[Vision2020] 65 acre feet of water equals $2 million of food

[jeanlivingston]

I think that Krauss stated that we could charge out of town water
users a premium or sorts, and he either said, or I have read, that we
charge out of town users about double what we charge those who live in
town.  That is a premium charge, and the question for debate would be
not whether there is a premium or not, but whether that much of a
premium is worth it or not.


Bruce Livingston



-----Original message-----
From: Garrett Clevenger garrettmc at verizon.net
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:04:26 -0800
To: vision 2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] 65 acre feet of water equals $2 million of food

> Pat writes:
> 
> "So you weren't at the meeting last night or heard any
> of the 
> explainations for the vote?? Too bad you might have
> learned some things."
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why Pat writes this as my post had
> nothing todo with an explanation for the vote.
> 
> However, I was at the meeting and learned that my
> suspicions about the deal are well founded. 
> 
> The questions I asked were:
> 
> Since Hawkins is responsible for collecting fees from
> end-users of water in the mall, what's to prevent
> Hawkins from profiting from the water we sell them?
> 
> According to Wayne Krauss, nothing will prevent them
> from profiting. In fact, if I understood his answer,
> since Hawkins is a corporation, they are entitled to
> profit from the water.
> 
> Yes, that was about his answer, as unbelievable as
> that seems. Krauss thinks it's ok for Hawkins to
> profit from the water we sell them, even though Moscow
> cannot profit from water it sells Hawkins.
> 
> My second question was:
> 
> Since Moscow can't profit on water itsells, is the
> council justified in saying we can charge Hawkins a
> premium for the water we sell them since we can only
> charge what it costs to deliver the water.
> 
> Krauss's answer was basically we can charge them
> appreciation of infrastructure and went into the way
> fees will be charged to Hawkins for water. He failed
> to answer the question, I thought, and only said what
> we already know. The problem with his answer is that
> those fees are exactly what everybody else pays, so it
> isn't a premium.
> 
> The rest of the forum pretty much said how Hawkins
> will not be beneficial to Moscow, but more than likely
> is bad for Moscow.
> 
> I'm not sure what Pat got out of the meeting as she
> didn't go into detail about what she learned. Perhaps
> she will enlighten us with what she learned?
> 
> gclev
> 
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