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RSU 10 outlines capital improvement plan and begins FMX facilities software rollout
Summary
District facilities director Devin Roberts presented a capital improvement spreadsheet and an initial rollout of FMX maintenance software to streamline work orders, planned maintenance and facility scheduling; board discussed parking and safety improvements, new paving at the bus garage and portable usage.
RSU 10’s director of buildings and grounds, Devin Roberts, presented a capital improvement spreadsheet and demonstrated the district’s initial implementation of FMX, a facilities management and work‑order system.
Roberts said the district completed a large number of site improvement projects over the summer, including painting, library and office upgrades, paving at Hartford Sumner and the bus garage hill, and preparations for additional parking and barrier installation at Mountain Valley High School. "We expanded [Troy’s] room, and we also did the library," Roberts said of summer projects at Buckfield; at the garage he said, "the entire hill is now paved, and that is huge for our buses." Several items remain pending, including masonry repairs and additional heat‑pump installations.
Roberts walked the board through a capital improvement spreadsheet designed to list needs, estimated costs, funding sources and status across schools and garages. He said he will post the document for board and public access and will maintain the spreadsheet separate from FMX, which will track planned and preventive maintenance. "I'm not gonna put preventative maintenance on here," he said of the capital spreadsheet. "That program is gonna give us projections as to when we should replace a boiler or when we should replace an air handler."
The FMX demonstration highlighted work‑order submission, automatic routing to head custodians and contractors, and a master calendar for facility use requests. Roberts said the district is in FMX’s 60‑day onboarding window and that the system will allow building users to submit requests that route to appropriate staff and integrate into a master calendar. He also said FMX will track planned maintenance tasks such as filter changes and provide red‑flag alerts when preventive tasks are missed.
Board members asked how FMX data would feed the capital spreadsheet and how planned maintenance schedules would be entered for new equipment. Roberts said recommended maintenance for new equipment will be entered into FMX at purchase and used to generate PM reminders. One board member asked for an annual summary showing capital items, planned maintenance and status.
Roberts also described parking lot reconfiguration at Mountain Valley High School to increase parking and add barriers for a bus lane; board members debated whether the interim layout sufficiently separated bus and parent drop‑off traffic and asked staff to revisit final lane markings and circulation plans once contractors return to finish barrier installation.
No formal votes were taken on facilities items; the presentation closed with the board requesting follow‑up reports and an accessible capital improvement spreadsheet for regular review.
