[CPEO-BIF] Luzerne's (PA) office problems

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

LIU exploring its options

By Tom Venesky
Citizen's Voice (PA)
March 13, 2005

Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 administrators are looking at two options 
for permanent office space for employees displaced after the 
administration building in Kingston closed last year.

The LIU's Kingston administrative offices were closed June 21, after two 
independent air quality tests revealed levels of the cancer-causing 
chemical trichloroethene (TCE).

Around 70 employees have been working from offices in the former Mackin 
Elementary School in the East End section of Wilkes-Barre. The building 
lacks space for meetings and training sessions as well as a phone 
system, according to LIU Assistant Executive Director Hal Bloss.
"Our staff has been very diligent and receptive to working in this 
condition, but it is difficult," he said.

The LIU is looking at either remodeling the Kingston building or 
purchasing a new building in the community. Cost and safety are the main 
factors, according to board president Barry Williams.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14136693&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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