Borough and KIBSD detail joint maintenance work, $11.8 million of projects through 2028

Kodiak Island — Borough project manager Cody Allen and the Kodiak Island Borough School District’s Director of Maintenance and Operations, Adam Powers, presented coordinated maintenance metrics and a multi-year projects dashboard during the joint session.

Allen said the borough’s maintenance team has begun using computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) to track work orders, priorities and costs and reported a 98.5% completion metric for the reporting period and a 56.3% on-time completion rate in the new system. He urged cautious interpretation while the system is still being refined.

Powers described KIBSD’s parallel CMMS and a preventative-maintenance program that logs equipment and inventory, and said the district averages roughly 4,200 work orders per year when preventative maintenance and reactive work are combined. He said the district now tracks direct labor, parts and equipment to improve transparency on site costs.

The borough’s project dashboard listed roughly $11.8 million in rough-order-of-magnitude construction and capital projects through 2028; of that total, Allen said approximately $3.3 million was listed as school-district‑related projects (including a preliminary $266,000 estimate for pool-related demolition and testing). He cautioned the estimates are illustrative and contingent on procurement, permitting and prioritization.

Speakers pointed to recent cooperative responses — including an incident where borough and district maintenance teams jointly inspected and addressed an air-handler failure — as evidence the collaboration reduces risk and response time. Powers and Allen also highlighted rural projects (Port Lions, Akiak and Old Harbor) as costly and logistically complex, requiring staged work and careful contractor management.

Both managers said improved data from CMMS will make future budgeting and project oversight more precise and allow clearer comparisons of in‑house versus contracted work. Assembly and board members praised the collaborative approach and said they would consider the project list and maintenance requests as they weigh capital allocations in coming budget decisions.