Congressman Clay Shaw was among those who toured the mold-infested federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. Besides getting a good look at the problem, these men managed to broker a deal that will finally get work on the problem started.

Chief Judge Bill Zloch decided to turn over the maintenance of the building away from the court system and to the GSA, or the General Services Administration, which is essentially the government's landlord.

"GSA has much greater manpower than courts to handle a problem of this nature, so by turning it over to GSA they not only have the manpower, but the funding to be able to do more, faster."

"The Southern District has a couple million square feet of buildings, I've got 40 million I mean, this is what we do."

Judge Zloch closed the courthouse in November because of mold... which was here for years but made worse by the hurricanes.

The job is a big one, made worse by the age of the building.

"Buildings of this era were made with vinal wallpaper, moisture gets behind the walls and you get mold. So you're gonna see a lot of walls are going to have to come down to get to the mold and remediate it."

Congressman Shaw concedes that the federal government doesn't work as quickly as the private sector, but he's excited that the clean-up process will soon be on it's way.

"I think this is a really good results and the important thing is that we have our road map and we need to get started and we're going to get started this afternoon."
 

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