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City Continues to Dump Money into Goldridge Recreation Center!

The City keeps doing out of code work on the building and dumping city taxpayers funds into the contaminated, out of Code building!

So I keep asking for all the public information on the money spent, and money committed for the Goldridge Recreation Center and complex. And as I see more work being done not up to any codes or proper construction practices. The cost is mounting and no accounting for it, or they are trying to hide the costs from the public. Not removing the mold,
Not removing the ACM (Asbestos Containing Materials) in the ceilings and old Linoleum floors.
They are just painting over cracks in the Stucco in a building that has had water leaks for years.
They are just painting over Rusted Doors.
They are starting to paint over all the Temporary Sealed Mold, and the ACM Popcorn Ceiling.
They are going to start hanging the wall panels after they paint over everything.
No Structural Review was done to see if the 37 year old building was Structurally Sound to meet California’s strict Earthquake Standards.
When doing a major upgrade to a public building, it must be brought up to the current codes and Earthquake standards.
The Rogers Fault is only a few miles away from here. It’s expected to be the next big fault to cause a major earthquake. And your engineers didn’t think it was important because in their own words they were just replacing the roof in kind.
As I have been showing they are doing lots more. But hiding the costs and doing crap for work.

Mold. Mold is always a consideration whenever there are water leaks. Mold is natural to the environment and already exists in the air everyone breathes, both indoors and outdoors. (See Chart of Indoor Molds.) If the number of mold spores inside a unit are similar to outdoor levels, then everything is fine. If the count inside a unit is significantly elevated, it means there is active mold in the unit that needs to be removed. If, as you noted, mold is visible on the drywall, it must be removed. If it's a small amount of surface mold, it can be removed with bleach and water. If it's more extensive, it will require removal of the drywall.

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