The Buildings & Grounds Department
The Huntington Buildings and Grounds Department is responsible for the maintenance and care of the interior and exterior of all district facilities, including playing fields, playgrounds and parking areas. The department carries out a variety of projects in-house and strives to provide clean, safe and attractive surroundings for students, staff and visitors. Protecting the substantial investment made by the community through the years in the eight school buildings that today house more than 4,200 students, is a vast undertaking that requires vigilance, commitment and hard work. 
Ranging from simple routine cleaning to skilled carpentry and elaborate painting, buildings and grounds workers utilize their talents to enhance and improve instructional spaces, hallways and offices. Staff members prepare dozens of fields and courts for practice and games, move equipment between schools for concerts and teaching initiatives, maintain the systems that allow for daily classes to be held and participate in fire drills and inspections. The department also helps prepare plans for extensive repairs and renovations and carries out an ambitious schedule of projects each summer.
Each day all classrooms are thoroughly cleaned, along with gyms, cafeterias, locker areas and every other space utilized by students and staff. From shoveling and plowing snow and polishing floors to cleaning windows and making rain soaked fields playable, buildings and grounds workers are on the job from early morning to late night working hard on behalf of the school community.