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Kent School District facilities director outlines maintenance priorities, portables plan and FMX work-order roll-out
Summary
Facilities director presented the district’s maintenance strategy, portable usage data and early results from a new FMX computerized maintenance system, including closed-work-order counts and staffing retention statistics.
Gordon Cook, director of facilities for the Kent School District, told the school board the facilities team’s mission is to provide safe, clean and operational buildings for students and staff, and described ongoing strategies to manage a large portfolio of aging buildings and 162 portables.
Cook said the department runs a strand strategy to visit every school in a weekly rotation and uses an aging-report strategy driven by work orders (target timelines: high priority within five days, medium within 15, low within 45). The environmental services team uses task sheets to sequence daily work, and two administrative assistants support operations.
Why it matters: The district balances daily custodial and maintenance needs with…
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