Courthouse mold's days are numbered

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Courthouse mold's days are numbered

May 11, 2006 06:11 PM EDT Email to a Friend Printer Friendly

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WDAM-TV - Hattiesburg,MS

http://www.wdam.com/Global/story.asp?S=4893575

Forrest County officials are expediting the evacuation of employees

from the moldy courthouse because their health is at risk.

In a specially called meeting Thursday, the board of supervisors

accepted a $61,000 bid from Specialty Abatement Services to remove

some of the mold. Only the furniture, equipment, files and contents

of the courthouse will be cleansed at this time.

Board President Hudson says a limited cleaning is necessary to

get courthouse employees out as quickly as possible.

" It's a health issue, " he says. " We got a lot of people working in

that courthouse and they're breathing that stuff every day.

Hudson says the entire courthouse will be cleaned as soon as the

employees are cleared out. They'll be relocated to temporary offices

all over the Pine Belt.