Dale Perkins forgot to include in his five Three Point Plan that ECUA will be selling the 17 acres on which the Main Street Sewage Treatment Plant is built. The $280 million…
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ECUA History
From my email: While there maybe some who would refute this, the public records will bear me out. I spent three years of my life lobbying the West Florida Legislative Delegation for…
Benson doesn’t get it
From Mark O’Brien’s Sunday column: The utility, which serves 60,000 of the county’s 118,000 households, will raise rates to pay for the new plant near Gonzalez, but it shouldn’t put all the…
IN Your Head Radio – Oct 27 show
Oct 27, 2006 Show News: Governor’s Race – Melinda Hilterbrand Winners & Losers: Perkin’s Plan Loaded Gun: Ghostbuster – Marlene Blanchard Rick’s Rant: ECUA Extortion scheme Listen to Program 15
Even Kevin White gets it
ECUA approve the Dale Perkins 5 Point 3 Point Plan yesterday, 3-2. Perkins, McCovery & Walker voted for Fort Perkins. Benson and Fink voted “No.” In the PNJ (), Esc. Co. commissioner…
Tell ECUA Board to move Main St. Plant….no more games
Call or email (click on names for email addresses) Chairman Mr. Logan Fink District One (850) 944-1941 Term expires November 2008 Vice Chairman Mr. Elvin McCorvey District Three (850) 206-0642 Term expires…
Plans for Fort Perkins revealed
ECUA board member Dale Perkins has told us that if the city and county don’t fork over $38 million each then he plans to fortify the Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant. Here…
Perkins has done this before
In 2001, ECUA, DEP and International Paper were working an agreement for $92 million project to build a pipeline that would take IP’s wastewater away from Eleven Mile Creek and instead filter…
ECUA/Dale Perkins plan is extortion scam
In the PNJ (ECUA to review funding plan), the ECUA Board still refuses to pay for the entire $115 million with its Dale Perkins five-point plan: Reapply for more FEMA money Ask…
How to raise $115M to move ECUA plant
See if you can follow my math: Funds needed $115,000,000 Interest (30 yrs, 5.25%) $153,000,000 Closing costs (est) $ 4,740,000 Total needed $272,740,000 _________________________________________________ The Dec 2003 study on the Replacement of…
ECUA manages on a prayer
Yesterday’s PNJ article on the relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant ( Anyone got $115 million? ) really bothers me, especially this section: “The $115 million grant was pronounced all…
IN: Aftermath of Hurricane Ivan
Hurricane Ivan kicked us out of our nice digs in the Theisen Building. We left half our furniture behind – either destroyed or it was too heavy to carry down three flights…
Does ECUA get the message?
 One government agency that should listen hard to the Sept. 5th primary vote is the Emerald Coast Utility Authority. The voters want change. We hear that FEMA will announce this month…