Fayette County Public Schools is dedicated to sustainability and energy efficiency.  We believe that energy efficiency and sustainable operations are important to protect our environment, to preserve our natural resources, and to encourage responsible spending of our community’s tax dollars.  Fayette County Schools will be a national leader in sustainability, energy efficiency and sustainable (environmental) education.

Our objective is to be a national leader in sustainability and energy education.  The energy conservation choices that we face today are complex and possible solutions are highly variable and difficult to identify and sometimes expensive. Success can be a nebulous term that unless effectively measured can be difficult to achieve.

Increased utility bills, numerous governmental fees, increased operational and staffing costs are altering the way school administrators, teachers and parents must view schools.  Finding money for important programs and basic supplies is becoming more difficult.  Today, more than ever the Fayette County School System must alter the way we have viewed our schools in the past and find ways to make them more efficient, productive and create great places to learn.  FCPS must recognize the need to look toward the future to anticipate higher operational costs and establish clear priorities and prepare ourselves for addressing them.

FCPS’s success will depend on a variety of critical factors:

First FCPS’s must set the right goals for reducing energy costs and providing a healthy environment for our students.  Close collaboration and good communications with our sustainability team members and outside partners will be critical in establishing baselines, setting meaningful goals and developing the strategies and approaches that will achieve the intended results.

FCPS and our partners will need the best available scientific, engineering and economic information to establish priorities and make good decisions.  Sound engineering, science and technology will help determine which issues pose the best opportunities for operational savings and educational improvements.  Reliable economic information will ensure our ability to make cost effective decisions.

FCPS must collect the information needed to assess where the school system is and where we need to go.  Establishing a baseline of current conditions by identifying and monitoring a variety of key indicators can help us not only to set goals and develop strategies but also to assess our progress and evaluate our performance.

FCPS must plan and continue to explore new and creative ways to achieve our goals.  FCPS must look for innovative ways to address high energy priorities, educational opportunities and energy design standards.

Finally, FCPS’s future success depends on our ability to develop, train and sustain a highly skilled, adaptable, results oriented workforce.  We must ensure that the workforce will be provided with the right mix of training, access to technical expertise, experience and leadership capabilities to achieve our energy and sustainability goals and carry out our educational programs.

Fayette County Public School has established a Sustainability Council made up of a crosssection of FCPS and community stakeholders whose charge is to develop a comprehensive, realistc, impactful and visionary district Sustainability Plan.  To see a list of members of our Sustainability Council and a current copy of the FCPS Sustainability Plan, check the menu to your right.