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
- Spaz people did decibel reading
- 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
- Maybe we can authorize a few hours professional labor for consulting
- 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