Headquartered in Santa Clara — about ten minutes from the front gate at Miramonte Avenue.
Folio 01 · A facility benchmark for St. Joseph Catholic School
A facility that quietly gives the principal her Tuesday back.
A custodial, grounds, building maintenance, and event-day partnership designed around the St. Joseph school day — the bell, the Mass, the Walk-A-Thon, the May Auction, and the families touring on enrollment morning.
St. Joseph Catholic School
with United Facilities Group
A note from Amy
Sandra — first, the truth.
You already have a facility partner, and that deserves respect. This deck is not pitched at switching for the sake of switching. It is pitched at one quiet question.
When you walk the campus on a Monday morning, does the facility feel like it is helping you do your job — or quietly taking time away from it?
If the answer is honestly helping, please keep your vendor with my blessing. If even one corner nags at you, I'd love thirty minutes on the campus to give you a clean, written benchmark you can hold up against your current scope.
With gratitude,
Amy Alfaro · Business Relations · United Facilities Group
The principal's time
A good facility partner is one whose name you stop having to say.
When the work is right, the building disappears. When it isn't, the building shows up — on the principal's calendar, in tiny invoices paid in minutes.
When
What lands on the principal's desk
Who pays
- Mon 7:42a The office is asking who unlocked the auditorium for choir. 12 min
- Tue 9:10a Two teachers report Room 4's flickering light. Third email this month. 8 min
- Wed 11:30a A touring family is in the entryway. The planter beds look tired. tour risk
- Thu 3:05p EDC starts in 25 minutes. The blacktop hasn't been swept since the rain. 22 min
- Fri 6:50a Walk-A-Thon morning. Someone has to chase the trash bins from the side lot. 35 min
- Tally A week of small friction the principal absorbs — quietly — on top of her actual job. ~90 min
A week of principal time back in your calendar is the line item nobody puts on the invoice.
The respectful ask
Thirty minutes. Three outcomes. No pressure.
A benchmark visit is the lowest-risk way to find out whether your current scope is priced and delivered fairly — without committing to anything.
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01
Walk
A 30-minute joint walkthrough with Amy and a UFG operations lead. We listen first, look carefully, and ask where the current pain lives.
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Compare
A scoped, line-by-line proposal mapped to your current vendor's scope — returned within five business days, written in plain English.
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Decide
Confirm your incumbent is priced and scoped fairly, or use the comparison at your next renewal conversation. Either way, you keep the document.
If we don't earn the work, you walk away with a benchmark you can use. That alone is worth the half hour.
United Facilities Group
Family-owned. Santa Clara based. Built from the floor up.
Founded in 1998 by Al Cuevas — who picked up his first mop as a high-school junior in 1987 and never forgot what good work, done with pride, looks like. Twenty-six years later we quietly maintain tech campuses, healthcare buildings, museums, and schools across Northern California, including the kind of K–8 environments where the hallway has to be ready before the second bell.
Quiet, continuous service across Northern California: South Bay, Peninsula, East Bay, and beyond.
Janitorial, grounds, building maintenance, and full facilities management — one accountable team.
What we do
Four services. One contract. One supervisor who answers the phone.
Classrooms, restrooms, floors, glass, trash, recycling, and summer deep cleans — with color-coded microfiber that keeps restroom and classroom lines separate.
Mowing, edging, irrigation checks, planting beds, blacktop edges, seasonal refresh, and drought-aware maintenance you can teach a kid about.
Preventive plans, lighting, doors, minor electrical / plumbing / HVAC coordination, vendor support, and the punch-list nobody else gets to.
One vendor. One invoice. One supervisor.
Zero "that's not our scope."
Specifically for St. Joseph
We schedule the work around your calendar — not the other way around.
A facility partner who knows EDC, knows Mass days, knows the May Auction, and knows the Walk-A-Thon should not need to be reminded of any of them.
Around the bell
EDC opens 7:00 a.m. Classrooms 7:45 a.m. After-school until 6:00 p.m. Nightly clean ends well before EDC arrives, and any noisy work happens before doors open.
Mass & community days
Grounds and porter rhythm respects gathering times. We will never run a leaf blower past a 10 a.m. Mass.
Walk-A-Thon
Pre-event blacktop refresh. Mid-event sweeps and trash flow. Post-event teardown so Monday looks like Friday never happened.
Auction night
Auditorium turn, restroom over-staffing, exterior lighting check, parent-entry walk-through, full reset by Monday morning.
Christmas Music Concert
Auditorium polish, sanctuary-quiet pre-event rhythm, parent-entry experience handled with the dignity the night calls for.
The reset window
Floor strip and burnish. Carpet extraction. Window service. Blacktop pressure wash. The work that opens the school year clean.
Your calendar drives our schedule. Your bell drives our blower.
Curb appeal is enrollment marketing
The first thing a touring family sees is the facility. The second is the people.
St. Joseph's 2026–27 admissions are open. For families who haven't decided yet, the entry walk, the front office, the restrooms, and the playground are doing as much marketing as your website. We treat that the way you'd want it treated — quietly, consistently, before you have to ask.
It is also stewardship. The campus Fr. Doyle envisioned in 1952 deserves to look like the place it is.
A clean campus is the most honest brochure you have.
Who you'll actually work with
Three people. One relationship.
Family-owned means you don't get an account team rotation. You get the same names from first call through Friday afternoon.
Amy Alfaro
Business RelationsYour first call, your last call, and the person who walks the campus with you. Amy keeps the introduction warm, practical, and human from first conversation through next step.
Letty Miranda
PresidentOwns proposals, escalations, and the standard your account is held to. Sandra, you get a named leader — not a switchboard.
Al Cuevas
Founder & CEOStarted as a janitor in 1987. Built UFG in 1998. Still walks buildings, still picks up the phone, still cares about how the work is done.
Family-owned means we don't answer to shareholders. We answer to you.
Quality you can audit, not just trust
Service that leaves evidence.
You should never have to wonder what happened on campus last night. We turn service into a written record — site-specific scope, supervisor walkthroughs, photos where useful, clear punch-list ownership, and a simple monthly cadence with the principal's office.
Measured work is calmer work.
Walk the site with Sandra and document rooms, closets, access points, restrooms, and high-care zones.
Named crew. Same faces every week. Front-office check-in. School-specific notes.
Independent UFG supervisor checks — a second set of eyes that isn't the cleaner.
Monthly walkthrough with Sandra. Joint scorecard. Punch-list ownership that does not drift.
The part schools worry about
Switching should feel organized, not risky.
We do not ask St. Joseph to leap. We ask for a walkthrough, then build a scoped proposal you can compare line by line against what you have today. If a transition follows, here is exactly how it would feel.
You shouldn't feel a transition. You should just notice things look better.
- Walkthrough Listen first. Photograph carefully. Ask where the current pain lives and what is working that we should preserve.
- Side-by-side scope Map the proposal to your current vendor's scope so nothing important disappears in the move.
- 30-day onboarding Crew introductions to your front office, key handover, supplies, training, and any school clearance documentation we need on file.
- First-month report A written readout with photos: what improved, what is still being tuned, and what comes next month.
Next step
Two doors. Pick whichever feels easier.
Both end with a written benchmark in your hands within five business days. Neither asks you to make a decision in the room.
Door A · 60 min
Full campus walkthrough
Amy + a UFG operations lead. Coffee on us. We walk every space, listen to where the day gets stuck, and leave with enough to write a real proposal.
Pick a date → Door B · 20 min Quiet benchmark visitJust Amy, just a quiet sweep. Photos, notes, and a written benchmark of your current scope within five business days — for your own use.
Send Amy a note →