Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his first plans for creating jobs on Tuesday, starting with energy audits.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his first plans for creating jobs on Tuesday, starting with energy audits.
He instructed the Department of Energy to use $2 million of leftover federal stimulus dollars to conduct audits on 500 schools.
Kitzhaber says the energy dollars will create about 20 new jobs. He expects to have about $70 million available by summer to retrofit schools once their needs are determined. The money would come from a nine-year-old law that takes 3 percent of energy revenue from the state’s two largest utilities for school projects.
The money should be directed to schools dispersed throughout the state to maximize the impact, Kitzhaber said
Kitzhaber also said he intends to set regular meetings with key business leaders, in part to send the message that he’s serious about job creation and committed to making changes needed to achieve it.
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