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Published on March 2 2017 8:24 pm Last Updated on March 2 2017 8:31 pm Written by Greg Sapp

A contract totaling $5,475,222 was awarded Thursday by the Effingham Unit 40 Board of Education to GRP Mechanical to oversee health and life safety work at Central Grade School and Effingham High School.

The award of the contract is contingent on the State Board of Education approving the list of proposed projects for health and life safety funding. That approval should come within the next week or so.

Our Greg Sapp talked with Unit 40 Superintendent Mark Doan after the meeting about what happens from here?...

The key decision for the Board beyond whether to proceed with the project was what type of roof should replace the existing roof on the high school building. The decision was to go with a fully adhered roof, although it will cost close to $200,000 more than another option considered.

Unit 40 Assistant Superintendent Rem Woodruff said, "If you're asking me what to do, if I had a vote, I'd go with the fully adhered roof." Woodruff said he researched the other roof option, and found it came recommended by others who have good reputations in the roofing business, but said he knows the fully adhered roof and that's what he recommended. The previous three roofs the district has placed on buildings have been the fully adhered roofs.

Board members Carol Ruffner and Jane Willenborg were in favor of saving money and using the other roof style, Ruffner saying she could see where else that $200,000 in savings could be used. The other members present, Todd Schafer, Steve Bone and Brian Wick, favored the fully adhered option, going with Woodruff's recommendation.

Other components of the project will include window replacement at Central, some flooring replacement at Central, replacement of the HVAC system at EHS and installation of air conditioning in the gyms at EHS.

Superintendent Mark Doan said substantial completion of the project is due September 15, meaning the project will be finished after the next school year begins, but the feeling is the situation can be worked out.

The district plans to sell its own bonds to finance the work, with the bonds being paid off once property tax revenue is received.

The Board Thursday also expelled three students; two through the end of the current school year, and one through the first semester of the 2017-18 school year. Ruffner and Willenborg voted No on one of the expulsions through the end of this year, and Ruffner abstained from the vote on the student expelled through the first semester of the 17-18 year.

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More than 100 units were affected by an early Saturday morning fire as 90 firefighters responded. Matt Stone, The Courier-Journal

Firefighters work to contain a blaze as well as billowing smoke at the Breakwater Apartments in New Albany Saturday. Heavy fire on the third floor was discovered by firefighters after calls around 5:11 a.m. Four fire departments -- New Albany, Jeffersonville, Clarksville and Georgetown Township -- were required. Around 90 firefighters helped contain the fire. Two firefighters fell through a floor while battling the fire but were not injured. The units damaged were under construction. An investigation is underway.(Photo: Matt Stone/The C-J)Buy Photo

The fire that damaged the majority of a soon-to-open luxury apartment complex in downtown New Albany burned for nearly 18 hours before it was reported by a neighbor and was likely started by a contract worker, investigators alleged.

In an incident report released Thursday, New Albany Fire investigators determined that The Breakwater Apartments blazeoriginated in the ceiling area above unit 217. The $26.5 million complex, located at 411 E. Spring St., had been scheduled to open by mid-March.

Joe Miller, a heating, ventilation and air condition installer with Del Monde Heating and Air Conditioning, said he sparked a fire while soldering a copper pipe in the mechanical area above the apartment, according to report. The insulation around the pipe ignited between 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24.

Miller said he spent 45 minutes putting out the blaze by usingmultiple fire extinguishers. He also cut a 2-foot-by-2-foot hole to get the insulation out that was on fire.

"The HVAC installer indicated that he thought he had put the fire out," said the report, which was posted on the city's website.

Investigators alleged that multiple other contractors saw the fire but "at no time did anyone notify the fire department about the situation." A neighbor called 9-1-1 the following morning, and the New Albany Fire Department responded by 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, according to report.

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The Courier-Journal reported that about 90 firefighters from the New Albany, Jeffersonville, Georgetownand Clarksville departments were able to bring the fire under control.While inspecting the building, two firefighters fell through the third floor and were rescued. Noinjuries were reported.

