As part of the Town’s commitment to help address climate change and reduce its carbon footprint, the Town of Gorham applied for and was selected as a recipient of a Community Action Grant award from the Community Resilience Partnership.
Gorham received an award of $56,077 to retrofit municipal buildings with LED lighting, which will improve energy efficiency and save local taxpayers money by lowering long-term costs. Gorham Facilities Coordinator Kevin Wood stated that Gorham will also receive $11,103 in funding from Efficiency Maine for this project.

As part of this project, 488 fluorescent lights were replaced with energy-saving LED fixtures, helping to reduce the Town’s carbon footprint and lower energy costs.

As of May 28, most light fixtures on the first floor of the Gorham Municipal Center were replaced and as of June 10, the lighting retrofit project was completed at the Gorham Municipal Center. The Gorham Recreation Department had previously installed LED lights in the Shaw Gym and the Council Chambers were also recently converted to LED fixtures making the whole Municipal Center updated.

Rep. Parnell Terry, D-Gorham, released the following statement in support of the funding: “I applaud our municipal staff, in particular Assistant Town Planner Damon Yakovleff, Facilities Coordinator Kevin Wood and Town Engineer Chuck Norton, for their work to seek out this grant funding and spearhead this effort. This lighting project will help to reduce Gorham’s operational costs that are borne by our taxpayers, by creating more reliable, resilient and efficient facilities that will also contribute to our sustainability goals.”