Fairport facilities staff report system upgrades, prepare for stricter lead-testing rules

At a Fairport Central School District board workshop, facilities staff updated the board on staffing, a new work-order system rollout and plans to comply with tighter state lead-in-water testing rules.

The presentation focused on three near-term items: filling custodial vacancies, completing a more accurate work-order and inventory system, and preparing for a tightened lead threshold and more frequent sampling. Aaron, a facilities staff member, told the board the district currently has “9 vacancies out of custodial operations out of almost 60” and that summer labor hiring had improved but that recruiting remains a challenge.

The facilities team has rebuilt a work-order system to standardize room and inventory identifiers and to auto-generate related requests to IT, custodial and maintenance staff. Aaron said the district received about 1,659 submitted work-order emails since Jan. 1, with 1,407 closed and about 180 outstanding as of two days before the workshop. He also said the district handled roughly 12,000 scheduled events across the school year and that the new system reduces manual follow-up by mandating required fields and creating sub-work orders automatically.

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