A cleaning company will remove furniture from the basement, rip up carpeting and sanitize the floor.
Wyandotte officials voted Monday night to spend about $9,600 to address a mold problem in the basement of City Hall. Wyandotte-based Rainbow Fresh, Inc. was hired to remove all furniture, equipment and counters from the basement. The company also will rip up and dispose of all the carpeting and then clean, disinfect and sanitize the basement floor. The basement has been off-limits for more than a year. Yellow caution tape lines the stairs leading to it. It would cost about $350,000 to fully fix the basement–a move that officials said doesn’t make sense as the city plans to vacate the building in the coming months and move City Hall across the street to the Chase Bank building. The timeline for that project could be pushed back from what …
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TV station reports that city workers were not informed after an environmental firm found mold in Wyandotte City Hall.
WXYZ-TV reports that an environmental firm found mold in Wyandotte City Hall in 2010 and that city workers were never informed of the discovery. Environmental and Occupational Consulting and Training found several species of mold spores, conditions conducive to mold, and workers with symptoms consistent with exposure to mold when the firm inspected city hall last year. “The first thing I asked them is, do they want us to move out of the building, is the building where we shouldn’t be working,” Wyandotte Mayor Joseph Peterson told WXYZ. “And the answer is no.” WXYZ reported that workers told the TV station that they found out about EOCT’s report when someone put a copy of it in their mailboxes this week. Click here for WXYZ’s full report. …
Jim Rutkowski
8:20 pm on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Better late than never. Sounds like the outer wall that they shared with Fogel Furniture should have been waterproofed before the hole was filled in. more ›