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Board hears comprehensive maintenance plan; custodial staffing below APPA standard after decade of cuts
Summary
Facilities staff presented the annual comprehensive maintenance plan and said custodial staffing remains below recommended APPA ratios; board members discussed preventive maintenance, shared custodial assignments and the pressure of added square footage from pre‑K and other projects.
The Board of Education on Oct. 8 approved the district’s annual Comprehensive Maintenance Plan and received an extended briefing on custodial and maintenance staffing, preventive maintenance practices and tradeoffs created by a decade of budget reductions.
Facilities Director Ray Prokop told the board the district has emphasized preventive maintenance and integrated a computerized maintenance management system to reduce costly emergency repairs. “It’s much more cost‑effective to address things before they break,” Prokop said, describing daily, monthly and quarterly preventive…
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