Gilbert Public Schools has a deferred maintenance backlog on its facilities of $198 million, according to a new study.
“That may look like an alarming number,” Tim Detlaff, senior vice president of asset management for Ameresco, an engineering services company, told the GPS governing board on May 2. “It is a big number, there's no question. But I'm going to tell you it's not a 'sky-is-falling' number.”
The district will be addressing about $20 million of that backlog with its capital projects scheduled for this summer, Associate Superintendent Bonnie Betz said.
