"Schools in many states will have to compete with other public buildings for energy dollars, and in most cases projects will require local matching funds"
Oh, I SEE!!!
Well, WHAT IF the MATCHING AMOUNT would be MORE THAN YOU NEEDED?! What if a state ONLY NEEDED HALF that amount? What if the FED CHECK was enough to COVER the WHOLE THING? Should a STATE or CITY SPEND MONEY that IT SHOULDN'T (I know, dumb questions)
And yet ALL WE HEARD from the AGENDA-PUSHING MEDIA was BASHING of people who TURNED DOWN the TAXPAYER LOOT!!!
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Stimulus Can't Save Schools
Yeah, consider that as the agenda-pushers kill the energy and education indoctrination with one article.
"For school officials, a new calculus; Stimulus funds spark efforts to save energy" by Elizabeth Dunbar, Associated Press | April 6, 2009
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. - The candy machine at Henry Sibley High School knows when students roam the halls and automatically powers down when they've gone home. The basketball court still shines, but under the glow of fluorescent tubes that suck up much less of the juice the old lights used.
Thanks to such measures, energy costs across the school district in this Twin Cities suburb already are down by nearly a third. Officials want to trim the expenses even more, but that will require investment in upgrades. The federal economic stimulus dollars could be just what they need. Some of the billions of dollars trickling down from Washington will be used to make public buildings more energy efficient. School officials hope long-term savings can sprout from those one-time upgrades - the types of projects that get shoved aside when budgets are squeezed and tax levies fail.
"The money we spend on electric, water, gas and oil - those dollars compete with dollars for textbooks and teachers," said Jay Haugen, superintendent of the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan district.
Good thing banks and war-looters need not worry.
The economic stimulus package contains $6.3 billion for state and local governments to make energy usage more efficient, including in public buildings. Schools are eligible for some of that - in addition to a $22 billion zero-interest bond program for school construction projects created in the recovery package. Nationwide, there are roughly 80,000 public school buildings.
State governments know how much money they'll receive, but details about how it will get from Washington to Main Street schools haven't been worked out. Schools in many states will have to compete with other public buildings for energy dollars, and in most cases projects will require local matching funds....
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