With new school year only two weeks ago, preparation shifts into high gear

With the new school year starting in just two weeks, RCS maintenance and facilities crews are hard at work ensuring a bright and clean start to the school year.

At Pieter B. Coeymans Elementary School, the work included this week the painting the nurses office and classrooms – work that was still ongoing Tuesday as maintenance workers Mark Edmonds and Carmen Frangella painted Nurse Joanne Dardani’s office a light green.

Throughout the school district, the sign of cleaning and restoration is everywhere. Some hallways remain filled with desks and other classroom equipment – moved so that maintenance and custodial workers could do a thorough cleaning of the classrooms.

Other work still being completed this summer in the district’s four schools and other buildings include the waxing of hallway floors, cleaning of carpets, pressure washing of mats, preparation of athletic fields, stripping and waxing of classroom floors, resurfacing of the aquatics center’s deck  and the stripping and resurfacing of the gymnasiums.

The work is an annual rite of passage for the three maintenance workers and 30 custodians/grounds crews that work at RCS as the district prepares for students. The new school year starts at RCS on September 6.