Wednesday, August 7th Status of Air Conditioning at Hopewell High School

We have had concerns expressed by some at the high school saying that the air conditioning is not working and we want to provide facts about the current conditions in the school.

When the rooms were recently reviewed again at 8:30 this morning, 95% of them were running within one degree of set point, which is 73 degrees. This information was reviewed both through the electronic sensors and by physically spot-checking rooms. The 5% of spaces that were not in the low 70s are known issues that we have our contractors working on now and some of those have already been fixed. In cases where those rooms get too warm, we move the class to another location. This is not unusual to happen in a large building in the summer where many of the units are for individual rooms.

Some of the rooms where we had complaints were checked and each of those were confirmed to be 73 degrees. In some cases the humidity levels were higher than preferred but it is part of the issue with the current weather as we pull in fresh air. We have also had some people complain that rooms are too cool when they are also in the low 70s. Ultimately, we aim to ensure every room is within the OSHA standard of 68-76 and as close to the middle of that as possible.

We are continuing to monitor the temperatures as well as look into concerns expressed with any space.