Something smells at City Hall
ST. PETERSBURG -- A sewage mishap left a putrid stench throughout the corridors of the city's Municipal Services Center today.
While the source of the unpleasant odor is still unclear, employees had clues. The building's bathrooms were closed and at one point, sewage oozed through an elevator shaft. For a while Thursday, the elevators were temporarily out of service.
The smell was most noticeable in the hallways and elevator shaft. Some women walked through the building with their hands covering their noses and mouths. Meanwhile, employees canvassed Central Avenue in search of unoccupied bathrooms.
The municipal services center is the city's busiest property. With approximately 3,267 full and part time staffers, most of the city's employees work in the building, which includes the economic development, building, legal and transportation departments.
-Cristina Silva, Times Staff Writer
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Something smells at City Hall? Really? I think the bigger story here is that they moved City Hall to the Municipal Services Building without telling anyone.
Posted by: Eric | November 13, 2008 at 07:37 PM
In other news, there was a fire today in California, and dozens of Pinellas Park homes were evacuated.
Posted by: | November 13, 2008 at 11:16 PM
This is news? Hell, we KNEW they were full of it.
Posted by: | November 14, 2008 at 08:26 AM
Just another reason why Tierra Verde doesn't want to be annexed. Why shold their tax dollars go to cleaning up the $#!* in St. Pete?
Posted by: | November 14, 2008 at 09:28 AM