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State budget halts work at California School for the Deaf in Riverside | Inland News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California
Students at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside can see steel girders and piles of wood where one day there will be new dorms, but there were few signs of progress on the buildings last week.
Because of the state budget stalemate, there is no money to finish work on the cottages and an activity center. A skeleton crew of workers was there to finish the roof on one set of cottages and replace a sidewalk outside the activity center, but otherwise the projects have been halted, spokeswoman Laurie Pietro said.
Last month, a state board decided to suspend funding for billions of dollars in public works projects around the state, including at least $1.3 billion in school, road and public works projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
The work included $60 million in projects under way at the state-run School for the Deaf.
"Students are excited. Now it's on hold," Mal Grossinger, the school's superintendent, said last week through a sign language interpreter.
Contractors got formal notification of the shutdown on Jan. 15, said Allen Young, construction and maintenance supervisor for the state education department's special schools division. The division runs California's schools for the deaf in Riverside and Fremont.
The delay likely means the activity center at the Riverside campus will not be finished in time for graduation ceremonies in June, as school officials had hoped, Pietro said.
The first set of new, cottage-style dorms that will house about 100 students were scheduled to be finished in August. The school eventually plans to replace all of the block-wall dorms that were built in the 1950s.
Students ask almost every day when the dorms will be completed, said Farley Warshaw, the school's residence director. Many parents who visit the school decline to send their children there after seeing the old dorms, he said through a sign language interpreter.
"It's very, very frustrating," he said.
Students at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside can see steel girders and piles of wood where one day there will be new dorms, but there were few signs of progress on the buildings last week.
Because of the state budget stalemate, there is no money to finish work on the cottages and an activity center. A skeleton crew of workers was there to finish the roof on one set of cottages and replace a sidewalk outside the activity center, but otherwise the projects have been halted, spokeswoman Laurie Pietro said.
Last month, a state board decided to suspend funding for billions of dollars in public works projects around the state, including at least $1.3 billion in school, road and public works projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
The work included $60 million in projects under way at the state-run School for the Deaf.
"Students are excited. Now it's on hold," Mal Grossinger, the school's superintendent, said last week through a sign language interpreter.
Contractors got formal notification of the shutdown on Jan. 15, said Allen Young, construction and maintenance supervisor for the state education department's special schools division. The division runs California's schools for the deaf in Riverside and Fremont.
The delay likely means the activity center at the Riverside campus will not be finished in time for graduation ceremonies in June, as school officials had hoped, Pietro said.
The first set of new, cottage-style dorms that will house about 100 students were scheduled to be finished in August. The school eventually plans to replace all of the block-wall dorms that were built in the 1950s.
Students ask almost every day when the dorms will be completed, said Farley Warshaw, the school's residence director. Many parents who visit the school decline to send their children there after seeing the old dorms, he said through a sign language interpreter.
"It's very, very frustrating," he said.