On the Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence website you can see how all of the stimulus money set aside for the Kentucky State Energy Program is divided up - all $52.5 million of it.
The "School Energy Managers Project", as you can see, is allotted $5,050,012. That's a lot of money for 35 people. In fact, that is $144,286 a person. I certainly hope that's not an annual salary figure.
Seems like a lot of money to me, especially since Governor Beshear already received input from state workers on how the state can save money through simple energy fixes. You can see those energy saving recommendations made by state workers here.
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$144,286 per person. The state should audit estimated and actual saving from each person. They should get at least a 3 dollars actually saved from each dollar spent.
You can see from the state worker input state managers certainly don't pay attention to energy usage. Of course why should they? It's not their money, it's ours. State workers look at waste just like it was their money and they can't afford the waste.
Given what the state workers contributed maybe the state should have set aside a considerable portion of that money for technology and equipment to monitor and control usage to reduce cost. They could still claim jobs saved - state workers. Energy bills have to be paid. State workers identified many good suggestions to save gas, electric, repair, non-productive time, etc. If state workers can't get management's attention the Governor will have to cut people.
Good job state workers. We tried! You can lead a manager to cost reductions but you can't make them act.
You know, now that I think about it, I didn't see any estimated cost savings amounts for this project.
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