The Shawnee Mission School District has finally settled with a Texas-based natural gas company and will pay a fraction of its original $1.6 million invoice received after February’s winter storm. Why it matters: After a record cold snap in February, Symmetry Energy Solutions, a third-party natural gas distributor the district contracts with to supply its energy needs, hit Shawnee Mission with the $1.6 million bill — a single-month total nearly three times the district’s natural gas budget for the entire 2020-21 school year. But it wasn’t just Shawnee Mission dealing with this issue. Most of the 180 school districts in Kansas were impacted in similar ways, according to the Kansas Association of School Boards.
Source: Prairie Village Post
