MEDIA ADVISORY

Forty-eight school district superintendents and the leaders of the Questar III and Capital Region BOCES have released their annual legislative position paper. It outlines key public policy and legislative issues impacting area school districts.

Attached is the first edition of the Cairo Durham Facts newsletter. If you have any questions, please contact the District Office at 622-8534.
REMINDER: Budget Vote and Board of Education Election on May 15th in the Middle School cafeteria from 12 noon to 9pm.

The EXCEL Project Referendum passed by a vote of: 175 Yes, 34 No
Thank you for your support.

The attached is an informational newsletter about the proposed EXCEL aid Project that was mailed to district residents.

The attached is a letter sent to community residents with information regarding the District Audit.

You can download a copy of our district newsletter from September 2006.

To download it to your computer, click on "newsletter_district_200609.pdf" below. If you can not view it, you may need to install a PDF viewer, such as Acrobat Reader.

October of 2005 the Cairo-Durham CSD implemented an energy conservation plan. The plan was very basic and focused on turning off electrical equipment and lights not in use, lowering heating setpoints to 68 degrees, raising cooling setpoints to 74 degrees, making sure boilers are properly tuned, and making sure air handlers and unit ventilators are operating properly.

This summer cooling setpoints in unoccupied (non-office) areas were either raised to 78 degrees or turned off. As a result of the actions taken during June, July, and August, combined electric usage for the High School/Middle School, Cairo Elementary, Durham Elementary, and the Relocatable Classroom was 37,275 kWh less than the same time frame in 2005. At an average cost of 8.221 cents/KWH this equates to a savings of approximately $3064, typically enough to cover most of the cost of one month of electric usage at Cairo Elementary.