2001/2002 Auxiliary Services Division Accomplishments
Child Nutrition Services
· All central office staff, cafeteria managers and warehouse
drivers attended two-day Baldrige training; cafeteria managers
and CNS assistants logged 558 hours of Serve Safe sanitation
training; and 19 potential managers received 2,660 hours of
management training.
· Two registered dietitians on staff have been trained in
the Winner's Circle Healthy Dining Program. This is a program
created to help restaurant patrons easily find healthy menu
selections. Wake County schools will participate along with
388 dining locations in 52 counties in North Carolina.
· Gretchen Wilson, WCPSS high school area supervisor, serves
as the vice president of the North Carolina School Food Service
Association; a professional organization with 3,700 members
in North Carolina. Elaine Hunt, CNS senior director, represents
the southeast states as a committee member of the Major Cities
section of the American School Food Service Association.
· Three administrators passed a four-hour exam on school food
service management to become accredited as School Food Service
Nutrition Specialists.
· CNS offered complimentary breakfast to all third and eighth-grade
students on end-of-grade test days and actually served 15,581
breakfasts at no cost to those third and eighth-graders.
· 102 school cafeterias have a 95% or higher sanitation grade.
Three school cafeterias maintained a 100% grade for all inspections
this school year.
· CNS contributed $2.5 million back to the general board of
education fund.
· All school cafeterias have the same point-of-sale system
(cash register system) and all cafeterias have computers that
are upgraded for communication.
Environmental Health & Safety
· EHAS hired a Facilities Safety Officer who instituted weekly
"toolbox talks" (safety meetings) for the facilities and maintenance
departments and is in the process of developing a safety program
and identifying confined spaces on all WCPSS campuses. PERT,
the acronym for the safety program, stands for procedures,
employee involvement, reviews, and training.
· By removing underground storage tanks, EHAS has facilitated
the recovery of $224,428 from the UST trust fund reimbursement
program.
· EHAS coordinated the removal of all mercury thermometers
from the schools and administrative sites with custodial services
and school nurses.
· EHAS developed an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Playground Equipment Plan to ensure handicapped accessibility
from certain corridors to play areas, and appropriate fall
protection. · EHAS created and posted floor plans at each
school showing ADA accessibility routes.
· Developed an Integrated Pest Management Program, which is
ready for presentation.
· Facilitated a two-hour Asbestos Awareness training for maintenance
and operations employees.
· Installed telemetry systems at our 12 treatment stations
as an early warning for spill prevention. If there is a spill,
a telephone warning device signals the tower at Rock Quarry,
which signals an EHAS employee's emergency pager.
· Frank Koontz, EHAS director, is president of the NC Environmental
Information Association and represented NC at the national
EIA conference.
· Judson Watson serves on the NC EIA board.
Facilities Planning & Construction
· The North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape
Architects presented an award to CLH Design, PA in recognition
of outstanding professional achievement in the site development
and landscape design at Yates Mill Elementary.
· The American Council of Engineering Companies of NC presented
an honors award to Law Engineering and Environmental Services,
Inc in recognition of engineering excellence in the roof replacement
and implementation at Carroll Middle.
· School Planning and Management Magazine recognized Carnage
Middle for "Outstanding Architecture and Design in Education"
in the magazine's June 2002 Education Design Showcase.
· The Wiley Elementary addition project won the Sir Walter
Raleigh Award for Community Appearance.
· WCPSS will open Ballentine Elementary, Moore Square Museums
Magnet Middle and Middle Creek High for fall 2002. · Currently
at the midpoint of the PLAN 2000 building program, FP&C has
12 major improvement projects in design, 18 under construction
and two are substantially complete. In addition, 24 system-wide
improvement projects are in progress and 19 are already complete.
· FP&C worked with the Triangle J Council of Government to
develop High Performance Guidelines (sustainability) for public
facilities in the Triangle area. · FP&C was featured in The
Business Journal's February 2002 Special Report, "Architecture
and Engineering: Schools Challenge Architectural Skills."
Maintenance & Operations
· M&O initiated a regional facility maintenance pilot
that has been successful in improving maintenance at 29 schools.
The region consists of five four-person maintenance teams
that maintain a cluster of five to seven schools in the southern
part of Wake County. M&O has decided to implement the program
countywide and this year initiated a second region for the
schools north and east of the Neuse River. Two more regions
for the west and north are planned for fiscal year 2003-2004.
The central region (inside the beltline) will follow the next
fiscal year.
· A new computerized maintenance management system known as
MAXIMO was put in production countywide. The new system eliminated
the need for submitting work requests on paper by allowing
every school access via the WCPSS intranet. The system allows
M&O to manage maintenance down at the equipment level and
the customer to obtain updates on his work order via his desk
computer.
Organizational Development
· In an effort to conserve energy, the department installed
window film at six facilities and completed lighting projects
at nine facilities.
· The EnergySavers program and several WCPSS schools earned
national recognition for the fifth consecutive year for our
teacher/student education program. During this school year,
80% of all WCPSS schools actively participated in the EnergySavers
program.
· Staff members presented a paper on the EnergySavers program
at the International Association of Energy Engineers Congress
in Atlanta in October 2001.
· The MAXIMO Safety Module is ready to go online.
· Installed and implemented MAXIMO - the new computerized
work order system. MAXIMO will be integrated with Oracle in
August 2002, allowing the division to use one computer application
for managing work and finances - a fully functional enterprise
system.
· Organizational Development has facilitated over 8,235 hours
of training for 1,220 of our employees this fiscal year; including
training in safety, continuous improvement, technology (MAXIMO),
and job-specific skills. An interdepartmental steering committee
was formed to advise staff on how best to meet the needs of
our employees in this area. Policy and procedures for conducting
the program were also written and adopted.
· The EnergySavers staff is now comprised of three employees
who hold Energy Management diplomas from N.C. State University
and one EPA certified lighting professional.
Real Estate Services
· Acquired land for three new elementary schools that will
open in 2004; including Carpenter Village (24 acres), Highcroft
Drive (26 acres) and Turner Creek Road (20 acres).
· Acquired land and held formal groundbreaking ceremonies
for Knightdale High and Cedar Fork Elementary.