Smithsonian has almost $1 billion in outstanding maintenance, committee told
over 4 years in Roll Call
The Smithsonian Institution has almost a billion dollars in outstanding maintenance needs that should have been completed across over 600 facilities it oversees, an issue that concerned lawmakers at Wednesday’s House Administration Committee hearing and one which the recently appointed head of the museum complex pledged to address.
Prominent Smithsonian buildings that are in need of deferred maintenance — maintenance and repair activities that were not performed when they should have been — include the Smithsonian Institution Building, known as the Castle, the Arts and Industries Building and the National Air and Space Museum. The $937 million backlog for fiscal year 2017 is an assessment of every building it has, according to to Cathy Helm, inspector general for the Smithsonian Institution.
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