Grounds Services maintains the grounds at a level that will assure an attractive and environmentally safe campus. The Grounds Services team consists of specialized crews of dedicated professionals who pride themselves in caring for Cortland’s natural areas.
Some of the services provided:
- Mowing
- Trash and recycling removal
- Plant, weed and water flower beds
- Integrated Pest Management program
- Maintain athletic and recreation sports fields
- Tree pruning and removal
- Remove snow from roads and walkways and steps
- Clean roads and walkways
- Perform minor excavation
- Provide support as needed for various campus events
- Design and install new landscape
Situations requiring a Grounds Services call-in:
- Snow and ice removal
- Downed trees or limbs causing a hazard
- Flooding
Custodial Services
Custodial Services provides cleaning services for all university buildings. The Custodial Services team is dedicated to maintaining an aesthetically pleasing environment for all SUNY Cortland students, faculty, staff and the public.
Offices
- The building custodial staff will empty your office recycling containers once each week.
- Similarly, the custodial staff will empty your individual desk trash once each week.
- Appropriate items for the waste container at your desk include used tissues, paper towels, wrappers, and other non-food waste
- Please place any food waste (garbage) in the centralized trash receptacle container near your respective office areas. This waste, which is prone to producing odors and attracting pests, will be emptied daily by the custodial staff.
- Because the custodial staff are not in your individual office each day to empty trash, if you have a spill or other mess that will need same day cleaning, please contact either the building custodial staff or the FOS customer service office (x2100), so clean-up can be arranged.
- The custodial staff will vacuum or sweep and mop your office and conference room floors once each week.
***Please note that custodial staff will not clean your desk if you have personal items present. They may lightly dust around items.
- Deep cleaning occurs during the summer intersession and a condensed form of deep cleaning occurs during the winter intersession – to include shampooing of carpets and upholstered furniture, stripping and waxing floors, more thorough and detailed cleaning of common spaces.
Conference rooms
- These spaces are cleaned weekly unless otherwise notified that an event involving food had occurred.
Bathrooms
- Clean and disinfected daily and if time permits briefly rechecked prior to the custodial departure at 2:30pm
Classrooms
- Clean and disinfected daily
Situations requiring a Custodial Services call-in:
- Bodily fluid clean up
- Excessive water spillage