“GOOD; and I speak as a former school district employee (Maintenance Supervisor) for over 25 years. I know for a fact how much they waste and misappropriate to stupid gimmee crap.
If they spent the money on education instead of PC bulls##t they would not have any financial problems.”
The San Ramon Valley School District here in the East Bay Area of San Francisco has literally acres of solar panel-covered parking lots at each of it’s high schools! And it’s ditto up in Napa. And oh, the Napa Wine Train received $54 million in stimulus money to “raise their tracks in downtown Napa so they don’t flood when the Napa River overflows it’s banks. So since they can piss away money like this, screw the schools! They turn out a beer quality product on champagne funding.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you but we had some pretty severe lighting storms in my area and the internet has been down for quite a while, s##t happens as they say.
I would sure like to see the line item maintenance costs for the repair/replacement for those solar panel systems. I did a cost/benefit analysis on solar panel generating and storage systems for the District I worked for in Southern California, and no matter how much the vendor tried to hype them they just weren’t worth the money. We would have gotten a lot more out of them than you could in an area like the East Bay but the maintenance/replacement costs were just to damn high. Plus the fact that most people who don’t work inside the system have no idea just how destructive the kids can be. Most folks think maintenance is new paint, roofs and repairs to equipment that wears out over time; wrong, most of the money is spent to repair vandalism that occurs on a daily basis. I had 3 high schools, 4 middle schools, 15 elementary schools and 3 administrative offices plus the Transportation yard for a total of 26 facilities. I had an annual departmental budget of between 12 and 16 million a year; depending on new construction, and at least 60% of that was eaten up in repairs to facilities, (read vandalism).
I was finally directed by my boss to quit writing my annual report because the Superintendent and the Board of Education didn’t want to hear about the costs of letting the little darlings get away with bloody murder on their buildings.
That was about 15 years before I retired; so every thing just got written off as standard repairs. I still ran the numbers for my own use but they never got published again.
The last report I did the year I retired, I had over 2 million dollars just in graffitti removal and repairs and I retired before school was even out for the year.