APS will turn down the heat.

Tax payers will be paying a lot more to heat schools this year. The cost of natural gas is climbing as fast or faster than the price of gasoline.

According to Zsombor Peter's article; LINK sub req
taxpayers can expect to spend $7.42M tax dollars heating
the APS this year.

John Dufay, APS' Maintenance and Operations Director,
has a plan to save energy in the district. His plan includes;

• turning down the heat,
• isolating and heating only the necessary parts of schools,
• preventing teachers from entering buildings at night,
• using heat pumps instead of boilers, and
• "possibly" using solar water heaters,

If you google "saving energy in school buildings"
these are the suggestions that you find. It is not rocket
science. In fact, you will find 348,000 hits,
most of which have been on the internet for years.

So why are they just now occurring to the senior leadership of the APS?

If they are going to help save a million dollars this year,
why weren't they used help save a million dollars
last year?

In particular, the Journal's Peter reports that John Dufay said;

"... the district will dial down the temperature in its
schools from an average of approximately 75 degrees
to 70 or 71 degrees.

... most people won't notice the difference."

But they would have noticed last year? ??

Why were schools being heated to 75 degrees last year
when a widely recognized and accepted temperature
of 72 degrees has been the standard for years?

Another of the questions that you will never be allowed to
ask in a town hall meeting;

or in any other venue where a candid, forthright, and
honest answer might be expected in response to a
legitimate question.