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The Faber field turf conversation continues tonight at the borough council's fourth information forum.
Repeat broadcasts of the entire proceeding can be accessed via television through Glen Rock TV.
Voters will decide on the municipality's $3 million synthetic turf bond proposal in a Nov. 4 referendum.
A special Oct. 1 work session began with an hour of public turf discussion. A major element was a disagreement between engineers over the council's cost estimates for the installation of roughly 4.4 acres of synthetic turf in the conceptual field plan.
The exchange involved borough consulting engineer Michael DeSena of Stantec, and Jerry Dorost, a Glen Rock resident and longtime field engineer who had questioned the preliminary cost assumptions at a previous meeting not attended by DeSena.
After a private meeting of the two, the dialogue continued in public last Wednesday, following that day's posting of a more detailed itemization of estimated costs on the borough website. (Details of the expanded cost breakdowns for both synthetic and natural field installations can be accessed through the link titled "Revised Faber Field Budget Explanation" on the borough home page at glenrocknj.net.)
Despite the additional detail and DeSena's Oct. 8 responses, Dorost maintained his position that the borough was underestimating the installation and maintenance costs of synthetic turf, while overestimating the corresponding costs for the natural grass alternative.
"I guess we'll have to just agree to disagree," Dorost said, twice telling council members that he "didn't envy them having to decide" which of the professionals was correct.
DeSena began his remarks by noting that he and associates had reviewed the original cost estimates, isolating some 27 previously bundled costs including all turf and related components - noting the higher costs accounted for in sections of the field requiring more sub-surface stone to ensure stability and drainage performance. Other itemized costs included excavation and earthmoving, drainage infrastructure elements, benches, removal and replacement of fencing, baseball accessories, foul poles, sports lighting, soccer goals, a multi-use scoreboard and others.
He said the total remained at $2.735 million for the synthetic turf as proposed, "a figure we remain comfortable with." Officials have previously noted that the difference between that and the $3 million to be bonded allows for various ancillary expenses, including engineering and bond-related fees, as well as contingencies - a cushion Dorost also said might be too low.
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Architects and the building industry have criticised the report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on green buildings titled Building Sense and said it makes unfair comparisons and does not adopt a correct approach.
Data put out by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) on energy consumption of large commercial buildings that were rated and awarded silver, gold and platinum rating, under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green rating programme, are grossly underperforming, the CSE report had said. Several of them could not qualify even for the one star label under the star labelling programme of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) that ranks buildings based on their energy efficiency when operational, according to the report.
However, S Raghupathy, Executive Director, CIIGodrej Green Business Centre said the interpretation of data was not correct and misleading. Office buildings should never be compared with IT buildings. The Energy Performance Index (EPI) concept developed by the BEE is presently available only for three types of buildings malls, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centres and commercial offices.
One cannot compare an office building vis--vis data centers, malls, BPO showrooms, hospitals, and hotels etc., which are unique in their own ways. The report compares an 8-hour office building with other types of buildings, which is totally incorrect, Mr. Raghupathy said.
Clarifying the CSE report, Avikal Somvanshi, senior research associate, CSE said, BEE has developed EPI benchmarks for various building typologies based on which it awards star labels to buildings. It has rated 135 office buildings and 26 BPO buildings for energy efficiency so far.
The CSE has just compared the energy performance of IGBC-LEED rated buildings disclosed by IGBC on its website, and found gross under-performance, he said.
Questions were being raised about EPI not being right measure of judging energy, he said adding that the CSE had not framed these benchmarks and standards which were being questioned.
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The Chartiers Valley School District is using an advisory team of administrators, students, teachers and architects to determine the scope of a renovation/construction project at the middle school and high school.
The district is working with Downtown-based architects, IKM Inc., which has brought BLRB Architects, based in Oregon and Washington, as consultants for the project.
The 486,000-square-foot high school/middle school complex was built in 1970; its last renovation was in 2006.
Matt Hansen, project manager with IKM, said the firm looked to BLRB because of its expertise in school construction projects. While IKM has done work at higher-education facilities such as Slippery Rock Universitys Physical Therapy Building and alumni centers at West Virginia University and Grove City College, it has not done much work with school districts.
IKM is known for its work designing health care facilities, such as St. Clair Hospitals outpatient center in Peters and Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMCs outpatient center in South Fayette.
Mr. Hansen said one of the main focuses in the process of renovating or constructing a school is to look to stakeholders for newer ideas.
The reality is that all of this has been done before, Mr. Hansen said about traditional school construction.
The project has not been specifically defined yet, but it might include a mixture of demolition, renovation and new construction.
In September, school design advisory teams that include parents, taxpayers, teachers, administrators and students began to meet to talk about what they want in the school.
On Tuesday and Wednesday members of some of the advisory teams will tour several schools in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas to glean new ideas.
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The family that's owned a strategic North Dallas property for more than a century wants to redevelop the site.
