Building and Grounds Minutes

May 8, 2012

 

Jerry opened the meeting with a prayer at 7:000 p.m.  

Committee members present were:  Jerry Grandle, Janet Loman, Roger Sellers,

                                     Eddie Armendariz and Bruce Pearson.  

 

Old Business:  We briefly discussed some routine housekeeping matters.   Eddie said that the new vacuum cleaner is working well.   He also expressed the opinion that he, rather than our church handyman Barry Fowler, should be responsible for cleaning the floors, bathrooms and windows, as these duties are janitorial. The Committee agreed. 

                                               

New Business:  We spent most of the meeting organizing our church work day, scheduled for Saturday, May 12, between 8 a.m. and noon.   Jerry passed out work sheets listing the various projects we wish to tackle on the work day.   These lists also indicated which tools and supplies would be needed for each project.   Jerry asked each committee member to report at the church an hour early, at 0700 hours, on Saturday, in order to have everything ready for the volunteers when they arrive at 0800.   As previously agreed, Roger will hand out the worksheets to the teams of volunteers and will check them off when they have completed each project.    Bruce reported that he had already begun trimming the trees and would continue this task on work day, with the help of some volunteers.    The members reported some difficulties in meeting our goal of contacting every member of our congregation to tell them about the work day, but we were cautiously optimistic that we would get a decent turnout.

 

            The departure of the Children's Garden will necessitate considerable clean-up work in Branigan Hall in order to get it ready for exclusive use of our expanding Sunday School classes.   Specifically, we will have to do a thorough cleaning of the walls and ceilings before we can repaint Branigan.   Per a request from Judith Ames, the Committee agreed not to dispose of anything in Branigan, including old furniture, which the Children's Garden personnel left behind when they left.  The Sunday School directors will decide which items they wish to keep and which should be removed.   We also tentatively decided that there is no longer a need to replace the locking exterior gates now that the Children's Garden is gone.

 

            We discussed a request from Millie Conrad to the Session, passed on to B & G by Carlton Connor, that we designate additional handicapped parking spaces in both the east and south parking lots.   We will probably not be able to complete this project on work day but will tackle it in the near future.

 

            The lawn sprinklers in the main courtyard are not watering the area evenly, apparently due to silt blocking the lines.   We will probably have to blow out the lines, but this will not be a project for the work day.   Moreover, one of the sprinkler heads is broken and will have to be replaced.

 

            We continued our previous discussion on the need to replace the carpet in Jones Hall.   Janet volunteered to contact Malooley's Carpet Co. to get a price estimate.

 

            At our next scheduled meeting, on June 12, we will formulate our final recommendations on the use of the handicap-equipped van for presentation to the Session.

 

            Roger adjourned the meeting with a prayer at 8:10  p.m..

Respectfully submitted by Bruce Pearson