Invest In Mesa County

INVEST in Mesa County is a broad-based community initiative being placed on the November ballot to stimulate the economy of Mesa County. This initiative would allow you to voluntarily install a myriad of energy improvements on your residence, business or nonprofit facility.

Among the potential options are improving insulation, a variety of space heating and cooling improvements, high efficiency boilers, ground-source heat pumps, high efficiency furnaces, new lighting, water heating, new windows, reflective roofing, crawl-space mitigation, and wood/pellet stoves. In addition, solar electric, solar thermal and small wind installations would be funded.

The key to this initiative is it is a completely voluntary funding mechanism for retrofitting existing homes and businesses with energy improvements. The payments for the financing would be made through a special improvement district run by Mesa County.

This economic stimulus mechanism has been approved in more than 26 states as a way to get Americans working again. If you work in one of the above industries or believe this is an important way to reinvigorate the Mesa County economy, you should call your local Mesa County Commissioner and tell them that they need to support this issue and get it on the ballot.

For more information or to find out how you can get involved, contact 314-2679. You can also find information on the web at http://www.pacenow.org/