b'sections of scaffolding, canvas, and I cannot begin to tell you the countless pails of paint. We need this gym painted out as quickly as possible as it serves many functions, the Director said as he immediately walked away. It quickly became apparent to me, he assumed (I know what assumed is) I needed no introduction to painting as I did say, Yes, I know how to paint.It wasnt long before I was able to assemble four tiers of scaffolding sections to first clean top to bottom the entire gym.A little over a week has passed and Im making, what I feel, is good progress.I was working one day and overheard staff personnel talking about someone on the summer crew driving a tractor that did not clear the districts only marquee sign out front and it caused some damage.Since I was on my break, I decided Id go take a look (Facility Director was on vacation at this time).Sure enough, he did a pretty good job in messing up the sign.DaikinTMi is an Awarded I explained it could have been worse and I could easily repair the marquee.Vendor through the TIPS It wasnt long (Im now back in the gym and preparing toPurchasing Cooperative. PAINT), a gentleman (THE school district Superintendent) in a coat and tie walked up to me and asked, Are you the new guyWe offer comprehensive who said he could repair the marque? solutions for all your Yes, I said, but it will be a two-man task to safely get it completed.facility operational needs.We have only one maintenance man on staff and he is on vacation and will be back this Monday.I will expect it to be repaired when I come back in one week.It didnt take long for the district maintenance man to find me on Monday! You guessed it, that Monday afternoon the marquee was repaired.Three months prior, I was picking up my son from school and was sitting in my vehicle waiting for the bell to ring, when out of the blue appeared a van occupied by a single person.He got out and carefully from within that van, brought out tools and began to make repairs on a basketball goal that needed serious attention.It didnt take long for me to see he needed another pair of hands. I got out, introduced myself and assisted with the needed maintenance. He introduced himself as the school district maintenance man. He thanked me for helping him as he also knew it wasnt a safe job for one person. I soon found myself sharing my past life in the Navy and the many job experiences I was exposed to and explaining why cross-training was so important.We shook hands and we both went our separate ways. About a week later, (on tier scaffolding three), the computer lab teacher happens to come by asking Can you replace a hard drive in a CPU? To be continued WWW.MSPMA.COM|25'