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Facilities director details workloads, fleet and winter operations at Frontier Central
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Summary
Facilities director Joe Vasiri told the board the department manages nine buildings and nearly 890,000 sq. ft., completed 1,925 work orders this year (about a 10% increase), and that grounds crews used roughly 198 tons of salt this winter; trustees pressed staff on turf maintenance and salt storage.
Joe Vasiri, introduced to the board as the district’s director of facilities, gave a detailed status report on building and grounds operations, staffing and fleet maintenance.
Vasiri said the district maintains nine buildings totaling about 890,000 square feet and oversees roughly 212 acres of grounds. He reported the facilities team completed 1,925 work orders during the year, an increase of about 10% from the prior year, and that the department employs 95 people, with 82 staff dedicated to building operations and eight focused on grounds.
Vasiri described fleet renewals and equipment: the maintenance fleet has vehicles as old as 2020 and the district recently added two new electric Ford F-150s; grounds equipment includes multiple mowers, loaders and a turf groomer. On winter operations he told the board the grounds department used about 198 tons of salt this season and that the on-site storage barn holds approximately 35 tons at a time; the district replenishes deliveries as needed.
Trustees asked operational questions about turf upkeep and outside-user management; Vasiri said baseball and softball fields require daily attention while grooming is typically performed once a month (more frequently during high-use periods). He described snow-removal staffing as weather-contingent, with crews often starting in the early morning hours to clear roads and sidewalks.
The board thanked Vasiri and Steve Durette for the briefing and moved on to the budget presentation and committee reports.
