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Gleaming hallways, award-winning fields, sparkling windows and perfectly outfitted classrooms don’t happen by accident. The R-H Facilities department is responsible for those things, and they’re another district department that works behind the scenes, all year long—and especially during the summer—to keep the district running smoothly.
If you’ve attended a concert, assembly, book fair,
sporting event or awards night, or even just walked into a
Rush-Henrietta school, you’ve seen their
work. It’s frequently a thankless job, moving tables and chairs, mowing
and raking, installing fixtures and repairing tile, electric, plumbing,
carpentry, not to mention mopping up spills and other . . . stuff. It
takes an army to get it all done—7 groundskeepers, 10 trade mechanics
and 56 custodial staff, to be exact. Together, they make us all look
good, and they do it without much fuss and very little fanfare. Here’s just a small snapshot of their work:- The grounds crew mows 325 acres of district property once a week all summer long and into the fall.
- This summer, the pool at the Senior High School was emptied, re-grouted and power washed. Extension ladders were used so our custodial staff could reach the 13-foot walls.
- During the 2014-2015
school year, district tradesmen received more than 1,700 work orders
for repairs around the district.
- The grounds crew meticulously grooms and lines 28 athletic fields for Section V interscholastic sports. Their work has been featured in several editions of a national magazine and trade journal and has earned Field of the Year honors for R-H multiple times.
- At the Senior High School, the custodial staff empties and cleans 1,106 lockers inside and out, changing every combination, on every locker, every year.
In addition to this, there are rooms to paint, floors to polish, equipment and supplies to distribute, and teachers to move from classroom to classroom. If it sounds exhausting, it is! Kudos to our Facilities department for working so hard to make us all look so good!