Once again, Id like to reiterate how fortunate the city of New Albany is that, despite the amount of damage and the size of the fire, there were no injuries. Id also like to thank the New Albany Fire Department, New Albany Police Department, and all of our neighboring communities for their help in extinguishing the blaze and assisting at the scene, Mayor Jeff Gahan said in a release.

The unoccupied125-unit building had been scheduled to open by mid-March, said Jill Herron, senior vice president of property asset management forFlaherty & Collins Properties, which owns The Breakwater. The neighboring 66-unit building, which opened in January, houses about 45 residents. That building was not damaged and residents were uninjured, she said.

In a news release, Michael Collins, regional property manager for thecompany, said the sprinklers were not on because the building was incomplete and hasn't been issueda certificate of occupancy.The 206,000-square-foot project broke ground in December 2015 at thesite of the former Coyle Chevrolet.

We want to thank the New Albany Fire Department and other local fire departments who are providing help for their steadfast efforts," he said. "We will certainly work diligently to fix the damage to the building.

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Converting from fossil fuel heating systems to electric will help meet New York states climate goals and make home heating more affordable, according to a new study. The initial cost of installing electric systems is steep but the report says there are ways the state could help.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research President Arjun Makhijani wrote the report that advocates for electric technologies like geothermal and cold climate heat pumps. The heat pumps reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using free energy from the ground and the air rather than burning fossil fuels. Makhijani said in the long-term, it will make home heating more affordable.

"When you install a geothermal heat pump, not only will you benefit, your neighbors will be benefiting, because you reduce the peak load on the electric grid during the summer," Makhijani said. "To meet the peak load you have to install gas turbines you have to install transmission and distribution systems. You're benefiting your neighbors and the utility and reducing everybody's costs."

But Makhijani said the challenge is the initial cost of installing these systems.

Part of the difficulty of making really efficient electric heating and cooling systems is that they are more expensive than natural gas and oil systems," Makhijani said. "Over the long term they save you money. How to reduce the cost is a big issue.

Makhijani said there are multiple ways to reduce the costs and the states Energy Research and Development Authority has addressed the issue.

One way to do it is to mandate efficient heating systems for public buildings, for new construction, so you create a market," Makhijani said. "Its a nascent market.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is also proposing a $15 million rebate plan for installing ground-source heat pumps.

Makhijani said a state policy limiting energy costs for low-income residents to six percent of their income is another reason to push for the switch to electric.

Then the cost of heating goes down and the amount of public assistance money needed to help low-income households will also go down, Makhijani said.

Plus, Makhijani said New York could be a leader in manufacturing heat pumps and parts, which could lead to new jobs.

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Taxpayers who made certain energy efficient improvements to their home last year may qualify for a tax credit this year. Here are some key facts to know about home energy tax credits:

Non-Business Energy Property Credit

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UseForm 5695, Residential Energy Credits, to claim these credits. For more information on this topic, refer to the forms instructions. Get IRS forms anytime onIRS.gov/forms.

Taxpayers should keep a copy of their tax return. Beginning in 2017, taxpayers using a software product for the first time may need their Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) amount from their prior-year tax return to verify their identity. Taxpayers can learn more about how to verify their identity and electronically sign tax returns atValidating Your Electronically Filed Tax Return.

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Construction has begun on a new Foothill-De Anza Community College District office.

The 24,000-square-foot, two-story building will be built on an existing piece of a parking lot at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills and is slated for completion in March 2018.

According to the district, the building is expected to cost $18 million and will serve as office space for about 70 district administrative employees, including the chancellor, human resources, business services, purchasing and the districts charitable foundation.

The new building will also house the districts monthly board of trustees meetings in a new boardroom that seats up to 215 people. Small meeting rooms and extra storage for records will also be built.

The districts administrative employees have been working in five temporary portable trailers since November 2013, the district said.

The employees were moved to the trailers in anticipation of a renovation of the district administrative offics that were originally built in the 1960s. The renovation was completed in 2015, but the district determined the site to be more appropriate for the colleges educational technology services department.

