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Show AUGUST 19, 1986 chools spruced up for opening By DONETA GATHERUM Drive by a public school during the month of June and you will be surprised at the number of cars in the parking lot and the activity in and around the school buildings. Gone are the thousands of young Davis School District students. Re placing them are a skeltal crew of maintenance workers. These are skilled craftsmen who use time management techniques to accomplish jobs rapidly. The students will only be gone three months. Painting, cleaning and some major repairs must be accomplished while the buildings are largely empty. Dr. Dean Penrod, former Director of Buildings and Grounds has compiled some statistics regarding the District maintenance program. The maintenance crew District wide consists of 56 men. This number has not increased in nine years although there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of buildings to maintain. The District is responsible for the repair of five million square feet of roofing, 1 74 hot water heater and boilers, 192 swamp coolers and air conditioners, 282 heat pumps, 45 big toy (playground) and 62 kitchens. One man maintains 1600 fire extinguishers. Summer work includes mowing most of the 800 acres of planted, landscaped grounds. Each grounds worker is responsible for 80,000 square feet of grass and 48,000 sprinkler heads. In 1982, the District installed a modern energy monitoring system. They have saved $1.3 million in utility costs. A side benefit of this monitoring system is the systems ability to act as a burglar alarm. In 1982 there were 104 school burglaries. Last year, this number was reduced to five. All were solved. Dr. Penrod notes the District still has a noticable problem with vandalism--broke- n windows, defacing the grounds and outside of buildings. Dr. Penrod concludes, We feel we have the best built and best maintained buildings in the State. A visitor to a junior high school gives the reader a better feel for the job the District maintenance crew and school custodial staffs. Central Davis Junior High School in Layton is the second largest junior high in square footage in the District. This year, in addition to the regular Summer maintenance work, Central was the site of a capital work project the of the boys locker room - CARPETS ARE thorough buffing as part of the school crews. STEAM-CLEANE- D all-o- ut 2nd floors given a summer effort by in the National Guard Armory. The Armory gym and locker room is used by the school district, the National Guard and the Layton City recreation program. Renovation had to be completed in the summer because the building is totally used seven days a week during most of the fall, winter and spring months. The district work crew of about four men will completely paint and carpet the shower room dressing area. New lockers will be installed and the showers will be renovated before school opens at the end of August. Independent of the District maintenance crew, Centrals custodial staff started working the day after school closed to get things ready for a clean fall opening. Doug Burke, head custodian for the past 10 years, is proud of the clean record Central has. He says the school maintenance is the joint responsibility of the custodial staff, ways on the job. Vacations are usually taken during June and July so that an extra push to get things ready can be made in August. When a patron enters Central Junior High School or other schools in Davis District, they feel comfortable. The work of Doug Burke, his staff and his counter Oldham full-tim- e employees and four workers have a regular daily routine. Mr. Burke arrives at school about 6:30 a.m. He checks the boiler room, turns on the lights part-tim- and checks the building for cleanliness. At 7:30 the doors are open to the students. The custodians generally help the cooks and secretary until the students are officially in first period. A daily routine consists of sweeping the halls about six times a day, cleaning the rest rooms and spending 1V2-- 2 hours doing outside work - pruning, mowing, snow removal, etc. At 3 p.m. the part time workers come. They clean the windows and rest rooms and sweep every room. As soon as school closes for -- summer vacation, the part time workers are converted to full time all status. Before school walls will be washed, the desks cleaned, lights, and blinds washed, chalk boards cleaned, floors scrubbed and waxed, carpets steam cleaned and paint patch work completed where needed. About every years the rooms are painted. Special jobs include finishing the gym floor, scrubbing the lockers and fixing the locker hardware. The custodial staff have about 10 to 15 days annual vacation. They stagger this so that someone is al 8-- LARRY HIGGS PUTS his shears to work on the hedges, one of his and other custodians outside duties. About two hours a day is spent keeping the school grounds in shape by individual crews around the district. NEW SCHOOLS ARENT the only form of construction that's under way, this summer, in the Davis School District. Major remodeling projects, such as this one in the vocational