We'll there was actually a pretty good turnout for the Commissioner's working group mtg. at 6am yesterday. About 25-30 intrepid people came in early for the mtg. A bunch of them showed up in bathrobes to make a statement about the unusual hour the mtg was being held (they say because they could not find another time that worked). Here is a link to the Chn. 13 news coverage of that: http://www.wlos.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/meeting-pajamas-21172.shtml#.VV4x8UYprdF
Basically Tom Pack had them go through the document page by page and raise any concerns, suggestions for changes. They discussed each change and adopted it or rejected it. Items they discussed included things like the total amount of water ICWD is requesting (up to 6 million gallons per day from lake Adger and 2 MGD down stream for a total 8 MGD at their proposed downstream water treatment plant they would build in South Carolina); added dam upkeep and lake upkeep to ICWD for entire length of the contract rather than just the initial upgrade of the dam and clarified words regarding the $100,000/yr ICWD would put towards the Polk County water system "backbone" (main transmission lines)
All in all it was a very civil mtg. with good, constructive comments coming in from all of the commissioners and excellent comments from Marche Pittman.
Ray Gasperson took the opportunity to take issue with the long length of the contract stating that there is no way to know what our needs will be in the decades ahead as our county grows and 75 years is just too long AND to comment that there was no revenue sharing in it for Polk County and we shouldn't give up the right for future generations to make a percentage of the money ICWD will make selling this water. These were broad comments that did not make it into the detailed changes being made to the specific document.
** We will make the contract with these new changes available as soon as the county lawyer finishes them and puts them out to the public. I'll be sure to get some comments out on that at that time and BEFORE the next meeting which is a PUBLIC MTG. on the water contract scheduled for June 29th at 6PM to listen to citizen comments.
Be sure to mark your calendar!! June 29th at 6PM
Basically Tom Pack had them go through the document page by page and raise any concerns, suggestions for changes. They discussed each change and adopted it or rejected it. Items they discussed included things like the total amount of water ICWD is requesting (up to 6 million gallons per day from lake Adger and 2 MGD down stream for a total 8 MGD at their proposed downstream water treatment plant they would build in South Carolina); added dam upkeep and lake upkeep to ICWD for entire length of the contract rather than just the initial upgrade of the dam and clarified words regarding the $100,000/yr ICWD would put towards the Polk County water system "backbone" (main transmission lines)
All in all it was a very civil mtg. with good, constructive comments coming in from all of the commissioners and excellent comments from Marche Pittman.
Ray Gasperson took the opportunity to take issue with the long length of the contract stating that there is no way to know what our needs will be in the decades ahead as our county grows and 75 years is just too long AND to comment that there was no revenue sharing in it for Polk County and we shouldn't give up the right for future generations to make a percentage of the money ICWD will make selling this water. These were broad comments that did not make it into the detailed changes being made to the specific document.
** We will make the contract with these new changes available as soon as the county lawyer finishes them and puts them out to the public. I'll be sure to get some comments out on that at that time and BEFORE the next meeting which is a PUBLIC MTG. on the water contract scheduled for June 29th at 6PM to listen to citizen comments.
Be sure to mark your calendar!! June 29th at 6PM