The Ottawa Elementary School Board approved a contract with Temperature Equipment Corp. for geothermal heat pumps.
The heat pumps would be installed in Jefferson and McKinley Elementary School’s so they could take hot air and make it cold so the schools could cool down in the early days of a new year.
But Superintendent Cleve Threadgill says the equipment might not be delivered by June of next year.
Threadgill says the district could have paid an extra $150,000 as a buffer if the pumps were 150 days late .
But he says that money could be put toward something more useful in the district.
He says it’s because of the supply chain shortage.