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HERE'S ANOTHER
CASE OF
TAXPAYERS
MONEY GOING
DOWN THE DRAIN..
IN THIS CASE -
LITERALLY..
THE STATE BUILT
A SOPHISTICATED
AND EXPENSIVE
BUILDING WHERE
AUTOPSIES ARE
PERFORMED ON
BOTH
PEOPLE....AND
ANIMALS.
IT'S ONLY TWO
THERE'S A HUGE
FLAW WITH IT... A
FLAW THAT COULD
COST YOU A LOT
OF MONEY TO FIX.
NEWS 13'S NANCY
LAFLIN HAS THE
STORY
NEW MEXICO
SCIENTIFIC
LABORATORIES.
A 79 MILLION
DOLLAR STATE
BUILDING THAT
JUST OPENED TWO
YEARS AGO.
BUT THE STATE
WORKERS MIGHT
HAVE TO LOOK
UNDER A
MICROSCOPE TO
SEE WHO'S
BEHIND AN
EXPENSIVE
SCREW-UP HERE.
" the floor was
designed to be flat.
we're having a difficult
time understanding
why it was deliberately
put in that way..clearly
the preference would
be to have it sloped."
BASEMENT LAB
PERFORMS
AUTOPSIES...CALL
ED
NECROPSIES...ON
DEAD ANIMALS
THAT REQUIRE
SCIENTIFIC
EXAMINATION.
"a racehorse for
example...if they were
assume that would be
done here as well."
AND WITH THOSE
EXAMS ON DEAD
ANIMALS ...THERE
IS A LOT OF FLUID,
FROM BLOOD AND
WATER.
BUT INSTEAD OF
BUILDING THE
FLOOR WITH A
SLOPE SO THE
FLUIDS RUN DOWN
TO THE
DRAIN...THE
FLOOR IS
FLAT...SO THE
FLUIDS ...POOL.
A SPOKESMAN
FOR THE STATE'S
GENERAL
SERVICES
DEPARTMENT
SAYS 12-HUNDRED
SQUARE FEET OF
CONCRETE WILL
HAVE TO BE
RIPPED OUT AND
POURED AGAIN...
THIS TIME...WITH A
SLOPE...IN A
BUILDING JUST
TWO YEARS OLD.
THE COST?
"that hasn't been
be potentially as high
as a half a million
dollars..you had asked
yesterday if the state
the price tag or if the
contractor is
responsible...that is
also being reviewed."
THE STATE SAYS
THE CONTRACTOR
WAS THE JAYNES
CORPORATION.
BUT THE STATE
ADMITS..THE
CONTRACTOR DID
TOLD TO DO.
"there may be some
mechanism in the
contract that requires
the contractor to pay if
a mistake was made
..but the information i
have now is that the
floor was installed the
way it was drawn up.
so it sounds like they
didn't do anything
wrong. I don't know. i
just don't know."
AND THE GSD
SPOKESMAN SAYS
STATE WORKERS
OVERSAW THE
PROJECT..INCLUDI
NG THAT FLAWED
DESIGN.
WE ASKED WHICH
EMPLOYEE WAS
RESPONSIBLE...
"because of turnover
in state employees
we're having difficulty
getting a good
explanation for why it
was designed that way
instead of a way that
we would prefer to
have it."
THE STATE TELLS
US..THERE IS NO
WARRANTY..BUT
THEY ARE
THE CONTRACTOR
TO TRY AND FIX
THE PROBLEM.
THAT WAS NANCY
LAFLIN
KORTE SAYS HE
DOES NOT KNOW
WHEN THE
CONCRETE WILL
BE TORN OUT AND
REDONE...
OFFICIALS
COULDN'T TELL US
WHICH ARCHITECT
OR ENGINEERING
FIRM WAS BEHIND
THE DESIGN FLAW
AND WHAT THEIR
RESPONSIBILITY
MIGHT BE.