VAC air conditioner exchange becomes one-day event

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Voluntary Action Center’s air condition exchange program will become a one-day event this year, according to a Monday press release from the VAC.

The event will take place 9 a.m.-noon Wednesday, May 21 at the Boone County Community Building at 1413 Range Line Street in Columbia. It was previously a summer-long program, but the release says the new method will help streamline the program “to serve the greatest number of people in the most efficient way possible.”

To be eligible for an air conditioner, residents must be customers of Columbia Water and Light or Boone Electric Cooperative, bring a broken or inefficient window air conditioning unit and provide a copy of their most-recent electric bill sent directly to the VAC by their utility provider, the release says.

The release says that a second exchange date may be added in June, if there’s units still available.