TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1987
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FUND SOUGHT FOR ASBESTOS ABATEMENT WORKS
ASKED TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY}
OUT ASBESTOS ABATEMENT
TO
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE WILL BE APPROVE A COMMITMENT OF $13,436,000 TO CARRY WORKS IN 13 AIDED SCHOOLS.
OUT IN 372 IN THE TERRITORY
BY HAZARD CAUSED
DAMAGED
THE WORKS ARE PROPOSED FOLLOWING A SURVEY CARRIED GOVERNMENT AND AIDED SECONDARY AND SPECIAL SCHOOLS
OF THE EXTENT
HEALTH TO IDENTIFY ASBESTOS-BASED ACOUSTIC PLASTER ON SCHOOL CEILINGS.
AIDED PRELIMINARY FINDINGS SHOWED THAT THREE GOVERNMENT AND 16
WHICH HAVE BEEN SCHOOLS HAVE ASBESTOS MATERIAL IN THE HALL CEILINGS DAMAGED AND REQUIRE URGENT ABATEMENT WORKS.
ABATEMENT WORKS TO
THE THREE
GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
ARE BEING HAS ALSO DEALT WITH UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME, WHILE APPROVAL
WORKS TO BE CARRIED BEEN GIVEN UNDER DELEGATED POWER FOR ABATEMENT
ARE VERY OUT URGENTLY TO THREE OF THE AIDED SCHOOLS WHERE CONDITIONS SERIOUS.
WILL COVER THE COMMITMENT, APPROVAL OF WHICH IS BEING SOUGHT,
EXISTING ASBESTOS-BASED PLASTER EXPENSES OF COMPLETE REMOVAL OF THE
CEILINGS WITH BY SPECIALIST CONTRACTORS, AND THE REPLASTERING OF THE ASBESTOS-FREE MATERIAL.
OTHER ITEMS
THAT
THE FINANCE
COMMITTEE
WILL
BE
ASKED TO
APPROVE INCLUDE:
BY $3,834,000 ΤΟ MEET * AN INCREASE IN COMMITMENT FROM $16,418,000
STAGE OF THE INCREASE IN COST IN IMPLEMENTING PHASE ONE OF THE FIRST THE NOISE ABATEMENT PROGRAMME IN SCHOOLS;
SUBSIDY FOR A BAY OF THE ENGLISH
* A NEW COMMITMENT OF $10,621,000 TO MEET THE CAPITAL SUBSTITUTE 24-CLASSROOM PRIMARY SCHOOL AT SANDY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION;
TO MEET * AN INCREASE IN COMMITMENT FROM $196,912,000 BY $27,048,000
KONG TUBERCULOSIS, CHEST AND THE INCREASED COST OF THE HONG
HEART REDEVELOP THE EXISTING RUTTONJEE DISEASES ASSOCIATION'S PROJECT TO SANATORIUM;
* A
PROVISION OF
NEW
COMMITMENT TOGETHER WITH SUPPLEMENTARY $5,314,000 TO MEET THE COSTS METER CHARGES, AND
OF IMPLEMENTING THE REVISED PARKING
*
RECOMMENDATIONS
OF
THE
ESTABLISHMENT
AND
PUBLIC
WORKS
SUB-COMMITTEES.
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