[CPEO-BIF] Rehabbing Pennsylvania school admin building

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

LIU to use federal loan to rehabilitate building 

By Tom Venesky
Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice (PA)
September 12, 2005

Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 Executive Director Mike Ostrowski feels
like he's living out of a suitcase when he goes to work each morning.
Ostrowski and the LIU administration staff have been working out of the
former Mackin Elementary School in Wilkes-Barre since June 2004.

Their main office building on Tioga Avenue in Kingston remains closed
after tests revealed levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) were found in the
air last summer. The chemical is considered toxic by the Agency for
Toxic Substance and Disease Registry. It was used in the LIU building to
clean printing presses.

The 18 LIU administration employees have had to adapt while working from
their makeshift headquarters in Mackin. There is no phone service so the
employees communicate via cell phone. Space for parking, meetings and
training is limited.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizensvoice.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15195975&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
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