As I had predicted nothing went as planned today in GTPS. I had begun to arrange for the return of the faulty document cameras I was informed that the uproar over their introduction to the Middle School system was at best, unclear. It really only takes one loud voice to cull most of the building into what seems to be a major unrest. Not really. Some like them, some don't. Maybe they will stay after all or maybe they won't, I'll know by the end of this week. That is all the time we have to make a decision on whether they keep them or not.
Gary and I did head over to Colonge School this afternoon and finished putting up the rest of the workstations in that building. We also discovered that the Head Teacher's office has been "stripped" of her work space inside her new digs. She has been relegated to using a two person table as a desk and there is not much more room in the area for much else. I have to come up with a plan to incorporate some kind of device so that she can work in that room. I am toying with a laptop to solve the problem. I have about $900 that I can spend on this and that is really it. I will talk to the Business Office on Tuesday to see what can be done and quickly. The reduction in space is due to an audit conducted by the County office on space allocation and it only serves to make my job a bit harder than it would be in it had not happened.
Back on the copier problems as well today and I have not heard from George Jacobs from Canon Business Solutions yet about my proposal to renogotiate the leases for the existing large volume copiers in use throughout the district. My goal is to increase the number of small copiers in strategic locations where personnel have to man the desk continuously. Along with the lack of space issue, coverage is the next big thing with the smaller buildings. The folks that man the main desk in each building are a gang of one when it comes to the building operations. I have to put some better procedures into play if I can with the constraints of our budget situation. We can not only save a few bucks in process but increase our level of service throughout the district with respect to the copier compliment.
The rest of the week will hopefully play out as I had hoped but remember, I can't predict but I can prepare.
I have some work to do on some plans for the ACTP and that should take a couple of hours to complete. Contracts that will be binding throughout the county is my goal but I am going to invite Louis Barrios down to discuss the possibility of merging some of the functions with the South Jersey Technology Partnership with the ACTP and pooling the talents of both organizations. We have a group of personnel that we would like to use and they have theirs but together the functions can be aligned so that we can get the most bang for the buck that we can. The NJBOE show is on the 20th and our GTPS group is giving another presentation this year entitled "From the Inside Out" depicting the process by which we conduct technology projects. From what I have seen and participated in so far this presentation will be the best so far. Till next post.
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