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District maintenance director urges pay‑to‑charge EV charger replacement after finding high costs and equipment failures
Summary
Maintenance director Matt Vargas told the Newman‑Crows Landing board the district spends roughly $18,000 monthly to support aging EV chargers tied to campus meters and proposed a formal bid to replace chargers and add metering that would recoup costs; staff recommended engineering estimates and possible use of bond funds.
Matt Vargas, the district’s maintenance and operations director, told the Newman‑Crows Landing Unified School District board that the district’s decade‑old EV charging network is failing and costing local taxpayers.
“We spend approximately $18,000 per month at our four school sites,” Vargas said, adding that about 25% of chargers are currently not working. He traced the problem to a 2016 power purchase agreement with the solar vendor that left chargers tied to campus meters rather than to solar inverters, which means charging often…
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