HomeMy WebLinkAbouthcsd resolutionHYDABURG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Resolution 2014-02
WHEREAS, Hydaburg City School District (HCSD) strives to minimize overhead
costs, including energy bills, so that more funds may be allocated to educational
programs; and
WHEREAS, funding is available through the Renewable Energy Grant Program and
the Alaska Energy Authority for energy -generating, wood- or forest -based projects
that are law -emission and nontoxic, and heat recovery projects; and
WHEREAS, HCSD has over thirty years of experience maintaining a K-12 school
site, is financially stable, and is compliant with applicable federal, state and local
laws including existing credit and federal tax obligations; and
WHEREAS, the wood heating system at Hydaburg School will be an energy saving,
nontoxic, low emission, efficient system and a model example for other wood
heating projects in schools around the State of Alaska, and
WHERERAS, a prior feasibility study for wood heating at HCSD will serve as the
reference document for the wood -based supplemental heating project at Hydaburg
School; and
WHEREAS, Lauren Burch will serve as individual to sign the application, has
authority to commit the organization to the obligations under the grant, and will be
the point of contact, representing the applicant for purposes of the application-, and
WHEREAS, HCSD will commit to provide the matching resources for projects at the
amounts indicated in application, to include in kind contributions and not to exceed a
$40,000 cash match.
NOW, THEREFORE BE (T RESOLVED, that the Hydaburg City School District
Board of Education authorizes HCSO Administration's request, through Lauren
Burch, for public funding from the Alaska Energy Authority to construct a
supplemental, energy efficient, low emissions biomass wood heating system at
Hydaburg School,
ADOPTED September 19, 2013 at a duty convened meeting of the Hydaburg City
School District Board of Education at which a quorum was present and voting.
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