From the BCCT.
Bucks planning commission discusses its stimulus cash
By: Gary Weckselblatt
The Intelligencer
The Bucks County Planning Commission was briefed Wednesday about $5.5 million coming to the county as part of the federal government's stimulus spending.
A large chunk of the money, $3.9 million in an energy block grant, will be spent to make county facilities more energy efficient. "That's going to be the first priority," said Lynn Bush, the commission's executive director.
The county will also receive nearly $1 million, a "huge amount of money," she said, for the Homeless Prevention Program.
Bush said the county must have agencies in place by September to administer the funding to help people "on the brink of homelessness."
Guidelines for a $650,000 Community Block Grant have yet to be determined, she said.
The planners held Wednesday's meeting at the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center of Bucks County, near the Doylestown Airport.
The center is in a former print distribution company that went out of business. Former Gov. Mark Schweicker and former Congressman Jim Greenwood helped locate the facility for the center. It has been turned from "a dilapidated building into a state-of-the-art research institute" with 22 companies and 220 employees, said James Horan, the site's chief operating officer.
Horan said European companies have recently visited the 112,000-square-foot campus and spoken about the possibility of relocating.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
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"A large chunk of the money, $3.9 million in an energy block grant, will be spent to make county facilities more energy efficient....."
Speaking of energy efficiency, we're up to month #14 on that "lightbulb study" on the High School that, according to the board meeting minutes, was 50% done by month #1. That last 50% must be a doozy.
Plus, I don't recall seeing energy efficient lighting as part of the High School renovations the board has already voted on.
That's the thing about volunteer efforts like this. You gotta follow through on them, and then the board you volunteered to do it for has to vote to implement it. Otherwise, what's the point?
And that's a shame, because instead of phony awards for school board candidate friends, I could actually see giving the guy an award for this if it was actually implemented. Then again, he may be a school board candidate some day, so .....
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