The Paly community is adjusting to several summer facilities changes, including the relocations of the health office and Student Activities Office, and the addition of a new staff copy center.

The health office’s new location is in the Tower building, where the SAO was formerly located. The SAO’s new location is in the former faculty lounge, on the east side of the library building.

A new staff copying center is in place of the health office’s former location, which was next to the Academic Resource Center.

Principal Jacqueline McEvoy said the health office’s new location was the ideal location among all available rooms in the Tower building for the proximity to a sink located next door in the auditor’s office. The majority of rooms in the Tower building do not have sinks, and a sink is necessary in maintaining cleanliness of health office operations, such as cleaning wounds or washing hands, McEvoy said. The water will be piped from the sink in the auditor’s office to a newly installed sink in the new health office.

According to District Nurse Linda Lenoir, Paly’s health technicians Lee Gregg and Teri Weber have wanted to move closer to the administrative offices in the Tower building for years to centralize most offices in the Tower Building.

The health office is open during school hours, but medications are primarily kept in the main office, Lenoir said. Thus, the new location allows immediate health assistance from administrators nearby in case a health technician is not on duty, Lenoir said.

“There are others [administrators] who can fill in for emergencies instead of her [Health Technician Teri Weber or Lee Gregg] being out there by herself,” Lenoir said.

McEvoy said the SAO’s move is likely to be temporary, but she thinks the SAO’s new location is more centralized among student activity because it is in the center of the school.

ASB President Erik Klingbeil said that the room is functional and offers more space than the Tower Building location, but the new distance between the SAO and the administrative offices is inconvenient.

“The room itself is better because it’s bigger,” Klingbeil said. “But the fact that it’s not up by the administration [is problematic]. It’s more tucked away, whereas before we were right next to the auditor’s office.”

Klingbeil hopes that the SAO will move back into the Tower Building once it has been renovated; the Tower Building renovation is among several school projects planned and made possible by $80 million in bond money from the Measure A bond passed in June.

As for the new staff copy center, McEvoy said the relocation was, in part, a result of a need for more space in the main office in order to expand the Guidance office. The copy center’s new location is also more centralized in the school, allowing a shorter walking distance for staff to make copies, McEvoy said.

According to McEvoy, the new copy center uses a satellite networking system, which allows teachers to send copy jobs directly from their computers. By having a more closely monitored system of making copies using teacher accounts, McEvoy hopes to be able to observe ways to reduce excess copying, particularly in situations where teachers are making copies of books or textbooks.

“If a teacher is using the copy machine to make copies [of pages] of a book, sometimes it’s cheaper to actually buy [copies of] the book,” McEvoy said. “I may get a request for textbooks, and that balances out or offsets some of the extra copying.”

The reasoning behind the new installment was a push to reduce paper use and save money, according to McEvoy.

Budget Secretary Cheryle Eymil estimates the total annual copying bill for the school adds up to between $150,000 and $200,000.

Copying costs include printer maintenance and service agreements costs, paper costs and printer supplies costs. As school departments each have separate printers in addition to two printers in the new copy center, the bill can quickly add up, Eymil said. According to Eymil, the cost of service and maintenance agreements for one printer alone can cost from $36,00 to $40,000.

Eymil, who said the total copying bill has increased over the years, thinks the new system of copying offers more control.

“I can’t be sure that the new system will work,” Eymil said. “But, I think it will have a better handle on teachers’ printing jobs.”

McEvoy hopes reduce the bill by 10 percent and to designate the money saved to help pay for supplies or equipment needed by other departments.