[CPEO-BIF] Roosevelt middle school, Nassau County. New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Roosevelt school is late, $10M over cost

BY JOHN HILDEBRAND
Long Island Newsday (NY)
January 8, 2007

Construction of a Roosevelt middle school is running $10 million over 
budget and more than a year behind schedule, according to state 
officials who blame overruns on the costs of cleaning up toxic 
pesticides on the site.

State authorities add that delays in the middle-school project also will 
push back planned renovations of Roosevelt High School by a year, and 
that extra costs for the middle school could force cuts in the amount of 
work done at the high school.

While the state and county argue about who is responsible for the 
contamination cleanup, the cost overruns put a further burden on a 
school district that is the poorest in Nassau County.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liroos085044340jan08,0,3704584.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines


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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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