education area at Central Davis Junior in Layton, are changing the face of some schools. Head Custodian Doug Burke tries to keep conditions as clean as possible in the new area. East Layton site little extra curricular activities. LAYTON Layton City owns a J.D. played in an orchestra which lot in Roueche Hills and building met after school hours He likes the they want to sell it to the highest American school system much betbidder. At the last meeting of the ter but would like to see the American students take their studies a Layton City Council, Lot 4, in Roueche Hills was declared surlittle more seriously. He found the people content plus property. Bids for its purchase with their own religions, not at all will open Sept. 4 at 10 a.m. The bid that will be accepted patriotic to Germany, but very minimum is or an equivalent land $10,000 proud of their Bavarian heritage. trade. One of the things that impressed him about Munich was the clean, The building lot was inherited by litter free streets. Layton City through the East One of J.D.s goals was to repreCity consoliLayton sent his country well, he feels good dation. East Layton had originally about reaching that goal and feels planned to use the property for a good about being home, jw fire station. Layton Fire Chief John H. Adams feels it would not adequately serve this purpose and so the city declared the lot surplus prop- - . J.D. felt his experiences in Ger-many were invaluable. He had a friend participate in the exchange program who talked him into going, for which J.D.s thankful. He is the oldest of seven children, plays a trumpet, is in the Dart Marching Band, plays soccer for Davis, enjoys math, wants to go to the University of Utah after graduation and hopes to go out in some kind of international rela- City-Layto- tions. He loved Germany and the German people. The students were stand-offis- h the first three months but warmed up great by the time he was ready to come home. His city life in Munich, a population of nearly two million people, was quite different than life in quiet Kaysville. He lived in a very small two family dwelling with a host family of a working mother, working father and a 16 year old son. He had lots of meals from cans and frozen foods. While there he joined a basketball club and a soccer club. He found he was a star in basketball (which he is not at home) and a mediocre soccer player (which he offered for bid is not at home). A teenagers life centers around school and homework, with very of Kaysville. Class offered Preparing Capable Kids class offered by is a McKay-De- e Hospital Center to teach thm It will be held Saturday, Aug. 23 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Hospital's Green Auditorium. The class teaches young people, ages 8 to 15, first aid basics and other skills to help care for themselves when alone. Register before J. D. OLDHAM custofiial staff the labor performed by the District maintenance crew and you have a sizeable, important contribution to the educational environment of the students served in Davis District. clean school is terrific, Mr. Burk believes. During the regular school year, e the custodial staff of three J. D. learned to love Germany - of the the administration, the teachers and the studentbody. Everyone works together. The support for a SCHOOL DESKS SEE A lot of wear and tear from well over a hundred students a day, 1 80 days a year. Central Davis Junior High School summer custodians Kirt Garrett, left, Patrick Oliver and John Holt put their elbow grease to work to make them look near-neagain. J.D. Oldham, KAYSVILLE senior at Davis High School, just returned home from a ten month stay in Munich, Germany as a foreign exchange student with ASSE. J.D. is th son of James and Carolyn parts in the other District schools does not go unnoticed. Often it is not appreciated. Add to the efforts Aug. $10. 18 by calling 625-276- 7. Cost is n erty. In other council action, a decision to hold a public hearing to con- - sider a property rezone was postponed until the next council meeting. J.D. Fake is requesting a zoning change on some property at 2400 North Fort Lane. Mr. Fake would like to construct a mobile home retirement community. There were only three council members present at the Aug. 7 meeting. The vote to hold a public hearing was split 2 to 1. Since a quorum of three is needed to pass a motion, no official action was taken. The matter will be considered again at the August 21 coun- cil meeting. The Planning Department and the Planning Commission recom- mended denying the rezone re- quest because of the proximity of the property to Hill Air Force Base flight zone and because of the number of mobile home parks already in Layton, dmg Pot luck planned Lets Get Acquainted" is the theme for a pot luck picnic sponsored by Lakcview Business and Professional Womens Associa- tion to be held on Thursday, Aug. 21 at 7 p.m. at Layton Commons II bowery on Lancet Lane in Layton. Members are encouraged to bring guests and women interested in learning about BPW and its benefits are invited. Call Cyndia Thiros 7 or Gloria Thim 4 for further 825-945- 544-579- information. |