[CPEO-BIF] Rochester (NY) school employees oppose Brownfield site offices

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School unions fight placement of employees at brownfield site

Nestor Ramos
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
September 10, 2009

Teachers and other Rochester School District employees shouldn't have to 
work in a former factory recently declared a brownfield, Rochester 
Teachers Association Adam Urbanski said today. The union filed a class 
action grievance against the district last month, and the protest is 
supported by three other school employee unions, Urbanski said.

"I'm hoping that they will find an alternative location, the same way 
they found an alternative location for the school," said Dan DiClemente, 
president of the Board of Education Non-Teaching Employees union, which 
also filed a grievance.

The district last year leased the property at 690 St. Paul St., for 15 
years for nearly $1 million annually, planning to house the new Dr. 
Walter Cooper Academy and School 14 there this fall. But those plans 
were scrapped following revelations the building's owner, Genesee Valley 
Real Estate Co., had applied to the state brownfield program for tax 
credits to clean up the site, used for decades by Bausch & Lomb Inc.

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For the entire article, see
http://rocnow.com/article/local-news/200990910019

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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