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Town Of Greenwich Building Inspectors Are Doing Their Job And Are Demanding Safety-Related Modifications That Will Protect Hamilton Avenue Children
Greenwich School Board Members Are Were Still Not Ready To Abandon Their Delay-Of-School Plan.
STOP THE MADNESS: Board Members Are Going With Frank Mazza's Plan Of Pushing Back The Deadline Yet Once Again.
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Forget About the 8th, Frank Mazza Now Thinks He Can Deliver The Occupancy Certificate To August. 15th.
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"No. It's never going to happen", said Joseph Pontoriero, president of Bethel-based Worth..""They (the inspectors) are coming in and telling us what to, and we're moving as fast as we can to go and fix it."
"At this point, it's too early to say what we'll do when we're facing such an uncertain situation," said board member Michael Bodson, who has strongly supported Frank Mazza, Betty Sternberg and Susan Wallerstein. "We'll be pushing it close to the drop-dead deadline if we go to the fifteenth (of August). É But if, by then, we're looking at having to make just a few modifications, we'll stick with the delay."
"I cannot answer as to what will happen," Nancy Weissler, chairwoman of the board, and who pushed to have Frank Mazza be in charge of the Glenville School Building Committee, "but we obviously don't want to rule out adjusting to address the needs of students."
"We've been hearing this since last September - that the project will be finished by this date, then that date," Alex Capozza, the mother of a Hamilton Avenue student, said. "I don't believe any of it anymore. The community is already hurting. If we have to go through more delays, I'm scared of what will happen." STORY:
The fix is not in: Ham Ave. still might not be readyJust when the end appeared in sight, the long-delayed Hamilton Avenue School reconstruction project has hit another snag.........The impending delay threatens to derail the Board of Education's plan, approved at a special meeting at Greenwich High School on Tuesday, to push back Hamilton Avenue's school year by more than a week to give the contractor extra time to finish work.
Under that plan, the building would have had to receive a temporary certificate of occupancy by Aug. 8, so as to provide four weeks before the start of classes to allow teachers to move into their classrooms and environmental inspectors to conduct tests.
The impending delay threatens to derail the Board of Education's plan, approved at a special meeting at Greenwich High School on Tuesday, to push back Hamilton Avenue's school year by more than a week to give the contractor extra time to finish work.
Under that plan, the building would have had to receive a temporary certificate of occupancy by Aug. 8, so as to provide four weeks before the start of classes to allow teachers to move into their classrooms and environmental inspectors to conduct tests....
Please Also See:The contractor overseeing the reconstruction of Hamilton Avenue School is firing back at town officials who suggested the firm is largely to blame for delays that have spanned three years.
Since work began in 2005, town officials have repeatedly haggled with the contractor, Worth Construction, over how much money each party should pay for several unforeseen costs and design modifications, known as change orders, in the project.
Worth Construction President Joseph Pontoriero said his firm has always been committed to completing the project on time, but that underfunding and design flaws - coupled with a lack of cooperation by town officials - had doomed the project to a late finish.
"The truth of the matter is without direction from the owner (the Hamilton Avenue School building committee) in regard to the over 450 requests for information, over 200 proposed change orders, hundreds of design sketches, numerous changes and bulletins, and the delay in issuing change orders," he said, "there is no way this project could have been completed in a timely manner.".....
.......In May, the building committee sought an additional $200,000 to complete the Hamilton Avenue School. The request came four months after the RTM authorized $133,000 for unexpected cost overruns, and a year after the legislative body consented to another $545,000 in contingency funds.
Throughout the fall of 2007, the town also haggled with the construction firm over who would pay to heat the building last winter while work was being done. The town agreed to pay for the heat, but not before the project was delayed several weeks.
In related news, the Glenville School building committee will meet privately this morning to plan the opening phases of a long-awaited project raze and rebuild the aging facility.
According to Frank Mazza, who also heads the Glenville building committee, crews will first conduct abatements procedures at the site before demolishing the school.
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07/28/08 Parential Insiders Say: Greenwich BOE Going To Temporarily Disperse Western Greenwich School Children All Over Town
07/29/08 We Hate To Say We Told You So, But......
07/31/08 Ace Reporter Chris Fountain Was The Only One Smart Enough To Do A Simple Google Search
- The School Building Committee Has Been Dealing With The Mob All Along.
Did Frank Mazza Offer To Give An Extra $300,000 To A Bunch Of Mobbed Up Contractors?
Or
Did The Mobbed Up Contractors Tell Frank Mazza To Get Them $300,000?
Is Stephen G. Walko And The Rest Of The Greenwich BET going to approve giving an extra $300,000 of your tax dollars to a mobbed up contractor?The School Building Committee Has Been Dealing With The Mob All Along.
Did Frank Mazza Offer To Give An Extra $300,000 To A Bunch Of Mobbed Up Contractors?
Or
Did The Mobbed Up Contractors Tell Frank Mazza To Get Them $300,000?
Is Stephen G. Walko And The Rest Of The Greenwich BET going to approve giving an extra $300,000 of your tax dollars to a mobbed up contractor?
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A Greenwich woman missing for two days was found Friday at a hotel in Nanuet, N.Y.
Rosa Packard, 73, was located at 3 p.m., at the Comfort Inn Suites, according Lt. Daniel Allen, Greenwich police spokesman.
A staff member at the hotel asked Packard whether she intended to stay another night and Packard said she was waiting for someone to pick her up. The clerk offered to call for her and got through to a concerned family member who told the clerk to contact the police, according to Lorrie Crouch, general manager of the hotel.
The Clarkstown Police in Rockland County responded to the hotel and stayed for approximately two hours with Packard, until a family member came to pick her up, Crouch said.
"It all worked out," she said.
It is unknown why Packard was in Nanuet, said Sgt. Thomas Kelly.
Greenwich police have not yet spoken with her and will reach out to her at a later date to find out what her activities were, Allen said.
On Wednesday, Packard, a retired teacher, was reported missing by family members. She was last seen taking money out of a bank in Glenville around 10 a.m.
"She has a routine and this was not consistent with what she does," Allen said.....
Please See YESTERDAYS News About Rosa Packard Being Found In New York:
08/01/08 Breaking News - Rosa Packard Is Found Alive and Well In New York
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ALSO: Missing Greenwich woman, 73, found in Nanuet
By Hoa Nguyen • The Journal News
A missing
Greenwich, Conn., woman was found in the Comfort Inn Suites in Nanuet yesterday after hotel personnel realized something may have been wrong with the 73-year-old,
Greenwich police said.
"She seemed disoriented," Sgt. Mark Zuccerella said.
Rosa Packard was reported missing Wednesday from Greenwich. She last was seen in a bank withdrawing money, police said. Apparently, she made her way in a Toyota Prius to Nanuet where she checked into the hotel, Zuccerella said.
Noticing something may have been wrong with her, an employee called Packard's home phone and got into contact with someone who lives with the woman, police said. From there, Packard's family members drove to Nanuet to pick her up and brought her to Greenwich Hospital, where she is undergoing evaluation, Zuccerella said.
"The family has reunited and they're taking care of her," he said.
Clarkstown police said they also made contact with the woman to check on her welfare. It is unclear why Packard drove to Nanuet, police said.
Reach Hoa Nguyen at hnguyen7@lohud.com or 914-696-8570
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