Wednesday, March 5, 2008

More...

[Toss me an email if you are reading -- just to let me know about how many are reading. Thanks!!!!]

[There is more than one room full of people -- just found out. So there could be quite a few more than 100 people.]

They track a lot of detail in terms of needed maintenance. The do some inspection themselves. They actually have some contractors during the bidding process that analyze the roof with infrared.

Dean: All schools on list will need new roof and boiler repairs. Any of these schools would be looking at $500k+ in repairs. This is very helpful.

Speaker: If we are going to use the building, we will look at putting on 20-25 year roofs. If we are renting or selling, we will use a shorter term roof.

Dean: Capital dollars vs. general operating dollars. If we save dollars it helps with capital dollars -- not saving general funds. If we do the repairs or not it does NOT impact the cuts that we are making today.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

We're here reading every morsel! Thanks again for your diligent work!

Anonymous said...

We're listening!!
Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Candace says:
Thanks for the great detail - we appreciate it!

PeteK said...

Reading as well

Anonymous said...

I'm a first time reader, couldn't make it to the session tonight.
Thank you for blogging!

Anonymous said...

I am here too

CL Lambert said...

Thanks for doing this! At home sick so couldn't attend.