Defending their agency after Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Cumming found no working AC or cold water at a sanitation workers’ job site during last week’s record-setting heat wave, the Department of Public Works (DPW) has fired back, disputing one of her findings and arguing others lacked context.
Cumming’s report on her July 10 surprise visit to the Cherry Hill yard noted that “inoperable water fountains” were found in an administrative building.
In fact, says the DPW response memo signed by Deputy Director Richard J. Luna, “the water fountains are in working order; however, the covers were placed over the fountains in March 2020 at the early start of the pandemic and have remained in place.”
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