Comments on: County seeks answers to lingering Nestle wetlands, economic impact questions

By: Judy Shuford

Judy Shuford — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:11 +0000

After seeing this article above that Frank Holman lobbied against the hiring of our consultants I understand his lack of questions for NWNA at the hearing yesterday. Dennis Giese and Tim Glenn are our hope. A 2-1 vote to deny the 1041 and SLUP is within reach.

By: chris faust

chris faust — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:04:36 +0000

while i applaud the commisioners in asking for additional studies, they are basically meaningless. not enough time, not enough money, and there is not going to be any substantial new info. after yesterday’s p&z meeting it is apparent that we are in for a mountainous uphill battle on tuesday,april 21.

your wonderful and hard working community leaders basically rolled over and played dead as lauerman et.al. danced a jig on top of there dead corpse. according to judy everett several of the rules in the 1041 do not apply and therefore nestle need not consider them. by the way don’t write any letters with concern about nestle’s other operations as commisioner’s don’t consider it a valid issue.

although there was a considerable stack of letters in regard to nestle’s other sites the commisioners basically said that they were invalid and did not even acknowledge them.

By: Hayden Mellsop

Hayden Mellsop — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:13:13 +0000

I agree with Merrell, this decision will impact our county for generations. We should be in no rush to make any decision until all aspects have been carefully scrutinized.

By: Trey

Trey — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:14:55 +0000

The final CNHP report is posted to our crib sheet on this issue, or you can download it directly.

By: Mike Harvey

Mike Harvey — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:31:52 +0000

Lee or Bill have you guys posted the final CNHP report? Thanks for your continued diligence.

By: Bill Donavan

Bill Donavan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:37:42 +0000

Thank’s Lee. For more information, see all back stories, articles and commentaries here:

http://salidacitizen.com/?s=nestle&x=0&y=0

By: Merrell Bergin

Merrell Bergin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:10:36 +0000

Thanks for digging deeply into the consultant arrangements. $5,000-$8,000 buys you only 3-5 days worth of one person’s time at $200/hour. This is a very low rate for technical consulting and the contract is so small as to be barely worth the time for the firm to land and deliver it.

So how much can you get done in that time, considering there are volumes of documents to read, digest, analyze and then publish in a report? Not much. While I applaud the Commissioners for taking another look at these key findings, you only get what you pay for.

Given the controversy surrounding the original reports and the content of this article, it would seem that just glossing over the original work with a bare bones report will point additional liability to the County if things go south. Why not spend the money and do a proper job along with a 90-120 continuation? Nestle has to pay for these studies anyway so there’s no harm to the County.