Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Help is on the Way for Thalia Mara Hall

Update: The agenda item was apparently worded poorly.  The City Council voted to approve paying CTEH for services rendered, not remediation of the "microbial growth."  Deputy Cultural & Services Director Mike Williams said the city received several proposals for remediation Friday and will soon present a contract to the City Council for approval.  

The Jackson City Council will approve a contract for remediation services at Thalia Mara Hall today.  The agenda for today's City Council meeting states: 


Thalia Mara Hall closed in August after "microbial growth" was discovered in the facility.  Growth covered carpets, seating, and other areas.  The auditorium suffered HVAC problems after the chiller failed some time ago.  The city rented a chiller for events.  The HVAC system failed this summer, thus resulting in the growth.  

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said remediation will take four to eight weeks.  The City Council also approved the purchase of a chiller for the auditorium's HVAC system.  The purchase price is $221,871.  

The resolutions and accompanying documents for the hiring of CTEH and purchasing the chiller are posted below.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Has the person or entity responsible for building maintenance been fired yet?

Anonymous said...

They better get that $37,000 upfront.

Anonymous said...

Is CTEH, LLC registered to do business in MS? I don't see anything on the SOS website for it. Kingfish, have you looked into this?

Anonymous said...

WHEREAS: grift, grift, grift.

CTEH said...

@10:21 AM - Duckduckgo is your friend. cteh.com, with an office in Flowood, and incorporated in Arkansas AND Mississippi (as The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, LLC (CTEH, get it?)

Anonymous said...

@10:21 The internet is your friend. It is probably cteh.com and they have an office in Flowood. They appear to be experts in the field so let's hope it is them.

Anonymous said...

TMH set to reopen November 2025.

Anonymous said...

Cteh is based out of Little Rock. They do emergency response. I suppose they can do mold abatement too. when the train wrecked in e Palestine oh, they had a few of their employees get killed when the airplane crashed leaving the mena ar airport.

Anonymous said...

@10:58 AM - For their sake they had better be experts in "accounts receivable."

Anonymous said...

CTEH was the company that took the samples and did the analysis.

Anonymous said...

What? The council wrote an agenda that is ambigious? Tell me it's not so.

Anonymous said...

"Items Included: Offloading, rigging and set in place chiller for temporary operation on grade in loading dock parking area."
$254K on the ground in a parking lot downtown - what could go wrong?...

Anonymous said...

Look under Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health LLC. Filed for Mississippi registration in 2014.

Currently (since 2020) merged with Montrose Environmental total 2023 revenue $620 million.

Anonymous said...

Shhhh, don't let the Metrocenter scrappers know!

Anonymous said...

Move it to Madison

Anonymous said...

New air conditioning?? Copper thrives will take it

Anonymous said...

"Based on the ... evolving nature of this project"


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