Will The Building Department Give A TCO To An Elementary School With Air Flow Problems That Fank Mazza Has Not Been Able To Correct Since Last June?
A Lab Hired By The Greenwich Post Already Found Mold Growing In The "NEW" 30 Million Dollar Hamilton Avenue School Before Thanksgiving?
The School Superintendent Doesn't Care Of Air Flow Problems Allow Mold To Grow At The "NEW" 30 Million Dollar Hamilton Avenue School
She Will Be Long Gone When The Building Department Is Crucified For Knowingly Approving A School With Air Flow Problems
January move for Hamilton Avenue School proceeds
By Greenwich Time Cub Reporter Colin Gustafson
Article Launched: 12/18/2008 02:35:00 AM EST
Just hours after their plans to move into their newly rebuilt school seemed likely to collapse, Hamilton Avenue School staff late Wednesday received the green light from school officials to continue preparing for the relocation.
"I'm not calling off the move," said Superintendent of Schools Betty Sternberg on Wednesday evening, adding that she was "hopeful, given the efforts that are being made, that the (temporary certificate of occupancy) will be signed by the end of the day Friday."....
Frank "Bungling Fool" Maza's Confusion Would Be Funny If It Wasn't So Expensive To The Greenwich Taxpayers.....
At a morning meeting at the Havemeyer Building, building committee Chairman Frank Mazza revealed that architect Risa Rottenberg had recently identified additional problems with the facility's air-flow system, which officials previously thought were resolved.
He said the architect had submitted a report around 9 p.m. Tuesday identifying 16 new problems, mostly relating to ventilation in the bathrooms, that Rottenberg said would have to be resolved for the school to get a temporary certificate of occupancy.
As it turned out, the fixes listed in the report were actually prerequisites for a certificate of occupancy, which is not needed for students to return next month, rather than a temporary certificate, school officials and committee members confirmed Wednesday evening.
"That's why everybody was so upset at the meeting - these seemed to come out of nowhere," said building committee member Sylvester Pecora.
Mazza said he and fellow committee members were able to resolve the confusion later in the afternoon after placing calls to the architect's firm, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects.......
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