Toxic mold in city building

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Toxic mold in city building

Selma Times-Journal

Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:11 PM CDT

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To the Editor:

The Public Safety Building (Police Department) building should be

condemned and the Police Chief should be removed. How have we in

city government let the building become so contaminated by mold that

the entire third floor of the building has been closed off, the

Traffic Division Office has been closed, officers are sick from the

toxic mold, and the city does nothing about the problem.

While the City Council has received and approved proposals from the

Mayor to spend some $45,000 to paint and put new carpet in City Hall

so that the incompetents as well as the qualified who work there can

work and relax in luxury, public safety personnel are shuffled from

building to building praying that they do not come down with a

myriad of serious symptoms and illnesses such as chronic bronchitis,

bleeding lungs and much more.

While the City Council has received and approved a proposal from the

Mayor to spend $49,000 to dredge the City Marina - a project which

is a financial and public relations disaster and fiasco - we have

received no proposal from the Mayor to repair the Public Safety

Building.

While the City Council has received and approved a proposal from the

Mayor to spend $282,000 for five months of Trust Build - a

duplication of what the city code already requires the city to do -

we have received no proposal from the Mayor to protect the health

and safety of people who are expected to work in a contaminated

building while protecting the public.

While the City Council has received a proposal and will no doubt

approve $180,000 for a Skateboard Park, we have received no proposal

to combat the airborne mycotoxins in the Police Building which can

definitely destroy one's health.

While the City Council will spend thousands of dollars in legal fees

to prosecute two contractors who put up a tower at the County

Courthouse, we have not had a proposal to repair the roof of the

Public Safety Building where the Mayor wants the tower put and which

is the root of the toxic mold problem which is destroying the public

safety building floor by floor.

You can be sure that if toxic mold were destroying City Hall and

affecting the political favorites who work in City Hall and who cost

the taxpayers $1.3 million a year in salaries and benefits, the roof

of City Hall would have been repaired before the sun went down. It

has long been apparent that the Police Department is the least

favored step child in this administration and does not have a leader

who will stand up for the health, welfare, and safety of his

officers and personnel.

Cecil on

Councilman Ward 1