WOW!

What is simply baffling to me is the unapologetic audacity of Ullman when questioned on her motives regarding Dynamis. Her defeat in the election only seems to have emboldened her and increased her praises for Dynamis. Does she simply have too much at stake financially with Dynamis to turn back now?

We are a one party State!

Invoices shown are all 2010. I couldn’t help but notice that attorney Ron Williams was paid $15,000 on Oct. 15, 2010. He was supposed to obtain financing thru the Idaho Energy Resources Authority. He is manager and legal council to the authority which is part of Idaho State Govt. Conflict of interest? Mr. Williams with Mr. Richardson were very much involved in the recent Idaho Public Utility hearings concerning renewable energy and PURPA contracts. Many states have said burning garbage for electricity is not renewable energy. Mr. Williams is seeing to it that waste to energy is still renewable in Idaho with all of the benifits that go with that designation

I hope someone goes to jail. But, I doubt that will happen.

Isn’t this project slated to break ground next month? Wouldn’t this be grounds for an injunction?

Oh what a tangled web. I’m hoping that this grist is just right for investigator Kessler’s mill. If there is any justice some commissioners and dynamis officials will be facing charges soon.

It is no wonder Mayor Bieter asked the Boise Police to not investigate. They might have actually uncovered something and implicated him as well. The commissioners basically gave Sheriff Raney a legal bribe (pay rise) to stay out of this as well. Anyone going to jail over this one? Doubtful. They will rally around each other, like they always due, all the way to the statehouse and change the laws and shrug their shoulders and call the taxpayers STUPID like they did when we voted in term limits.

Oh and while we are at this can all of us here get $2MM? I am certain anyone of us can come up with a cockamamie scheme like Dynamis and I sure could use a new computer. I mean it sure would be better than overtaxing us and using the “slush” money for your “good close personal friends” now wouldn’t it?

Has it been more than just $2M? Has anyone checked the books at the county?

The original contract (8952) indicates Dynamis was to receive reimbursement for many items such as actual cost of printing and reproduction of plans/specs; wages paid for design of the Project; cost of employee benefits and taxes; transportation costs related to design of the Project; cost of materials and supplies incorporated into contract documents; cost of payments to subcontractors for work performed in design of the Project; and permits, fees, licenses, tests, and royalties. I think this must be what the receipts show. Of interest, however, is that Dynamis was also to be reimbursed the premium cost of performance bond of not less than 95% of Guaranteed Maximum Price, and ON THE CONDITION they obtained that performance bond, were able to add “markup of not more than 15% of the materials and services.” To my knowledge, Dynamis never posted a performance bond, yet the receipts posted include markups. The voucher dated 8/6/10 clearly shows “markup” of $13,606.54. The voucher dated 7/23/10 includes $13,421 “markup” and so forth. How is that legal? It is my understanding Dynamis was unable to qualify for a performance bond and one was never posted. If that is correct, these markups seem to violate the express terms of the contract.

Also of interest is the letter from the Director of Operations dated 12/10/10 wherein he explains that the benchmarks in the contract had not been met by Dynamis (which failure was also recorded in the November Operations Staff meeting), and thus the County simply changed the deadlines to accommodate Dynamis’ failure to meet the original dates, rather than withholding payment, as is the standard practice in construction matters. Shockingly this was under done under the direction of “Commissioner Ullman and Administration Services Director Rich Wright”! So to this mix of bizarre activities on the part of the Commissioners, we now add Mr. Wright—the former Public Information Director promoted to be Directed of the Administrative Services Department, who is neither an elected official nor someone who has the right to act in any formal capacity with a commissioner—providing joint approval with a commissioner for moving these deadlines. Why was this change not done in an his appropriate fashion with a formal amendment to the contract and/or a vote by two commissioners? Does this circus atmosphere never end?

We should wait “until the current investigation. Is complete”? Surely you jest. The investigation has not even started, much less will it ever be completed. Last it was rumored a new person was appointed, a retired FBI person as i recall, but I have seen no confirmation she is actually DOING anything, have you? It’s been months of passing the buck. While perhaps contacting all these people is futile, so has been everything thus far, so I say let’s at least try!

Resalistically, did you expect anything different. This is Idaho afterall. The way everyone passed on a handling this case, you could tell it was a political “hot potato”. IMO, this probably goes deeper than just the ADA County commissioners….