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General Services seeks three trades hires as preventive‑maintenance backlog grows
Summary
General Services requested three new trade positions and a 5.88% tentative budget increase, citing a backlog of preventive‑maintenance work orders and expensive outsourced painting and landscaping contracts.
General Services Director Sean Donahue asked the commission to approve a tentative FY26 budget increase of 5.88%, which includes three trades hires: an HVAC technician, an electrician and a painter. Donahue told the board the department currently manages roughly 1.2 million square feet of county facilities and is failing to complete an estimated 25% of preventive‑maintenance work orders.
Why it matters: Donahue said the department processes…
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