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Carmel schools present facilities budget, flag asbestos work and seek building aid transfer
Summary
Facilities director outlined a 2024–25 budget that keeps most lines level but requests targeted equipment and a possible $100,000 transfer to capital to capture building aid for asbestos abatement; board members pressed for timing and authority to repurpose in‑house VoIP savings.
Alberto Venezia, the district facilities lead, told the Carmel Central School District board on Jan. 23 that the proposed 2024–25 facilities budget holds most accounts steady while asking for targeted equipment replacements and remediation work. He said the district operates four campuses across 14 buildings totaling about 610,000 square feet and highlighted recent and planned projects including asbestos abatement, a district‑run CAT‑6/VoIP wiring project, and equipment replacements.
Venezia said in‑house labor on the VoIP wiring has produced substantial savings compared with outside contractors. “If an outside vendor was hired to run the wiring, it would have…
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