Remarks from Town of Avon Mayor Tamra Underwood

“Avon’s Public Works Department provides essential public services for the Avon community every day.  We all know the importance of snow removal, which makes the difference between keeping our town running and coming to stand still.  It is Avon’s snowplow drivers that are first on the road, in the very early and dark hours of the morning, that are clearing and opening the roads for all of us.  This Public Works garage is a significant step forward in Avon’s roads maintenance capacity by providing a modern facility where our snow plows are ready to roll when needed in the early morning.”

We are also excited to open this this Public Works garage as an all-electric, modern garage that we believe is the standard for new construction that advances our climate action strategies.  Council debated whether to commit to an all-electric design, which bucks the status quo and conventional design of garages.  We were not able to identify any examples of all-electric public works garages, which left us with the challenge of creating the design for this facility rather than copying an existing design.   Avon Council believes that the time for commitment to all-electric building designs with Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions is NOW, and therefore direct staff to proceed with an all-electric, state-of-the-art design for this facility.

The design of the solar panels, batteries, and electrical heating system required a broad and creative collaboration of many consultants, our contractor and our staff.”