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The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2017 - Page 20 Paul Jacobs Celebrates 30 Years with Shalom Park When people drive down Shalom Park Drive and enter the eampus, they are always stmek by the ineredible faeilities of Shalom Park. While part of a team, Paul Jaeobs, Faeility Manager, has been putting his imprint on that first impression for the last 30 years. Paul is admired by eampus institutions for his tireless energy, eommitment to exeellenee, main- tenanee skills, and extensive man agement experienee. After 30 years on the job, Paul is a veritable fixture at the Park. But it wasn’t always that way. Paul was working in faeilities maintenanee at Jaearanda Country Club in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Over the years, he went to night sehool to beeome eertified in heating and air (FIVAC), and earned his elee- trieal journeyman eard. Paul and his wife, Janet, deeided they did m' not want to raise their family in south Florida. After having spent their honeymoon in the North Carolina mountains, they deeided to move to Charlotte to raise their family. Barry Handman, past CEO of both the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Charlotte and Foundation of Shalom Park (FSP), ealled Paul at 3:30 PM on Christmas Eve to invite him to Shalom Park for an interview. Buteh Rosen, then on the FSP Board, and Bill Goreliek inter viewed him in person the next month. Paul said, “Give me six months, and I’ll have this plaee in shape.” Every few years after that, Paul would eall up Buteh and just say, “I’m still here ...” Paul and Janet have three ehil- dren, Kevin, Brian, and Lorraine. While it was not part of a grand plan, Brian Jaeobs is also part of PauUaCfllK,2017 Paul Jacobs. 1987 the Foundation of Shalom Park maintenanee team. When Paul and Janet’s son, Brian, was in high sehool, he started working part- time on eampus in housekeeping. Brian pursued a degree in horti- eulture and eontinued working at Shalom Park under Hoke White in grounds keeping. Brian took a brief hiatus while he worked at an eleetrieal supply eompany, but after a year or so, Brian was baek at Shalom Park, where he now heads the grounds keeping team. Paul Jaeobs is responsible for housekeeping, grounds keeping, and faeilities maintenanee. “Eaeh day is always different,” Paul shares. “I get up early and love eoming to work every day.” 90% of the Park’s repairs are done in-house. “Our approaeh helps eontrol eosts,” Paul says. “We have an experieneed staff that is very flexible. Our skills eomplement eaeh other’s.” With the faeilities management soft ware, Faeility Dude (purehased in 2014), Shalom Park partner insti tutions ean enter a Work Order anywhere on eampus. FSP main tenanee ean traek hours, labor, and parts on orders, sehedule work and estimate eompletion dates. Paul proudly shares, “We eom- plete 77% of our Work Orders in seven days or less, whieh is above the national peer average.” Over the years, Paul has seen a lot of ehanges. Before Phase II of Shalom Park was built in the early 2000s, Paul’s team had to switeh out furniture from the religious ¥ ¥ sehool to the presehool three days per week. Camp Mindy was built 17 years ago, then the “new” Howard R. Levine gymnasium and the David Silverman Fitness Center were eonstmeted 15 years ago, followed by the Bubble Pool and the Barbara L. Levine Parking Pavilion. But even now, there’s never a shortage of tasks to do. Over the winter months, the Foun dation of Shalom Park mainte nanee team ehanged out 6000 lightbulbs in exehange for more effieient varieties. With Duke En ergy rebates and improved energy effieieney bulbs, the swap will save the Park over 40% on its lighting eosts. The Foundation of Shalom Park maintenanee team has em ployees that stay over 300% longer than the national average. 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