight and supporting all the weight that they could.

Um so anyway, there's a lot of work that needs to be done on the building.

Catherine did go out uh because the windows guy was there, and Catherine, I'll shut up a little bit and let you talk.

But the window person was there uh was it a month ago or so, maybe at this point.

Something like that.

Yeah, about three or four weeks ago, and he gave us a price of 109,000, take all the sashes out, redo them all, put them back.

And uh that did not include the side windows.