Weisenberg Board of Supervisors members discussed construction updates for the township’s community center at their meeting, Feb. 9.

Brian Carl, township manager, began the discussion on the progress of the community center with asking the board for its approval to make Conestoga Buildings payment number seven in the amount of $201,955.

As previously reported in the Northwestern Press, the community center is being fully funded by donors and not township funds.

Carl also asked the board to approve Conestoga Buildings change order number four which includes architectural drawing revisions — $3,625, excavation and backfill and plumbing work — $6, 270, electrical — $23, 337, bathroom accessories — $2,798, HVAC — $25,986, foam insulation — $27, 507 and security — $4,445 for two additional key fob entries for interior access for a total cost of $93,968.

Both motions for payment number seven and change order number four were unanimously approved by the board.

Carl then explained the miscellaneous material purchase approval item listed on the agenda.

“So, I just need your approval to get some miscellaneous items — a sign, security window, sound batting, bathroom countertop, casework, wood trim, phone and data wiring, eight basketball hoops, two industrial fans and a donor wall/tree,” he said. “So these things I do have captured on my budgets.”

The board approved the Hex signs last month, Carl said.

“I did get a price from Robert Maletsky, an authentic Pennsylvania Hex Sign painter in Lehigh and Berks counties, to make a sign that says Weisenberg Township, that’s essentially a much larger version of what’s on our pavilion,” Carl said “If Maletsky hand paints it and does the design and stuff it’s $2,800.

“I also got a price from Valley Wide Sign to make a printed version of that and it’s $1,420,” he said. “The only thing is it’s going to be more of a vinyl sign with a quarter inch backing if we get Valley Wide to do it.”

He said he knows it’s more expensive, but he is leaning towards having Maletsky paint it, so it matches the hex signs.

“We could probably have him do some sort of decorative thing on the ends, but we could have Valley Wide just do it, it’s half the price,” he said.

After further discussion, a motion was approved for Maletsky to paint the signs.

The next item discussed was the security window for the lobby to office.

Carl said it is a quick serve window with an aluminum tray on the bottom. It is pricey because it is bullet proof and ends up costing $5,664.

He said the sound batting insulation would be batting the interior walls to cut down on the noise from the gym and meeting room.

“We would end up doing that work ourselves. The cost is roughly $3,300,” he said. “That will be all the interior office walls, the hallway wall, the whole length from the classroom to the office, lobby to the gym and gym to the meeting rooms. Pretty much everything on the inside.”

The bathroom originally had laminate counters.

“We would get something that’s a solid surface,” Carl said. “They will be wall hung units with no cabinets because of ADA wheelchair requirements.”

He said the counters would be somewhere around $600 apiece, so for two of them, that’s $1,200.

Carl said he pulled out the casework from Conestoga contract earlier on and he is going to do that work.

Wood trim for the base, lobby, meeting room and the windowsills and the chair rail in the meeting room was the next item discussed.

“I’ve got a couple different material options: pine, maple and red oak. I don’t think it should be pine,” Carl said. “If we want to stain it and make it look a little nicer, I would say let’s go with the red oak if you guys are OK with that. I can get it close to matching what all the doors would look like.”

He said the wood base ends up being $3,200 and the windowsills and aprons end up being about $1,000 and the chair rail ends up being about $800, or roughly $5,000 in materials.

Carl told the board that they could go with a rubber base instead of wood if they wanted.

“What I was thinking about doing is that we just paint the walls and run the chair rail around in the meeting room,” he said. “If you want a different color below, you can dress it up. If you don’t want to do the chair rail, we can save a little over $800.

Carl said that for the phone and data wiring, they would run that for all of their computers, copiers and other electronics.

“I’m thinking with the wire and the ends, we’re probably at $800 to $1,000. I would just get whatever we need and just run it when the electrician is in there. It’s just phone and Internet for the office area,” he said. “All the security stuff is run by the vendor.”

Carl said he was able to purchase eight basketball hoops from Kutztown Area School District for $190.

“We would end up using six of them and would have two left over,” he said.

He said he also has two industrial fans for the ceiling in the turf area.

“The wiring for the fans, controllers, everything was included in the electrician’s change order,” Carl said. “They will actually install them. We are just going to supply them.

“For the variable speed fans, the controllers are $3,000. The fans are four feet in diameter and caged. They are for warehouses and buildings like this.”

Carl said the last item he had to discuss was the donor wall.

He said at last month’s meeting for the advisory committee, the committee had talked about doing a donor tree on the side wall when you come into the community center on the right.

“If I can get approval up to $3,000. They seem to be in the upper $2,000. We have two major donors, and we have a couple of medium ones,” Carl said. “The general ones would just be the leaves on the tree.”

Carl reminded the board he had budgeted for all these items; they were not new items.

The board unanimously approved all eight items discussed.