Field trip: Hoping to go green without seeing red
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- October
- 26
While I was at the cyberbullying session, Clarkstown school board president John Davidson was a seminar on “green design” for school buildings. According to the NYSSBA brochure, “better designed buildings can preserve energy and natural resources for future generations.”
Preserving energy, of course, can make for lower school electricity bills—music to the ears of any taxpayer and school finance officer.
But, as Davidson warily pointed out to me after the seminar, to reap the cost benefits of green facilities, districts first need to shell out some money to build said facilities.
“Green construction is like window-shopping on Fifth Avenue,” he said. “It all comes down to whether you can afford it.”
So will green design play into Clarkstown’s plans to renovate the ailing Clarkstown North High School building?
Fortunately, I was able to pose that question to North Principal Harry Leonardatos, also an attendee at this conference.
Unfortunately, Leonardatos was non-committal: He said he still needed more information.
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