First, they lost their windows. Now their blinds are missing.

On Tuesday, a final accounting of what it cost to repair 158 broken windows at Copeland Elementary School totaled $24,000 -- about $8,000 more than originally anticipated.

That's because asbestos was found in the putty holding the old windows in place. So the school system had to call in an environmental cleanup group at a cost of about $11,000, school system facilities director Benton Starks said.

"This was expensive," he said.

During the repair, blinds were taken down and lost, so add $2,000 to $3,000 to the tally.

"They just got hauled off," Starks said Tuesday. He said things were hectic as workers hurried to make the repairs so school could reopen.

The blinds had been piled up, and officials think someone thought they were trash.

So the windows are fixed, but Starks' department is still trying to figure out what to do about the blinds.

Finding the extra money will be difficult, Starks said. His budget has already taken a big hit with the window repairs.

He said his office might have a leftover roll of tinting material it could use.

If the office doesn't have leftovers, the cost would be about $50 to $60 a window, he said. That's still cheaper than the $80 a window new blinds would cost.

Starks, who has been facilities director for a decade, said this is probably the second-most expensive vandalism incident he has seen.

The most costly occurred about 10 years ago, when someone set fire to a wing at Josey High, he said.

That ended up costing $1.5 million.

In the Copeland case, a 13-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy were charged. School officials have said they could seek restitution from the youths' parents through a lawsuit, but they haven't decided yet.