KHS Public Forum Quotes

Last week, Gavin Anderson, Chairman of the Westport King's Highway Maintenance Review Committee and Gil Cormier, the consultant leading the air quality cleanup at KHS, gave a history of the work at the school and took parent questions.

Here are a number of quotes from that evening:

1. Gil re: CO2 levels in the school
"May co2 levels were too high"
"Guidelines are 700 plus outside"
"Outside is up to 500"
"2000 to 3000 is too high"
"3000 parts per million [ppm] is not a good thing in classrooms"

2. Gil re: CO2 monitoring
"Gary Martin is learning how to use a monitor"
"I'm setting up the monitoring protocols"
"Monitoring will start probably next week"
"The one meter purchased cost $5,000"

3. Gavin re: air quality issues
"Need to think how to ventilate a building like this"
"[children & teacher] Symptoms are important to develop hypotheses"
"Our traditional experiences of inspection need to be changed"
"In the older part of the building [KHS] unit ventilators don't run unless heat is on"

4. Gil re: air purifiers
"Air purifying units will do no harm"

5. Gavin re: carpeting in the classrooms
"Don't want to see kids sleeping or lying on carpets"
"Not a good idea for them to sit on or lie on"

6. Gavin re: cleaning and maintenance
"[he] Hasn't received quantities of cleaning solvents used"
"Asked Nancy Harris again for it yesterday"
"Heater fins hadn't been cleaned for years"

7. Gil re: pod that was demolished
"Saw visible mold inside wall cavity"
"Water coming through the brick veneer"
"No way to remediate [the pod]"
"I came up with the idea of a bubble isolation chamber and to create negative pressure"
"Room 28 just outside the modular"