Moving In

The first staff members to move into the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences will be those responsible for overseeing operations of the five-story facility.

Tim Peraino, manager of Operations for Pew Campus and Regional Centers, said he and other operational staff plus John Gracki, associate vice president, will move into Cook-DeVos on May 20.
After that, the masses come.

Most faculty and staff from the School of Health Professions will move in during the first week of June. Peraino said this move involves about 60 people. When summer classes are over, the Kirkhof School of Nursing will move (about 100 people) along with the rest of Health Professions faculty.
Peraino said scheduling and coordinating moves began one year ago.

'We have move coordinators from each department and we've been meeting since last fall,' he said. 'And for a full year prior to the opening, we've met with deans and department leaders on all issues relative to the move.'

Discussion lately has centered on the building's new compressed filing system. Peraino said it's a high-density storage system of cabinets that roll together to close. To help reduce the amount of paper and files that would be moved, Grand Valley has hired a company to shred documents.

'This gives people the opportunity to clean out their files, so they don't have to take everything,' he said.

The Pew Campus staff has worked with Facilities Services and Facilities Planning to coordinate hiring movers and shuffling other people into offices at the DeVos Center and at the Allendale Campus that will be vacated.

'It creates a domino effect of open offices,' Peraino said, adding deans have sent re-assignment requests to Gracki.

There will be 165 parking spaces for faculty and staff at the Cook-DeVos Center. Students will park at the Pew Campus and ride shuttle buses to the facility; buses are scheduled to run every 7-8 minutes.