The School District will conserve energy resources by:

1. Periodic review of procurement procedures and specifications to ensure that purchased products and supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled materials, if economically and practically feasible.

2. Purchasing recycled paper and paper products in amounts that will, at a minimum, meet the specifications in The School Code, if economically and practically feasible.

3. Periodic review of procedures on the reduction of solid waste generated by academic, administrative, and other institutional functions. These procedures shall: (a) require recycling the District’s waste stream, including landscape waste, computer paper, and white office paper, if economically and practically feasible; (b) include investigation of the feasibly of potential markets for other recyclable materials that are present in the District’s waste stream; and (c) be designed to achieve, before July 1, 2020, at least a 50% reduction in the amount of solid waste that is generated by the District.

4. Adherence to energy conservation measures.

Cross Reference: 

• 4:060 Purchases and Contracts

Legal Reference(s): 

• 105 ILCS 5/10-20.19c
• 105 ILCS 5/10-20.21
• 105 ILCS 5/10-22.34c
• 105 ILCS 5/19b-1 et seq.
• 820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq.

Date Adopted:   February 24, 2009

The Superintendent or designee shall manage a program of energy and resource conservation for the District that includes:

1. Periodic review of procurement procedures and specifications to ensure that purchased products and supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled materials, if economically and practically feasible.

2. Purchasing recycled paper and paper products in amounts that will, at a minimum, meet the specifications in The School Code, if economically and practically feasible.

3. Periodic review of procedures on the reduction of solid waste generated by academic, administrative, and other institutional functions. These procedures shall: (a) require recycling the District’s waste stream, including landscape waste, computer paper, and white office paper, if economically and practically feasible; (b) include investigation of the feasibly of potential markets for other recyclable materials that are present in the District’s waste stream; and (c) establish a goal for the reduction in the amount of solid waste generated by the District, when it is economically and practically feasible to do so.

4. Energy conservation measures.

Cross Reference: 

• 4:060 Purchases and Contracts
• 4:150 Facility Management and Building Programs

Legal Reference(s): 

• 105 ILCS 5/10-20.19c
• 105 ILCS 5/19b.

Date Adopted:   February 24, 2009