BOARD OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT - February 2020

No Workday in February

January Congregational Workday Un-Greening What a great crew for the first Workday of the year. Many thanks to Bob and Cindy, Bruce and Judy, Barb Picasso, Bud and Rosemary, Kevin and Lynne, Nancy, Betty, Lonna, Gretchen, Ann, Ron and Jennifer and Ryan, J.B., Dave, Becky, Janet, and Linda! And I hope I got everybody; it was a real whirl wind day for me! We got the Christmas décor d wn and made a big dent in the to-do list. Thank folks for the help! Hope to see you in March as we prepare for Lent.

Nests in the Education Building! We have done some modifications to the original building HVAC. You will notice the installation of two new Nest smart T-stats on both floors. These are ‘learning’ thermostats (welcome Big Brother) and can be accessed via the internet for control and programming (not quite there yet on that).

What you don’t see is that we have segregated the physical control and distribution of air specific to each of these areas, upstairs and downstairs. This involved splitting the controls on the two motor/fan units and installing baffles in the discharge ductwork for separate distribution to these areas.

This should provide some energy benefits, but also improve the conflict for temperature control on the second floor. Many thanks to our HVAC guy, Walkers Conditioned Air for his help on this.

Stucco Repairs – Education Building Demolition will be on hold until March. If you have already volunteered by word of mouth, please send me an email. WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR A FEW MORE FOLKS! This will be a special workday or may just be a day when folks are available. We have a few already signed up, so if you can help, let us know. We will try to accommodate your schedule.

We did the ‘recon’ work on the west side stucco of the old structure. Mostly good news. There is some damage to the plywood on the lower portion of the wall under the stucco. The framing around the window will have to be replaced along with the window itself. We hope the damage is limited to the lowest tier of plywood. The good news is that the structural members in the wall look ok. So, repairs would include re-skinning the outside where damaged, installing the new window, and application of the hard coat stucco.

Also included in the scope of work will be to relocate the attic vent, probably on the south side corner of the attic above Judy’s room. This will be a smaller vent.

South Face Door Replacement Most of the work on the two rooms affected has been completed. We have a good start on the painting on the inside thanks to Barb. At this writing, I don’t know how much interior work remains.

East Face Façade The three trees on the north corner will be removed leaving a fairly large pallet for a message. Probably this will include “TLC,” but we could also add something else to draw attention to us as “The Church in The Village.” Keep in mind we are also looking at re-doing the signs on both boulevards and in front of the church; maybe these should be coordinated to be consistent. Again, if you have some ideas on these upcoming designs, please let us know and maybe we can develop a ‘new look’ for old Trinity along with our new emphasis on outreach and assimilation.

Capital Program As most of you know, Doug Masini is heading up a program to fund some the ‘Nasty Nine’ projects on the PM info board. He has reprinted these to be more readable. Many thanks to Doug for agreeing to lead the charge on this. Many of these projects will have to be contracted.

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 myself, Mike Fajen