Joseph Mahoney, the IT director for the City of Watertown came to our class today to thanks us for sending a good idea and to say that he would instruct all Watertown offices and agencies to "change the margins" to save paper. This includes the schools, public works and all at City Hall. He expects this to happen in 2 or so weeks. Mr. Mahoney was clear that he would monitor how our "change the margins" measure was working and would create methods to analyze the results. Mr. Mahoney said he also would encourage more double sided printing, when replacing older machines he would buy machines that printed doubled sided and implement other methods to use less paper. He promised to report to us through the summer and even into next year, if we wanted.
Thanks to the work of all the 4th grade, Ilana and Eric in particular, we have made a real difference in our community.
Special thanks to Watertown Council Member, Susan Falkoff, for being in our corner from the very beginning. Her advice and encouragement have been invaluable.
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