The attached report was prepared for the District-Wide Healthy and Safety Committee on September 4 and was updated on September 6. School administrators approved the publication of this report. The Committee will discuss this report at an open Special Meeting of the Committee scheduled for Wednesday, September 15 in the Carew Room at New Rochelle City Hall at 2:30 p.m. The public is welcome to attend.
Superintendent Raymond will hold a Town Hall meeting on Wednesday September 8. See the District website for details.
The Committee, also known as the RESCUE Law Committee, has oversight responsibility for facilities management and capital/bond spending. The Committee has stated-mandated statutory responsibilities, but serves primarily to consider facilities-related issues and make recommendations to the Board of Education.
The following report is based on a tour on the morning of Saturday, September 4, 2021, of school areas which suffered damage from Tropical Depression Ida, which struck New Rochelle on September 1-2.
District-Wide Healthy and Safety Committee Co-Chair Robert Cox was guided on the tour by Facilities Director Carl Thurnau. The tour included discussions with staff from Valcon Contracting Corp (demolition, remediation), WSP (industrial hygienists) and Assistant Facilities Director James Heubel.
The tour included Isaac E. Young Middle School and New Rochelle High School are the two City School District of New Rochelle schools most impacted that suffered substantive damage. The tour did not include Daniel Webster Elementary School, the only other school which experienced flooding; the damage was minor and quickly remediated.