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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. Responding to accusations in a lawsuit that the owners had colluded with city officials to inflate the property's price, the landowners' lawyer said they had received so many mixed signals from the schools construction agency that they had gone ahead with plans to put an apartment building on the land. The Schools Construction Corporation has charged that the construction of the building, done hastily and shoddily, inflated the price of the land designated for a new school by $1 million.