Comments on: Dynamis Hot Potato Investigation Flipped (or mashed) Yet Again

By: barney

barney — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:35:39 +0000

What’s the latest on a new investigator?

By: nate

nate — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:24:38 +0000

“You had my at..”

Good article and insight, but I lost a bit of interest and had to laugh at your comment “the impartial lawyers of the Obama administration can evaluate the Republican Commishes”–THAT IS FUNNY.

The thought of one side of the $#it sandwich being better than the other–Classic.

EDITOR NOTE–it was intended to be funny.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:03:30 +0000

Good point cs: Yes, Ada & Boise are forcing us to pay an overcharge for trash collection. Even a rental fee on each “official” trash can even if you don’t have one of their special cans they still charge for it. What they do with the extra money is hard to see. I for one could share a dumpster and fee with a neighbor because of low trash volume, but the money grubbers in government won’t adjust for that. It went to court it would be rebranded as a property tax. This is reflected if the fee structure for apartment complexes too.

Now if their true goal was to reduce waste produced then they could have a sliding fee, but their true goal is to increase tax collections.

By the way, an Ada commissioner get $100K plus bennies and retirement for a part-time job. That’s why Vern took the job near the end and hung on to it even when ill and not going to work?

By: chicago sam

chicago sam — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:20:31 +0000

Press-Tribune in Nampa has reported that the city is using the garbage fees as a profit center where the city skims off over 1 million a year and transfers to the general fund. City calls it a franchise fee but seems like a 20% franchise fee is corruption and slight of hand to me. Does Ada County do the same thing? It has the same effect as a tax and you don’t even know it. You just swear at the garbage company for your high rates

By: My two cents

My two cents — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:38:06 +0000

In the inrerests of accuracy,I am told I may be wrong And while they’re trying to get matching funds that are federal stimulus funds, the $2 million already paid may have been tipping fees from the landfill.

EDITOR NOTE–Only amatter of semantics. Dynamis is set to get something like $30 million in Fed money for construction.

By: chicago sam

chicago sam — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:58:36 +0000

Doubt if it would apply but the Clark County Waste to Energy Study was funded by the Department of Energy under Award Number DE-EE000141

By: JamesBond

JamesBond — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:04:26 +0000

For the feds to exercise that power, it would take a series of perfect storms, I would guess. Along the lines of Chicago-style corruption. The massively disappointing thing is how easily Ada County and its various law enforcement agencies run away from this stuff. They are making excuses. They have a constitutional and legal right and duty to enforce the law in their areas. Bower routinely runs for cover on this stuff.

EDIT: The federal stimulus funds idea is a good one. That could very well be the hook needed to get the feds involved.

By: My Two Cents

My Two Cents — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:43:52 +0000

I would think the feds would have every basis to investigate. Remember Ullman always says the money was not property tax dollars. True! The money was federal stimulus funds. Feds have every right to look into how federal stimulus funds were used, don’t you think?

By: Ronin

Ronin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:40:13 +0000

proof that we should abolish state governments

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:10:36 +0000

This takes inter-agency cooperation to a whole level, so cooperative they will not investigate each other. To allow possible corruption to exist, is supporting said corruption in my opinion.

One could argue that every government employee in the city/county/state could find some conflict of interest if they looked hard enough or wanted to find a conflict, at some point someone has to stand up and do the job, citizens fund and expect agencies to do their job.

The fact that BPD picked up the investigation then canceled, smells like someone at BPD had the guts, then politics got involved. I am not sure that since the county recieves the trash from a private trash company collected from the city represents a real conflict.