A weatherization demo kit is on display inside a conference room in the city’s Community Services Division.
Photo: Todd Gill, Flyer staff
The city’s Community Services Division is giving away free weatherization kits designed to help qualified homeowners improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
The kits include compact fluorescent light bulbs, water-saving faucet aerators and shower heads, window and door insulation kits, a hot water gauge card, refrigerator and wall plate thermometers, and a switch and outlet sealer kit.
Officials purchased 1,500 of the kits through the city’s Community Development Block Grant program, a federal initiative that provides funding for a wide range of activities including housing rehabilitation for low-to-moderate income homeowners.
Kelly Colebar, project coordinator for the Community Services Division, said she’s received a lot of phone calls from residents interested in applying for the program, and that several kits have already been handed out.
Households must earn less than the following amounts to qualify for a weatherization kit:
| 1-person | 2-person | 3-person | 4-person | 5-person | 6-person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $31,750 | $36,300 | $40,850 | $45,350 | $49,000 | $52,650 |
To apply for a kit, stop by the Fayetteville Community Services Division at 125 W. Mountain St., or call 479-575-8260.
Redistribution of wealth…. I’m glad I paid for those “kits” that will sit in someone’s garage. Why do you have to have a certain income to qualify? Saving energy is saving our planet, ask Al Gorejezara. Regardless of income
Yeah man, the destitute get all the breaks! Keep this on the downlow, but really poor folks get government subsidized healthcare too. What a life!
You get the benefit of a cleaner planet. Congrats!
Poor people are so lucky!
Thank you for providing me with the most ignorant thing I’ve read all day.
It’s federal money that is mandated to got to low income folks. If you don’t like it call your congressman.
And federal monies come from where?
Gotta educate the public somehow, right?
Federal monies come from my pocket. Why can’t I participate in the recompitulation of funds , why are “poor folks” poor? Lazy. Stupid;hippy haters of people who work ? I paid my own way through school and EARNED A masters degree . I ate rice and beans for 5 years. Screw lazy ###%# that want it for free offi my back!
I have my masters degree too. Want to hang out? I mean that makes us cool right? A masters is the new bachelors. Come on now, because you went to school makes you no better than anyone else. Hell, if I were a plumber I would make more money than I do now.
What’s wrong with being a plumber? Just because you don’t go to college and recieve a 30,000 dollar piece of paper doesn’t make us uneducated hillbillies.
I believe that Mr. blow was pointing out the lack of necessity for a college degree for making a decent living– not making plumbers out to be uneducated hillbillies.
That’s crazy! All federal money comes from your pockets! Sounds like you can afford to buy your own weatherization kit.
It took you 5 years to get a masters? Wow you must have been one lazy student.
For every lazy poor person thats leeching off you there’s at least one trust fund baby thats a bigger waste to society. I’d suggest to stop painting with such a broad brush and save it for the teabag rally, Gomer.
RE “Why can’t I participate in the recompitulation of funds?”
You can, and do– and not as a donor. Arkansas has been a net recipient of federal funding for years. In 2005, Arkansas received $1.41 in federal spending for every tax dollar paid. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/ In 2010, though the overall amount received was 73 cents for each tax dollar paid, the per-capita amount was still $1.02 per dollar paid. Looks like we need better representation in Congress. Our Teabaggers aren’t helping us.
If it makes you feel any better, the poor lazy people get energy-efficiency kits. The industrious Waltons (what exactly is the work they do?) got I-540 and a regional airport. Taxpayers in the red states are the real socialists.
RE “I ate rice and beans for 5 years.”
Oh, waaah. I still eat rice and beans, because they’re cheap, tasty, and good for you. Maybe you should learn to cook.
“recompitulation”?
Yeah, Dave, I think we should refudiate that word.
Oh, I don’t know. As a coinage, it is almost adequate, though not scrumtrelescent. The rest of the post can be dismissed due to its craniopygian content, however.
Recompitulation… sounds perfectly cromulent to me.
All these big words! I need a Thesolarius!
Red state… Blue state, purple state. The government generates no income, they take our money. Free is not. It is redistribution, someone pays for free. As far as rice and beans I still eat them and find them tasty. As far as my masters degree, mine allowed me to obtain a career that is well beyond underwater pumpkin carving and I make a tidy sum. It is my money and I like to keep it . As far as ‘trust funders’ they are forced to redistribute and contribute to the economy overall by buying ‘rich people stuff’.
Trollgratulations!
RE “The government generates no income”
The government, by providing an environment within which it is possible for citizens to prosper, assists citizens in generating income. The self-sufficient, patriotic citizen, in turn, recognizes his limitations, appreciates the leg-up, and pays for it through taxes.
RE ” It is my money and I like to keep it ”
It is not all your money. Don’t be a schnorrer.
RE “Free is not. It is redistribution”
Do you have auto, homeowner’s, or health insurance? Same thing. Do you ever eat at a buffet? Same thing.
RE “As far as ‘trust funders’ they are forced to redistribute and contribute to the economy overall by buying ‘rich people stuff’.”
Yes, I had to stop at a car dealership the other day and beat a guy with an umbrella until he bought a Mercedes instead of a Kia. Oh, the duress!
Gomer Pyle the television character was a kind, patriotic person with a certain amount of native intelligence. You aggrandize yourself, and do him no favors, by using his name.
By the way– I have two Masters degrees. I also avoid posting comments that make me look so stupid that I have to brag about my education and my income in order to make up for them.
Wonder if Private Pyle went to a state school. You know, one funded by taxpayers. That uses roads, electricity, etc., funded by taxpayers. Maybe he forged his own path from self-sufficiencyville. Go Galt, brother.