Event:2015/04/06 Building Working Group

Meeting Minutes 4/6/2015 These notes also at: https://pad.riseup.net/p/buildings Present: Laura T, Matt S, Joe L, amgo, DK, Sean F, Sean L, Jenny, Ali

SOUTH WALL SOUNDPROOFING

• Sean is point person
• Blow in insulation?
• Joe: not industry standard anymore. Now insulate AND
• how much Sound Transmission Coefficient/Noise
• How much noise is leaking?
  • Spaz people did decibel reading
    • Didn't have
    • Sean will try to get that reading from spaz
  • 90 decibels might Cabaret law limit
• Aiming to have this work done first 2 weeks in May
  • Sean's work

SEQUENCE OF WORK

• Find out how much sound is coming out
• get numbers about what sound deadening stuff works how much
• DK is going to send an email to Brian and CC Sean Logan
• DK: We should leave it to Brian's discretion
  • Maybe we can authorize a few hours professional labor for consulting
    • $150/hour for Brian
• Jim (architect) might consult for cheap (up to now free)
  • Jim consult with Brian. Brian tell Jim what to mock up on Autocad
  • Contact Seb or Johnny to get decibel equipment and do a sound check under Seb's supervision
• THINGS WE NEED
  • Lotsa sheet rock - Home Depot can drop it off
  • Sean must recruit a crew
• ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIP WITH FACILITIES MANAGER OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND GET CLICKER FOR PARKING LOT

La Commune Wall

• Joe is point person
• Started today hauling stuff away
• get rid of camper shell
• if joe can get people to help him he can get some stuff
• Get help from Jerome

PROFESSIONAL HUMAN RESOURCES

• Jim-Architect- no charge
• SEB - sound guy - has lotsa tools - loves OMNI\
• BRIAN GLASSCOCK - Friend of Seb
• BRIAN HOOD- Can no longer do it for free hoodconstructionco.com
• Johnny Latimer - sound guy

NONHUMAN RESOURCES

• 2 sets of scaffolding under stage

WORK DAYS

• Door Day
• Light day
  • install covers on all lights
• Need to finish tracing conduit - FRIDAY?
  • Need at least 3 pple
  • extension cords
  • kinda confusing - can't trace all circuits on all subpanels in one day but we can start
  • need to be disconnected - any exposed conduit needs to be inflexible so all the stuff in walls must be destroyed

MAPPING ALL CIRCUITS

• FRIDAY!
• Needs at least 3 people
• Need crew head
  • Matt, Patrik?, DK?, Jake?, Gerald?, Jerome, Rachel?, Liz?

La Commune

• a row of countertop outlets
• get counter height cuz don't want box below counter
  • height may be determined by sink

DOORS

• APRIL 18 - DO ONE DOOR! marc juul - research all material needs BEFORE DOOR DAY
• NEED DOOR DAY COORDINATOR
  • Who? DUsty? Liz?
• ACCESS CONTROL
• PANIC BARS
• Maybe one day JUST panic bars
• Marc Juul might be able to make panic bar/access
• PREP
  • one set of access control equipment as prototype
  • Marc should finalize this list
• MARC research panic bars! Panic bars need to be able to integrate with access control system

WHAT DO WE NEED PERMITS FOR

• front door
• lighting for la commune

FRONT DOOR

• one wide door (at least 3' wide) and one 2' wide
  • need door to be 80" high for ADA
  • since we have to raise transom may as well change everything
  • for $5000 Ricky will do the door
• Joe: T astrical as opposed to post
  • • includes supplies
  • Seppy can't do the cool double door thing alone now too busy
  • LAURA WILL ASK FRIEND
  • DK WILL ASK A PERSON
  • DK knows a Doug the Anarchist Carpenter
  • DK friend Armel willing to do cool political stained glass thing for top

DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS WITH CITY PEOPLE

• Passing lots of ppl onto Sean F., Joe
  • personal trust and getting along are most important

Building & Fire

• discrete tasks
• haven't yet had a building inspection

INSPECTIONS

• If inspectors think we are using the building we get a set amount of time to finish project
• If we are actually working on stuff it's not as scary
• City wants us to succeed and probably won't send over surprise inspection BUTTTTT
• Commercial Kitchen

BASEMENT KITCHEN

• • Involve Phat Beets
  • Make up air
  • stove - mechanical inspection - don't say we fixed it - it's grandfathered in
    • need to clean out pilot holes
    • may need new ranges
  • Ansel fire suppression - max knows a good person for $2k
  • Disassemble roof fire suppression
    • Disassemble exhaust hood on the roof for the kitchen stove fan, writing down the model number for the fan
  • windows
  • floors
  • knock out wall? When?
  • Ask Antonio to do official basement kitchen ($160/visit)
• Price out kitchen fixes
• Going to wait for building officials to tell us that we need to replace the stove.
• Get Phat Beets involved, start a regular kitchen meeting with them?

Planning

• abstract
• they are kinda on our side and want us to succeed
• DK, Sean f, and Joe will go over everything & puzzle out how all to deal with plans, and introduce to planners
• Together make decisions about what kind of goals want to aim for

ADA BATHROOM

• Can't get inspected til La Commune wall is done
• Need to close holes (?)
• Liasing with John Givens - Joe?
  • Should also be Board President
  • He loves candy
  • More frequent, short (less than an hour), frequent meetings are best. Perhaps meet on the weekly?
  • Replaced the skylights in sudo/ccl as a nice thing to do for us, could potentially be convincd to do the same thing for the ballroom
• BID liaison - Sarah P?
• Neighborhood Groups - JENNY
  • Town SquARED
  • Temescal Merchants Association
  • NextDoor
  • Yahoo group for Temescal
  • 48th Street group
  • Ultra
  • Nautilus
    • Developers, contact is Lindsay
• 3-phase power with Nautilus - Whitney
  • New maintenance panel, try to get John to buy it
• what if we make cost lists for all building projects and then point out ot JG what his $ responsibility
• JG will suspect we don't really have to do it

CCL PLUMBING

• Talk to friend of Laura t scott rector, licensed plumber
• put mop sink in ADA bathroom
• Running pipe under the hallway to sudo/ccl to the bathroom there
• Need to make sure to get John's approval on all major building repairs
• Any unlicensed contractor work we do must be done by a MEMBER
  • mechanics leins

MISC ACTIONS

• Go down to Public Records and look at the redacted records for the building
• Go file and run in the paper for 30 days 'Omni Commons' DBA
• Update Wishlist on the wiki: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/WishList

FOUNDATION BASEMENT

• south retaining wall leak
• mold
• MPM, Phat Beets, & Black Hole should work on that
• take down all siding and dry wall against back wall
• set up apptmt from facilities manager from children's hospital because may need to build a trnch cuz maybe coming from flower beds
• SIKA Flecks??
• plastic on both sides
• the water table in Temescal is really high
• oil-based primer over the mold areas after spraying with bleach and dumping a bucket of water on it
• rip out the carpet in the basement