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Facilities report: maintenance staffing gap, LED field lights and $19.9M PSEF award
Summary
Operations staff reported improved maintenance metrics but also a staffing shortfall (77 FTEs of trades staff versus an APPA recommendation of 113), and provided updates on Musco LED field lighting, a $19.9M PSEF award and an imminent RFP award decision.
Portland Public Schools operations staff told the Facilities committee on Nov. 10 that maintenance performance has improved even while staffing remains below peer benchmarks.
Tom Hodges, chief of integrated operations, said PPS employs 77 full-time trades staff across the district compared with an APPA recommendation of 113 FTEs for a district of PPS’s size—"a 36, full time employee differential, which by approximately $5,400,000 of a gap." He…
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