Re: Chamber director fired, Wagner claims illness caused by m...

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When the Chamber director was first made ill, the Chamber flew the sick

employees to Dallas for treatment.

Now, they are firing her, claiming she isn't (can't) do her job.

Nov 2007

Chamber relocates due to mold

,

Madison Record

>

> The Madison Chamber of Commerce has a new home-temporarily.

>

> The Chamber was forced out of its office in downtown Madison in

June of this year due to mold contamination.

>

> The Chamber's new temporary office is in Madison West Office Park

on Lime

> Quarry Road, just behind the Burger King on Highway 20. The new

office is fully

> operational as of Nov. 5.

>

> The Chamber expects to have a brand new office in the new Madison

YMCA,

> which hopes to break ground next year. The Y is donating an

office to the

> Chamber, as well as the Volunteer Center of Madison County, said

Chamber Managing

> Director Sallie Wagner.

>

> The Chamber staff suffered numerous physical symptoms because of

the mold,

> Wagner said.

>

> " The staff had high levels of black mold in their systems, " she

said. " We

> have to be flown to Dallas for treatment. "

>

> After the discovery of the toxic mold, a company was hired to

clean the

> building by the city, which owns it. The Chamber leased the

property from the

> city.

>

> The company, Envirosafe, came in and cleaned the ductwork,

replaced the A/C

> units and cleaned the floors in July, Wagner said. When a

toxicologist came

> back after cleaning and discovered there was still black mold

there, the

> Chamber board decided it was time to relocate.

>

> Madison Mayor Sandy Kirkindall said that after cleaning, the

building is OK.

>

> " The mold remediation has been completed, and the building is

ready for

> occupancy, " he said.

>

> Kirkindall added that no decision has been made as to what to do

with the

> property now that the Chamber has moved out.

>

> " I personally would like to see a business in there that would

generate

> sales tax revenue for the City, " he said.

>

> The Chamber had to operate without its office from June to

November of 2007.

> As many operations as possible were performed from home, Wagner

said. Office

> hours at the new Lime Quarry Road facility are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.,

Monday

> through Friday.

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