The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board would like to acknowledge that schools in the OCDSB have received energy efficiency upgrades funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Climate Action Incentive Fund (CAIF) is a federal-provincial cost matching program to help school boards make energy efficiency improvements and retrofits that reduce energy use, costs, and carbon pollution. The federal cost matching portion is up to $40,869,000 and the provincial cost matching portion (through renewal programs) is up to $61,303,500. Eligible expenditures under the program are those that have been incurred by school boards between May 15, 2020 and March 31, 2021 and have been approved by the federal government.
Through this fund, the OCDSB was allocated $1,287,297. These funds were used to support roof and insulation replacements for three schools, Sawmill Creek Elementary School, Bayshore Public School, and Colonel By Secondary School.
To learn more about the Fund, please visit: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/carbon-pollution-pricing-proceeds-programming/climate-action-incentive-fund.html