The Daniel family hopes to tear down the 40-year-old rental homes on the northwest corner of Inwood and Forest Lane. The old townhomes would be replaced by new apartments, some neighborhood retail space and sports fields for Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas.
"We see it as a redevelopment opportunity that would be a betterment for the community and provide amenities for the neighborhood," said William Dahlstrom with Jackson Walker LLP who is representing the owners. "We want to do a legacy type property that would last forever."
The 30-acre property is now occupied by more than 200 townhouses and surface parking lots.
The owners are working with apartment builder Greystar, retail real estate firm Regency Centers and next door neighbor Jesuit Prep School on the redevelopment plans.
"We've owned the property since 1849," said John Daniel. "Frances Sims Daniel came in a wagon from Tennessee.
"She bought a section of land that the center of was very close to Airline and Daniel street near SMU," he said. "They bought other property and this was once a farm."
In 1972, the land was zoned for construction of the Forestwood Townhomes which have occupied the corner since then.
The property is about a block off the Dallas North Tollway and just south of LBJ Freeway.
Laird Sparks with Greystar said the plan is to build "townhome type residences.
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In 2012, knowledge intensive (KI) services industries--business, finance and information--produced $3.4 trillion in value-added output, more than one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), and employed 18 million workers. Data are from a new report released today by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.
KI services industries and the smaller high-technology (HT) manufacturing industries--aerospace, communications, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments and semiconductors--make up commercial knowledge and technology-intensive (KTI) industries. KI services industries employed 18 million workers and produced 22 percent of GDP. HT manufacturing industries employed 2 million workers and produced 2 percent of GDP in 2012.
KTI industries have a particularly strong link to science and technology and perform three-fourths of U.S. business research and development, an important source of innovation and economic growth.
Employment in KTI industries represented 15 percent of the U.S. workforce in 2012, with workers performing activities such as manufacturing, computer systems design, architectural and engineering, data processing, radio and television broadcasting hosting and other related services. A complete list can be found in the NCSES report.
The report also finds wages for U.S. commercial KTI industries workers are much higher than they are in other industries. In 2011, the average salaries of KI services industries and HT manufacturing industries were more than $20,000 higher than the private-sector average. However, average salaries vary widely among individual commercial KI services and HT manufacturing industries.
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On the living room wall of Stacey Maloney's West Leechburg home hangs a plaque with the word faith in large letters.
The fact that the 104-year-old Second Street house, dedicated Wednesday, now belongs to her is one reason why.
I was looking to buy a home, but I didn't have much credit, being so young, said Maloney, 24, a registered nurse at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Pittsburgh.
But Maloney, a single mom with an 8-month-old son, Jaxton, believes things happen for a reason. When she walked into the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in New Kensington and met Mike McElhaney, executive director of Armstrong County Habitat for Humanity, that seemed to be the case.
Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization, builds new houses and restores old ones, then sells them to low-income working people who might otherwise not be able to own their own home. Once a buyer's eligibility is verified, he or she is required to chip in sweat equity by participating in the construction or restoration and receive mortgages with little or no interest.
Maloney inquired about obtaining a house through Habitat, and McElhaney said he had one in West Leechburg. The house was abandoned after a mortgage foreclosure and was owned by the Bank of America.
Mark Battaglia, a bank senior vice president based in the South Hills, who came to West Leechburg for the dedication, said the bank has a 25-year agreement with Habitat. Under that agreement with Habitat for Humanity International, the bank donates vacant or abandoned properties to help provide affordable housing for low-income families nationwide.
Battaglia also said bank employees donate 30,000 hours of volunteer time each year to help restore the houses, which was the case with Maloney's house.
In Pennsylvania, we've had four donations completed for Habitat, Battaglia said, adding that Maloney's house is the first one in this area. Banks have to give back to their local communities by law, and this is one example, he said.
You just can't have a neater program than having foreclosed houses being donated to Habitat, McElhaney said.
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The Wisconsin Club will host a History Night Fundraiser on Tuesday, Oct. 21 with proceeds benefiting the restoration of the Court of Honor monuments on West Wisconsin Avenue.
Just outside the front gates of the Wisconsin Club on West Wisconsin Avenue is a boulevard median called the "Court of Honor." The median is home to three priceless bronze monuments Those monuments include a bronze woman and child at the feet of George Washington dedicated in 1885. The boulevard became known as the Court of Honor after the erection of the bronze Civil War monument, the "Victorious Charge" in 1898. Later the area gained even more significance with the addition of a 65 foot stone column in 1900 and another bronze monument to a Spanish American War Hero in 1932.
These valuable monuments to United States history show the ravages of time and deterioration and need improvements to make them relevant to the 21st century and fit in with the planned redevelopment of West Wisconsin Avenue. The Westown Association, along with other key downtown stakeholders, is spearheading a campaign to raise $100,000 for restoration of these monuments.
