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SHIRLEY -- Energy Advisory Committee Chairman Bryan Dumont left from Monday night's selectmen's meeting with several projects in progress and a signed OK from the board to proceed to the next phase on one of them.

The board endorsed an "investment grade" audit agreement with ABM, a Woburn-based company now conducting preliminary energy audit reviews of all municipal buildings on its list, plus the two school buildings in town.

Dumont said the committee selected ABM from a field of 11 companies responding to the committee's request for proposals. Four finalists were interviewed, he said.

The process is at the "30-thousand-square-foot overview" stage, in which the contractor does the initial energy audits with an eye to making energy-saving changes, he said.

In the first phase, the work is minor and relatively inexpensive, such as switching out old-fashioned light bulbs for lighting that lasts longer and costs less, such as LED. Costlier items on the to-do list would come later and might include large-scale insulation and repairing or replacing major building components, such as HVAC systems.

Much of the initial work will be paid for from the remainder of a $153,000 state grant, Dumont told the board. There's plenty left for the purpose, he said. The grant came about as a result of the Green Community designation the committee landed last year, with the blessing of selectmen and Town Meeting.

In addition to the ongoing energy audits, Dumont

One more component is on order and expected soon, with work to commence as soon as the weather allows.

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Improvements total $5.6M at district schools

BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI

Staff Writer

ABERDEEN The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District has identified an additional $2.9 million in surplus funds to be used for capital improvement projects in the 2013-14 school year.

At the Jan. 28 meeting, members of the Board of Education approved the capital improvements, which include district-wide security upgrades and maintenance work at district schools.

The projects are in addition to the $2.7 million in improvements approved by the board in December.

This excess surplus is a result of very smart fiscal planning on the part of this administration and the actions by the board, Superintendent of Schools David Healy said in an interview.

Since April, when the school budget was approved with a surplus of $1.7 million, the district has accumulated an additional $4 million in surplus funds, which Healy said are the result of savings from the recent teachers contract settlement, a new prescription plan and increased health-care contributions by district employees, cutting lunch aides, and cutbacks in out-of-district placements for students.

We rebid our prescription plan, which is roughly $120,000 in savings a year. We settled the [teachers contract with a zero percent raise in the first year, and that is $1.5 million. We brought [back] $1.1 million in out-ofdistrict placements and counting. We were able to eliminate lunch aides from Chartwells, which was $44,000 [in savings], and use our own staff, he said.

These were all things that we had budgeted for and were able to save money on.

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Raleigh, N.C. Raleigh police say copper wire thefts are on an upswing in early 2013, and many businesses are installing alarms on their heating and cooling units to prevent the costly replacements and repairs.

Ryan Woodard of the Joseph C. Woodard Printing Company said thieves have repeatedly stolen copper from the company's heating and cooling system. After filing multiple insurance claims to cover the thefts, Woodard worries his insurance policy will be dropped.

"It feels like you're being victimized twice," he said.

To prevent the thefts, Woodard recently installed an alarm on his air conditioning unit that automatically dispatches police when thieves pull the power plug. There is also a silent alarm option, which was responsible for Raleigh officers catching a thief red-handed last month, police said, because he had no idea he tripped the alarm.

HVAC repairman Clay Ewing said, at $600, the alarms are expensive, but they're cheaper than repairing or replacing a damaged unit.

He said his company, Allen Kelly & Company, has been busy in recent weeksreplacing heating and cooling systems that have been stripped of copper wire.

"What they're after is that copper that's inside the coil, so they're literally ripping the top off this unit, cutting it out and taking that coil to the scrap yard," Ewing said.

More than 200 copper wire thefts were reported in Raleigh last year, police said.

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