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ABM Janitorial Services Awarded Contract with Dysart Unified School District in Arizona.


SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  -- ABM ABM: see guided missile.

ABM - Asynchronous Balanced Mode
 Janitorial Services, an operating unit operating unit

A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon
 of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE NYSE

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:ABM), has been awarded a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract for the Dysart Unified School District Dysart Unified School District is a school district in Maricopa County, Arizona.

The district comprises the following schools[1]: Dysart Unified School District Schools
School Grades Opened/Closed Enrollment
Dysart Elementary School K–8
 in Arizona. The contract covers comprehensive janitorial and maintenance service for the district's 18 elementary schools, one alternative program campus and three high schools. Spanning 140 square miles in Arizona, the Dysart Unified School District serves parts of El Mirage, Glendale, Surprise, Youngtown and Maricopa County in the Northwest Valley.

"We are pleased to provide innovative facility cleaning and maintenance solutions for the Dysart Unified School District, which is the fastest growing school district in Arizona," said Jim McClure, president for ABM Janitorial Services. "Our professional team is committed to providing an environment where the students, teachers and administrators have a clean and desirable place to learn," he added.

The Dysart Unified School District currently enrolls more than 20,000 students and has enrolled 6,000 new students in the last two years. Located in the Northwest Valley of Arizona, the school district builds at a minimum one new school each year to accommodate 2,000 additional students. The school district aggressively recruits more than 300 new teachers every year and has six schools rated as "Performing Plus" by the State Department of Education. In addition, the Dysart Unified School District is also the recipient of the 2005 Governor's Awards for Energy Efficiency for elementary and high school design.

ABM Janitorial Services operates 111 branch offices in 48 states, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States).  and one Canadian province.

ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) is among the largest facility services contractors listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City.
. With fiscal 2006 revenues in excess of $2.7 billion and more than 75,000 employees, ABM provides janitorial, parking, security, engineering and lighting services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across the United States and British Columbia, Canada. The ABM Family of Services includes ABM Janitorial Services; Ampco System Parking; ABM Security Services; ABM Facility Services; ABM Engineering; and Amtech Lighting Services.
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