Voices for International Business and Education
Minutes
VIBE Facilities Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday September 7, 2022 at 5:30 PM
Location
IHSNO Community Room
Committee Members Present
K. Dwyer, S. Olivier
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
A. Berger, C. Jones (remote), J. Lampton, R. Smith
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve June 7, 2022 Minutes
II. Committee Business
A.
2022-2023 Goals for Facilities Committee
- To identify a new facility
- To maintain the current building.
- To ensure that facility-related decisions align with the Reimagine Grant and are sustainable.
B.
Vote on 2022-2023 Goals for Facilities Committee
C.
Facilities Report / Major Projects Update
Rolling out Carrina ticketing system. Direct way to communicate back to those who opened the tickets. Closed 44/45 tickets during August within 48 hours of ticket opening.
Metal detector for front entrance is in place. Getting processes in place has taken time. Still working on a quicker time getting students in.
Cooking in Kitchen. Vendor is cooking in kitchen. Passed DHH inspection. Focused on different items since we are cooking.
Added new hot water tank in restrooms. Upgraded lights in basement. Transformed room for Jazz Empowers, with shelves for instruments, wall outlets, and carpeting for sound.
Upcoming: media center needs to be built out of larger room. Need facility alteration request with NOLA-PS. Need to build walls and a hallway for evac purposes. May need fire alarm speakers. May need fire marshall approval.
Ongoing: Preservation funds - want a 45 minute kick-off meeting to review the scope of work, timeline, and meet project managers.
Reviewed scale and priority ratings.
Year 1 will concentrate on HVAC system based on scale and priority rating.
D.
IHSNO Facility Needs
Reimagine Grant:
- Need to provide a material amendment to let them know where we will house additional students
- LAPCS said they can help us with connections with other schools. Ideas:
- partner with another school for classroom space.
- find a business downtown to give a space to convert to two classrooms
- trailers? need permission from DDD
- Permanent options
- finding building that exists
- building that will be built.
- Going to another parish
- Weigh options of 6th or 8th grade. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. It makes more sense to go with 8th grade so that we can stay in the current building.
- There is a decrease in the number of students in the parish but as a type 2, we can get students from other parishes.
E.
Designation of Facilities Committee Member for HOS Evaluation Committee
Newly established HOS Eval committee. One member from each committee. Sarah as chair will be on HOS Eval committee.
Postponed. K. Dwyer and C. Jones did not attend the June 7 meeting.
Will be approved at the October board meeting