Richard Best

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  Published on: 12/22/2007    Last Visited: 12/22/2007  

  CKSD Facilities Director Richard Best met with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials earlier this week to discuss what funding the district could qualify for, but it will take a while.
  
  "It's a fairly bureaucratic process," Best said.
  
  CKSD has already qualified for Category A and B funding, meaning that more than $540,000 in costs incurred from debris removal and protective measures to prevent more flooding will be covered by FEMA.District officials are still hoping that Category D and E costs will be covered to pay for water detention systems and building repairs.
  
  "FEMA officials we met with (on Tuesday) gave me a pretty optimistic feeling (about getting the funding)," Best said.
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  Best warned, however, that it's "not a long-term solution."
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  Negotiations with FEMA to pitch in more money for improvements are ongoing, Best said, but a situation could arise in which FEMA, the state of Washington and the district split the cost of improvements.

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  Published on: 8/31/2003    Last Visited: 8/31/2003  

  Richard Best, director for maintenance, facilities and construction for the CK School District conducted a media tour of 32-year-old Fairview Junior High on Tuesday, Aug. 26.
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  "Initially I thought we would be modernizing," said Richard Best, director for maintenance, facilities and construction for the district. But the estimated $27 million price tag to modernize was a few million less than the estimated cost to build a new CK Junior High School. District officials decided the current Fairview had more than $3 million in uses and value and building a new school on a different site made the most sense.If the bond passes, the current building would be renovated for $10 million using federal funds, not bond money. The district is already in negotiations with property owners concerning a parcel of land near Olympic High School.If the new $32.5 million Fairview is approved and built, the old one would house the district's junior high and alternative school students and the CKSD administration. The district is considering selling the Jenne Wright building, but that would be decided with much community discussion, Best said. On a recent tour of Fairview, which serves about 920 students in grades 7-9, Best pointed out the school's design problems. They begin in the parking lot where 16 buses in two rows of eight have to drop students in front of the school.Car traffic is forced to use the fire lane and becomes jammed up as buses block them in, Best said. "There's lots of chaos with the entry here," he said. The tour headed to the science portion of the school located near the front entry.Classes are clustered in groups of four, two being accessible from the outside.The back two are reached through an interior hallway.But flexible walls between the classrooms have created makeshift pathways for students.Typically one panel of the wall is left open for students to go through when the weather outside is rainy, Best said.
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  The science area also has a shared lab, but the "space doesn't function real well," Best said.
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  Best said the sports and gym showers and locker room are in good shape as is the choir and band room.

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  In addition to the standardized test presentation, the district also heard a facilities update from Richard Best, director of construction, facilities and maintenance.

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  "We're pursuing this aggressively," said Richard Best, CKSD director of construction, facilities and maintenance.

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  "The Central Kitsap school group would like to just say thank you to US Navy for their partnership and effort in this great program" said Richard Best, Facilities Director for Central Kitsap School District and event Organizer.

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  Published on: 8/16/2003    Last Visited: 8/16/2003  

  It could be built at or near its current location on Seabeck Highway or at a undetermined spot in the Seabeck community, according to Richard Best, the district's director for construction, facilities and maintenance. He led a recent tour of the school that serves 365 students in grades K-6. The school's wood facade is deteriorating, but the lower portion of the walls were replaced last year.
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  Those portables would be sold or disposed of, Best said.

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  "She is the calm in the eye of the storm," said Richard Best, district maintenance director.It's not difficult for Lambert to keep her composure because she knew exactly what she was in for when she started the job, she said.She was off and running when she got a phone call from Cottonwood Elementary School in her first month on the job. "All the windows had been broken out of the school," she said. "They needed some supplies so I got in my car and took them the supplies they needed."She also said staying calm is a prerequisite for the job."You have to stay calm because it helps the people you are trying to contact," she said. "When you get excited it doesn't help the situation."Lambert was nominated by the maintenance and facilities staff. "In her two decades behind (the front desk of the maintenance department office), she has seen typewriters be replaced with Tandy computers and F-keys be replaced by a mouse," the nomination letter stated. "She has been upgraded and re-formatted, and still hums along without any glitches." Lambert supports the 30-member maintenance department with both professional support and moral support. She never forgets a birthday and is known to supply homemade baked goods on a regular basis, be it for no reason or to help a fellow employee through the loss of a family member.Rice was equally surprised by being named a classified employee of the year.

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  Back in August, Richard Best, director of facilities for Central Kitsap School District, told the school board that the turf at the stadium was stuck in the middle of a patent infringement lawsuit, so the stadium completion was in limbo. Southwest Recreational Industries, the company that installed the AstroPlay Field, may have violated four patents held by FieldTurf Inc.

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  Richard Best, Director of the Foundation, said: "Parents who are owner-occupiers are coming to terms with the fact that high house prices are not necessarily good news after all.

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  Richard Best, CKSD facilities director, said a lot of the buildings in the district are in bad shape and he can pinpoint the reason why.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a huge influx of new students in the district.The district had to concentrate on expanding existing schools and building new schools to take care of the growing population.In that time span, according to an informational notebook Best put together for the district, the district built Cougar Valley Elementary in 1989, Silver Ridge Elementary in 1990, Green Mountain Elementary in 1992, Emerald Heights Elementary in 1993, PineCrest Elementary in 1998 and Klahowya Secondary School in 1996.During the times of booming construction a majority of the capital funds were going into new schools, which left limited amounts of cash for maintenance.It wasn't that the district neglected its buildings, Best said."It was just different priorities," he said.

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