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

[Craine Kit]

Moscow's fee structure says out-of-town users pay 2x the rate of in- 
town customers. State law appears to limit water delivery to within  
the city limits and in the past the City has required annexation  
before providing any services. Given that, my question is: are there  
any out-of-town users? If so, who and when did their service start?

Kit Craine




On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:14 AM, jeanlivingston wrote:

> 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
> > not! hing to do 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 wat! er it sells, 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?
> >
> > gcl! ev
> >
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