>BOE Energy Saving Idea Backfires
Mr.Anonymous
The Board of Ed has been looking for solutions to save money and over the summer they installed devices (at an unknown price to me) for every room that will turn off lights if there is no motion in a certain time. This must not have been enough because when students and teachers got back from over the break plastic boxes covered the thermostats in all of the class rooms which are designed to keep students and teachers using too much heat.
This seems like an IDIOT proof plan! NO ONE could possibly mess this one up, huh? Oh wait, they DID! As we all know, thermostats need air holes in order to survive (they need to breath too apparently) so whoever made this device was smart for doing it. The one slight (now keep in mind, this is a REALLY slight issue), is that ANYONE with half a brain can figure out within 10 seconds that a paper clip can be used to up the heaters to “warmest”. Essentially, you need to be smarter than a lab rat to use the heating system now.
Let’s think about how much this cost the BoE and our precious tax dollars. Assuming that each device was 20 dollars and that there are around 150 thermostats in the whole school that means that over $3000’s was spent on defective devices. We also have to look at the cost of the janitors who installed it, assuming it takes 12 minutes to install (and move to the next one) one and a janitor is paid $15 an hour to do this how much additional cost is it? Around $500’s was the cost of the janitor to install these devices. That means over $3500’s of tax payer money was spend on a defective device.
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