LAUSD SETTLES COURT CASE WORK-DELAY TAB TO BE $2 MILLION.Byline: Holly Edwards Staff Writer The 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. has agreed to a $2 million out-of-court settlement An agreement reached between the parties in a pending lawsuit that resolves the dispute to their mutual satisfaction and occurs without judicial intervention, supervision, or approval. with an air-conditioning contractor that claimed poor management in the district caused delays in work at Porter Middle School in Granada Hills. The settlement was the costliest of four lawsuits brought against the district by air-conditioning contractors, said school board member David Tokofsky, adding that the suits have cost the district roughly $4 million so far. The district awarded a number of contracts to install air conditioning at schools throughout 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. , using part of $2.4 billion from the Proposition BB bond measure approved by city voters in 1997. However, the air-conditioning units ordered by the district did not arrive in time, causing delays in the work schedules of contractors hired to install the units, officials said. On Tuesday, the Board of Education voted unanimously to settle the lawsuit filed by FTR FTR Fighter FTR For The Record FTR Federal Travel Regulation FTR Formal Technical Review FTR Full Text Retrieval FTR Financial Transmission Right FTR Florida Trail Riders (motorcycling) FTR Full-Time Regular International, which was hired to install the units at Porter Middle School soon after Proposition BB was passed. In the lawsuit, the company claimed it was repeatedly hindered by school district delays in getting the air-conditioning units and design drawings for their installation, said LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) attorney Harold Kwalwasser. |
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