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PLAQUEMINE, La. (AP) — Iberville Parish President J. Mitchell Ourso tells the parish council he is not pleased with some of the construction work being done on a $20 million medical facility.
The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/ZNBztE ) Ourso will conduct another walk-through inspection before he signs off on the project's completion.
But Ourso's displeasure with some of the "finishing touches" on the medical complex, currently under construction on a 27-acre site off La. 1 near Senator Gay Boulevard in Plaquemine, shouldn't delay the project's completion date or jack up building costs, he said.
"I have to make sure things are the way they need to be to be up to our standards," Ourso said after the council's regular meeting Tuesday night.
Ourso didn't go into specific details about his complaints about the project's construction, but said he questioned the quality of some of the materials the contractor used on the facility.
"I'm not really impressed with some of the craftsmanship that went into it," he told the council. "We do have a quality contractor. It's a fine building out there. Something you'll be proud of. But they have a lot of work to do at that building before it's finished."
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