A cool new method to weatherize your house!
Alexandra Coe struggled to pay her $200-a-month gas expenses final winter in her drafty 80-year-old home in North Chattanooga.
But the Spears Avenue house owner hopes to have an easier time in the colder months ahead this yr, thanks to new attic insulation, window and door seals, heating ducts and a water heater wrap installed through a federally funded weatherization plan.
"This is going to be especially beneficial to me to assist cut each my electricity and gas expenses," Coe stated Thursday while contractors created almost $6,500 in improvements to her house.
Coe is the 430th homeowner in Hamilton County to receive house weatherization upgrades since July, when Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprises took over the federal plan.
Previously, the program was run by the city's Division of Individual Companies, which weatherized only 83 houses within the initial yr of the program, failing to satisfy federal performance standards.
Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield, who shifted the failing plan from the metropolis agency to CNE after dismissing former metropolis Department of Individual Services Director Bernadine Turner, stated the alter "turned what was moving toward a disastrous situation into one with a very pleased ending."
CNE President David Johnson stated that, within the past 3 months, the agency's seven-person weatherization staff has computerized records, expedited qualifying applications and employed 17 contractors to carry out the work. So far, CNE contractors have created a total of $1.5 million in house weatherization upgrades, he stated.
Johnson said CNE is looking to invest an additional $1 million in extra house weatherization in the subsequent yr before the federal stimulus funds expire "and we hope to continue to sustain this profitable plan for years within the future" utilizing other federal, condition and private help.
"This is an investment that will assist families save hundreds of dollars each year on the energy expenses," he said.
Littlefield said he had to convince Tennessee Individual Services Commissioner Gina Lodge this spring not to reduce off Chattanooga's $3.6 million allocation for weatherization following the Individual Companies workplace failed to satisfy even half of its targeted objective.
Statewide, Tennessee completed weatherizing 40 % of the budgeted 10,500 houses by the end of August, which placed the Volunteer State sixth among the 50 states, according to the U.S. Division of Power.
The state has allocated $42 million of its $99 million allocation for weatherization.
The funding for many stimulus programs ended Thursday, but CNE and the 17 other agencies administering the stimulus-funded weatherization help in Tennessee will have until Sept. 30, 2011, to spend all the funds, state Division of Human Services Director MIchelle Mowery Johnson stated.
To obtain Help
* The program is obtainable to Hamilton County homeowners and renters who make as much as twice the poverty rate, or $4,100 annual earnings for a family of 4.
* If authorized, an power auditor will inspect the house and make suggestions; CNE-approved contractors carry out the work.
A cool new method to weatherize your house!
By: Lincoln Schmidt
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