Trustees Vote to Standardize Certain Equipment Purchases
The Huntington School Board has utilized a section of municipal law to “standardize” certain equipment purchases. Trustees adopted a resolution on the matter at their meeting on January 4.
“Oftentimes, due to the bidding process, we have to accept items whose acquisition would make the maintenance of certain types of equipment more difficult for the district to sustain,” explained David H. Grackin, assistant superintendent for finance and management services.
David Casamento, the district’s director of science and instructional technology, said the move toward standardization is “an effort to reduce the cost of replacement parts and the labor involved with the district’s technology equipment.”
Mr. Casamento’s interest concerned the purchase of projectors, but the need evidently extends even further than that. Mr. Grackin said one of the technology teachers at J. Taylor Finley Middle School requested the district “standardize on a Grizzly brand of scroll saws.” It was this teacher’s contention that the saw had been used in the district for many years and “is the best piece of equipment for use in our technology classes in the middle school.”
With continuing pressure on school budgets, the issue is an important one. “The projector we are in the process of purchasing and will continue to purchase is the NEC NP510,” Mr. Casamento said. “This is a new model and should not become obsolete for some time.”
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