Currently the maintenance staff at the Community Center consists of a full-time Building Maintenance Manager who oversees one full-time Facility Maintenance Worker. The request to add a second Facilities Maintenance Worker, due to the increased facility spaces, was planned for discussion with the 2018 budget. A medical leave however, currently has the department extremely short staffed with no known end date.

The department has tried to hire seasonal staff to assist with facility maintenance but no one has scheduled an interview. The addition of a full-time Facilities Maintenance Worker now would assist the Facilities Maintenance Manger and operate as the department had been operating. At the time the current Facilities Maintenance Worker returns, the two full-time maintenance staff would work opposite hours to cover more of the building operations similar to the operations of the ice arena.

The Facilities Maintenance Worker is a Grade 2 of the non-union pay plan. There are 11 payrolls between August and the end of the year. With 80 hours in each payrolls, there are 880 hours that are paid for the rest of the year. If we start someone at the first step, they would be paid $18.90 x 880 hours = $16,632. The impact at this year, would be $22,518.46, including three months of benefits.