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Show Jfenant petition cites 5 led-tower defects By Milton Braselton M Chronicle Staff dents of Medical Plaza Towers drew up a petition at a mass ," res' day night asking that defects in the new housing complex tnn which will be circulated among the Tower's resident.. - "eP also states support for the efforts of the Medical Plaza ' ? Committee to have the defects repaired, f 3 nresented a list of uncorrected defects to the Advisory ; ittee at a meeting Monday night. I ' committee meeting, Dr. Terry Rich, Resident Manager, of " 7 I Plaza took the floor at the very start qf the meeting and wrote h blackboard a list of the 26 complaints about the services and ; -n , ant at the towers. He did not let University administration ' presentatives talk until he had been able to fully and graphically r. his case. f d that there has not been much action in the last six weeks in the S'ion of responding to the grievances. ' 1 meeting then moved to the topic of rent adjustment. The com-v com-v tee agreed that rebates should be given to those tenants who did ; 11 Lave not yet received services that were promised in the rent tract The details, such as exact amounts not to be paid for specific "sufficient services, will be worked out at later meetings, pending the ',. Ministration's acceptance of the committee's advice. The general feeling among tenants is that the contractors have done he least amount of work for the money. The tenants complained that ,'n order to approach the contractor for the purpose of repairing Anything defective in the building itself, they must go through an ' unusual amount of "red tape." the advisory committee is attempting to make it so that the contractor maybe reached directly through the University President. Meanwhile, " Resident members are documenting the highest priority complaints uncaulked windows, faulty ventilation, and nonworking thermostats, :-. tor example) for presentation to the administration. There will be another full committee meeting Wednesday to see what action can be taken before rent is due on November 1st. |