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Board gets budget preview: facilities upgrades, energy profile shifts and new weekend security proposal
Summary
Administrators presented early 2025‑26 budget items including facilities staffing and equipment, energy‑use changes tied to recent capital projects, a proposed weekend mobile security patrol, and a transportation forecast that warns of steeper future costs as bus fleets electrify.
The board on Jan. 8 received an early look at parts of the 2025–26 budget covering facilities, security and transportation and discussed operational implications from recent capital work and the district’s energy projects.
Facilities and maintenance: Facilities director Jim O’Connor said custodial and maintenance staffing and ratios follow a recognized square‑foot metric and that the district currently averages roughly 13,600 sq. ft. per custodian, a level the director said falls between best‑practice tiers. He described completed and planned projects—including door and hardware replacements, circulation pump upgrades, landscape work and upcoming pipe and controller upgrades—and proposed equipment purchases (ride‑on scrubbers, a new tractor, a larger turf‑field groomer and a bucket truck). O’Connor advised that moving the district…
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