Schools target solar grant
Squabble erupts over where solar panels should be placed

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Bill Donovan
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — The Gallup/McKinley County Schools system is going after a state grant to become a part of a federal project to make school districts greener.

At the last school board meeting, board members gave the OK for the Gallup-McKinley County Public School District to submit a grant application to the state to go after a solar panel project that would reduce the district’s cost for electrical power by as much as $250,000 a year.

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