Kevin McElroy, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District vice chancellor of business services, said employees are eager to get into the new building.

Getting back under a single roof, into a facility with adequate storage space and convenient meeting spaces, will feel like a real privilege and truly improve both work flow and the natural osmosis between staff members, McElroy said in a press release.

Alten Construction is contracted to build the new district office.

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REBNY gripes that building costs in rezoned Midtown East would soar above $2,300 psf

Org says it would have to charge tenants an average of $204 psf to make projects feasible

March 03, 2017 09:00AM By Kathryn Brenzel

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Despite supporting the bulk of the citys plan to rezone Midtown East, the Real Estate Board of New York is concerned that the price tag for building will scare away developers.

The cost for a new office building, even after providing for higher FARs, is prohibitively expensive in Midtown East, Michael Slattery, senior vice president of REBNY, said during a hearing held by the Manhattan Borough Board on Friday. Site acquisition costs on the avenues with the highest FAR, such as Park Avenue, exceed $1,000 per square foot.

He said REBNY estimates total development costs to be around $2,340 per square foot in the district. The estimate includes the cost of acquisition, construction, demolition, air rights, soft costs, loss of revenue during construction and other expenses. The figure was based on a survey of roughly half a dozen REBNY members who are active in Midtown East, Slattery said. The survey focused on what building out a hypothetical Park Avenue office property the priciest in the district would entail. Slattery said this would require landlords to charge average rents of $204 per square foot to make the projects feasible.

He said these costs could be eased by allowing larger as-of-right development on mid-block sites and along Third Avenue (which dont get the same size perks as Park Avenue and areas near Grand Central Terminal).

A major point of contention is the inclusion of the east side of Third Avenue in the rezoning. Kathy Thompson, a member of Community Board 6 and a resident of Turtle Bay, said the rezoning mischaracterizes that area as purely commercial when it includes the west side of Turtle Bay, a thriving residential neighborhood. She urged officials to move the border for the subdistrict to the middle of Third Avenue, from 43rd to 56th Street.

Anything less than this is the willful destruction of a neighborhood by the city of New York, she said.

Slattery said excluding Third Avenue, where acquisition costs are lower than other parts of the district, would be a lost opportunity to revitalize Midtown East. A representative for the Regional Planning Association also noted that she would actually support extending the districts border to Second Avenue to incorporate the Second Avenue subway.

Thursdays hearing was a required step in the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), a seventh-month slog through community boards, the borough board, the City Planning Commission and the city council. The planning commission started ULURP in January. The rezoning is aimed at revitalizing the areas aging office stock, so residential and hotel construction is restricted.

In August, the city released plans to rezone 78 blocks in the subdistrict, calling for the addition of 6.5 million square feet of commercial space over the next 20 years or so. Under the rezoning, developers could build above existing floor-area-ratio (FAR) restrictions by either taking on pre-determined transit improvements or buying from a pool of 3.6 million square feet of air rights from landmarked buildings in the district.

A portion of the proceeds from those sales 20 percent will be contributed to a Public Realm Improvement Fund for additional infrastructure projects. The air rights have a proposed floor price of $393 per square foot, meaning that the city receives a minimum of $78.60 per square foot.

The restrictions surrounding the air rights has been a major source of debate. REBNY, the Archdiocese of New York and others on Thursday again voiced concerns about setting a floor price for the air rights, saying it may discourage deals. A representative for the Archdiocese asked that the city take no more than 20 percent of these sales because a bigger cut could prevent landmarks from paying for necessary repairs.

The rezoning would also allow buildings that are considered overbuilt meaning they exceed current FAR rules would be able to rebuild their excess square footage as of right and would be required to contribute to the public improvement fund.

Councilman Dan Garodnick, who appeared at the hearing briefly, noted that the city is in a much different position than it was four years ago, when the Bloomberg administrations proposal to rezone the district was killed. He said the latest plan is more thoughtful about incorporating public improvements and protecting landmarks.

But its officially just the very beginning of the process, he said.

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