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

[pkraut at moscow.com]

I agree that his is just fighting to find easons to be unahppy and didn't 
listen to ALL that was said. I really felt that many at the meeting we 
just looking for ways to be mad and picked silly things to ask or be mad 
about. Its a good deal and after the last council the best we could get. 
Getting the courts involved was just a looser situation no matter what. 


> 
> I don't see the problem with an end user reselling water provided by 
our 
> city at a profit. It happens all the time. Were I to run my tap into 
some 
> pretty light blue bottles and slap on a label that read "Aqua de 
Mosque" and 
> retail it to the gullible at fashionable coop type stores, what would 
be the 
> problem?
> 
> Beer producers take municipal water and add some barley and hops and 
people 
> like me beat a path to their door.
> 
> Bartenders mix a little scotch or bourbon with water and sell it at a 
fairly 
> exorbitant markup.
> 
> The guy that maintains my yard mixes fertilizer and pesticide with 
water and 
> sprays it onto my yard a couple times a year and I gladly pay for the 
> privilege.
> 
> I think that you are trying awfully hard to find reasons to be upset 
about a 
> development that most folks in Latah and Whitman county are just fine 
with. 
> It's good to have a hobby but the one you have chosen seems a trifle 
> useless. Perhaps you could take up recycling string (not twine) into 
the 
> worlds largest ball. The record for this feat seems to be up in the air 
and 
> I just KNOW you could be a contender.
> 
> g
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Garrett Clevenger" <garrettmc at verizon.net>
> To: "vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:04 PM
> 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 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 water 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?
> >
> > gclev
> >
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