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ECISD maintenance staff outline HVAC workload, prioritization and short-term fixes
Summary
District maintenance staff told trustees the HVAC group manages roughly 1,800 units across instructional sites with a 16-person crew, described how work orders are dispatched and prioritized, and said temporary cooling and staggered schedules are used while larger repairs await parts or vendors.
Julie Bettis, ECISD director of maintenance and operations, told the school board Monday that the district’s maintenance and operations (M&O) HVAC crew manages about 1,800 heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units across 45 instructional facilities and 142 portables. “We have roughly around 1,800 units in the instructional facilities,” Bettis said, and described a two‑person technician crew model supported by foremen and a district engineer. The department reported 16 HVAC employees who respond to routine and emergency calls and a weekly average of about 140 HVAC work orders districtwide, roughly 17 work orders per two‑person crew per…
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