Above, you will find an electronic slide show of the webinar that Mark Wantage, OSFC Program Director, delivered on January 11, 2012. For the time challenged School District Administrator, below are a few of the key takeaways:
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The School Board must now provide an annual measurement & verification report to the OSFC. This report must also be acknowledged in all future HB 264 board resolutions. This means that each Board has to estimate the total cost (including financing and annual performance report by a third party) and identify any estimated grant, rebate, and non-district dollars. We estimate the costs for these annual reports to be between $1-$5K.
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The Board must also acknowledge their intent to maintain facility staff Building Operators Certification (BOC). This certification is nationally recognized and offers training for facility personnel to garner the skills in order to run their improved building efficiently and effectively.
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This year the OSFC is also recommending that there is a recommissioning of all the energy systems installed every five years. This is necessary to ensure that the building systems are still functioning as originally planned, constructed, and delivered. This is also to identify where periodic changes in control calibrations have affected the building mechanical system performance. It is imperative that these systems are functioning according to plan in order to ensure that the payback matches up with the financing.
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Lastly, since this is known as the school energy conservation program, the OSFC is trying to make the entire process paperless in order to conserve energy and reduce waste. Their goal is to have all of the associated documentation and correspondence submitted electronically. In the final submittal, they will require a single, searchable Adobe PDF file, with all of the information for the program included.