Complaints of mold at Amity High

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Complaints of mold at Amity High

(Woodbridge-WTNH, Sept. 23, 2002 11:55 PM) _ After years of battling air

quality concerns in their schools, parents and students in Bethany,

Woodbridge, and Orange are faced with another problem surfacing at Amity

High School.

Watch the story by News Channel 8's Sara Welch

This time the focus is on mold and the possibility of missing records.

" This is totally precautionary, " says Former Acting Superintendent Mike

Nast.

A few weeks ago, the superintendent said some school board members

complained of itchy irritated eyes while holding a meeting in the high

school auditorium.

He says there have also been recent moisture problems in the room and some

suspect mold maybe growing.

" I just to make sure we get a tests and we evaluate the test, " says Nast.

Back in 1997, the auditorium was closed because tested showed high levels of

mold.

Amity reportedly spent millions fixing the area, but Gil Cormier who

performed many of the tests, isn't sure all the areas were completely fixed.

" We had provided recommendations to do some remediation, some remediation

may have been done, but we don't have, there's really no documentation to

see exactly what was done, " says Cormier.

Board members want to fix that. School officials say so far there are no

reports of any illness but some say there's another problem.

Amity Environmental Committee member Lorri Cavaliere says, " The nurses logs

are nowhere to be found and this happened a few years ago and it happened

again. "

" They are approaching teachers that haven't felt well and they are concerned

and want to know what is going to happen next and they attend meeting and

certainly voiced their opinions to board members, " says Toby Zabinski,

teacher.

This summer there was a moisture problem in the high school choir room.

School officials say a broken pipe was fixed and the carpet replaced with

tile but Gil Cormier suspects more needs to be done.

" We really need to get an action plan and the action plan needs to set some

priorities to make sure that we identify the most important things that we

need to get done and right now that's going to be the auditorium, " says

Cormier.

This maybe very costly. School officials have secured a $100,000 grant to

help pay for the plan.