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Facilities director warns new courthouse will require dozens more workers; asks for maintenance, custodial and grounds hires
Summary
Facility Services Director Ed Nichols presented a facilities audit and staffing plan, saying the new courthouse will dramatically increase maintenance and custodial workload and asking for a phased set of hires—maintenance mechanics, custodians and a groundskeeper—plus vehicles and equipment to keep county properties operating.
Ed Nichols, speaking for Facility Services, told commissioners the county’s portfolio of properties and the planned new courthouse will require additional maintenance, custodial and grounds staff to maintain building operations and public safety.
Nichols said the department currently manages more than a dozen properties and roughly 468,602 square feet of cleaning responsibility (1,284,000 square feet total maintenance footprint across properties listed) and that staffing levels are below industry norms. He used a facilities metric of roughly 25,000–50,000 square feet per technician to illustrate the shortfall and said the…
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