John Longo, Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds
jlongo@collsk12.org

Brandon Davis, Custodial Foreman
bdavis@collsk12.org

Michael Sinesi, District Maintenance/Compliance
msinesi@collsk12.org

Phone: (856) 962-5701 extension 6144
Fax: (856) 962-9355
Twitter: @cps_BG

To provide students and staff with a clean, safe, comfortable learning environment, to protect the community’s investment in education, as well as follow all state mandated guidelines in Hazardous Communications Standards, Integrated Pest Management, safety compliance, and building construction codes.

All district buildings are provided with operations, maintenance, custodial, and grounds services. We operate and monitor HVAC systems, ensuring comfort and maintaining indoor air quality. We handle the delivery of all mail district-wide and distribute the food for the district lunch programs. All requests from teachers and staff (from an extra chair to animal control and rescue) fall under the jurisdiction of the Buildings and Grounds department. Through the use of a computerized maintenance program, all department work orders can be submitted, routed, assigned, and their progress monitored online.

Throughout the course of a single day, the Office Staff handles multiple tasks, such as employee payroll & time management, safety compliance issues, coordination and payment of all purchases throughout the department, development and tracking of all bid purchases, all documentation and filing, and fielding numerous inquiries both via phone and email.

Our Maintenance Staff handles all plumbing, electrical, heating and all facets of general repair at our five elementary schools and the HS/MS Complex as well as Shared Services agreements with Haddon Township, Bellmawr, Clementon, and Mt. Ephraim School Districts.

Our Custodial Staff maintains over 145 classrooms at seven school buildings, two fully equipped gymnasiums, four locker rooms, two full cafeterias and five all purpose rooms, for a total of over 321,016 square feet.

Our Grounds Staff is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of our lawns, athletic fields, playgrounds, and flowerbeds, totaling 555,110 square feet. They maintain two softball fields, two hardball fields, one practice football field, one stadium football/soccer field, one hockey/lacrosse field and one all-weather track at the high school alone.

Collingswood HS

• Replaced cracked sewer pipe

• Installed cleanout in greenhouse area to eliminate the need to enter the building to snake sewer lines

• Replaced 2 outdated water fountains

• Elevator roof was repaired (puddling and leaks)

• Painted Community Room

• Replaced the Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) on the Irvine Gym roof

Collingswood MS

• Painted Cafeteria

• Upgraded TV studio dimmer board and controls

• Fixed rooftop unit 2 (covers auditorium)

Tatem

• Removed dirt hill on the playground and filled with mulch

• Painted Staff Lounge

• Patched subfloor and replaced Vinyl Composite Tile (VCT) in Rm 114 (water damage caused by HVAC unit)

Sharp

• Asphalt was removed, topsoil and mulch added – waiting on arrival of trees

• Patched and repaired cracked storm water drain under playground

Garfield

• Stairwell landing repair - Demo existing landing, reinforce with a block underneath, and concrete pumped in to fill the void (Photo)

  • Structural Engineering Report (Link)

  • Recommendation: The opposite stairwell mirrors the stairwell landing that was repaired but does not show the same signs of deterioration. As a precaution, the crew will follow the same steps and fill the void in Summer 2025. 

• Remove large tree limb hanging over playground fence

Newbie

• Shingle roof repair

• Paint All-Purpose Room/Staff Lounge

• Repair leaking drainpipes

Zane North

• Remove overgrown plants/shrubs from beds

District

• Repaint yellow curbs

• Spread over 120 yards of mulch to cover playgrounds

• HVAC cleaning/service

• Elementary HVAC upgrades

• HS/MS replaced 30 obsolete smoke heads