Well its been a week or so and I have not made that much progress in finishing up the last three remaining projects that have been hanging on since September. Some good news is that we will be finished shortly on two of the three and it just is a matter of a few more days awaiting parts for both the Media Centers as well as the last touches on Art and GEM. Tommorrow I hope to finish Arthur Rann's Media center and have it opened up to the students next week. We had some additional wiriing changes as well as putting in two switches that we have had in storage for a few months The parts I am waiting for are drives for the workstations and a mobile cart for both Roland and Smithville. I need some electric run by our guys in both of those areas. I am trying to get both of these areas done and I am still missing the carts to get it all put together. The carts will be needed to keep the teacher's workstation on as well as provide the connectoin to the ceiling mounted projector. I had Tom put together the workstations for me and the first one I tested worked fine at Room 49 in Reeds Rd. Fred and Tom worked in 49 last week and got both projectors working together as I had hoped that they would. They installed the sound system as well and it seems to be working well too. I am missing a few parts for that room as well. Everything has been orderd for each project to be completed by the 19th of November. I will be glad to turn over each area to the new respective owners. The day to day is still going on and it has been a testament to how hard my people have been working over the past four months. We are getting more done each day than most groups get done in a week Nothing is out of reach and no problem goes unsolved. Some of them take a bit longer than others but they all get done. It does give me a good sense of confidence knowing that I can count on each of them to get the job done.
I have finally got the deal setup for the addition of the copiers that I have been trying to get for the past few months. I think it is a solid deal and will give the district the necessary copier compliment that we need to up the level of service and eliminate the excess copier costs that have been killing the budget for the past three months since we turned over the budget year. George Jacob from Canon Business Solutions has constructed a nice package that will add an additional 10 copiers to the district as well as upgrade each of the existing copiers that are in use right now. Our monthly copier count will jump to 450,000 a month so the excess charges will go away. We are spending $299,000 per year including the excess copy costs. With this new plan in place we will be able to provide an much higher level of service and save about $32,000 a year against the budget. Every cost savings will help this year since we will be facing a shortfall that we already know about. It should be great for the district and help out the staff qute a bit. I am putting at least two new copiers in each of the four larger elementary schools as well as at least one in each of the smaller schools.
I will bring everything up to date this weekend so stay tuned. Till next post.
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