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Selectboard authorizes RFP for residential energy-efficiency collective purchasing and approves heat-pump rebate, $31,000 expenditure
Summary
The Chebeague Island Selectboard authorized issuing an RFP for a residential energy-efficiency and electrification collective-purchasing program and approved signing an Efficiency Maine rebate offer and spending up to $31,000 from the Building Facilities Reserve for heat-pump installation and related repairs.
The Chebeague Island Selectboard on July 1 authorized the Town Administrator to issue a Request for Proposals for a Residential Energy Efficiency and Electrification collective-purchasing program and approved an Efficiency Maine rebate offer to install multi-split heat pumps at town facilities.
Selectboard member Ehrhardt Groothoff moved to authorize the town to issue the RFP for collective residential energy-efficiency purchasing; Selectboard member Eliza Jane Adams seconded the motion, and the board voted unanimously to carry it. The motion directs the Town Administrator to solicit proposals to support residential electrification and efficiency work.
In a separate action, the board approved agenda item 25-049 authorizing the Town Administrator to sign an Efficiency Maine rebate offer for a multi-split heat-pump system at the Public Safety building. Selectboard member Eliza Jane Adams moved the motion, which Richard Hackel seconded; the motion carried unanimously. The board also authorized expending up to $31,000 from the Building Facilities Reserve account (9030) to cover the cost of heat-pump installation, repairs to heating ceiling units in the apparatus bay, and the installation of a heat-pump water heater at the Public Works Garage.
The measures combine a procurement step aimed at lowering installation costs for residents with capital work on town facilities. The minutes note the RFP and the rebate acceptance but do not specify a timeline for issuing the RFP, the number of vendors to be solicited, or the total project cost beyond the $31,000 reserve-authorized amount. The Town Administrator was authorized to proceed under both votes.
The board took both actions by recorded motion and unanimous vote. The next steps noted in the minutes are administrative: issuance of the RFP and execution of the rebate offer and related purchase orders by town staff.
