BOARD OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT - August 2019

Congregational Work Day: August 3 - 9:00-12:00 – LunchOnLinda (LOL)

Congregational Workday Saturday, August 3, 9-12 L.O.L This workday is out of its normal scheduled time slot due to the timing of Rally Sunday. The focus will be to prepare the grounds and the facilities for this event and to get ready for fall. Please come, and perhaps the hot weather will be somewhat muted by that time.

Roof Repairs - Sanctuary After the test patch in May, we began to pursue the coating of the roof in earnest. This is thanks primarily to the efforts of Bud and his crew. I was tied up with other matters and Bud picked up the ball and ran with it. We got the material and left it scattered over several levels of the roof. Later, Bud and company went up on one or two occasions and spread the material. They did this in spite of the extreme heat. They worked mostly in the morning hours. Some of this was to clean and prepare, and then return for the final step of applying the silicone-based material. They also did some caulking and sealing of the wall caps and stucco areas. Unfortunately, I do not have a roster of all of those who braved the elements, but a big TLC thanks to all of you that helped in this very important first step in attacking our persistent leaking problems.

At this writing, I have not seen the final results, but we are all hoping that we made a substantial reduction in the leaks in these areas. Time will tell, and we still are looking at doing some sealing of the exterior stucco on the sides of the Bell Tower and in other stucco locations. We will need a piece of equipment to do most of this work, perhaps in the fall. We have enough material to recoat the top of the walkway canopy. This will be done when the weather cools some.

Earlier we had also contracted the top of the bell tower to apply the silicone material and to do extensive caulking and sealing in that area. Time will tell on how successful this effort will have been.

Stucco Repairs We have a plan to begin repairs to the stucco, banding, and other exterior areas on the ground level of the Education Building. This would also include changing/replacing the glass triangle window with a stucco façade. Essentially all these areas would include hard coat stucco and get rid of the leak prone cedar and window trim. This would include all the cedar panels, including the south side.

We anticipate a lot of damage to the original building which has the ‘bad’ stucco. We hope this will only require repair of the lower section of the wall studs and base board. We have some early plans, but we will not know until this area is stripped of the stucco.

What we would also like to do is to give the east facing side of the building a new look. E.g. where the triangle window is converted to stucco, should we or can we put some kind of a religious icon or design and perhaps highlight it with an exterior light in the evening. The old iron cross might also be enhanced with some back lighting and sprucing it up with a new, perhaps different painting scheme. Changes to the south face are also being planned. The old sliding doors would be replaced with a single door in one or two spots and windows only in other spots. Some of the surrounding adjacent areas would be trimmed out and/or stuccoed.

If you have some ideas on these upcoming designs, please let us know and maybe we can develop a ‘new look’ for Trinity.

Fire, Safety and Building Security Systems We are still pursuing some free advice on this in specking and design of the system. If you can help, please let us know. Or if you can secure someone knowledgeable in these systems from the outside, it would be greatly appreciated.

Something Need Fixin’? If there are things that need attending to please let us know by talk or text to 314-249-8721 (Bud) or 912-236-3128 (Mike) or by email to mfajen@comcast.net or eegerdes@gmail.com.

For Bud and I, Mike Fajen