There is a subject various taxpayers, of various sides of the fence, have been battling Mayor Garner and the Sewer Board over -- the renewal of EMC's contract to manage our Sewer Plant.
According to the Tribune reporter who telephoned me today asking for comments, they have gone ahead and signed EMC up for another "few" years.
These are my words, and I stand behind them...simply want you to read them here before they go through the "editing" process at the Tribune.
And I quote "the EMC CONTRACT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BID OUT, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BID OUT THE FIRST TIME AROUND and I THINK IT'S A TRAGEDY FOR ALL TAXPAYERS THAT IT WASN'T AGAIN".
Forget the legalities in bidding out "thangs" like this, but you can not make the argument to me, "Oh, Yvonne, we're saving money". Saving money? Compared to what?
"Oh, Yvonne, we're trying to make the EPA happy." SINCE WHEN?
After talking with Candidate England and Candidate Hubbard, they both stated to me they did not want the EMC contract renewed, especially during Garner's last months in office.
Mr. Bob Ledford, former member of the New Albany Sewer Board under Overton, attended a Sewer Board meeting just last month telling them THEY NEED TO BID IT OUT. If EMC is so great, then they should have no trouble winning the bid because they have the inside track, so to speak.
Another waste of your taxpayer dollars -- how much? Who knows? Ask the Sewer Board.
And, P.S., the worry of the Sewer Department that another Mayor would hire some "yahoo" doesn't hold water with me, either.
Keep 'em coming... The funny thing is most of Council agrees it HAS TO BE BID BY STATE LAW. How are they getting around this one? Do I even want to know? Probably not.
Hold on to your seats when you find out how much EMC is going to cost us by the end of this new contract!!!!!! We aren't talking "chump" change here, taxpayers.
Council members, get ready for the phone calls.............
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We traveled to Patoka Lake this weekend, instead of Monroe. It was interesting, to say the least. Alas, only one big blue catfish was caught, so we let him go.
After getting my hands on Friday's Tribune and today's Courier, I feel Eric Campbell summed it up the best:
"The company (EMC) signed on in 2001 to OVERHAUL the sewer system after Clean Water Act violations prompted strict oversight and tap-in control by the Environmental Protection Agency."
Well, the original "Plan" (which we always said was to expand, not fix the inner-City) expanded, but EMC did not have the manpower to "overhaul" our system. They were to do the routine "maintenance" issues; thus the additional of more man power.
And, I find it fascinating in their booklets, placed at the Library monthly, that in some mini-basins they have tv'd and used cameras in more linear feet than linear lines that exist.
This would be where "APPENDIX D" of the Consent Decree came into play; EMC would do "Appendix D" and the $40 some million was for the expansion to the Knobs.
Citizens were there once when EMC's contract underwent a change because of "bond" issues -- and the $270,000.00 a month pledged by Council out of EDIT to this "APPENDIX D" was taken away and used to prop up the Bonds.
After chasing that $270,000 for eight years; pshew, that alone will keep you on your toes. Add to that the insult of the Sewer Board stating I was right and the monies had been used for other purposes and the President of the Sewer Board saying he "doesn't know how he is going to make up that money"...well, what can you say?
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