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Resident urges energy audit as heating consumes a quarter of Roxbury Village School budget
Summary
Public commenter Nate Donahue told the committee that roughly 25% of the building budget pays for heating and urged the group to pursue an energy audit; he also flagged a 40-year-old buried fuel tank that will need replacement, which the committee said would fall to a subcommittee to address.
During public comment at the May 6 meeting, resident Nate Donahue said he is pursuing an energy audit or consultation to identify ways to reduce heating costs and that he had been in contact with Tim Post of Gees, a vendor he met at an Efficiency Vermont expo. Donahue reported that about 25% of the building budget currently goes to heating and noted that a 40-year-old buried fuel tank will need replacement; he said work on the tank will be assigned to a subcommittee.
Committee members discussed inventorying systems and vendors as part of the workplan: water testing is handled quarterly by Presidential Water Systems; Gillespie currently services heating and was involved in tank-location conversations; and Temperature Control of Vermont (TCV) reprogrammed building controls on May 5, 2026 and agreed to provide training. Members said they need more information about what 'rentable' means in practice if the goal is to make the building available by July 1.
No funding source or timeline for replacing the buried fuel tank was specified in the minutes; the committee tabled detailed subcommittee membership and focus areas to the next meeting and agreed to continue developing the workplan.
