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The New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation's own incompetence and mismanagement led to the fiasco that added more than $1 million to the cost of a piece of property for a new school, the mayor of this city and a lawyer for the landowners charged on Monday. Mayor Brian P. Stack, who denied any collusion, charged that city and school officials had tried to warn the state agency that construction work was about to begin. But William J. Ward, the lawyer for the landowners, said the collusion allegations were a smokescreen to divert attention from the troubled agency's own problems and Mayor Stack accused the agency of trying to shift the blame to cover up its incompetence.