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Facilities director details maintenance workload, compliance work and security upgrades

Grand Rapids Area Schools Board of Education · February 10, 2026
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The district's buildings-and-grounds director described nearly 2,800 work orders in the past year, recent safety upgrades (Carehawk security/panic buttons), a replaced high-school generator and a $17,400 fire-marshal compliance expense for roof-access ladders. He flagged aging boilers and potential capital needs.

Darren Chern, who presented the building and grounds health-and-safety update, told the board the facilities department maintains roughly 970,000 square feet of district buildings and completed nearly 2,800 work orders in the previous year.

Chern outlined recent projects: an indoor-air-quality project at the high school, a redesigned…

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