By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Mark your calendar.

The much anticipated Galvin Middle School Re-dedication Ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15 in the new Galvin Auditorium. The announcement came last night as the Permanent Building Committee (PBC) met in a classroom in the new school.

Town Administrator Stephen P. Maio told the PBC that the ceremony would be preceded by public tours of the new building beginning at 5 p.m.

Maio will serve as master of ceremonies for the rededication, which will feature music by the Wakefield Memorial High School Chamber Singers and the Wakefield Memorial High School Band. The ceremony will include a number of guest speakers, including Jack McCarthy, executive director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority; Brian Falvey, chairman of the Board of Selectmen; Patrick Glynn, chairman of the Galvin School Advisory Committee; Christopher Callanan, School Committee chairman; Superintendent of Schools Dr. Stephen K. Zrike, Frank Hayes, vice president of Bond Brothers Construction and Galvin School Principal Mark Bedrosian.

Four students, one from each grade at the school, will also be invited to speak. Also in the works is a video about General John R. Galvin, for whom the school is named.

Maio said that WHS Music Department Chairman Thomas Bankert is working on an original musical piece for the occasion.

Following the ceremony refreshments will be served in the school cafeteria, Maio said.

PBC member Chip Tarbell suggested that the event might be a good opportunity for the school to showcase its technology classroom with a demonstration of 3D printing and/or robotics.

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Bond Brothers project manager James Wrisley provided the PBC with a construction update at last night’s meeting. He reported that the foundation has been dug and the pad prepped for the new gymnasium. Concrete was scheduled to be poured beginning today, Wrisley said.

Inside the new auditorium, staging has been taken down and drywall is more than 90 percent complete, Wrisley told the committee and wood panels arrived this week. HVAC is done in the auditorium and stage rigging is nearly complete.

Wrisley said that seats for the auditorium arrived months ago and will be installed in mid-October. He assured the committee that the auditorium would be finished by Nov. 10. (The town intends to hold its Veterans’ Day ceremonies in the new space.)

PBC members strongly recommended that training on the auditorium’s lighting, sound and control room functions take place before its first public use and that a representative of the contractor that installed the equipment be on hand in case any problems arise.

Wrisley reported that 80 percent of the old building demolition has been completed. He said that abatement of the remainder of the building should be wrapped up tomorrow and crews will push to finish the demo in the next two weeks.

Wrisley said that paving will be done on the main parking lot over Columbus Day weekend. It was noted that fields will be available on that weekend but users will need to park off-site.

Wrisley said that due to concerns raised, Bond will accelerate work on the south access road. He said that while it will present some challenges, including getting all utilities in place and removing two large piles of soil, he believed that the access road could be completed by Dec. 1.

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The Permanent Building Committee also paid some bills last night, including $2,682,109.05 to Bond Brothers. The PBC paid Owner’s Project Manager Joslin Lesser & Associates $53,000 for Aug. 1-31 and design firm Tappe Associates $92,787.50 for services over the same period.

The PBC authorized payment of invoices from Briggs Engineering and Testing totaling $2,267 as well as $1,500 to Universal Environmental Consultants.

The committee paid separate invoices from Olympia Moving and Storage for $6,920 and $2,225. Another $700 was paid to Image Technology Specialists for relocating copiers.

The PBC authorized payment of $45,873 to Earthwalk Communications and $320 to Whalley Computer Associates for computer equipment.

Under the category of “furniture, fixtures and equipment,” the PBC authorized the following payments: $532 and $694 to Gaylord Bros.; $989.28 to Brodart; $2,593.98 to Ergostore Net; $349.79 to Mity-Lite; $1,835 to Hillyard Ro Vic; $770.18 to Red Thread Spaces, LLC; and $36,993.14 to Robert H. Lord Company.

The committee also paid $2,445 to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection as an “Annual Compliance Assurance Fee.”