Waverly Village welcomed a visitor, Tess Bilbrey of ABM Building and Energy Solutions, to conduct a presentation concerning the village’s Infrastructure Renewal Program.

“What ABM does is we work with cites, counties and schools throughout the State of Ohio looking for ways to fund facilities and infrastructure improvements,” Bilbrey said. “We offer a no-cost walk through with one of our energy engineers to go through all the village owned facilities. That includes this building (municipal building), the water treatment plant (and others), and we assess making certain upgrades and what the savings would be to help fund those improvements.”

Bilbrey went on to say ABM really works the municipality to “look at everything and the target down to their most critical infrastructure need.” Bilbrey explained the goal was to improve the work environment for staff and create sustainable buildings for the future.

“With the program, results are guaranteed through legislation that this program runs through,” Bilbrey said. “So (there are) both financial and operational guarantees.”

Bilbrey said there are three categories ABM looks at to try to alleviate a funding gap and the first one she explained was Utility Data Analysis. Bilbrey showed an example of a county ABM examined gas, electric and water bills and calculated that the operational cost was $1.30 per square. ABM came in, made their suggestion and reduced the costs to $.98 per square foot. That equaled almost $90,000 a year.

The second way to alleviate a funding gap is to conduct what is called a Capital Volatility Analysis.

Bilbrey said that a Capital Volatility Analysis allows the company to look at operational and maintenance expenditures. Bilbrey gave the example of an HVAC unit that wasn’t or a leaky roof that money had to be budgeted to repair.

“It helps us identify operational and maintenance repair savings and we work really to get a capital plan,” Bilbrey said.

The third place ABM looks to alleviate a funding gap is grants, Blibrey said that the fact the Village of Waverly has a grant writer is great, and ABM can work with the grant writer to discuss what grants are coming up. Bilbrey said that ABM did this process with the City of Ironton and there was a $4 million project without any money coming out of their general fund. “All of their upgrades came through this program,” Blibrey added.

Bilbrey said that ABM is usually able to save their clients 20 to 30 percent.

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