As we approach the end of the 2021 calendar year, I want to wish you all a happy holiday season and take a moment to reflect on the past year. Although we have returned to some activities that we enjoyed pre-pandemic, like picnics and events on campus, many have still experienced challenges during the past year. In spite of another unique year, the Facilities, Planning and Management team remained dedicated, collaborative, and innovative as we accomplished goals, completed projects, and maintained 51����’s facilities. I am so grateful and proud to be part of the FPM team with all of you.

Below, the FPM Director’s share some examples to demonstrate the magnitude of FPM’s accomplishments. Please understand that this list is by no means comprehensive but represents some of the many examples of the projects and activities FPM staff have completed in 2021.

Campus Planning

• Completed Construction: Sandburg North Tower; Mitchell B95 Active Learning Classroom; Chapman Hall Regent’s Room; NWQ – SOIS, Student Health Center, and Nursing Simulation Center; Hefter Conference Center updates
• Construction Initiated: Student Union Renovation; Klotsche Annex; Enderis, SARUP and Golda Meir Library Façade Repairs; (new) Chemistry Building; Mitchell exterior repairs and window replacement; Enderis 103 and 107 lecture hall renovations; Library Archives Renovation; Renovation of EMS 9-10
• Completion of planning studies: Northwest Quad, Southwest Quad, SWQ Engineering & Neuroscience building pre-design
• Design underway: Dock Wall Pre-design, Norris Design Development
• Submittal of the 23-25 capital budget request to UW System
• Delivery of successful government relations/legislative tours
• Advancement of the��Space Optimization Project
• Placement of new Campus Planning Director

Facility Services

• FS remained onsite performing daily operations and aiding and adapting to the campus’ changing needs under the pandemic.��
• Return to Campus meant putting classrooms and other areas back to normal physical spacing, protecting students and staff through signage, Environmental Services (ES) cleaning and disinfecting (ongoing and in response to COVID-19 cases), ensuring electrical and plumbing systems safely maintained during low occupancy and after reopening, that mechanical and other systems operate within design parameters, and maintaining the grounds to ensure all could traverse safely and outside spaces are enjoyable for students, staff and faculty.
• Our Architect / Engineering (A/E) area & Facility Services (FS) staff are managing approximately 50 small projects totaling about $60 million in funding and include Central Heating & Cooling Plant controls upgrades & stack replacement, mechanical, boiler & chiller repairs/upgrades, and ($800,000) lighting upgrades contributing greatly to increased reliability, efficiency, cost effectiveness, and productive, comfortable spaces.
• Our Mailroom put in place a new postage and processing contract with Quadient, saving about 27% in processing costs and developed new process for receipt and proof of delivery.
• Logistics and escalating supplies costs are growing concerns. Stores, FS Shops and Environmental Services continue to seek out new, affordable sourcing, and put Purchase Orders in place in efforts to service our customers and keep costs down.
• Software needs have been identified, a proposal in place, and upgrade of TMA (CMMS) software planned for Summer 2022.
• Door��Access Control systems software & hardware upgrades are a need, a revised proposal and pricing are in hand, planning is done, a new RFB is in the works, and a schedule proposed.
• The WOC has enhanced the look and updated and improved the content of the FS website adding a special training and development section for FPM and FPM Engagement Team site. FS staff remain deeply involved and contribute to the Engagement Team and other special projects.
• Inventory Control improvements to accuracy and efficiency include a new process with Ferguson for plumbing stock and inventory parts, Stores staff revamping ES monthly product ordering system to accommodate ShopUW+.
• Successful recruitment for some open positions and on-going recruitment of other key operations staff. The addition of Shops Supervisors, Leads, and a new Central Heating and Cooling Plant Superintendent is aiding oversight, operations, and efficiencies through review and tuning policies, procedures and planning and use of tools such as TMA and electronic scheduling software.

Facility Services at Waukesha and Washington County

• Security cameras installed at both locations
• Major space renovations at both campuses including new:
  • Student Union, fitness center, Continuing Education suite, and nursing lab at Waukesha
  • Diversity Center and Continuing Education spaces at Washington County.
• Painting and general improvements campus wide at both locations

Sustainability

• Completion of the final planning stage in the Climate Action- Carbon & Resilience Plan.�� The draft plan is complete and under leadership and governance review.
• In collaboration with Facility Services, 51���� completed its first “retro commissioning” project at Lapham Hall.�� This type of efficiency work typically falls between maintenance and capital projects.�� The result was a deep dive on the building system to improve not only efficiency but operations and comfort as well.�� There was also an estimated $118,000 annual energy savings from the project.
• Budget savings realized through right-sized waste and recycling hauling during the pandemic were invested to improve outdoor on-campus collection.�� The southeast quadrant of campus was outfitted with new Landfill/Recycling containers, doing away with the mishmash of sizes and styles on campus and reducing the number of containers for collection, streamlining labor and saving time.
• Led effort to bring many UW institutions together to commit to interest in collaborating on a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement. Through these system wide discussions there is now an opportunity to present Sustainability initiatives to the Board of Regents in 2022.

Transportation Services

• Added two more mobile payment vendors, including pay by text, eliminating the need for infrequest/one-time visitors to add an app to their mobile device by allowing the scan of a QR code to pay for parking.
• Developed automated processes to help collect and validate data, such as a new SharePoint-based workflow for departments to request special visitor parking permits.
• Added a Parking Customer Service Chat – We can answer questions quicker remotely thru Teams.
• Brought back the MCTS bus pass for 51���� employees with parking paying 54% of the cost.
• Our Front Office assisted approx. 92,000 customers with questions (In-person, by phone, email, and chat). We transported roughly 50,000 students at night thru the BOSS vehicles.

