When you first arrive on Queensbury’s campus to start the school day, what stands out? Is it the well-manicured athletic fields you know you’ll enjoy in the warmer months? Or is it the freshly mopped floors inside the school buildings, free of dirt trails from yesterday’s recess?
Every school day, students and staff are influenced by the environment in which they learn and work. Leading the charge in creating a safe, clean and comfortable learning and working environment is the district’s Buildings and Grounds Department, comprised of cleaners, maintenance workers, custodians, and their supervisors.
Building Use Procedure
The Board of Education recognizes that school buildings, grounds, pool and turf are valuable community resources that should be available for specific uses, to the extent that such uses will not interfere with School District activities. The links below provide information on the terms and conditions of such use, as well as the procedures for reserving QUFSD facilities.
- Fee schedule: Please review the fee schedule link before accessing ML Schedules
- Please read the Policies to review terms and conditions
- ML Schedules: QUFSD uses ML Schedules, an online request system, for all facility requests. You will need to create an account in ML Schedules in order to request the use of a district facility. It will require a name, address, and phone number of the group (or individual) and if required as set forth in the fee schedule, a certificate of insurance.
For more information, contact Daniel Miller, Coordinator of Buildings & Grounds at 518-824-4630 or dmiller@queensburyschool.org.
Annual notifications
Pesticide use
New York State education law requires schools to notify the school community that pesticide products may be used during the school year. Parents/guardians and staff members may request 48-hour advance written notification of certain pesticide applications. If an emergency application is necessary to protect against an imminent threat to human health, a good faith effort will be made to supply written notification to those on the notification list.
View pesticides and pest management board policy.
Asbestos management plan
In accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) of 1987 (40 CFR Part 763), the district conducts periodic asbestos surveillance and a required triennial inspection. Asbestos projects shall be conducted according to all applicable local, state and federal regulations.
The Asbestos Management Plan for each building is available for review during normal business hours at the maintenance office. For more information, please contact the LEA Asbestos Designee at (518) 824-5680.
Lead testing
In September 2016, a state law went into effect that requires all public school districts in New York to test water for lead. The law requires school districts to sample all water outlets currently or potentially used for drinking or cooking purposes in buildings that may be occupied by students and to submit those samples to a state-approved lab for analysis. Regulations call for testing to take place again in 2020 and every five years thereafter, unless the state Commissioner of Health requires testing sooner. Water samples throughout the district were taken in 2020. The next sample is schedueld for 2025.
The state established an action level of 15 micrograms of lead per liter, typically referred to as “parts per billion (ppb).” If a sample from a water outlet exceeds this level, schools must take steps to prevent the use of the outlet for drinking or cooking purposes until it is remediated and follow-up testing confirms it is no longer above the action level.
School districts are required to report the results of all water testing to the state Department of Health, the state Education Department and the local health department and to post the results—along with remediation plans, if required—on the official district website.