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6 <br /> 1 Commissioner Dorosin said he reviewed the process the Board had done last spring. <br /> 2 He said maybe one or both schools do not want to go forward with the proposed projects. He <br /> 3 said if the project is not done, then the monies go back into the pot to be considered for new <br /> 4 projects. He said the $150,000 was based on this solar array project. He said if the schools <br /> 5 have other projects that they want to fund, these projects can be submitted and go through the <br /> 6 same process. He suggested the $150,000 for CHCCS should be returned to the pot, and <br /> 7 CHCCS invited to submit new projects. He said if OCS wants to additional weeks to decide, <br /> 8 that is fine, and then can move ahead or not. He said there was one project that the Board did <br /> 9 not fund (the small hydropower feasibility study), which can now be moved up on the list if the <br /> 10 schools do not want the funding for solar arrays. He said, instead of starting all over from <br /> 11 scratch, the Board should move ahead with the project it has. <br /> 12 Commissioner Marcoplos said he agreed with moving up the hydropower feasibility <br /> 13 study. He said in his discussion with Will Atherton, OCS Chair, it was clear to him that OCS <br /> 14 would take the two weeks to firmly decide whether or not to use the monies. <br /> 15 Commissioner Price said when she mentioned COVID-19 she was just making a <br /> 16 statement that other considerations should be taken into effect, not that monies should be <br /> 17 shifted. She said this money was pledged to climate change mitigation, and it should be used <br /> 18 as such. <br /> 19 Commissioner Price said to Commissioner Marcoplos that OCS may well make a <br /> 20 decision within two weeks, but it may not be in favor of solar arrays. <br /> 21 Commissioner Price said she would be in favor of a RFP for school projects, and she <br /> 22 would like to look at all the existing projects again. She said she did not mean to imply moving <br /> 23 these funds away from climate change mitigation. <br /> 24 Commissioner Greene said she agreed with Commissioner Dorosin. She asked if he <br /> 25 intends for the BOCC to move ahead with the hydropower project, or give it back to the CFE. <br /> 26 She said either way it makes sense to her. She said it is clear that CHCCS is not ready to <br /> 27 accept the recommendation of the CFE for the solar arrays, and there should be a reopening of <br /> 28 process for what money is left. <br /> 29 Commissioner Bedford said it is her understanding that neither of the school boards had <br /> 30 any proposals given to them, and CHCCS did not submit any projects, so she is not sure how <br /> 31 this process worked. She said she liked the CFE matrix, and concurred approval of the <br /> 32 hydropower project. She said the Board needs to do some more work on this process, since it <br /> 33 is already April. She said she needs to know how this all works and it is not too late to start <br /> 34 developing projects for next year. She said she agreed with Commissioner Marcoplos about <br /> 35 giving OCS their two weeks, and also the same for CHCCS, for solar arrays project only. She <br /> 36 said she would not substitute any new projects this round, but rather start over in the next <br /> 37 budget year. <br /> 38 Chair Rich agreed with offering to both school districts the two weeks to consider the <br /> 39 solar array projects only. <br /> 40 Commissioner McKee said he is concerned that the Board may be off track, because it <br /> 41 received an email from CHCCS that it no longer supports solar projects. <br /> 42 Chair Rich said Patrick Abele, acting CHCCS Superintendent, said CHCCS has not <br /> 43 declined, but in the original conversations had them not partaking at this point. <br /> 44 Commissioner McKee asked if the Board received something specific <br /> 45 Chair Rich said yes, today from Acting Superintendent Patrick Abele. <br /> 46 Commissioner McKee read the bottom 1/3 of an email from Patrick Abele, CHCCS <br /> 47 Acting Superintendent to Bonnie Hammersley this afternoon: <br /> 48 <br /> 49 "We are hearing that there is discussion in the public today that we have turned down the solar <br /> 50 funds from the BOCC. To clarify, we have never turned down a solar project. We asked the <br /> 51 last time this came up on the agenda that the BOCC allow the Board of Education an <br />