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TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019
Proposition offers energy savings
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projects,” Coxsackie-Athens District Superintendent Randall Squier said. “We’re asking voters for their support so we can receive an additional 10%.” By doing an energy-performance project instead of a traditional capital project, the district will still be left with money in the bank, Squier said. “There is a net benefit to doing this project,” he said. “Typically after a capital project, your balance would be zero.” The remaining funds will go toward programming and classroom materials, Squier said. “Every dollar we spend on electricity and heating is one less dollar we can invest towards teaching and learning,”
By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media
COXSACKIE — Residents will have
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Ottawainfrastructure and an anticipated enMontreal 51/36 ergy savings of 35%. Coxsackie-Athens 50/38 Massena will have a net balance of $1.6 million 50/38 following its Plattsburgh 18-year contract with 48/40 Ogdensburg Ecosystem Energy Services, according Malone 51/35 47/35 to the district’s website. An additional Potsdam Kingston Burlington 50/37 $317,000 could 50/40 be granted if the proj50/40 Lake Placid Watertown ect receives voters’ approval. 43/33 50/37
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students.” Students can use the project as a learning experience, Squier said. “We will implement the changes into the classrooms and students will be able to go online to monitor our savings,” he said. Ecosystems staff will be available to train maintenance employees at the district on how to use the new technology, Squier added. “The district will be able to model being more green to our students, who will be our environmental stewards for the majority of this century,” according to the district’s website.
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according to a statement from the district. The upgrades include steam-to-hotwater conversion, a condensing boiler plant, upgrades to the lighting, ventilation, electrical system, building insulation, computer network and control system at the middle and high school campus. Both elementary schools will receive improvements to lighting, building insulation, the computer network and control system. “The energy savings are wonderful and we’re going to take them,” Squier said. “But one of our main goals is to make classrooms more comfortable and a better learning environment for
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Village takes a stand to protect trees
children’s books is speaking for the village’s trees and defending them from a metaphorical Once-ler, the boogeyman that causes environmental degradation. A proposed law for the village will protect public trees in the event that the Once-Ler should show its face. Cultivate Catskill presented the draft law to the board of trustees for review at its meeting Wednesday night. The law was in part spurred by local author Hudson Talbott, who took a great interest in the village tree population in 2013, Seeley said. Talbott wanted to replace some trees on Main Street and the village realized how
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the public hearing, the board will vote on whether to adopt the new law. “I expect we will be able to enact a tree law within the next 45 days,” Village President Vincent Seeley said. “The law is
“I expect we will be able to enact a tree law within the next 45 days. The law is aimed to protect, preserve and maintain care for all the village’s public trees for the benefit of the community.” — VILLAGE PRESIDENT VINCENT SEELEY Talbott created an arrangement where DPW cut the holes in the sidewalk and people could sponsor the trees from Story’s Nursery in Freehold. “I was expecting we’d get five or six trees,” Talbott said. “The first year we planted 24 trees. The next year we did 16 or 17.” The village has planted 61
In years past, shop owners on Main Street have cut down trees without any penalty or punishment, Talbott said. “To me it’s unfair. It’s unjust,” he said. “That tree belong to all of us. It’s part of Catskill.” The village’s tree council will make any necessary changes before the board schedules a public hearing on the law. After
aimed to protect, preserve and maintain care for all the village’s public trees for the benefit of the community.” The law creates a tree replacement program, Seeley said. “If it is mutually agreed upon that a tree has to be removed, the person has the responsibility to pay for a replacement
tree somewhere else in the village,” Seeley said. “The tree council will also work with the planning board when evaluating construction projects to make sure there is no clearcutting being done of trees that are beneficial to the environment.” The tree council still has to work out some logistics of what to do when a tree rooted on a private property is interfering with public land and causing a safety hazard, Seeley said. “Do we give them five days notice to have it removed or does the village remove it and charge the homeowner?” Seeley said. The village will also be more mindful of its trees by taking tree inventories and by looking at areas to plant trees in the future, Seeley said. The village has plans to plant 15 to 20 trees along West Bridge Street.