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Town hall to touch on connection,
values, equity
SILVERTON – City councilors and
school district board members have in-
vited the public to attend a town hall
meeting at Silverton High School on
Monday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.
Spanish interpretation will be pro-
vided.
This year’s town hall is a public dis-
cussion with facilitator Chisao Hata,
who returns to Silverton after hosting a
community dialogue in August at Silver
Falls Library entitled, “Can We Get
Along?”
Hata’s August visit was part of the
statewide Conversation Project orga-
nized by Oregon Humanities, an inde-
pendent, non-profit affiliate of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities.
The organization’s vision is “an Oregon
that invites diverse perspectives, ex-
plores challenging questions and
strives for just communities,” accord-
ing to its description in the Oregon Blue
Book.
Attendees at the Nov. 18 event are
being encouraged to “listen to commu-
nity members, participate in small
group exchanges, and ask questions of
the City Council and School Board.”
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Lighting
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ficiency and renewable energy compa-
ny based out of New York, for manage-
ment of the project.
Replacement of the bulbs and fix-
tures started in July, and Stanley esti-
mates the project to be 90 to 95 percent
completed – most left to replace is at
the high school – with completion ex-
pected by the end of the year.
The district took on a 15-year loan to
pay for the project and will pay it off
with the $87,000 it expects to save in
energy each year, a rebate from Energy
Trust of Oregon and reimbursement
through the Oregon Department of En-
ergy.
Stanley said it was helpful to have
Ameresco coordinate the LED work –
including bringing in contractors and
electricians – as he had his hands full
elsewhere.
Over the past few years, Silverton’s
school district has undertaken seismic
projects at five schools, including work
at Mark Twain Elementary School and
Silverton Middle School last summer.
“You have the old, original 1938 brick
building that’s two and in some cases
three story,” Stanley said of Silverton
Middle School.
Big gymnasiums a big challenge
Gyms are often the most difficult
spaces in schools for lighting.
Malezos said since gyms are fre-
quently used year-round and late into
evenings, coordinating installers can
be challenging.
Another challenge is there are often
items like the rope batting cage in Sil-
verton High School’s auxiliary gym.
Stanley said a challenge was to figure
out how to drop the batting cages to the
floor to change the fixtures to LED.
“We were set up and we had a sched-
ule to do it, and then we ran into a glitch
that we have a very complicated digital
lighting system in the gym,” Stanley
said.
Stanley said the first fixtures deliv-
ered were not compatible with the digi-
tal system. Anthony Marinello, a fore-
man for contractor Northwest Edison,
said they are waiting for a test LED for
the main gym to arrive to try it and
make sure it will work with the digital
fixture.
With thousands of bulbs in fixtures
LED lights are installed in the
counseling center at Silverton High
School on Nov. 4, 2019. Bulbs and
fixtures are being upgraded to LED
lighting in the Silver Falls School
District as part of a $1.8 million
project. ANNA REED / STATESMAN JOURNAL
from different time periods in use, there
inevitably were some surprisingly
hard-to-find bulbs, such as in the aisle
lighting in the auditorium.
"There’s three different types of
bulbs in those throughout the whole
place," Marinello said. "You get in there
and you start changing them and you’re
like well, we ordered 150 of this one
style, but now there’s other styles and
we have to open every single one up. We
had to go through and open every single
one and get a count. They’re coming."
Maltezos said Ameresco has done
similar projects at 400 school districts
across the country.
“We have experience helping several
Oregon school districts with their up-
grades, including Portland Public
Schools and Junction City School Dis-
trict, to name a few,” he said.
Stanley said with construction
booming, it has made it hard to find
maintenance employees for the district
with the certification to do much of the
lighting work on a regular basis.
Though the new fluorescent and in-
candescent bulbs that were in Silver-
ton’s schools are rated the same as the
more efficient LED bulbs that are re-
placing them, the new lighting often
appears brighter.
Stanley said the difference with the
new LED lighting has been noticed in
the schools in Silverton: he has seen
joke emails of people having to wear
sunglasses or a welding hood as every-
thing seems brighter.
“There’s a definite improvement in
almost everywhere we’ve been,” Stan-
ley said. “The light levels are equal to or
much better than they have been. Ev-
erything is sharper.”
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