Scott Gurba
To all Faculty & Staff
The CCNY facilities team makes every effort to moderate the heating and cooling throughout the year across 18 buildings and thousands of rooms. An extensive cutover process occurs twice a year (Fall and Spring). The shoulder months of September/October and April/May are always an extra challenge as temperatures may have significant swings. The team looks at the weather forecast and identifies a window that causes the least amount of disruption. This season, the college electricians are plagued by numerous electrical outages created by unsafe electrical heaters across the campus. Using a hazardous heater creates an imminent fire danger. Immediate action is required to curtail this activity. As recently as 2015, CCNY experienced a significant fire due to these activities.
Effectively immediately, the Fire Safety Directors are asked to confiscate all electrical heaters that are a problem. The electricians responding to a power outage will notify the FSD every time the outage is caused by an unsafe heater.
Thanks for your immediate attention to this matter and for keeping CCNY safe.
Scott Gurba
Chief Operating Officer