Facilities The Facilities Department is responsible for the physical plant of the district's 2 4 buildings, including: ● Cleaning of facilities ● Repair and preventive maintenance of infrastructure ● Non-capital renovation projects to accommodate enrollment and instruction in school buildings ● Capital planning in conjunction with the city ● Support services The Facilities department is also responsible for planning and implementing the strategic use of charter maintenance funding for critical repairs and maintenance to our buildings, summer work projects, unexpected building component repairs and small replacements, and maintaining the heating and ventilation systems to provide for the comfort of all occupants in the teaching and learning environments. ● Environmental affairs ● Use of school buildings One of the challenges the department faces is continual reactive maintenance for items that are failing or beyond their useful life. The City’s CIP program, while robust, is challenged to meet the needs of the school's 2.3 million square footprint, which still has a number of older buildings. The FY27 budget Public Buildings Repair and Maintenance budget (also known as Charter Maintenance), is the major line item for facility spending, and increases modestly by $66,000 (2%) to ensure school facilities are properly managed and maintained. As mentioned above in the Executive Summary, the city has been deploying $5.3 Million to complete needed facilities and capital projects in our schools , in addition to delivering four major school building projects. The projects include roof replacements, mechanical system improvements and restroom and other upgrades. The Facilities Department will continue its focus on responding to schools needs, maintaining infrastructure items, and implementing summer projects. The Facilities team has worked to have remote management of buildings which has resulted in an improved ability to ensure buildings are operating efficiently and taking advantage of full or partial direct digital controls.
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