Weisenberg Board of Supervisors members discussed construction updates for the township\u2019s community center at their meeting, Feb. 9.<\/p>\n
Brian Carl, township manager, began the discussion on the progress of the community center with asking the board for its approval to make Conestoga Buildings payment number seven in the amount of $201,955.<\/p>\n
As previously reported in the Northwestern Press, the community center is being fully funded by donors and not township funds.<\/p>\n
Carl also asked the board to approve Conestoga Buildings change order number four which includes architectural drawing revisions \u2014 $3,625, excavation and backfill and plumbing work \u2014 $6, 270, electrical \u2014 $23, 337, bathroom accessories \u2014 $2,798, HVAC \u2014 $25,986, foam insulation \u2014 $27, 507 and security \u2014 $4,445 for two additional key fob entries for interior access for a total cost of $93,968.<\/p>\n
Both motions for payment number seven and change order number four were unanimously approved by the board.<\/p>\n
Carl then explained the miscellaneous material purchase approval item listed on the agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I just need your approval to get some miscellaneous items \u2014 a sign, security window, sound batting, bathroom countertop, casework, wood trim, phone and data wiring, eight basketball hoops, two industrial fans and a donor wall\/tree,\u201d he said. \u201cSo these things I do have captured on my budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n
The board approved the Hex signs last month, Carl said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did get a price from Robert Maletsky, an authentic Pennsylvania Hex Sign painter in Lehigh and Berks counties, to make a sign that says Weisenberg Township, that\u2019s essentially a much larger version of what\u2019s on our pavilion,\u201d Carl said \u201cIf Maletsky hand paints it and does the design and stuff it\u2019s $2,800.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also got a price from Valley Wide Sign to make a printed version of that and it\u2019s $1,420,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only thing is it\u2019s going to be more of a vinyl sign with a quarter inch backing if we get Valley Wide to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he knows it\u2019s more expensive, but he is leaning towards having Maletsky paint it, so it matches the hex signs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could probably have him do some sort of decorative thing on the ends, but we could have Valley Wide just do it, it\u2019s half the price,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After further discussion, a motion was approved for Maletsky to paint the signs.<\/p>\n
The next item discussed was the security window for the lobby to office.<\/p>\n
Carl said it is a quick serve window with an aluminum tray on the bottom. It is pricey because it is bullet proof and ends up costing $5,664.<\/p>\n
He said the sound batting insulation would be batting the interior walls to cut down on the noise from the gym and meeting room.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would end up doing that work ourselves. The cost is roughly $3,300,\u201d he said. \u201cThat will be all the interior office walls, the hallway wall, the whole length from the classroom to the office, lobby to the gym and gym to the meeting rooms. Pretty much everything on the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bathroom originally had laminate counters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would get something that\u2019s a solid surface,\u201d Carl said. \u201cThey will be wall hung units with no cabinets because of ADA wheelchair requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the counters would be somewhere around $600 apiece, so for two of them, that\u2019s $1,200.<\/p>\n
Carl said he pulled out the casework from Conestoga contract earlier on and he is going to do that work.<\/p>\n
Wood trim for the base, lobby, meeting room and the windowsills and the chair rail in the meeting room was the next item discussed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a couple different material options: pine, maple and red oak. I don\u2019t think it should be pine,\u201d Carl said. \u201cIf we want to stain it and make it look a little nicer, I would say let\u2019s go with the red oak if you guys are OK with that. I can get it close to matching what all the doors would look like.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the wood base ends up being $3,200 and the windowsills and aprons end up being about $1,000 and the chair rail ends up being about $800, or roughly $5,000 in materials.<\/p>\n
Carl told the board that they could go with a rubber base instead of wood if they wanted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I was thinking about doing is that we just paint the walls and run the chair rail around in the meeting room,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you want a different color below, you can dress it up. If you don\u2019t want to do the chair rail, we can save a little over $800.<\/p>\n
Carl said that for the phone and data wiring, they would run that for all of their computers, copiers and other electronics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thinking with the wire and the ends, we\u2019re probably at $800 to $1,000. I would just get whatever we need and just run it when the electrician is in there. It\u2019s just phone and Internet for the office area,\u201d he said. \u201cAll the security stuff is run by the vendor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carl said he was able to purchase eight basketball hoops from Kutztown Area School District for $190.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would end up using six of them and would have two left over,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said he also has two industrial fans for the ceiling in the turf area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wiring for the fans, controllers, everything was included in the electrician\u2019s change order,\u201d Carl said. \u201cThey will actually install them. We are just going to supply them.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the variable speed fans, the controllers are $3,000. The fans are four feet in diameter and caged. They are for warehouses and buildings like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carl said the last item he had to discuss was the donor wall.<\/p>\n
He said at last month\u2019s meeting for the advisory committee, the committee had talked about doing a donor tree on the side wall when you come into the community center on the right.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can get approval up to $3,000. They seem to be in the upper $2,000. We have two major donors, and we have a couple of medium ones,\u201d Carl said. \u201cThe general ones would just be the leaves on the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carl reminded the board he had budgeted for all these items; they were not new items.<\/p>\n
The board unanimously approved all eight items discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weisenberg Board of Supervisors members discussed construction updates for the township\u2019s community center at their meeting, Feb. 9.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-121601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}