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Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 | 12:52 p.m.
CARSON CITY – After a month of wrangling, the state has freed up its first money to weatherize homes for low income families with federal stimulus funds.
The state Housing Division has released $695,693 to the nonprofit Nevada Rural Housing to weatherize 115 homes by June 30th next year.
Craig Davis, grants and project analyst for the division, said the rural housing unit can now start to negotiate with the private contractors to do the work in Carson City and the counties of Lyon, Douglas and Storey.
Davis said he expects the contracts from the other four nonprofit agencies including Help of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas and Neighborhood Services of Henderson to be signed and returned within the next weeks.
The contractors who are selected by these nonprofit agencies must hire 50 percent of their employees from workers who have gone through state approved apprenticeship programs. And the employees must be paid the prevailing wage in their areas.
Democrats in the Legislature and organized labor battled with Gov. Jim Gibbons over who must be hired to do this work. State Housing Administrator Charles Horsey said each side gave a little and an agreement was reached.
The housing division has another $18 million in stimulus funds to award at a later date.
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For the Rurals...... isn't that special?
Under no circumstance would I allow a union goon on my property to do anything.
I'll take the goon over an illegal any day.
Judy, life does exist outside of Vegas. And are you insinuating that Vegas now cares about energy conservation? Or just the fact that the State is spending money on somebody other than LV? My bet is the latter . . .
We borrow money from future generations to do this?
Lynch the fools who thought of this! Or better yet, vote them out of office. Then using eminent domain, take their property and build a 7-eleven as their legacy.
Aid for weatherizing homes is good public policy. It stimulates the local economy, helps low-income people, and reduces energy consumption, thereby supporting the goal to become energy independent from Middle East oil. I agree with the mainstream policy experts in supporting this.
This reminds me of when the government gave everybody who insulated their homes and put storm windows in their homes a tax break. There were millions of people who took the credit and very few who did the work on their homes. Just another boondoggle.