MIAMI — Much remains unclear about what Surfside’s role may be in any on-site inspections of the Champlain Towers South collapse site, but town commissioners made clear Wednesday they would not cut a “blank check” to take part in court-sanctioned testing and sampling to investigate what caused the June 24 collapse.
Commissioners — who said they tried to balance fiscal responsibility and a “moral obligation” to the families of the 98 victims and their high-rise residents — voted unanimously Wednesday to pay up to $500,000 to participate in the on-site tests along with the defendants and plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit stemming from the collapse that killed 98 people.
“We need to put some money where our mouth is right now,” Commissioner Charles Kesl said at the meeting.
