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Resident urges district to pursue HVAC accountability and questions state electric-bus mandate
Summary
A local resident, Mike DeFranco, urged the board to hold design firms accountable for HVAC failures at newer schools and argued the state electric-bus mandate would impose high costs and operational risks; he offered to help the district pursue legal or state-level pushback and promised to share his analysis.
During the public-comment portion of the April 27 meeting, resident Mike DeFranco (introduced by the chair) raised two distinct concerns: apparent HVAC design failures at several newer schools and opposition to Connecticut's electric-bus procurement timetable.
DeFranco, an engineer with HVAC experience and a local parks-and-rec volunteer, said he reviewed capital projects and questioned why recently opened schools would already be listed in CIP funds for mechanical fixes. He said design firms had not…
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