Representatives from the board's division of school facilities meet regularly with executives from the School Construction Authority to review the status of construction projects.
"It's really a terrible situation because it doesn't give stability to the schools," said Patricia Zedalis, the chief executive of the board's division of school facilities.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Levy said that Patricia Zedalis, whose resignation Mr. Levy had asked for this week, was fired yesterday as chief executive of the division of school facilities.
Patricia Zedalis, chief executive of the board's division of school facilities, said that accelerating the boiler replacement program would require shifting some renovation projects to a lower priority.
At the very same fund-raiser, Ms. Gotbaum took up a not-so-popular cause, coming to the defense of Patricia Zedalis, who was forced out of her job as head of the Board of Education's division of school facilities.
Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy yesterday appointed Rudolph J. Rinaldi, a construction industry consultant who formerly served as the top construction official for New York State and New York City, to oversee Mr. Levy's proposed reorganization of the Board of Education's division of school facilities.
According to projections by the board's division of school facilities, by 2004 the Bronx will be at 131percentt of capacity and Queens at 122 percent, even with the scheduled school additions.
"In a robust economy, there are plenty of other people who want the same sites we do," said Patricia Zedalis, chief executive of the board's division of school facilities, which is responsible for finding places to put new schools.
Mr. Levy also defended the chief executive of the board's division of school facilities, Patricia Zedalis, who the report said failed to heed warnings from the School Construction Authority about whether the capital plan accounted for the cost of projects already under way.
Last fall, Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Klein announced plans to merge the School Construction Authority and the City Department of Education's division of school facilities, saying that infighting between the agencies often increased the cost of projects and discouraged companies from bidding for school jobs.
