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serious structural defects atMeeker’s $17.9 million elementary school and more minor issues at six other Coloradoschools.
“We stand behind the buildings we build, and when thereare findings like this, whererecommendations are prudent,we follow the recommendationout of an abundance of caution,” Andy Boian, a spokesmanfor Neenan, said Thursday.
Neenan already has madefixes to a section of the roof thatwasn’t designed to handle snowloads at the 190student Sargentschool and put in temporarysupports in the library to shoreup a beam, officials said.
Compton said the problemsare wearing on the community,which passed a bond for theproject, as well as faculty andstaff preparing for Colorado Student Assessment Program tests.
“Schools today are into somepretty highstakes testing, andyou all want student achievement at the top of your list,” hesaid. “And I’m spending an awful lot of time on constructionright now.”
The review found a long spanof roof joists over the gym andauditorium lack adequate connections where they bear onprecast concrete wall panels,Jirsa Hedrick wrote in a letter toNeenan on Monday.
“Effective immediately, untilthis repair is complete, the entire school building should notbe used if the winds are expected to exceed 25 miles per hour,”the letter stated.
The full review is not complete.
The repair calls for the joiststo be welded to plates in thepanels.
If winds hit 25 mph beforethat happens, school will becanceled in advance or studentswill be evacuated to an old gymacross the street and their parents will be contacted to pickthem up, Compton said.
Winds at an airport in Alamosa, about 18 miles from MonteVista, regularly exceed 25 mph,reaching as high as 54 mph sustained and gusting up to 75mph, according to the NationalWeather Service.
“We have winds like theocean has water,” Comptonsaid.
He said the building hasshown no signs of stress because of high winds.
The school opened in fall 2010and was built with a $17.6 milliongrant from the state’s BuildingExcellent Schools Today program, as well as a local match.
After the problems in Meeker,a Colorado Department of Education official said he requestedNeenan contract with firms tocarry out independent reviewsof 15 schools it designed andbuilt through the grant program— and Neenan agreed. The reviews are ongoing.
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washington» The U.S. governmentis attempting to harden the U.S.Canadaborder against drug trafficking, especially through remote Indian reservations,according to its new northern borderdrug strategy to be released today.
A year in the making, the “NationalNorthern Border CounternarcoticsStrategy” pinpoints six tribal areas directly on the 4,000 miles of border between Washington and Maine, including
the St. Regis Mohawk reservation in upstate New York, and 24 reservations onthe Great Lakes or close to the border,including nine in Washington.
“Drug smugglers have been known toseek out tribal jurisdictions in order tosmuggle illegal drugs into the UnitedStates,” the report said.
It singles out the St. Regis Mohawkreservation in far northern FranklinCounty, N.Y., as a border location “beingused by a number of largescale trafficking organizations to facilitate smugglingactivities.” Local authorities havetracked drug loads moving throughFranklin County to 31 states.
Overlapping federal, state, local andtribal jurisdictions and the rugged ter
rain have created “unique challenges”for law enforcement countering smugglers who specialize in bringing acrosshighly potent, indoorgrown marijuana.
Although tribal communities employtheir own police forces, resources tocombat sophisticated traffickers oftenare “inadequate,” the strategy said.
The strategy document commits theU.S. government to helping tribal policeforces add personnel and upgradedequipment, as well as improving coordination with agents from U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The report praised increased levels ofcooperation between Canadian and U.S.
law enforcement, and also called for:B Efforts to “deconflict” intelligence
sharing so agencies avoid “miscommunication.”B Enhanced interagency task forces
and more outreach to borderregion locals “who can serve as law enforcement’s eyes and ears in remote areas.”B More hightech monitoring systems
and airmarine operations to help lawenforcement, especially in wintermonths when traffickers move drugs onsnowmobiles across frozen lakes.B Improved joint operations with Cana
da to disrupt production of marijuana andthe drug “ecstasy,” and improved crossborder cooperation on undercover operations and electronic eavesdropping.
U.S. targets drug trafficking via CanadaAgencies create a strategy toharden border regions withinremote Indian reservations.
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