Who read the air cond memo?

Is cooling the region a key performance requirement for SWDC?

Or did they forget to send the memo about air conditioning, how it works _ and costs?

The front door at the council’s offices on Kitchener Street are a model of aircond decorum. Movement activation/automation means minimum time for the interior air to be displaced/replaced by the warmer outside in summer _ or colder outside in winter.

It also means the cost of the office aircond for the bill-payers (aka ratepayers) should be reasonably contained. 

Perhaps one of the amenities staff on the council could be deployed to consider the door issues at the council’s other main Martinborough office facility _ the Waihinga Centre.

There, much to the chagrin of at least one grumpy ratepayer, summer’s heat sees two or three main access doors deactivated and/or propped open during normal operating hours.

So, the Martinborough Library, Knucklebone Cafe and i-Site staff working inside the complex face open doors. The result is an aircond unit permanently churning away as it seeks to cool the whole region by dragging in the hotter outside air. 

Open doors ensure that. The electricity bill must be significant.

But by closing the wide-open doors to allow the aircond to ventilate and cool the interior, one would assume the electricity costs would be significantly reduced. 

The grumpy resident could feel a little less irritated by thinking the Waihinga Centre’s power costs have gone down, even if his rates have increased 76 percent in five years _ with double digits to come this year?