DailyReporter.com – February 4, 2010: James Westring is getting a lot of phone calls about weatherization work, but not much follow through.
“Interest is steady,” said Westring, the owner of Madison-based Westring Construction LLC. “I get people calling me up about weatherizing their homes, and then they go and get two or three other estimates. What’s not happening is signed contracts.”
State Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, wants to turn that around. Wisconsin does not yet know its share of a recently announced federal stimulus grant program to provide more than $11 billion nationwide for energy efficiency projects. But Mason — under a bill introduced this week — would use the money in a revolving loan program that would combine the stimulus money with investment from private utilities to encourage more homeowners to weatherize their homes.
Mason said his bill would help homeowners pay for improvements, create weatherizing jobs and stretch the stimulus money.
