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Franklin Area School District tables $1.75 million ESCO boiler contract after price concerns and calls for more bids
Summary
Trustees voted to table Resolution 17 of 2025 — a $1,752,083 guaranteed energy savings (GESA) contract for boiler and hot-water upgrades — after a resident and several board members raised questions about price comparisons, procurement process and financing timing; the board asked administration to get additional cost comparisons and reconvene.
The Franklin Area School District board voted to table a $1,752,083 Guaranteed Energy Savings Act (GESA) services contract with Efficiency Network Inc. for boiler-plant and domestic hot-water upgrades at the junior–senior high school after a resident and multiple trustees questioned the price and procurement approach.
Resident Dennis Baker told the board he researched comparable projects and cited two recent local installations — a 2022 boiler at North Clarion High School for $424,000 and a 2020 installation at Keystone Elementary for $434,000 — and said local firms could supply boilers in eight to 10 weeks. “If these companies locally can supply a boiler in eight to 10 weeks for a million dollars less, we could have the boiler in place before school breaks out in the summer,” Baker said.
Board members pushed back that the ESCO proposal is…
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