Thoughts on Improving School Maintenance
Just some quick thoughts regarding Monday’s meeting where the CAG discussed the capital cost structure report. I’ve been disturbed by the process the report outlined for how school maintenance is actually scheduled, performed, and paid for. As the report describes, it is very inefficient and leads to a system where no single department is accountable for the work. We end up with less maintenance work in the schools for the money.
The CAG recommendation is to merge both departments and house the new group on the municipal side. This will create administrative efficiencies as well as increased accountability since one group will be directly responsible for all the work. In the end, we should have a better system for maintenance for our dollars—and would better be able to figure out where any problems are. As usual, the devil is in the details, but we can surely start making this change where the schools will certainly benefit.