San Mateo County

Community College District

What are our SUPERVISORS OF CAMPUS FACILITIES responsible for?

Each of the colleges of the San Mateo County Community College District has a dedicated Supervisor of Campus Facilities.  These individuals are responsible for operations, maintenance and repair of the buildings, grounds and infrastructure systems at Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and Skyline College.  These systems include the building envelope (roofs and exterior walls), foundation systems, interior walls/floors/ceilings, heating/ventilating/air conditioning systems, electrical and illumination systems, access controls, vertical transportation systems, fire and life safety systems, energy management systems and automated building controls, plumbing systems, etc.  The Supervisors are also responsible for the fleet of vehicles and equipment at each of their Colleges, which includes:  80 vehicles, 25 driving lawnmowers, tractors, backhoes, frontloaders, topdressers, aerators, street sweepers, and forklifts; 34 pushmowers, edgecutters, hedgetrimmers, chainsaws, whackers; 41 power tools including saws, drills, underground conduit locators, pipe threaders, floor buffers, carpet shampooers, vacuum cleaners, and other miscellaneous equipment.

Daily Operations

Daily operations of the buildings and grounds is performed by the Campus Facilities Supervisor’s crew of technicians, including custodians, groundskeepers and maintenance engineers, together with administrative assistants, student assistants and volunteers. 

·         Daily custodial operations includes cleaning of over 2,017 distinct spaces, including classrooms, offices, restrooms, laboratories, stairways, corridors, closets, gymnasia, locker rooms, and lobbies.  Custodial services ensure a safe, effective indoor environment, with good air quality and pleasing aesthetics.  Custodial staff are cleaning technicians, trained in the safe and effective use of equipment and products that allows us to achieve Facilities Excellence in the indoor environment.

·         Routine and special project work by grounds staff ensure that the campuses are aesthetically pleasing, safe, and facilitate the instructional mission as well as community use. The vast knowledge and experience of our Groundskeepers in the areas of tree trimming, athletic field maintenance, irrigation, grounds equipment maintenance, proper pruning techniques, hardscape maintenance, pest control, roadway maintenance, and fire prevention allows us to achieve Facilities Excellence in the exterior environment.

• One of the most critical activities that Engineering staff performs is preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance ensures that systems are in proper working order, and increases the service life of newly constructed or remodeled facilities.   Engineering staff also provide reactive maintenance services, to ensure comfort and function both indoors and out. 
• Campus Facilities Supervisors participate in disaster preparedness planning and exercises.  In the event of large or small emergencies, the Supervisors and their crews have been trained to assist in evacuation of the premises, search and rescue, and assessment of the buildings for re-occupancy.
• Every year, the Supervisors of Campus Facilities write and submit project proposals to the State Chancellor’s Office and other agencies, requesting funding for maintenance and repair projects, and hazardous materials removal.  In January 2005, the Supervisors’ submitted grant requests, for the 2005-06 fiscal year, in the amount of $30 Million. 
• The Supervisors of Campus Facilities are responsible for solid waste management at their Colleges.  They developed and implement the plan to reduce solid waste throughput, per the requirements of AB75.  Annually, the Supervisors submit reports to the California Integrated Waste Management Division for waste diversion compliance. 
• The Colleges of the San Mateo County Community College District are being transformed through a five-year, $300 Million construction program.  The Campus Facilities Supervisors are key players in this capital program, not only by participating in design reviews, but also in ensuring that College operations continue through the disruptive nature of construction on an occupied campus, and by commissioning the buildings prior to occupancy.

Real and Human Assets Portfolio

The Supervisors of Campus Facilities at the San Mateo County Community College District are responsible for an impressive portfolio of real and human assets.  This portfolio includes:

Exterior environment:

• 3 campuses totaling 416 acres
• 48 parking lots, 7,546 parking spaces, with associated wheel stops, striping and pavement markings
• 5.75 miles of roadway
• 48 miles of underground pipeline (for electrical, communications, sanitary and storm drain, water supply, gas, irrigation)
• over 1266 exterior light fixtures
• 8,800 linear feet of storm drains, plus related drain basins
• 120 landscaped islands with concrete curbs, planted with hundreds of trees and bushes
• 200 garbage cans
• hundreds of signs (no parking, stop, yield, speed limit, etc.)
• 5 entrance gates
• 3 SamTrans bus stops and additional bus rest stops, plus numerous Redi-Wheels bus stops
• 10 sports fields and 3 tracks
• 23 landscaped acres
• 29 tennis courts
• 2 swimming pools

Interior Environment

·         69 buildings with over 1.2 million gross square feet

·         additional structures, such as dugouts, food service kiosks, storage buildings, bus stop shelters, etc.

·         69 roofs, 560 exterior doors, 2045 interior doors

·         26 elevators

·         576 pieces of mechanical equipment (air handlers, pumps, boilers, chillers, fans)

·         13,780 interior light fixtures

·         183 restrooms (with multiple sinks, toilets, urinals in each)

Human Resources

·         67 permanent, full time personnel

·         Additional temporary personnel, student assistants and volunteers

Portfolio Value

The value of the real portfolio that the Supervisors of Campus Facilities are responsible for totals $978 Million.  This includes $416 million in land value, $521 million in site and building improvements, and $41 million in contents.  The value of annual payroll and operating budgets directly monitored by the Campus Facilities Supervisors is $7.1 million.

The provision of safe campus facilities for the 25,000 students, 1000 full-time faculty and staff, 500 part-time faculty and staff, and the casual visitors to our Colleges is paramount to our mission of ensuring a safe, effective, and inspiring physical environment that supports and enhances the instructional mission of the San Mateo County Community College District.  We cannot assign a dollar value to this aspect of the tremendous responsibility entrusted to our Campus Facilities Supervisors.

Facilities Excellence

February 2005