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Facilities director details maintenance workload, compliance work and security upgrades
Summary
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 drop-off/pickup plan at RJ EMS that received positive feedback, replacement of the high-school backup generator that had been installed in 1998, and completion of Carehawk security-system installations and panic-button lockdown capability across all buildings over the winter break. "So now all of our buildings have an up to date Carehawk system," he said.
He identified recurring capital needs: aging boilers (one model, PVI, made only in the late 1990s) that are difficult to service and a proposed new dual-fuel burner he said would pay back in roughly 10 years. Chern also said the district installed roof ladders to meet the fire marshal's requirements at a cost he estimated at about $17,400, returning the building to compliance.
Chern urged the board to monitor middle-school maintenance needs and noted LED retrofits are capital intensive even as the district is converting ballasts where feasible. Board members thanked Chern for the thorough report and acknowledged the scale of the district's ongoing maintenance work.
