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Superintendent proposes one groundskeeper per school, cites roughly $70,000 savings
Summary
The superintendent presented a plan to assign one groundskeeper to each school, citing 45.5 acres of district property, outside contractors for specialized turf work, and estimated savings of about $70,000 pending Nassau County civil-service approvals.
The superintendent presented a proposed restructuring of the district’s grounds staff that would assign a dedicated groundskeeper to each of the district’s three schools and the administration site. He described the current central model as a grounds supervisor, one groundskeeper and one laborer with a vacancy and said the district maintains roughly 45.5 acres of land, including athletic fields and parking lots. The presentation said specialized work such as turf aeration and some field maintenance has long been performed by outside contractors and will continue to be contracted when heavy equipment is required.
The superintendent said the district consulted external staffing standards and that “the recommended level for service” ranges from about two to 2.6 full-time equivalents, while the proposed building-assigned model would both reduce travel time between sites and create direct accountability for each property. He estimated the change would save in the range of $70,000 but said all steps are subject to Nassau County civil-service review and classification approval. Board members questioned whether one groundskeeper per school could safely and practically handle large projects or tree removal; the superintendent responded that outside contractors would be used where local crew equipment is insufficient.
