BOARD OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT - April 2018

Congregational Work Day: April 14 - 9:00-12:00 (LunchOnLinda)

Work Day April 14 In April we begin the start of warmer weather and preparations for the season. We will also likely have work related to the Education Building. There is always a lot to do and we look forward to your sharing your time and talent with us! Please join us and stay for Lunch On Linda.

Work Day March 24 No report at the time of writing.

Offices and Education Building –Treatment And Testing Update Since last month we have gone through the second phase of thermal fogging and testing. There was overall improvement, but one disappointment. The good news is that all areas are deemed to be “Acceptable” except for Pastors office. Many areas were significantly improved. Pastor's office area was somewhat improved, but still higher than acceptable. We believe that the poor readings were due, in part, to us getting the cart before the horse. We understood from discussions with remediators and testers that indicated that you could test after demo and before repairs, which is what we did. The treating company, in addition to thermal fogging, did a special surface treatment of the exposed beams and other areas in the office. Then we did the testing. The flaw in this approach, we believe, is the offices were not isolated from the ‘outside world’, since the ceiling of the office was removed. This kept this area exposed to the outside environment via the attic and eave vents. We think that this allowed in outside air, which is higher in contaminants, to ‘pollute’ the inside of the office when the fan is running and may be the root cause of the poor readings. It was interesting to note that other areas served by the same HVAC on the second floor were significantly lower. This would indicate that the system improvements, new ducts, better filters, and UV treatment are having positive results. So…

We intend to continue the isolation of the office area as a precaution. We have developed a plan for some continued improvements, finishing and sealing the inside (replace dry wall and seal same), provide some temporary added protection from the outside elements, sealing the eave vents, and then retreating and re-testing the office area only.

The Youth Classroom has been approved for use; we need to remove the seals on the doors and vents to allow reentry. We will leave the other two second floor rooms closed but not sealed. This isolates the HVAC system while the first-floor work continues.

High Lighting Project We are ready to do a big chunk of the high lighting project in the Social Hall and Activity Room. This will probably not happen until after Easter. When this is finally scheduled, please consider giving us a hand. We don’t need a hoard, just a few good people to pull this off.

Mowing and Other Stuff With the added help of Greg Lucas and the return of Larry Futch we have a good crew of folks to share the mowing duties. We hope to set this group up with a leader to coordinate this activity going forward.

I mention this because we are also looking at doing something similar in other areas to address the routine needs in our church campus.

Other changes are in the mill and may be rolled out shortly. Karen H. is working with us to develop a bulletin board to display jobs and small project worksheets that can be adopted by folks outside of the work day environment. Stay tuned and thanks Karen.

Lights and Heat We are getting back into normal operation in the Ed Building and the use is picking up. Please remember to turn off lights and HVAC when you leave. We will try to automate some of these functions, but your help is still needed for ad hoc usage. Thanks!

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.

~ Mike Fajen