LAUSD AIR CONDITIONING DELAYED; 48 VALLEY CAMPUSES TO MISS SEPTEMBER DEADLINE.Byline: Terri Hardy Daily News Staff Writer More than half of the 141 Los Angeles schools The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. scheduled to be air conditioned by Sept. 8 will not be cooled by that date, including 48 in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. officials said Thursday. Delays have been caused by problems with the the air conditioners - some units exceed district noise standards - and the manufacturer has been unable to provide units on a timely basis, said Erik Nasarenko, district spokesman. And, contractors have complained in the past that units were not available because the district had not warehoused air conditioners in bulk as promised. Nasarenko said 64 schools will receive air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. by Sept. 8. The remaining 77 will receive it by Jan. 30, 1999. Members of the construction management team overseeing all of the $2.4 billion Proposition BB work, which includes air conditioning, briefed a Board of Education committee Thursday on the delays. District officials explained that they had gone to a second air conditioning manufacturer for quieter units that could be delivered quickly. The additional cost of each unit will be between $500 and $800. Board member David Tokofsky said the committee was upset by the delays and extra costs. ``There were attempts to find out who was to blame, but I didn't get a sense that anyone was more culpable Blameworthy; involving the commission of a fault or the breach of a duty imposed by law. Culpability generally implies that an act performed is wrong but does not involve any evil intent by the wrongdoer. than anyone else,'' Tokofsky said. |
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