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The City Council's findings on controversial demolition and code enforcement actions will not recommend criminal investigations, but criticizes city administrative operations for jeopardizing residents, according to a draft report obtained by the Times Union.

The City Council will issue a final report next week based on its investigation of the 2013 demolition of 4-10 King St. and 2014 demolition work at the King Fuels site and closing 51 Third St. by code enforcement in 2014.

"The Troy City Council makes no claim of criminal fault in any of these situations," a copy of the draft report states.

"It is noted that other qualified agencies are conducting external investigations into the legality of certain city processes and any criminal activity surrounding these events," the report states.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and FBI agents have received copies of the testimony and have been interviewing city employees about the demolition projects.

What comes across in the draft report is the council's frustration at the lack of oversight in certain government activities.

The draft report notes the council "was thwarted at times and ... that information was being deliberately hidden or manufactured in order to sell a story or bolster a certain testimony."

The draft report found there was no communication within the administration ranks, that department heads stretched their powers and that public safety and rights were threatened at the three sites.

"There is no active communication between the administration and the departments that involve in these issues," City Council President Rodney Wiltshire said Thursday.

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Downtown Orlando's well-known round building is finally a pile of rubble, but it doesn't appear that crews are clearing it away very quickly. The building was supposed to be down and the lot cleared before the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts opened last November, but the projectgot way behind schedule. Channel 9's Steve Barrett said that no more than three workers have been seen on the lot this week, trying to clear the massive pile of rubble. The city of Orlando opened the doors of the arts center in November expecting the seven-story bank building sitting out front to be gone. On Wednesday, Channel 9 received a statement from the city expressing regret that the demolition project isn't complete. The statement read, in part: "While we are disappointed that the demolition of the round building has taken longer than anticipated, the demolition process is still ongoing and is continuing as fast as possible." No one from Crusader Demolition, the company hired to take the building down and clear the lot, would respond to Barrett's questions about the project and when the land would be clear. Last month a rival contractor said publicly that his company had warned the city that Crusader Demolition wouldn't be able to complete the job on time. In the statement from the city, officials said they will look into possible penalties when the demolition project is complete. "Once the building is down we will determine the issue of possible fines," the statement read. Crusader is being paid $700,000 for the demolition. It's unclear how much money the fines could amount to.

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Published: Thu, January 22, 2015 @ 12:04 a.m.

By Ed Runyan

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WARREN

Preparation work has begun on the $2.4 million demolition of the 354,000 square foot historic General Electric Ohio Lamp Plant on Dana Street Northeast.

The approximately 100-year-old facility was GEs last factory that made only incandescent light bulbs when it closed at about this time last year after concessionary contract talks failed to produce a new contract. More than 180 people worked there.

The factory has historic significance for Warren because the Packard brothers first manufactured incandescent light bulbs at that location around 1890, before building their first Packard automobile there in 1899 and later selling off their light-bulb business to focus on wiring harnesses.

Packard automobile production moved to Michigan in 1902, and GE took over the light-bulb operation about 1916 about the time historians believe the first building at the GE plant was constructed.

Historians believe all of the buildings the Packard brothers used at that site were removed either early last century or after that.

GE has hired Saber Demolition Corp. of Warners, N.Y., to handle the demolition, and work has been ongoing for several weeks. The most noticeable work so far has been the installation of a fence around the facility and removal of the windows.

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