When cold weather sends townfolk inside this winter for warmth and comfort, Taft Public Library will be offering a welcome hearth of its own.
The library is getting a new furnace in time for the chilly winter months thanks to a $145,925 grant from a Department of Energy.
Without a furnace, the library would not have been able to stay open, library Director Carrie Grimshaw said.
“When I found out the grant would cover the new furnace, it felt like a weight had been lifted. We’re so thankful,” she said.
Selectmen, who backed the furnace project and 11 others for grant funding in August, signed contracts Tuesday that approve hiring a project manager to oversee the use of federal money.
“There are a lot of details, and we’ve already fallen behind by not having somebody in the position,” Community Preservation Committee Chairwoman Anne Mazar said.
Mazar and interim Town Coordinator Ernest Horn will create a job posting for the temporary, part-time job.
The library is the first town building to get such a grant.
The furnace became a priority after library staff found out the current system is broken.
“(The library) wouldn’t have heat without this new furnace,” Mazar said. “The state has been really helpful in pushing through this paperwork because they realize we have this pressing need.”
The town will get the grant money in four installments over the next two years, meaning Mendon will have to put up the money for the furnace and new light bulbs, as well as the project manager, until the first payment comes in December.
The overall cost for those items is not known yet, but town officials said they should know more after a grant-funded energy audit happens later this month.
Mendon is one of 74 Massachusetts communities to be offered Green Community status and the grant money that comes with it.
Other Green Communities projects in town over the next two years will likely include:
- Replacement of light bulbs in the fire station, police station and senior center
- Weatherization and insulation of the fire station, Town Hall, library, senior center, police station and highway department building
- Replacement of Town Hall boiler burners with more energy-efficient burners and heat manager control, meant to add 10 percent more efficiency
- Replacement of the senior center boiler with a more energy-efficient boiler
- Installation of an air conditioner at Town Hall
- Replacement of the highway building furnace with a more energy-efficient furnace
- Installation of air conditioning at the library
- Replacement of oil heat with propane heat at the fire station
- A new fuel-management system for police cars
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