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‘People go to prison over this'
The Cayuga County Legislature's Public Works Committee received a routine update during its January 2006 meeting about a boiler problem at the county Board of Elections building.
The furnace had caught fire and been temporarily repaired, but it would need to be replaced. Nothing would happen for a month, but then a routine inspection turned up a carbon monoxide leak. The replacement work had to happen fast, and it did.
But now, nearly seven months later, the BOE boiler replacement has spiraled into a potential financial and legal disaster for the county, a situation one lawmaker last week described as “heartbreaking.” The failure to properly remove asbestos as part of the boiler project has lead to a state and federal investigation into the county's practices, and sparked nearly two dozen legal claims.
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