Ohio School District Increases Productivity More Than 66% With KaiVac No-Touch Cleaning System Chester Collins, Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds for the Middletown (OH) City School District, was feeling more like a track coach than a custodial engineer until recently. Like many school systems, Middletown had made cutbacks in its custodial department, leaving Collins with a janitorial staff of less than 50 to clean the district's 17 schools, plus its administration building and a large football complex. Hoping to stretch his lean custodial crew, Collins gave workers specific time goals for cleaning each type of room. "I would allot seven minutes per classroom, 30 minutes per large restroom, and so on," he recalled. "I was trying to keep things rolling, because we were so short-handed."

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