That evening, at a reportedly raucous meeting with state officials, Morrison and others convinced the agency to delay work until community concerns were alleviated. Staffers for Bock set up a follow-up meeting for July 1 at her Oakland office. Reps for the state toxics department, Nadel, Lee, Greenaction, the Chester Street association, and, naturally, Bock herself, all turned up. Nadel is expected to present the highway department with a list of recommendations agreed on at the meeting. But we've had a number of meetings, and Caltrans is ready to begin work.
Every meeting means a delay, and every delay costs money.
The bottom line is that we're trying to clean this shit up.