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Facilities director outlines maintenance upgrades, staffing and capital needs; board discusses reserve, sidewalks and vehicles
Summary
Facilities Director Bill Booth briefed the RSU 22 board on a multi-year approach to building repairs, painting, in-house work, safety upgrades and equipment replacement; the board discussed using fund balance for capital projects, a possible administrative building and sidewalk projects with DOT.
Bill Booth, RSU 22 facilities director, gave the board an update on building and grounds work Wednesday and described a continuing shift to perform more maintenance in-house, add safety features and plan for multi-year capital needs.
Booth said the district is pursuing a five-year approach to painting and equipment replacement and has completed lighting upgrades and added card access and cameras across buildings. “We’re doing everything in house now,” Booth said, listing in-house plumbing, electrical work (where code permits), flooring and painting that previously had required outside contractors. He said the district has consolidated supplies, replaced some furniture and improved custodial products and inventory management.
Safety and capital issues Booth and budget staff described security upgrades (rekeying exterior doors, web‑based cameras and laminated glass coatings) and facility improvements such as irrigation for the track and soccer fields and track resurfacing. He said the south wall on the football field is deteriorating and will need attention when the turf is replaced; he cited a $90,000 estimate previously discussed to remove bleachers to access the field for work. Booth said staffing includes 21 custodial workers, one full-time maintenance technician and several part-time/retired workers giving limited hours.
Budget drivers and fund-balance discussion Budget presenters earlier in the meeting said the district had an initial insurance estimate from Anthem of about a 17.89% increase and asked the board to anticipate that in wages-and-benefits lines; Booth said utilities projections changed after the packet was produced and would be updated. The board discussed whether to keep the turf-replacement funds in a restricted reserve (the district currently deposits $150,000 per year plus excess gate receipts) or consider other capital-planning approaches; no formal decision to reallocate unassigned fund balance was recorded.
Other items discussed included possible relocation or replanting of an apple orchard for a proposed administrative building site, vehicle inventories (Booth said the district operates about 11 vans plus other vehicles), playground and sidewalk repairs, and ongoing work to replace aging HVAC and grounds equipment.
Sources: Remarks by Bill Booth, RSU 22 facilities director, and budget staff during RSU 22 budget meeting.
