EMMIE BOESE
Hutch Post
BUHLER, Kan. — The USD 313 Buhler Board of Education voted unanimously on Monday night for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) through GRP Wegman of the Greenbush Purchasing Cooperative for a cost analysis to put solar panels on five of the district's buildings.
"Step one is an analysis of what those cost would be and what what's projected to be saved," Superintendent Cindy Couchman said. "Also part of that is us agreeing to send our energy bills for them to use as evaluations on that. Then they will come and then they will present to us what those savings and costs are and at that time that's when you guys (BOE) would vote to weather or not to move forward with it on how many buildings, one ,two three, four or all five of them."
GRP Wegman is a construction company that was interviewed by the Greenbush Purchasing Cooperative.
"They are sort of acting like our construction manager for the solar panels," Couchman said. "They would then send out bids and then try to get three bids for the solar panels so places in our area could bid on that for installing them they become sort of a project manager. We don't have to interview them because they've already interviewed through the Greenbush Purchasing Coop and so they would handle the grant application. They would handle RFP's for the solar panels, they would oversee the installation. They would even do the RFP's for banking services, and all of that so there are some advantages to using them."
Couchman reported that the district will not make payments on the solar panels until the panels are installed.
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