Suspended Schools Superintendent Randy Acevedo will perform his community service at the National Key Deer Refuge on Big Pine Key.

"He'll be picking up debris, helping with maintenance projects like painting signs, putting up barricades, basically habitat management," Refuge Manager Anne Morkill said Tuesday.

Acevedo will be the only convict currently performing community service at the refuge, which has had three to four such volunteers over the past year.

"I guess we were a known quantity," Morkill said, referring to the fact that the Department of Corrections office in Monroe County contacted the refuge about Acevedo performing his community service there.

Acevedo must work eight hours a month and will be supervised by the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service, said Todd Koson, the local probation office supervisor.

Acevedo is finishing up a contracted information technology job with Historic Tours of America, a job he landed after Gov. Charlie Crist suspended him on June 11, the day after a grand jury indicted him.

Circuit Judge Mark Jones also sentenced Acevedo to three years' probation, a $15,000 fine and $3,200 in investigation, prosecution, court and probation fees.

He faced 15 years in jail and a $15,000 fine for the three third-degree felony counts of official misconduct for trying to cover up his wife's alleged theft of school money.

Monique Acevedo is scheduled for trial on Oct. 26.

jguerra@keysnews.com