LOS ANGELES : Many School District Quake Repairs Await U.S. Funding
Los Angeles Unified school officials expressed concern Monday that many of the largest Northridge quake repair projects in the district have not yet been funded by the federal government.
In all, 5,400 projects have been approved or completed at a cost of $70 million. The 1,000 remaining include 125 seriously damaged buildings that could cost an estimated $60 million to repair. Most are in the San Fernando Valley, and none are currently housing students.
The two major hitches cited by school administrators are a turnover in staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in part as people were diverted to flooding and other more recent disasters, and a basic disagreement over who should foot the bill for bringing older schools up to stricter state building codes.
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