Greg Carver
Executive Director of Maintenance & Operations

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• The Astrodome has 45,000 tons of air
  conditioning-Katy ISD has over 40,000 tons
  and is adding about 1,200 tons each year.
• The Williams Tower has 1,250,000 square
  feet, all located in one-city block.
• Katy Mills Mall has about 1,500,000 square
  feet; all located under one roof.
• Katy ISD has 10,122,000 square feet, located
  in an area 181 square miles.
• This amount of floor space equals to 4,049
  homes of 2,500 square feet.

"Whatever It Takes"

The Maintenance and Operations Departments goal for Katy ISD is to provide exceptional support to students, staff and community. Our motto of Whatever It Takes exemplifies our attitude and commitment to all participants involved with Katy ISD. The Maintenance and Operations administrative staff work as a single unit to provide the finest educational leadership support team assembled. Katy ISD proper encompasses 181 square miles providing educational services to approximately 54,000 students and is growing at a rate of 2,000 to 4,000 students per year. Katy ISD maintains approximately 10,122,000 square feet of education and administrative facilities and roughly 2,138 acres of manicured athletic fields, school lawn or land purchased for our growing district. 

In order to aid our fast growing school district we currently own, occupy and maintain 219 portable classroom buildings until new schools may be built. The purchase of 30 new portables funded by the 2002 and 2006  Bonds has effectively quadrupled our Summer 2007 work load compared to previous summers. In addition, due to construction projects for campus additions and renovations, we moved 40 portables to different locations. The installation and relocation of 70 portables takes coordination between each campus, the moving contractor, CenterPoint, our electricians, general maintenance, fire alarm technicians, technology and fixed assets departments. This is a monumental task, as all the work is completed with in-house labor with the exception of the actual moving of the portables.

In order to meet the next ten years growth, the District will require an additional 25 schools.  To prepare for this growth and maintain our facilities, the departments of Maintenance, Construction, Purchasing, Technology, and other support divisions come together and work toward a common goal: To construct and maintain facilities that will positively impact the students of today and tomorrow. Maintenance manages the buildings once constructed for the next 50+ years.  The initial cost of constructing a school is only 20% of the total cost of maintaining it throughout the life of the building. 

The M & O Department serves as Katy ISD’s largest support service organization in terms of personnel and budget. The Maintenance and Operations department consists of 554 full-time employees with a total operating budget of $36,719,021 for the 2007-2008 school year. The department maintains all facilities with services in Maintenance, Operations, Grounds, Environmental Quality, Energy Management, M & O Parts and Supply Warehousing, Small Engine Repair, Minor Construction and bond projects not managed by the KISD Construction Department. I feel the current staff of men and women in the M & O department are the most dedicated and committed team ever assembled supporting the students, staff and the Katy community.

Unfunded/Mandated programs is a term most associated with programs within the teaching ranks of a school system. Rest assured the M&O Department works with dozens of Unfunded/Mandated programs set forth by Federal, State and Local agencies. We do agree with their requirements as they are all for student, staff and public safety. We disagree with the fact that the State does not fund them. Some of them are: