Question: What is the total square footage of the administration building including the warehouse?
Answer: 25695 SQ’
Question: What is the square footage of the warehouse portion?
Answer: 12,498 Sf
Question: What is the shelf height in the warehouse?
Answer: Central supply 8’ High/warehouse shelving 11’6”.
Question: What categories of items are being stored in the warehouse?
Answer: Educational/Bulk Janitorial Supplies, Technology, Physical Plant, Food Service and items to be sold in Municibid.
Question: How many linear feet of shelf space is currently in the warehouse?
Answer: 840’ of 11’6 shelving and 170’ of 8’ high in central supply.
Question: What is the oldest unused item in the warehouse?
Answer: All unused items have been identified and will be placed on a public site called Municibid for sale.
Question: Are there any items stored in the warehouse that have gone unused since the inception of the warehouse?
Answer: Yes, for instance there is attic stock for the natatorium and the older schools that is obsolete material that is kept for replacement purposes.
Question: Which items in the warehouse were not used in the 2017-2018 school year?
Answer: N/A
Question: What is the square footage of the maintenance garage?
Answer: 5200SQ’ 1st floor / 765 SQ’ 2nd floor
Question: What is housed there?
Answer: 25 ton of bulk road salt in one (1) garage bay. All maintenance vehicles and one (1) loader tractor with all attachments. All snow plows and salt spreader. Welding and cutting equipment. All larger electric and pneumatic tools. Bulk motor oil and grease. Refrigerant recovery tanks and oxygen, acetylene tanks. All heating refrigeration testing and repair equipment. Two (2) vehicle service lifts, recyclable oil tank/steel mill and late/band saw, steel chop saw, inventory of belts/filters and parts of all mowing and plowing equipment. Inventory of hardware, steam cleaning equipment. Inventory of bar steel and aluminum. Steel work benches for maintenance employees to perform minor and major repairs. Air compressor, sand blasting equipment, inventory of PVC and copper pipe. All maintenance tools.
Question: How many garage bays does it have?
Answer: Three (3)
Question: Does it have a conditioned office space? If so, is it utilized?
Answer: Yes, Heating and cooling serves one (1) data room that is 144SQ’ and one (1) break room that is 256SQ’.
Question: How many Districts in the IU17 operate with centralized “just in time” ordering? How many store supplies in buildings?
Answer: Unknown, at the current time this information is not readily available
Question: Do you see anyway to tweak “just in time” ordering that would not require a warehouse?
Answer: Yes, there are other options available to handle receiving, storing, and distribution of supplies.
Question: Who is responsible to decide if an item in the warehouse should be discarded?
Answer: Small supplies are discarded when they are no longer usable, i.e. broken. Large items are presented to the board for sale or disposal.
Question: Has administration discussed discarding any items currently being stored in the warehouse?
Answer: Yes
Question: Based on the 2017 feasibility study’s cost to maintain space per square foot, what is the yearly cost for the warehouse?
Answer: $55,241
Question: Based on the 2017 feasibility study’s cost to maintain space per square foot, what is the yearly cost for the entire administration building?
Answer: $113,572
Question: Which business entity provided the quote to move the servers from the administration building to the other town location?
Answer: There is no quote. Some of the more significant costs involve relocating fiber optic cable and HVAC. We have completed recent projects for which we were able to base these costs. HVAC for current location was $37,000. This cost at our current datacenter was lessened because of the simple location and direct ducting. Any new datacenter would incur AT LEAST $37,000, probably more, because locating AC units and ducting will not be as direct and may involve rooftop installation and more significant ductwork. We have also recently completed a fiber optic project with a cost close to $50,000. There would be a need to extend the fiber from the IU for our internet access. It would be the exact same cost of $50,000. Additionally, since the current administration building is the central location for our fiber, the fiber optic cable for Avis and Salladasburg would have to be cut back to Baer Street, then each would have to be extended to the new location, which would be close to another $50,000 or more depending on timing of contractor. Fiber from our maintenance garage would also have to be extended to the new location as well as the Middle School and JSE, all adding significant costs to the fiber relocation. These costs can all be obtained from very recent projects. None of the above costs include interior infrastructure costs, interior security costs, interior fire suppression costs, etc.
The JSASD Technology Department has the qualifications to assess and project relocation costs because it is REQUIRED of our job duties. For some aspects of a major project we must work with contractors, but our department determines the specifications, design, equipment, implementation and logistics. We have an inherent knowledge of the costs before a major project commences.
The current datacenter was designed to be the central location for all data, communications, security and numerous other functions. The current datacenter is the termination point of fiber optic cable for 7 different locations including IU 17, Avis Elementary, Salladasburg Elementary, JSASD Maintenance garage, Middle School, Jersey Shore Elementary and High School. The current datacenter address is also the termination point for our two PRIs which provide all out- of-district phone calls.
Our technology department can provide most all aspects of costing except for the electrical needs, which I will address with our maintenance department to review options if this becomes necessary.
Summary of qualifications to for determining datacenter relocation:
1) Patrick McCormick – Director of Technology
- Certified Leviton network cabling installer
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Systems
- Master’s degree in Office Information Systems.
- Helped to design and implement networks in no less than 5 school districts in Lycoming, Northumberland and Sullivan County over the past twenty-five years. All of these projects were complete systems implementations including costing, budgeting, purchasing and multiple vendor coordination.
- Designed and implemented networks in 2 private business in Lycoming County which included costing, budgeting, purchasing and multiple vendor coordination.
- Collaboration with a local network cabling company for several large repair and maintenance jobs. Also, JSASD works with this contractor to expand knowledge on best practices and current pricing.
2) Chad Krape – Network and Technical Specialist
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Networking and Security
- Ten years of network design, implementation, maintenance and security with JSASD. This experience also includes collaboration with budgeting and multiple vendors for costing scenarios
- Working on Master’s degree in Instructional Technology
3) Jeremy Black – Network and Technical Specialist
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Network Technology
- Six years of network design, implementation, maintenance and security with the Army National Guard. Some of this experiencing included working abroad in Latvia, which included different logistics than the US.
- Six years of network design, implementation, maintenance and security with JSASD. This experience also includes collaboration with budgeting and multiple vendors for costing scenarios
4) Sharon Koch or college interns
- Degree in Computer Science
- CompTIA Network Certifications
- Numerous years of network infrastructure work
- Numerous years of multiple vendor coordination to understanding costs