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Bridgeport staff outline Bassett decommissioning plan and daily operations challenges; vandalism, staffing and a school alert system top concerns
Summary
District staff described an active decommissioning plan for Bassett, inventory and asset moves, plus operational challenges including vandalism, staff shortages and a purchased Raptor alert system district officials proposed to deploy.
District operations and facilities staff told the committee they have started a multi‑department decommissioning process for Bassett in preparation to vacate the building and turn it over to the city, and they outlined parallel work on inventory, records digitization and asset disposition.
Facilities staff said about 25 truckloads of materials already have been moved from Bassett to other schools or to storage; staff plan to bring in three 40‑yard dumpsters during April break to purge recycle-designated items. A task list with categories—archives, building systems, technology, keys, environmental and finance—assigns departments, coordinators and deadlines and the documents are kept as living files on the district shared drive, staff said.
Staff identified several operational stress points: a large set of heavy items (weight room equipment) that may be recycled or auctioned, a substantial records backlog being moved to digitization and a range of historical items (plaques,…
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