December 27, 2010

Vernon: Town Will Care For Board Of Education Buildings - Courant.com

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Vernon: Town Will Care For Board Of Education Buildings
Consolidation Expected To Save Taxpayers Money
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By JOSEPH A. O'BRIEN, Special to The Courant
The Hartford Courant
5:17 PM EST, December 24, 2010
VERNON —"


The town has agreed to take over management of custodial and maintenance services of the board of education's buildings and grounds.

The town council this week approved the school board's request that the town assume management control of those services as outlined in a Dec. 2 letter from School Superintendent Mary P. Conway to Mayor Jason McCoy.

Consolidation of management services for town and school board buildings and grounds under the town public works department is expected to lower the overall cost of these services to taxpayers.

As part of the agreement, the details of which will be finalized by McCoy and Conway, the school board will transfer $30,000 to the town's budget to cover the town's cost of administering the services through the department of public works over a 12-month period. Extension of the pilot agreement would require re-adoption of the resolution by the town council.

McCoy said that when the proposal was initially brought to the board of education, it was met with "union pushback," but after months of negotiations, an agreement with labor was reached.

The town benefits from the increased buying power and the added storage space for purchases in school board facilities, McCoy said.

"We will see better facilities because our focus at the town is on management of grounds and facilities and the [school board's] is on education of our kids," McCoy said.

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