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Mount Vernon maintenance team outlines summer projects: new roofs, LED lighting, ADA work and gym upgrades
Summary
District maintenance staff described a summer of in-house repairs and upgrades across Mount Vernon City Schools, including new parking-lot and exterior LEDs, gym floor and audio/video upgrades, ADA improvements at the high school theater and multiple roof and playground repairs.
Rick, a member of Mount Vernon City Schools maintenance staff, told the school board the district’s maintenance team completed dozens of projects over the summer to prepare buildings for the school year.
Those projects included new handrails and repaired steps at Dan Emmett, a new roof on an outbuilding at East, expanded parking-lot and exterior LED lighting at the high school, middle school and Twin Oak, a new high-school gym floor with updated speakers and video displays, and resurfaced playgrounds and parking areas at several elementary schools.
The maintenance staff emphasized much of the work was done in-house. Heather Lynn was identified in the presentation as the maintenance department secretary; Brandon Brocious, Trevor Trace and Wyatt Egan were named as members of the crew and were credited with fabrication, carpentry and mechanical repairs.
"Brandon made some new handrail for up at Dan Emmett," Rick said during the presentation. He noted that having staff perform welding and carpentry internally avoided higher outside contractor costs and addressed an identified safety gap: "This became a safety issue last year because it was at Dan Emmett, and when it gets snowy and a little icy, we had no rail there."
The team described an LED conversion covering parking-lot and building exterior fixtures. According to the presentation, many fixtures run at 30% power and brighten on motion detection; the speaker said the district expects energy savings but did not provide an estimated dollar figure. Maintenance staff estimated roughly 150 fixtures were changed in total across sites (approximate, as the presenter said he would confirm by checking purchase orders).
Work in the high school gym included a new floor, updated basketball goals and scoreboards, new video-capable displays to rotate advertising and messages, and changes to bleacher configuration. The presenter said updated wiring and conduit were installed to provide power for the new equipment. Custodial and retired staff were credited with painting and finishing work.
Other noted projects: repairs and re-leveling of concrete steps used for food service deliveries, resurfacing of a high-school walk-in cooler floor, restroom upgrades at Pleasant Street, installation of a mini-split HVAC unit in a repurposed classroom, and fencing and repaving work around elementary playgrounds.
On accessibility, the presentation showed a partial ADA ramp and noted remaining railing and an ordered operator for an ADA-access door at the theater: "We still have rail to do, and then we've already got a PO in place and ordered the operator," the presenter said. The team said they may return to add a ramp on the opposite side later.
Board members thanked the maintenance crew for doing work in-house and for the breadth of projects tackled during the summer.
Ending: The board did not take formal action on the maintenance presentation; it was submitted as an informational report ahead of the school year.
