[Vision2020] city emails and the water thing

[pkraut at moscow.com]

Dan you hve been really nice to answer questions that are obvious to many 
of us and I appreciate your efforts. But, I know you know that there are 
some on this site who won't be happy until....I don't know when. A great 
decision was made and it will be helpful for our fair city and I thank 
you for your vote.




> Vizzz peeps,
> 
> Okay, checking in again this morning, and something is still up with the
> vision emails not getting through to the city server.  I asked the
> techies up there about it, and they are working on it.  I'm not ignoring
> people, it just isn't getting there!
> 
> If you want to insure that your email gets to our city emails, maybe
> don't put the vision2020 tag in there, or send a separate email to the
> city address and another to the vision.  I'll gladly post answers to the
> vision if asked.  I don't check on this as often as before, but I do
> check it once in a while.  
> 
> Saundra asked about why some have city emails and some don't.  I chose
> to have a city email so I could have city-type business go to it's own
> account, rather than getting lost in the shuffle of whatever anyone else
> might send me via my personal email address.
> 
> Garrett asks a few questions:
> "Am I correct in assuming Moscow still had time before we would have
> spent significant money on litigation?"
> We were already in litigation via the appeals filed on the water rights.
> 
> "Also, how does this jive with the potential litigation if the city
> defends the noise ordinance in court?"
> We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
> 
> "Are you implying that since there are no similarly situated customers,
> we can charge Hawkins what we want (up to a limit)?  If we set a
> "premium" price that Hawkins does not agree to pay, they can refuse
> service.  What will be the process to determine that
> cost to Hawkins?"
> Our public works director knows more about how we'll reach this than I
> do.  I look forward to seeing what we come up with.
> 
> "The agreement does not prevent Hawkins from drilling a well, nor from
> applying for water rights in the future.  Nor are those water rights
> they gave up vanished."
> 
> You are correct that up until they hook on, they can drill a well.
> After they do, their water rights dissappear, and those rights are
> retired.  They don't go to anyone else, they are gone.
> 
> "I thought the DOE mandates the parties working on mediation before
> hearing the case.  Did Nancy have a choice in not pursuing a
> settlement?"
> The mayor and our attorney gave us the options.  The mayor thought
> mediation would be the right idea, and we all agreed.  Again, the
> protracted litigation was not something I wanted to pursue, and just
> dropping the appeals and getting nothing in return didn't sound
> reasonable to me.
> 
> "I also wonder, why was sewer part of the agreement?"
> 
> The option is there to sell sewer services.  In doing this we will see
> some extra money coming in to help pay for our treatment plant upgrades.
> On a side note, I encourage everyone who gets a chance to take a tour of
> the wastewater treatment plant.  I learned more than I ever thought I'd
> know about wastewater treatment in one afternoon than I had learned in
> my previous 39 years.  VERY interesting.
> 
> As Chas has stated, there have been a lot of similar questions, and I
> hope these answers to Garrett's and Saundra's will help everyone else.  
> 
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