Opinion: Deferred Maintenance is the Most Expensive Form of Maintenance
Now that H1 has passed, let us refocus our efforts on seeing that our new facilities are fastidiously maintained. A certain amount of the tackiness, general seediness and carpet smell in certain areas comes from a low level of janitorial care. Smudgy windows and chipped paint take very little effort to correct.
The slightest nick in the indoor trim at the White House has somebody with a tiny paintbrush, the size found in a child’s watercolor paint box, meticulously dabbing on a swoosh of white paint. All the trim in the White House is white and of the same shade to facilitate this low-tech remedy. If it’s good enough for the White House, it should be good enough for the schools of Piedmont.
With the tens of millions of dollars that are going to be spent, it’s not too much to expect, that our new facilities will have somebody assigned to administer the “white glove” test to every room the way they do at the Ritz. Our students and faculty deserve the best, as well as the generous citizens of Piedmont that are paying for it.
Sunny Bostrom-Fleming, Piedmont Resident
Thank you Sunny. Use of bond measures for deferred maintenance projects just about doubles the cost of the work to the taxpayer.
Bill Blackwell