SHARON SCHOOLS Recycling efforts add up
Selling salvage has produced enough money for a multipurpose tractor.
By HAROLD GWIN
VINDICATOR SHARON BUREAU
SHARON, Pa. -- Projects by the city school district's maintenance crew are paying off.
Workers salvaged recyclable materials from two elementary-school renovation/expansion projects and will be doing the same with the high school renovation.
The money is adding up -- enough for the district to buy a front-end loader/forklift tractor without dipping into the general fund.
Supervisor Ralph Trenga said his crew has spent a lot of its own time removing salvageable material from the building projects and selling it to companies that can use it.
The plan should net between $15,000 and $20,000 from the aluminum in the windows being replaced at the high school and $10,000 from materials in the boiler room.
Discount on tractor: Sharon has been offered a 29-percent discount on a new Massey-Ferguson tractor that would have a retail value of more than $50,000, Trenga told the school board at a work session Wednesday.
The district's cost of about $36,000 would be covered by the salvage funds.
Business manager James Wolf said the salvage account stands at $30,000 after about $15,000 was spent on other equipment.
Trenga said the district will have to borrow about $6,000 for the tractor but that will be made up quickly through salvage work at the high school.
Wolf estimated that effort should net about $50,000.
The district plans to issue identification badges for all workers on the $13 million high school project.
Superintendent Richard Rossi said they will be required to have the same background clearance checks that teachers and volunteers who work with students must get.
The badges, color-coded by company, will be used to control who has access to the building.