University Safety and Assurances

• A new Veterinarian, Biosafety Officer, and Occupational Safety and Training Manager joined our department, and the rest of the department stepped up to provide coverage while positions were vacant
• Risk Management managed 14 property claims of which 5 required significant mitigation efforts, including a four-building flood event and a car fire in a parking garage
• Submitted proposal for safety grant from Bureau of Risk Management
• Developed Canvas courses for Radiation Safety and Animal Care
• Rolled out new, streamlined IRB submission form and review process
• COVID-19 activities continued, including daily employee case management and fit-testing of a large group of key staff.�� US&A staff led or participated on EOC teams to achieve Special Requests reviews, Building Safety Plans updated by Building Preparedness and Operations Team, and fulfilling PPE and Supply requests for 51����.�� Office employees returned to campus for operations that were previously fully remote.

As you can see, we have much to be proud of in FPM. This long list of accomplishments would not be possible without the dedicated team of professionals in FPM, so thanks to each of you for your contributions. I wish all of you a happy and healthy end of 2021 as we look forward to a promising year in 2022!

With gratitude and appreciation,

Melissa

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Melissa Spadanuda, MBA, CIP

Associate Vice Chancellor – Facilities, Planning and Management
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413, Enderis 689
Milwaukee, WI  53201

Phone: 414-229-3173

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As mentioned in the Chancellor’s email last night and in the news yesterday, the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, visited 51����’s USRB facility yesterday.

I want to send a note of gratitude for everyone’s support of this visit. Your teamwork and dedication amazed me again. We received many positive comments about the incredible work and how fast everyone made things happen. Huge appreciation and special recognition to the following staff that invested extra time and their talents to make this event possible in a few short days.

• Jay Gilboy – Facility Lead; He organized and directed the facility needs of the event, getting the right people at the right place at the right time. It is impossible to list everything he did to make this event successful.
• Eric Kozak, Mike Tuck, Steve Wilke, Bryant Ellis – They worked all weekend and long days Monday and Tuesday to move pallets, equipment, supplies out of the way and now they will need to put everything back. They also supported a number of other requests before and during the event.
• Charlie Bootz – Making many sets of keys on short notice.
• Karen Nelson, Lauren Groh, Dawn Aguilera – They supported communications, work orders, keys, finding needed items on short notice, and keeping everyone calm.
• Guilio Leonardelli, Bill Ludwig, Chris Peret, Steve Verish – They were on site all day Monday and Tuesday to address last minute specialty needs. You name it, they quickly addressed the issue.
• Darren Crawford, Julia Hernandez, Charisma Perry, Stefvon Wilson, Joe Ashley, Cedric Humphrey – They made the facility shine and moved significant amounts of trash and cardboard.
• Randy Kenney, Prasanna Nanda, Glenn Morgan, Alex Spakman, Adonis Torrence, Josh Fleming, Ben Ruedinger – Facilitated the parking and transportation needs to move all work vehicles out of the USRB lot.
• Faith Sobszak – Driving people from USRB to campus to pick up trucks
• Ethan Pape – Helped take the many phone calls and walk-in questions
• Warren Krutzik, Tim Beyersdorf, Lizbeth Cruz, Josh Stratton, Chris Waddell – Adjusted mail operations for a day to clear the building for the event
• Andrew Avery-Johnson – On his last day, moved and cleared 2nd floor areas

Based on the list above, this was a huge team effort and I hope I captured everyone. If I may have missed anyone, please reply all to recognize the work. For those not directly involved, I appreciate how flexible you were to adjust your work day, as many staff and vehicles were displaced from USRB on short notice.

I don’t think many of us would have imagined USRB to be selected for a visit from the Vice President of the United States. Can you believe 252 and the welding shop were transformed to this:

It truly was an impressive team effort!

I am grateful to be part of the FPM team with all of you,

Melissa

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Hello FPM Staff,

Thank you to everyone that attended the FPM event on Tuesday. The last year and a half has been challenging and you have each stepped up and continued to successfully support 51����, so it was nice to gather with food, games, and great colleagues. Special thank you to the FPM Engagement Team (Dawn Aguilera, Lauren Groh, Mike Priem, Glenn Morgan, Brian Harness, Robert Wahl, Leah Stoiber, Jennifer Herriges) for organizing and executing the event.

This fall I plan to hold some open Q&A sessions for FPM staff. This will be an opportunity for FPM staff to ask questions, share thoughts about what is going well in FPM and discuss any concerns or topics you may have. Dates, times, and locations will be shared in upcoming communications. I am also available to attend department specific meetings as that may be more convenient for some of our team members.

Hope you all enjoy the rest of the summer,

Melissa

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• Month-to-Month Hunting Permit for $33.00 per month
• Daily permits via reservation
  • Surface Lots and Sandburg garage – $5.48
  • Lubar, NWQ, Pavilion and Union garages – $7.72
  • Find information and make reservations on the website��(uwm.edu/transportation/part-time-permits)
• Debit card based parking for $6/transaction
  • You can now use your Staff ID as a debit card to pay for parking in the gated garages (Lubar, Pavilion, NWQ and Union) for $6 per transaction. You will need to visit the Transportation Services Part-Time Permits website (uwm.edu/transportation/part-time-permits) in advance of your visit to load funds onto your account.

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It is great to see the fountain in operation again as we get closer to more campus operations opening and students returning to campus. Thanks to Facility Services staff for bringing the fountain back to operation and for planting and maintaining the beautiful flowers! You got this running just in time for campus tours that have also returned this week.

Just a reminder that beginning Monday, July 13 payment for on campus parking will return. Rates for summer and fall will be discounted. In addition, options for daily parking will be available. Please see the Transportation Services website for specific information and procedures for purchasing permits: /transportation/enforcement-resumes-monday-july-13th/

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