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District officials outline facilities backlog; board authorizes maintenance grant application and emergency HLS spending
Summary
Ball Chatham CUSD 5 facilities director detailed aging equipment and major projects while the board authorized a $50,000 matching maintenance-grant application, approved health-life-safety (HLS) emergency spending to repair a collapsed sewer under the middle-school parking lot, and approved disposal of two retired school buses.
Jared Kester, director of facilities for Ball Chatham CUSD 5, told the Board of Education on Oct. 22 that the district’s maintenance and operations budget is stretched and that buildings and equipment are aging, and then asked the board to authorize pursuing a state maintenance grant and ratify emergency HLS spending for an already-repaired sewer collapse.
Kester said the district is seeking a matching maintenance grant that would reimburse $50,000 on a $100,000 project and asked the board for a resolution authorizing submission. “So what we're looking for tonight is, just a resolution,” Kester said. He described likely projects as replacement domestic water heaters, valves and other smaller-but-urgent infrastructure fixes and said the district would return later with a detailed cost breakdown.
The board approved the grant application. The motion to authorize staff to submit the $50,000 maintenance grant request was moved by Board Member Coburn and seconded by Board Member Polletta; the motion passed…
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