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Goldstein’s letter appears to indicate growing frustration in trying to resolve the issue and pay for the repairs, which were estimated to be about $9 million in 2018. Search and rescue workers, who have had to contend with summer rainstorms, fires within the debris, and the threat of collapse from the still standing portion of the building, were not visible atop the rubble on Thursday morning, as scores of people remain missing one week after the collapse.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) Mark Humphrey/APĬhamplain Towers South engineering firm failed to keep occupants safe, lawsuit alleges

The survey report raised concerns about structural damage to the concrete slab below the pool deck and “cracking and spalling” located in the parking garage.Ĭoast guard boats patrol in front of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building, ahead of a planned visit to the site by President Joe Biden, on Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. The resignations took place about 11 months after the structural field survey report, which detailed “extensive and necessary repairs,” according to the firm that performed the survey, Morabito Consultants. The letter obtained by CNN did not give a reason for the resignations. “We work for months to go in one direction and at the very last minute objections are raised that should have been discussed and resolved right in the beginning,” Goldstein wrote in her September 2019 resignation letter, obtained by the Post.Ī letter from the Champlain Towers South condominium board president sent to property owners in 2019 and obtained by CNN Thursday confirms that two members of the board resigned on the same day in September of that year. The majority of the Champlain Towers South board decided to quit following disputes over the lackluster response in tackling the repairs needed in the condominium complex, the paper reported. Five members of the Champlain Towers South condo association’s seven-member board – including its president, Anette Goldstein – decided to resign in the fall of 2019, when the association was debating multimillion-dollar repairs, the Washington Post reported, citing board meeting minutes and Goldstein’s resignation letter.