Thursday, October 1, 2026
Lynbrook Mayor William Hendrick has announced that village’s energy savings project has won the New York State American Public Works Association Project of the Year Award.
“Our new energy savings measures are seen as innovative and a cost effective way for Lynbrook to upgrade aging infrastructure, while reducing our utility expense at no cost to taxpayers,” said Hendrick.
To secure another tax savings measure, Hendrick and Deputy Mayor Alan Beach sought to find a program that would reduce its budget for operational and capital improvements.
The most important issue to tackle was a way to reduce expenses and offset tax burdens for the families of Lynbrook. This came about by trimming one of Lynbrook’s largest expenses, electrical usage, and its accompanying infrastructure.
After much research and a request for proposals, the Village entered into an energy performance contract with Johnson Controls Inc. in order to develop a specifically crafted project for Lynbrook. This reduced expenses and also improved the infrastructure at all Village-owned facilities.
Utilizing a combination of secured NYSERDA Stimulus funds, utility rebates, and reduced costs for service contracts, this led to significantly, said Hendrick.
The major component to this contract is the guaranteed savings of energy performance at a specified annual amount over the term of the 15-year contract. Installing new LED streetlights, Solar PV, a Village Hall A/C Chiller, new pool pumps and preheat system will guarantee savings to the Village. These savings will amount in over 32 percent of energy savings, along with $410,000 in ARRA/Utility rebates, which already have been paid to the Village.
Hendrick praised his Village DPW Superintendent Phil Healey for his work, along with Tom Burke of Johnson Controls, in seeing this project to fruition, and said that he hopes other municipalities will duplicate this project.
“Smarter, more efficient Village buildings not only have lower utility bills and lower costs to operate, but also improve the health, safety, and comfort of the people occupying, visiting, and working in them,” said Hendrick.
“This project is very important to the Mayor, the Board of Trustees and myself,” said Beach. “Improved street lighting provides brighter, more secure streets for the safety of our residents.”
The service improvements to the Village, in addition to those previously mentioned include the replacement of all 1,250 existing streetlights. The balance of the improvements, including interior lighting, insulation, weather stripping, window films, interlocks and doorframe improvements will serve to give greater savings to the residents of Lynbrook.
