General Services Division

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Mission

The General Services Division’s mission is to support The Monterey County Office of Education's focus of exemplary leadership, support and service for all associated academic programs. This mission is accomplished through the exceptional delivery of facilities services in a timely and cost effective manner along with great customer service.

General Services staff strives to maintain efficient, safe, clean, attractive, and inviting environment(s) for all stakeholders associated with Monterey County Office of Education. General Services also provides the necessary services to facilitate usage by the external community.

Vision

What We Do

Maintenance and Operations: Coordinate the planning, monitoring and implementation of a variety of maintenance and custodial services for The Monterey County Office of Education support program sites.

Items include: heating and air conditioning, electrical, plumbing, painting, emergency power systems, custodial services, security and fire systems, access control and keying, recycling programs and preventative maintenance.

Our Maintenance Specialists interact with outside service providers such as landscapers, elevator maintenance services, security/patrol services, water treatment services, laundries, air quality services, locksmiths, movers, utilities and recycling services.

Our Management Team interacts regularly with state/local/federal agencies such as the local fire authority, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Environmental Health, County Planning, Office of Public School Construction, Division of State Architect, State Allocations Board, and the Department of Toxic Substance Control.

Working to brighten students lives through safe and healthy school facilities!
The General Services Division supervises, manages and directs the daily operations for the Monterey County Office of Education.

We provide to our programs:

Mail and delivery services
Meeting room scheduling and set up. Contact Marta Puga for room reservation details
Maintenance, custodial and security services to all of MCOE's satellite educational programs
Central warehousing
Transportation services

We provide to our Districts, Charters and Private Schools:

Williams Legislation and Facilities Inspection. Verification of the State mandated Facilities Inspection Tool (FIT) and coordination of site verification processes.
Updating the districts of building code requirement changes, current legislation and State Allocation Board funding mechanisms, and the Department of State Architect's new requirements.
Planning and safety training for management within the Facilities and MOTS. divisions
Safety guidance and strategies
Central repository for personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Districts, charter schools and private schools can click this link to procure PPE.