An Important Message Regarding Faculty Access to College Facilities
In order to facilitate greater faculty access to College facilities for academic activities, the College will be revising its building access policies. Five years ago building access was expanded from what had been in place. Since that change, the College's facilities have been officially open to full time faculty 6:00 a.m. to 12 midnight every day of the year. This policy has generally served us well. However, in response to interest expressed by faculty to have additional access to facilities, the Security Department is now making the following changes:
Currently, after midnight automatic turnstile access with ID is discontinued, the building is closed, and outside access is not permitted. In the past we had required all building occupants to leave at this time. Effective immediately faculty who are already in a College building and would like to occupy their offices beyond 12 midnight to continue working may do so by simply notifying the building security desk officer on duty by phone. North Hall ext. 8740; T-Building ext. 8266. Upon leaving the facility a valid John Jay ID must be presented and signing out at the Security desk is required. For faculty who have offices in the BMW Building, the T-Building Security desk should be notified by phone if staying beyond 12 midnight and when leaving. Overnight office occupancy/stays are strictly prohibited.
Bear in mind that the College does not have sufficient personnel to provide explicit 24 hour access that only some, but certainly not all other CUNY colleges provide. For example, our building maintenance personnel who are responsible for elevators and heating and cooling do not work overnight and are only on call for emergencies. Security coverage is also very limited during these hours. Furthermore, with energy costs on the increase it is not cost effective to run building systems 24/7 for such limited use purposes. This new policy is in fact more liberal than that of a number of CUNY campuses.
We will only permit access past midnight when there is the need to retrieve personal items or work related materials from faculty offices. We ask in this circumstance that faculty show their ID at the Security Desk, state the reason that they need the access, promptly retrieve any required items and “check out” at the desk upon departure.
We do employ a full time evening Assistant Security Director (David Rivera) who works until midnight. Mr. Rivera is also a certified Fire Safety Officer. But, certified fire safety personnel are only on the premises when the College is open. The exception to this is T-Building where we have a fire watch underway due to the fire system not being in operation.
This policy applies to all teaching instructional staff. The extended hours do not apply to guests.
Non teaching staff and students are permitted on campus only during normal Building hours:
| Monday thru Thursday |
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- 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM |
| Friday |
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- 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM |
| Saturday & Sunday |
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- 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM |
Exceptions can be made upon prior request to and approval by the Security Department, Director, Deputy and Assistant Director.
Please keep in mind that we require all employees to use their ID cards to access the facilities through the turnstiles turning regular hours. It is therefore vital that all everyone carry and use their ID cards and abide by regular access policies enforced by the security officers at the desk posts.
It is important for security personnel to know who is in the buildings during off hours. With your cooperation this revised access policy will help ensure the safety of building occupants while allowing for the occasional extended access for legitimate needs by faculty to continue use of College facilities for academic purposes as required.
Robert M. Pignatello
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Office of Administration and Finance
Brian Murphy
Director of Security
February 3, 2004 |
