Source: New York Post
A New York State-run facility for people with developmental disabilities has gone nearly three years without working air conditioning — leaving vulnerable residents and state workers enduring what a union boss called “oppressive heat” inside the aging Adirondacks institution, a union said. Sunmount Developmental Center in Tupper Lake, which is operated by the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, has been struggling with a failed cooling system even as summer heat pushed local temperatures into the upper 80s and low 90s, with heat index values reaching into the 90s. “This is not an emergency at this time, but it is a serious, ongoing priority that demands immediate attention,” Public Employees Federation President Wayne Spence wrote Thursday in a letter to state Director of Operations Jackie Bray.
