Just to make the most minimal repairs on the outmoded school plants required between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 per year. During the O’Dwyer administration less than $5,000,000 per year had been allocated for this purpose, with the result that by the end of that administration, the backlog in minimal repairs, a staggering $30,000,000 at the beginning of that administration, had mounted to $75,000,000. During the Impellitteri administration, thanks largely to the real possibility of disasters in the schools, the amount for maintenance was increased—but only slightly. By the end of that
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