On Tuesday, Oct. 21 the Grand Ballroom at the Wisconsin Club will be transformed into an evening filled with history to benefit the restoration of the monuments. Featured at the event will be:
Milwaukee-born writer, historian and eight-time winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Award of Merit, John Gurda will share interesting insights about Westown "the gateway to downtown" from its beginning until today.
Director of Development and Senior Historian of the Pabst Mansion, John C. Eastberg will take you down the avenue from its "Grand" days to when and why it became Wisconsin Avenue. Museum educator, Diane Buck will reveal the story behind the Court of Honor statues, the importance of retaining our community's history and culture through the monument, and the restoration needs.
The cost for this event is $100 per person, which is fully tax-deductible. 100% of the donation will go toward the Court of Honor Restoration Project-dinner is donated on behalf of the Wisconsin Club. Passed hors d'oeuvres & Cash Bar at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. with Guest Speakers at 7:15 p.m.
To learn more about or to donate to the Court of Honor Restoration, please visit westown.org/courtofhonor.
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By Jennifer Eberbach Special to The Dexter Leader
Members of the Dexter Area Historical Society held a special ceremony on Sunday to mark the recent ownership of Dexter's famed Gordon Hall. JENNIFER EBERBACH--WASHTENAW NOW
The historical society brought its last payment to the bank, this September.
At a ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 12, the mortgage was burned -- at least in effigy.
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The historical society has been paying down a $900,000 mortgage, plus interest, since purchasing the 1840s Greek Revival home and surrounds from the University of Michigan, in 2006.
This year, Wally Fusilier, whose wife Bene is DAHS board president, posed a fundraising challenge to pay off the last $200,000. Donors contributed $100,000, which the Fusiliers matched dollar-for-dollar.
This is a dream come true, and now we are ready to move on, Bene Fusilier said after watching the mortgage burn.
With the loan out of the way, fundraising efforts can turn to restoring Gordon Hall to how Judge Dexter left it, in 1863, the year he passed away.
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At its Sept. 23 work session, the Wales Town Board authorized Highway Superintendent Michael Zywar to install a Blue Star Memorial marker along Route 20A adjacent to the Sgt. Mark Rademacher Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post #7795 in Wales Center. The town board previously approved the marker's installation.
The Blue Star Memorial program, begun shortly after the conclusion of World War II, is a tribute to the service members of the US military, according to the two women instrumental in bringing the memorial markers to Wales. Coordinated under the auspices of the National Federation of Garden Clubs across the United States, the Wales Town Board was approached by East Aurora Garden Club member Elaine DiPietro and Holland Garden Club member Christine Hausauer at a previous board workshop. The two asked permission to have a Blue Star Memorial marker installed along Big Tree Road in Wales Center in front of Edmund Bud Bogucki Town Park and the VFW Post. The town board granted permission for the marker's installation.
Memorial markers now exist on Route 16 heading into the Town of Holland, as well as in Elma, DiPietro previously told the Wales board. Blue Star Memorial markers are traditionally placed in front of national cemeteries, gardens, parks and veterans facilities, officials noted.
A ceremony commemorating the installation of the Blue Star Memorial marker will be observed Nov. 11, Veterans Day, in Wales Center along Route 20A, and Zywar has been directed to have the marker in place by that date at Bogucki's request. Bogucki has served in many leadership roles as a member of the VFW post in Wales, and as a town board member for 24 years.
In other news, the board received an update from Councilman Michael Simon and Town Attorney Ronald P. Bennett on the recent ruling handed down by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court in Albany The appellate justices upheld a previous State Supreme Court ruling permitting a local jurisdiction to ban gas well hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as it is commonly referred to, within its own borders. The ruling was all encompassing, Bennett said, and has far-reaching ramifications for communities such as Wales, which has a similar law on its books.
In this case, the eastern Southern Tier community of Dryden passed a law almost two years ago that forbade any person or corporation from fracking within the town's borders for public health reasons. The legislation, passed by the Dryden Town Board and challenged in Albany by pro-fracking forces, pre-empted state law that maintained it was the sole responsibility of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to define and implement legislation regulating the industry, and declared it was the town's prerogative to allow home rule. State law should take precedence over local legislation, opponents argued before the justices.
The issue came down to an interpretation of state DEC law, Bennett said, with the high court siding with the Town of Dryden in upholding the lower court's decision banning hydraulic fracturing if a local community so chooses.
Dryden didn't have 'fracking' as a permitted use in its zoning ordinances, Bennett told board members, leaving the door open for its town board to act. He also noted that the Town of Wales code (fully) complies with state law, under the high court's ruling.
We'll' do anything that we have to do to protect this community, Simon said of his disdain for the practice of hydraulic fracturing. He also said the intent of the Wales law not allowing fracking was clear and concise.
Simon, with a major assist from councilwoman Jude Hartrich, authored the local legislation banning hydraulic fracturing in Wales two years ago.
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