Ithaca City School District 2019 Proposed Capital Project
New Boilers at Enfield Elementary School
New Boilers at Enfield Elementary School
Make your voice heard at one or more of these events:
Public
Hearing: May 13, 7:30 pm in the Board
Room, 400 Lake Street
Community
Conversation: May 14, 5:30 pm in the
Board Room, 400 Lake Street
Community
Conversation: May 15, 5:30 pm at DeWitt Middle School, 560 Warren Road
It’s great news that the ICSD plans to replace the
existing Enfield Elementary School boilers and associated equipment that has
reached the end of its useful service life with more energy efficient
equipment. However, we believe the proposed new, improved boilers, though
more efficient than the current ones, will still require fossil fuel. (We
have not been able to verify the exact planned replacement equipment with the
ICSD facilities department.)
If you would like to encourage the ICSD to invest in less
fossil-fuel-intensive energy sources for heating such as geothermal, heat pumps,
and solar, we encourage you to attend one of the above meetings to make your
thoughts heard. At the same time they’re
good for the planet, these solutions can be money savers over time.
The vote on the entire Capital Project, of which the
Enfield boilers is only a piece, is on May 21.
