Maintenance

• Change maintenance schedules so they do not overlap with class times
• Promote preventive maintenance
• Install all equipment prior to warranty expiration so that replacement requirements can be evaluated
• Improve efficiency of custodial functions
• Contract out custodial services if less costly
• Contract out maintenance services if less costly
• Minimize reconfiguring offices, which disrupts maintenance work
• Promote the idea of users taking better care of college property
• Provide better maintenance for all equipment to improve salvage value
• Review repair contracts for office machines, and do some repairs in-house
• Develop a “clean-up day,” once a semester, when staff and student volunteers can clean, paint, etc.
• Re-examine custodial work schedules and crew appointments

If you will tell me why the fen
appears impassible, I then
Will tell you why I think that I
Can get across it if I try.
- Marianne Moore, I May, I Might, I Must