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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1989 A Special Education status report, based on (a) Handicapping Conditions, (b) Summary of Special Education Programs, (c) Special Education Students Receiving Related Services, and (d) Continuum of Services, compared the 1989-90 numbers of handicapped/impaired students at various School locations, and their handicap classification, with the numbers of such students in 1988-89. For 1989-90 the school system has 406 such students, reflecting a net gainof four students over the 402 in 1988-89 Special Education programs.. For the removal of asbestos and the replacing thereof with friable sprayed-on ceiling materials at Albert Harris Elementary School and the School Board's administrative offices at that location, the School Board estimated--by segments and specified areas--a cost of $37.00 per square foot, or for the total square footage of the building (being 56,974 square feet @ $37.00 per square foot) the sum of $2,108,038.00. Responding to Councilman McClain's query regarding a prior estimate involving something like $500,000.00, Business/Finance Assistant Superintendent Ron Epperly recalled such an estimate as having been closer to $750,000.00, which was then based on an estimated square-foot cost of $12.00. Mr. Epperly also informed Council that applicable statutes require that local governing bodies fund the costs of removing/ replacing asbestos in local school buildings and School Board Member Jones indicated that the School Board may appear before Council within the next several months for funds to remove/replace asbestos at the Albert Harris facility. City Manager Brown, citing asbestos removal/replacement needs throughout the State of Virginia as a mammoth problem for which an overall plan should be developed, suggested that the City might resort to "bond financing" of such a project but there should also be Federal/State financial assistance.