{"id":78045,"date":"2017-02-22T04:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78045"},"modified":"2017-02-20T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:33:42","slug":"mecs-voters-approved-the-energy-performance-contract-134-to-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78045","title":{"rendered":"MECS voters approved the Energy Performance Contract 134 to 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=78046\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78046\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-78046\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpg?resize=178%2C283\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpg?w=178&amp;ssl=1 178w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpg?resize=94%2C150&amp;ssl=1 94w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>MECS voters approved the Energy Performance Contract 134 to 7 at a special vote Feb. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Morrisville-Eaton Central School District recently completed an analysis to determine whether an Energy\u00a0Performance Contract would be fiscally beneficial. The result of the study showed that the District could\u00a0save a substantial amount of money by completing necessary energy improvements, such as heating, lighting\u00a0and control upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>The MECS Board of Education voted in December to move forward on an EPC and adopted a formal proposal Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<p>NYS will offer 74.9 percent\u00a0state aid on the EPC contract, and that aid will serve as an additional source of revenue since the project costs\u00a0themselves will be covered through energy savings; however, because MECS voters approved the referendum, NYS offers 88.6 percent state aid and the\u00a0opportunity to finance the project through a bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MECS voters approved the Energy Performance Contract 134 to 7 at a special vote Feb. 15. The Morrisville-Eaton Central School District recently completed an analysis to determine whether an Energy\u00a0Performance Contract would be fiscally beneficial. The result of the study showed that the District could\u00a0save a substantial amount of money by completing necessary energy improvements, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kiN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpg?fit=178%2C283&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}