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Superintendent urges caution on direct purchase of district solar array, favors service agreement
Summary
After consultant review, Superintendent Doherty told the board he cannot recommend purchasing the district solar system because lawyers could not find an example of a successful federal direct payment; he suggested a power service agreement that transfers tax‑credit risk to the vendor and said feasibility work will continue.
Superintendent Doherty updated the board on a proposed large solar project and said he could not, in good conscience, recommend a direct purchase at this time because his legal and financial consultants could not identify an example of a successful federal direct payment to a school district.
Doherty said the district would legally qualify for a federal direct payment that could be "in the neighborhood of $4,500,000," but McNeese Wallace (legal/financial consultants) could not find an example of an entity that has actually received the direct payment. "Based on that information alone, I…
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