Centura Public School District completed a district-wide infrastructure renewal project to improve classroom learning environments and operational cost containment. Utilizing Nebraska’s Energy Performance Contracting legislation, the school district was able to lower annual operational and utility costs to self-fund more than $732,000 in facility improvements, at no taxpayer expense or out-of-pocket cost to the district.

Anger can be a useful emotion when it allows us to set things right or to establish necessary boundaries. Therefore there are times when anger is even justified and appropriate. The real difficulty is getting angry at the right time, then directing our anger at the appropriate person and to the right degree, and finally moving on to other more productive pursuits. Too often we hold our anger in and then seethe about it for hours, days or even weeks. Anger can be incredibly debilitating, sapping us of energy and not allowing us to focus on more productive pursuits. And sometimes, while we are deciding if we can risk expressingourangerattheappropriate person, we may direct it at the wrong people, such as our family or friends. If we are justifiably angry with someone we must first decide what the right amount of anger is, or more precisely, what we should actually say or do about the matter at hand. Once we have made that decision, we need to have the courage of our convictions and say what needs to be said being careful not to under- or overstate our case. And finally, then we must move on; life is waiting.

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