By Trina A San Agustin
Variety News Staff

SOUTHERN High School officials waited until students were released from classes yesterday to have a contractor work on cleaning up the direct expansion, or DX, unit ducts.
It was not known whether yesterday’s cleaning would solve the odor problem altogether or how long the project would take.
Superintendent of Education Luis Reyes is hopeful to have it done before the end of the week to allow students to revert to their regular bell schedule.
There are three classrooms affected by the foul odor.
This was discovered last week when the DX unit was switched on.
Reyes told Variety that the contractor hired to do the work is JRN Air Conditioning and Refrigeration.
Guam Public School System maintenance employees tried to clean the ducts themselves but were unsuccessful. They said the odor was coming from a deeper area in the duct. This resulted in GPSS hiring JRN to fix the problem.
This also comes after a contractor installed close to 40 split air-conditioning units in more than 20 classrooms.
GPSS was hopeful to remove the students from the modified bell schedule but because of the foul smell, members of the Guam Education Policy Board voted to keep the modified bell schedule for 30 more days.