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West Seneca facilities director proposes staffing restructure, tech upgrades to address retirements and backlogs
Summary
Mick Barr, the district—s director of facilities, outlined a multi-year plan to reorganize the buildings and grounds department, expand training and technology, and create career pathways to replace a wave of retirements while keeping the plan staffing-neutral.
Mick Barr, director of facilities for the West Seneca Central School District, told the board during its March 25 work session that the district—s buildings and grounds department is understaffed at several levels and is facing an imminent wave of retirements that will remove "over 300 years" of institutional experience.
Barr said the department currently operates in a reactive mode because of vacant management posts and high daily workloads. "We—e rushing to put out fires," he said, and proposed a three-person leadership team—our roles he said would include a director of facilities, an assistant director and a filled executive housekeeper—to shift the office toward proactive planning and preventative maintenance.
The proposed reforms center on four pillars: reorganized management and career pathways, structured training, greater technology integration and targeted equipment purchases. Barr said creating intermediate job titles such as "senior custodian" and maintenance-helper roles would give…
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