Friday, December 18, 2015

The children should have been moved as soon as the leak was reported.


Porter Ranch students and parents rally last week to demand that classes be moved because of the gas leak. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

December 17, 2015
By Howard Blume

Los Angeles school district officials (click here) on Thursday authorized their legal staff to sue Southern California Gas Co. if necessary to recoup substantial costs piling up as a result of a leak in a natural gas storage well in Aliso Canyon.

The most significant expense so far is the Board of Education's decision, at the same meeting Thursday, to support a plan to relocate students and staff members at two Porter Ranch schools affected by the fumes.
The district did not release figures at its meeting because officials said they were still tallying the costs involved, said Mark Hovatter, head of facilities for the nation's second-largest school system.