Brian Carl, township manager, advised the Weisenberg Board of Supervisors at their July 14 meeting, the Community Center Advisory Committee didn’t have a meeting in July but will in August before giving them an update on the community center’s progress.

“We have payment application No. 2 for your approval for $118,156 that includes change order number one which was the performance bond on which we are required to get security because of the contract and the money going down $29,655. Most of the work is engineering things,” Carl stated. “I did email you guys the updated structural, architectural and electrical drawings. They’re finishing up stamping the structural drawings and finishing up the mechanical drawings and then we’ll get them in for permits. They are billing some materials because they’re going to start ordering in the hope they can start building in three to four weeks.”

Board member Richard Bleiler then asked Carl if he was satisfied with the progress.

Carl responded, “Yeah, they’ve (Conestoga) been really good to deal with. We are going through change order number two right now. There was some engineering stuff that’s not finalized yet.”

He said he recently sat in on like a Zoom call with the security contractor.

“They’re using a card access system and I asked them to include the cameras. Originally we were going to do the cameras separate but we can integrate the cameras with the card access stuff. This system here will actually support not just like (key) fobs and stuff but we’ll be able to email the code out. You would download an app on your phone and then as long as you have your phone you can actually unlock the door when you’re within proximity of the building, so it’s kind of neat actually, it seemed pretty user friendly to use.”

He stated, “We enlarged the pickleball/gym area in order to avoid any other cost. We deducted 15 feet from the tuff area.”

Carl added “The ceiling in the tuff area is higher but the mechanicals increased the price a little bit so it’s a zero change and then there’s a couple little things here as far as like the transom window above the entrance to two roll up doors in the kitchen if we would ever want to have like a little concession stand there or we had like an event or something.”

“I am working with them (Conestoga) on deducting some of the basic finishes they proposed for the lobby area and we will dress it up to feel more like a barn and we will self perform that work,” he added.

After further discussion, the board approved a motion to approve payment application No. 2 for $118,156 which includes change order number one.