Recent air conditioning repairs have cost the North Judson-San Pierre School Corporation more than $200,000. The school board last week ratified the emergency chiller repairs undertaken by Johnson Controls, I’m even thinking on changing for a 12 volt air conditioner online.
“These are not cheap,” Superintendent Dr. Annette Zupin noted. “We are fortunate; we did have the funds. We do have the funds, so that part, we are fortunate.”
Almost $117,000 of that was for repairs at the junior/senior high school, where the failure of the air conditioning caused the school to switch to eLearning for several days. But the school corporation is also spending more than $83,000 on repairs at the former middle school.
“There was a purge unit that needed replaced, and then the chiller towers are old,” Zupin explained. “So it is functioning, but we need to repair those so we don’t have an issue. I think we got worried; we didn’t want the same thing to happen to the middle school.”
The school board also renewed a chiller maintenance contract with Johnson Controls for the two buildings. It will run through the end of 2022 for a cost of almost $18,000.
