NDSU still leasing plane despite directive it stop
January 7, 2013 at 3:27 pm in Grand Forks Herald
North Dakota State University is still leasing an airplane from the NDSU Development Foundation, and Rep. Jeff Delzer, R-Underwood, said legislators may look at new policies to end the practice if the plane isn’t sold soon. Continue Reading
Sure this issue has merit, but it should be priority #57 in what the legislature should be focusing on. The legislature should stop picking the scabs of NDSU and UND.
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This is just a ruse to get general fund money into the NDSU Development fund. Overcharge for nonuse of a plane and then the development fund can use the funds for whatever purpose they want. The fund bought the plane and leases it back to the school. Why didn’t the school buy it outright? If they had they couldn’t launder any general fund money into the Development fund.
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UND has wing of king airs in its fleet so NDSU needs one right?
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The questions totally dodged in the article:
Is the NDSU Development Foundation some division of a state agency or the state-run University? I’m guessing it’s a non-profit wholly under private control similar to the UND Alumni Association, having no State money involved.
Why does NDSU lease an aircraft they were told to get rid of?
Stop paying the lease. The owner of the plane–the non-profit–is the one who deals with the marketing and sale, and they can suck up any costs this boondoggle has created. The expenses incurred fall to the non-profit, NOT TO THE TAXPAYER.
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Exactly Schurkey, this is nothing but a ruse to circumvent the Legislature’s directive and give the development fund some state money.
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At education conferences for the state, all the universities come up with a plan for progress, and NDSU goes off and does whatever it wants. Do their actions really surprise anyone anymore?
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