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Impact of capital projects on deferred maintenance and overall budget
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Linda Johnson, President and CEO of Brooklyn Public Library, explains the impact of capital projects on deferred maintenance and the overall budget.
- Major library overhauls significantly reduce deferred maintenance costs.
- Targeting libraries in need of renovations helps eliminate outdated systems.
- These overhauls improve neighborhood libraries and reduce ongoing maintenance costs.
- Capital projects have a ripple effect throughout both capital and expense budgets.
Linda Johnson
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Yeah.
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I'll limit my response just to the question about capital.
0:58:50
And, you know, we've put in our request for the ten year plan a number of projects that we'd like to start, and we won't be able to do that if we're not included in the ten year plan.
0:59:00
But I also wanna just highlight the fact that each time we take on a major overhaul of the library, we make a dramatic cut in the deferred maintenance number.
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So we try to target libraries that are in bad need of renovations.
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We do a major overhaul.
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We eliminate all of the systems that are close to being incapacitated because of, you know, they're they're just they've been in existence beyond their useful life.
0:59:32
And so these overhauls not only put great libraries into neighborhoods that really deserve them, they also reduce the ongoing maintenance of that particular branch.
0:59:43
So it it has a ripple effect throughout our entire capital and expense budget.