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A further review turns up other examples in the proposed capital improvements plan where the numbers don't quite add up. Consider spending $9,000 to buy six air conditioning: and heating units. Again, no estimate tor the costs of labor, which might be included, or might not. How about spending $50,000 to remove asbestos in the floor tiles of the elementary school, at $lpersquare toot, and then installing $751,000 worth of new vinyl tiles at $1.50-*tbot? Is vinyl flooring — hardly renowned as the most lunglasting of substances — the most energy-efficient way to go in a project with a 15-20 year hie span? Could be — but the school board’s members. at least perhaps apart from the plan's chief architects. Crocker and Mills, don't seem to have inquired.
Asbestos issue
Perhaps the biggest questions involve a project to replace 75 incandescent lights in the high school hallways and classrooms with new electronic ballast fluorescent fixtures. That project's total cost of $312,500 doesn't appear to be focused mainly on lighting improvements. which only comprise somewhere between $4,500 and $4,000 of the entire upgrade. Some $230,000 will be spent on removing 14.000 square feet of asbestos in the school's hallway ceilings, and in some adjacent classrooms. The document virtually cries out for some explanation of any mqjor asbestos removal project that would address various concerns ranging from health and safety to more mundane budget issues.
But on Tuesday night, there was no board mention of asbestos. When questioned by this reporter after the meeting. Crocker and other
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