CPYRGHT Vol. 10, No. 2 April/May 1983 —_—— The Norfolk Department of Commu- circuses and basketball tournaments to Metropolitan Memorial Park, home of nity Facilities manages and maintains rock concerts and trade shows, The the professional Tides baseball team the city’s showcases for meetings, en- _ Virginia Philharmonic Orchestra and and scene of most local high school tertainment and cultural attractions. Its hit Broadway plays are among the - football games. The MacArthur Memo- biggest charge is the Scope complex, a__ performances at Chrysler Hall. rial, one of the city’s most popular major cultural and convention center tourist attractions, is another of the de- which featyags BOVE FEPRERase SOdHOSIOT “CAR DP98-00789R00T401790001 -0 Bs
Grubb’s crew moves quickly to clear out the Scope arena. Events come and go at the Scope complex, often one right after the other, or all at once. To make things run smoothly it takes an experienced crew working with the precision of a finely tuned clock. An elegant dinner may be served with- out a hitch in the same area where cir- cus animals bedded down the day be- fore. With bookings for the Scope arena, meeting rooms and exhibit areas and Chrysler Hall, there is the potential for several events to take place at the same time, and they fre- quently do. A basketball game may follow a rock show. A concert may be squeezed in during a tournament. And, everyone takes for granted that everything will be arranged on time, just the way it’s supposed to be. Good planning is the key to making order of Scope’s chaotic event sched- ule, according to Jim Grubbs, opera- good planning becomes readily under- standable when one considers an aver- _age week in the life of Grubbs and his crew. In February they had to prepare for a rock concert, a regional basket- ball championship, the CIAA tourna- ment, a sports dance, a symphony concert, and a dinner reception — all in one weekend. But, there was no resting after the weekend. Early Monday morning the circus started moving in. The day after the circus moved out, Grubbs and his crew prepared the Exhibit Hall, where the animals stayed, so it was clean, sweet smelling and all set up for a sit- down dinner. The biggest chore is cleaning up the building after an event. They removed more than two tons of trash while the circus was here. Grubb’s staff of 28 men and women take care of many other maintenance details, like scrub- tables, cleaning dressing rooms, setting up and putting away chairs and tables, cleaning rest rooms and marking re- served seating. Grubb said, “My staff puts in long hours and works very hard. Most of them have been here since Scope opened in 1970. They have the expe- rience, they know what needs to be done, and they do it.” When asked how they manage to keep up with the hectic schedules, Grubbs replied, “I have two very good supervisors, Wendel Haynes and Gary Barfield. The three of us lay out our schedule and plan how we’re going to - handle it.” Sometimes good planning means cov- ering the basketball floor with insu- lated board for use by a rock show. Such was the case when the CIAA tournament played here and there wasn’t time to take up the basketball floor for a rock show between games. Grubbs and his crew know how much time it takes for each kind of clean-up operation and set up, and they’re al- ways thinking ahead. After more than 10 years of smooth running operations at the Scope com- plex, it’s obvious that thinking ahead has paid off. city topics oa adalat An official publication of the City of Norfolk for its citizens Published by the Department of Communications and Marketing Room 803, City Hall Norfolk, Virginia 23501 Phone 441-5152 Editor — June T. Miller tions manager, ASG F8t Release BU0 1103/07: CIA: RDP96-00789R001401780001-0
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