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The main HR contact for the Housing Stability department.
Who is Leticia Vitela?
A unit of electrical power, measuring the rate at which energy is used or produced
What is a watt or kilowatt (W/KW)?
An energy efficiency label program by the DOE and EPA.
What is Energy Star?
Money paid for the care of one’s minor child.
What is Child Support?
The recommended water temperature for safety and energy efficiency.
What is 120 degrees F?
The email address you contact if you can't log into the Help Desk portal.
What is helpdesk@caowash.org?
The measurement that natural gas is sold in (US)
What are Therms?
This appliance that is in almost all US homes uses the same thermodynamic cycle as a heat pump but with the goal of cooling instead of heating.
What is a refrigerator?
Benefits paid directly to a person who has served in a military force or a surviving family member
What are Veterans Benefits?
This inflatable device is placed inside an unused fireplace flue to stop warm indoor air from escaping up the chimney.
What is a chimney balloon?
The HR contact for questions regrading Benefits and Leave.
Who is Deb Neuman?
The SI (International System of Units) unit for pressure
What is a Pascal?
This working fluid circulates through a heat pump or refrigerator, changing between liquid and vapor.
What is a refrigerant?
An allowance paid to a person by that person’s spouse or former spouse for living expenses
What is Alimony?
When relative humidity reaches this percentage, fog, dew, or clouds are likely to form.
What is 100%?
Where you go to file an incident report
What is the Intranet?
The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit
What is a British Thermal Unit (BTU)?
This outdoor unit of a home heat pump often contains both the compressor and the fan.
What is the condenser unit?
A federal income supplement program funded by general tax revenues designed to help aged, blind, and disabled people, who have little or no income
What is Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?
What appliance contributes the most to "baseload" energy usage?
What is the water heater?
The number of departments in the Housing Stability Department.
What is 6? (Coordinated Systems, Emergency Rent, Utility Assistance, Energy Conservation, Housing and Stability Services, and Family Shelter)
SI unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its point of application moves one meter in the direction of action of the force
What is a Joule (J)?
This metric, abbreviated COP, measures how effectively a heat pump moves heat compared to the work it uses.
What is the Coefficient of Performance?
A specified income payable at stated intervals for a fixed or a contingent period, often for the recipient’s life
What is Annuities?
Produced by the decay of uranium, this is the second-leading cause of lung cancer.
What is radon?