T IMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 14, No 49 3 DECEMBER 6 - 12, 2017
Award
winning
poster
Page 46
Last week the Marlborough Town
Board approved a resolution to establish a
“Community Choice Aggregation” [CCA]
program with Sun & Energy, a Millbrook
based energy provider that has been in
business for a year. This program has
the potential of lowering Marlborough’s
overall energy costs while sparking “clean
energy innovation and investment,”
while improving customer choice and
value and protecting the environment.”
Marlborough is the second town in the
Mid Hudson region that has stated their
intention to try out the program. The
more towns that agree to participate, the
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more leverage Sun & Energy can apply to
lower energy costs for all participants.
The resolution was drafted after
the town heard of the program from
two principals of Sun & Energy, Joel
Santisteban and Jason Lieberman.
According to their website, the company
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Let it snow!
Highland
holds off
on school
roof work
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Mark Reynolds
Milton youngsters celebrate the season, Sunday, with (fake) snow at the annual tree lighting ceremony at the library. Story, photos on pages
5 and 29.
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At their November 21 meeting the
Highland School Board was poised to
approve roofing work at all three schools
for a total of $892,204 but ultimately
decided to table the measure.
Board President Alan Barone
explained the reason for halting the work.
“The board wants to continue
discussions with the Support Service and
possibly our community committee to
revisit the roofs at all three campuses.
That would also involve the additional
construction work with the Palombo
Group. So we will table that until we have
a committee meeting and report back to
the entire board and have discussions and
[then] move forward,” he said.
Board member Mike Bakatsias
cautioned that he did not want to miss
any “time frames and would like to keep
all options open as the data comes in.”
Barone said the Construction Manager
has warned that it is possible that the cost
of the work may increase after January 1,
2018 because the prevailing wage rate for
public works may rise.
School Business Administrator Louise
Lynch sent a memo on November 17 to
Interim School Superintendent Thomas
Bongiovi that broke down the $892,204
total for the roofing work. She pointed out
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