FIT / Williams Act Inspections
Helping districts set the standard in good repair.
CSI helps you implement a real facilities assessment, rather than just filing your FIT on a shelf.
Your students deserve a clean, safe school site.
We are dedicated to helping your district ensure that school sites are clean, safe, and functional learning environments.
Districts with CSI:
- Complete and detailed inspections
- We are conditioned to locate and identify items that are not clean or functioning properly. We also identify safety issues that could pose a threat to students, staff, and/or visitors.
- An easily accessible library of photos detailing deficiencies. This is a great tool for administrative and LCAP meetings to show the district's facility needs.
Districts alone:
- The district puts the inspections onto staff already with a full plate of responsibilities resulting in rushed or hurried inspections that are incomplete.
- It is hard to have district/school site staff write up peers/colleagues for safety violations without fear of retaliation.
- Usually no photos of deficiencies are taken
We're more efficient, guaranteed.
While it is understandable that supervisors and managers be out in the schools observing current conditions at schools, using a third-party FIT inspection to manage the operations and assignment of duties within M&O should be a plus with the Department. Most M&O staff know you can cover more square footage per dollar with paint than any other material in the industry to beautify a school, CSI is like paint when it comes to a school district’s Williams Act/FIT Inspections.
CSI inspectors have conducted more school site inspections for the Williams Act/FIT inspections than anyone in the industry, including both public and private third parties. CSI (Joseph Luis) was part of the CASH FIT Guidebook 2.0 committee.
Having a third set of eyes is important.
It is essential to have a third party conduct an FIT inspection to provide transparency to all stakeholders.
Having a custodian or maintenance staff conduct the FIT can result in underreporting of site conditions, as noted by the GAO and State Auditor. No matter how much you educate your staff on the importance of a FIT inspection, site personnel become accustomed to their environment.
A third-party inspector is conditioned to identify deficiencies—a third set of eyes that does nothing else but FIT inspections year-round. This ensures your inspections will be comparable not only within the LEA, but to other schools in the surrounding area.