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‘Cool Schools’ bill passes Legislature
Labor-backed HB
2690 is a key job
creation measure
SALEM — Energy efficiency up-
grades in up to 43 schools will create
family-wage jobs in hard-hit commu-
nities like Pine Eagle, Klamath Falls
and Warrenton this summer under
“Cool Schools” legislation signed into
law June 23 by Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Labor-endorsed House Bill 2960
provides access to financing for school
districts to fix leaky roofs, upgrade in-
efficient lighting and heating and make
other improvements through the Ore-
gon Department of Energy’s Clean En-
ergy Deployment Fund (CEDF). Con-
struction projects will begin this
summer.
“Cool Schools is a triple-win for
Oregon,” said Kitzhaber. “The program
will bring family-wage jobs, cost sav-
ings, and better learning environments
to schools in communities across the
state.”
Kitzhaber said the average Oregon
K-12 public school building is nearly
40 years old, with 14 percent of ele-
mentary schools over 60 years old.
Utility bills at many of the outdated fa-
cilities — often a public schools’ sec-
ond biggest expense — are growing 20
percent every biennium, taking dollars
away from the classroom.
Cool Schools puts Oregonians back
to work across the state by upgrading
these facilities. Kitzhaber estimates
every $1 million invested in energy up-
grades could create 10 to 15 jobs.
...DeFazio opposes all
three trade agreements
(From Page 4)
ment and undecided on the other two.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio vehe-
mently opposes all three agreements.
The Korea agreement will finish off the
U.S. auto parts industry, he told Labor
Press in a phone interview. It will also
provide a tariff-free back door for Chi-
nese-made products, he said, because
products need only have 35 percent
Korean content to get the tariff-free
treatment. The Panama agreement,
meanwhile, “makes the world safer for
drug dealers and people who want to
evade taxes,” DeFazio said. And the
Colombia agreement rewards some of
the worst human rights abuses in the
world.
“Any sane person,” DeFazio said,
“would look at this hemorrhaging of
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industrial capac-
ity and the inter-
national debt
we’ve run up over
the last 20 years
and say, ‘This is
not sustainable.’”
U.S. Rep. Kurt
Schrader has said
R EP . P ETER
he’s leaning to-
D E F AZIO
ward voting for
the Korea agree-
ment, will definitely vote against the
Colombia agreement, and is undecided
on Panama.
And according to her spokesperson,
Southwest Washington Representative
Jaime Herrera Beutler is “still review-
ing the upcoming trade agreements to
understand their potential impact on
Southwest Washington.”
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