The big push for energy savings in Santa Rosa City Schools isn’t faring so well. The plan was to get teachers to turn off their computer monitors and forfeit their personal fridges, and to ask students to turn out lights and open windows instead of cranking up the AC. Cutting usage by 10 percent would have saved $190,000 annually — $120,000 of which would go toward the reinstatement of spring sports next year. Well the school board voted to reinstate… Read More »