Hot topic: Dispute between Jamestown, Stutsman Rural Water boils over
December 11, 2012 at 12:57 am in The Jamestown Sun
Voices were raised in anger at times Monday during a joint meeting between members of Stutsman Rural Water District and representatives of the city of Jamestown. But the sides did find some common ground during the contentious meeting. Continue Reading
“Jamestown feels it has been stabbed because Rural Water is not living up to previous contracts,” Mayor Katie Andersen said, raising her voice. “How do I know anything you will sign will be honored?”
Andersen also talked about Rural Water’s future plans.
“That is another thing,” she said. “You have a lot of potential projects that are under consideration …”
Her comments were cut off by Geneva Kaiser, manager of Stutsman Rural Water District, who called the statement a threat.
Joel Lees, member of the Rural Water board, said he was concerned by threats by the city to Rural Water’s funding.
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Wow!!! It’s pretty gutsy to make a threat like that.
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A threat like what? I see nothing that was said that could be considered a “threat”. If Katie hadn’t been cut off by Geneva, she might have continued with some sort of threat… or she may have actually said what needs to be said. SRWD has a contract that it now wants to change. They don’t want to honor the previous written terms. Others that will potentially be entering contracts with SRWD, in the future, will look at what they did, here, and think twice.
She cut off what Katie was going to say (which might now have been a threat, at all, but the truth), and wants to have Rural Water appear like they are being attacked… playing the “poor me” part because they think it will win them points.
For the record, though, personally, I wish the city would just wash their hands on this whole thing and not blow a quarter million dollars for a project that will take forever to start seeing any profit.
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