FILE: EBG
MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOL BOARD PROPERTY
The Lafayette Parish School Board shall be responsible for the maintenance, repair, and care of any school site, building, facility or personal property in the control of the School Board, including any unused school site. The School Board shall delegate responsibility to the Superintendent to maintain properly all such property. The Superintendent shall make sure that the care of such property complies with applicable laws, ordinances and regulations, including building and fire safety code regulations, until such property is sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by the School Board.
LONG-RANGE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
A long-range maintenance program shall be developed on the basis of a continuing maintenance survey of all public school facilities in Lafayette Parish. Data collected shall be analyzed and evaluated in terms of present, continuing, and future needs for remodeling, renovation, and modernization. Job priorities and a schedule of work to be accomplished shall be maintained.
Quality control in terms of construction in the maintenance program done by maintenance employees of the School Board shall be the responsibility of the Supervisor of Maintenance. In construction programs where an architect is employed, quality control shall be the responsibility of the architect.
REPAIRS
The School Board shall require requests for building repairs to be made through the school principal or building administrator by using the work order request system. Requests for repair of hazardous conditions or of an emergency nature shall be reported to the Superintendent or his/her designee as soon as the condition requiring repair is identified. Hazardous and emergency requests shall be given priority consideration by the staff. Immediate remedial action shall be taken until proper services can eliminate the hazardous condition.
To provide for effective building maintenance and repairs, a logical and orderly means for requesting routine maintenance or repairs shall be as follows.
Requests may originate with individual employees, which shall be considered and approved by the principal or building administrator.
Requests to the Maintenance Department shall be made through the local school principal or building administrator via the work order system prescribed by the Superintendent or his/her designee.
Adopted: November 4, 2015
Ref: La. Rev. Stat. Ann. ยงยง17:81, 17:87.6
Board minutes, 11-4-15
Lafayette Parish School Board