Blame it on the pandemic and "supply chain problems," says the school district's assistant superintendent of finance.
“I would say the net impact is in the thousands of dollars per month on average, but not in the tens of thousands,” Osborne said. “And yes, there will be a remote override switch so this won’t happen again,” said Mustone, whose company has been in business for more than 40 years. “The lighting system went into default,” said Osborne. “And the default position for the lighting system is for the lights to be on.”
The town leaders added that “this issue may be one of lesser cost or importance in the overall operation of the District, but it is, unfortunately, a visible one.” Osborne said they had no choice but to go back to Reflex Lighting and, with the help of the company’s electrical engineers, they came up with what he described as a “piecemeal” approach to solving the problem by replacing the server, the lighting control boards and other hardware.But the replacement main server wasn’t delivered to Wilbraham until March 2022, which Osborne and Provost described in their letter to town leaders as “relatively on schedule.
Is it so called smart appliances?
Pull the plug
Posted a dozen times since Saturday.
This is beyond ridiculous. WTAF.
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Will someone please show them the master switch on the fuse box.
Is there a fuse box that can be flipped to off at least on weekends?
hard hittin' news, WTF?
There’s not circuit breaker?
How many light bulbs does it take to change a (green agenda) singularity?
HarmlessYardDog The story mentions parts and equipment. That’s a hardware with a bit of software embedded problem, not a software problem.
twitrsukzbigly Software?! Is there not a circuit breaker? My lord.
HarmlessYardDog Imagine being unwilling to just flip the main breaker.
FYI: Apparently, the software system that controls the lighting system failed two summers ago. The parts required to repair it have just arrived from China.
1. Disable the software until it's patched / replaced 2. Flip the switches manually to the 'OFF' position 🤷🏻♂️
HarmlessYardDog Isn’t there a circuit breaker tht they could manually turn off? Granted I will admit that I didn’t read the article.
HarmlessYardDog Last sentence of the article. “We made a deal with the devil by moving the factories to China.” Yep.
HarmlessYardDog LOL
HarmlessYardDog
HarmlessYardDog These students' futures are so bright, they gotta wear shades!
Burn it down. Tax payers having the piss taken out of them every opportunity the government can .
Straight BS.. they could have cut the wire
They never heard of wire cutters?
Also costing taxpayers money, the open southern border. 🤷🏻♂️
Imagine for a second this was a business, how many fines would they have racked up. Govt can't live by the standard they set for others...Dont approve any more funding and maybe they will learn how to turn off the lights.
Did they try turning off the computer that controls it, then turning it back on…..
Unscrew the damn things.
How about a skilled electrician ?
Turn off power from the power plant
Turn off the circuit breaker ya dopes!
HarmlessYardDog
CHINA! Waiting for parts from China. Unacceptable.
I acknowledge the highly Luddite vibe of this comment in advance -- Automation and technology are not the only viable solution to every problem.
Reminds me of the Democrat stuck on an escalator meme.
Pull the plug? Unscrew the bulbs? Cut the wires? There’s plenty you could do.
Surely some expert can fix that.
Must be a big clock
Has anyone ever seen the movie 'the terminator'?....movies becoming real life?...
Wut
Lordy, this looks like something my company would’ve sent me to fix. “Go figure this out!”
How many government officials does it take to turn the lights off?
Merde-a-Lardo has a similar problem: The lights are on but nobody's home.
Really call a electrician
Maybe try unplugging it?
gordonkeith
Aw look, a light for every pedofile California released recently... how... how thoughtful ...
Take out the bulbs. SMFH
What was wrong with the light switches to begin with?
Where is the closest knife switch?
What genius decided they needed a software program to run *checks notes* light switches to begin with?
What the heck
A slingshot in 7000 pebbles will solve this situation
Holy shit
NBC's idea of 'news.'
Throw the main breaker. WTF!!
Don't over engineer simple stuff
lol what?
Bull- walk down to the breaker box and flip the switches
Another exemple of 'Man to the service of the machines' !
Sounds like an excuse for incompetence.
Have they tried clapping?
Why can’t they turn off the light? What did the contractors leave out or what did the architect leave out?
W t f