a little snippit
from the Trib. “The co-ops are seeking a federal loan for their share of the project. A record of decision would finalize an environmental-impact statement and allow the co-ops to pursue their federal loan request”
Yeah, I know. A month ago they said it was a done deal.
“The new law, if signed, puts Great Falls in a time crunch, giving it less than six months to sign up customers for electricity produced by the Highwood Generating Station.”
Geez, ya think? So let me just do some quick math here.
It’s April. Gotta sign ‘um up By Oct. 1. I see no way that Beck Marketing Geniuses will be signed up and on the street selling before May 1. So five months to sell, at $103,500.00 comes to $20,700.00 per month for something the City should already have substantially done, in my opinion, because that Developement Draft says those contracts have to be substantively complete before we get to participate and sell bonds.
I would think this October deadline would basically be a moot point by now. I mean, The Citys own Agreement, that they have been fine tuning for well over a year, imposes deadlines nearer in time. Well, except it is still a draft. Must mean those dates can change. Seems everything else can.
I just skipped over to the city site to check something and I read this. “HGS is not in operation, therefore an operating plan has yet to be written and implemented” This is the type of statement that concerns me. How many new businesses that you know of get approval, financing, build the place, and then write an operating plan?
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