Gov. Easley to talk energy savings with GCS
Update: I'm late posting this but I found out that Gov. Easley did not meet with GCS because he was presenting his budget to legislators; instead his staff met with school officials.
From Guilford County Schools:
"In recognition and affirmation of efforts to improve energy efficiency in school facilities, Guilford County Schools (GCS) will participate in a meeting with North Carolina's Governor Mike Easley.
"The meeting takes place today at 1 p.m. and will be held at the Governor's Office in the Governor's conference room. During the meeting, individuals will discuss increasing energy efficiency in public schools. Representatives from the State Energy Office, the North Carolina, Department of Public Instruction, local universities and other school districts will join GCS staff for the meeting....
"GCS is the first school district in the state to develop its own set of detailed green design specifications, known as the G3-Guilford Green Guide. Northern Middle, which opened in January of 2007, features comprehensive and well-integrated green design, including a daylighting system, an underfloor air distribution system and solar heating. Additionally, a holistic water cycle approach catches rainwater for toilet flushing and takes it to a living machine, through underground irrigation and to an aquifer."
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Whats the pint of the meeting?
To consider not doing it?
To show a real business case (if there is one) or to admit that there is no business case?
Posted on May 13, 2008 12:29 PM
How did the meeting go?
Who was there from Guilford County?
Posted on May 14, 2008 8:43 AM
This is why schools cost $88 Million. But, we can be assured that we will be living green.
Posted on May 14, 2008 9:38 AM
Yep, living "green" alright. I can't wait to see my tax bill. Let's see if new billion-dollar schools increase the academic level of our students. Too bad buildings can't teach.
Posted on May 14, 2008 10:29 AM
Too bad the governor didn't have an attaboy/attagirl session for the districts that keep their per-student school construction costs in check.
Posted on May 14, 2008 4:35 PM
Northern was built without any cost-benefit analysis. There was only vague speculation that there would be "savings" from the green gadgets.
The Board cannot do things like this in the future if it wants to stay in the good graces of taxpayers. It insults the intelligence of taxpayers when the Board insists that it does not have proper funding to build schools, and then builds schools like Northern (or the proposed Airport Area High School, which is estimated to cost between $70 and $80 million). We should build schools adequate to meet our needs, not monuments to ourselves.
We must remember that what goes on inside our schools is a LOT more important than what the school looks like.
Posted on May 15, 2008 12:52 PM
Paul,
I am really looking forward to your being seated on the board.
Posted on May 15, 2008 2:25 PM
Me 2.
Posted on May 15, 2008 10:51 PM
If this doesn't just tell it all. Amos and Walter ought to resign.
One of those board members, Walter Childs, said the news conference was more symbolism than anything else. “I did not oppose the bonds for the bonds’ sake,” he said Thursday. “I was trying to make a statement on what the real focus is: children.”
Childs said the schools have not adequately addressed the needs of poor and inner-city students. When asked if, in that case, he’d voted for the school bonds, Childs said, “I voted for the bonds. Yes.”
School board Vice Chairman Amos Quick would not go that far, but he’d clearly, and justifiably, had second thoughts.
“I was wrong,” he said Thursday. “And I’ve never been happier to be wrong in my life.”
Posted on May 18, 2008 1:53 PM
Amos is obviously very conflicted. Hes a good guy and he makes sense but he doesnt.
Walter is does not makes sense full stop. He consistently contradicts himsel in two sentences.
How do we end up with these kind of people representing our children?
We are in a sorry state.
I Detect, detest people who cant chose a direction and stick to it!
Posted on May 18, 2008 7:40 PM
My question is: How do we trust any of the 3?
They say one thing in public - in front of the media and it's on all the tv stations and newspapers. Yet, they don't really mean what they say?
How do we EVER trust any of them?
Oh, I was against the bonds before I was for the bonds.
Yeah, right.
Posted on May 19, 2008 8:43 AM