Special Board of Aldermen 10-06-2020 Page 4
Chairman Dowd
Mayor, Doria just joined us, | don’t know if you want her to speak first or Shaun, it’s up to you.
Mayor Donchess
Let’s go with Shawn and Doria can fill in any details that she has.
Chairman Dowd
Ok, Shawn?
Shawn Smith, School Department
Good evening everybody. Yes this has been about a 3 % year project as of today, to get this off and
running we went through an RFP Process to find a contractor, found that we needed to finetune that out.
We went out a second time for invitation to bid and we ended up with Energy Efficient Investments, AKA,
EE|. And they have been working diligently, culminating in we call it an investment grade audit of both high
schools. Those yielded the numbers the Mayor just talked about in terms of savings. | believe he said, but
just in case he didn’t or | missed it, these savings are guaranteed by EEl. So as you know engineers can
be rather conservative, I’m one of those and I’m conservative when it comes to fiscal things. So we are
confident that we are at least going to save what they say if not more. And maybe Doria can talk a little bit
about that later.
As the Mayor indicated, the large part of the work is going to involve changing out the current lighting at the
two high schools to LED. A number of other projects we are also doing, we are upgrading the
transformers, upgrading the controls for the HVAC systems. We are replacing what are referred to as mini
split air conditioners, it seems like we just finished the high school but it’s been 16 or 18 years. Those are
starting to show their age; replacing water coolers, and a variety of other smaller projects.
So they all ended up with roughly $460,000.00 of energy savings per year and | guess | will leave it at that.
| believe Mr. Donovan was going to join us or Doria can take it at this point, unless you have some specific
questions from me.
Chairman Dowd
Yeah, | don’t see Mr. Donovan.
Dan Donovan, COO, School Department
I’m here.
Chairman Dowd
Ok. Would you like to speak?
Mr. Donovan
Sure just the mechanics of the (inaudible) will work as we will reduce our operating budget by the
$460,000.00 each year and then that will, the payment — then we will add the payment for the lease. So
within the Operating Budget this will effectively net out. Hopefully, we will actually save a little more as
previous speakers have mentioned. So even though it is a lease, it should be offset within the Operating
Budget and there will be no increase to the cost of the School District.
