Wow, a slap on the hand for all who is involved. Taxpayers definitely got the short end of the stick on this one.

In the final analysis, perhaps $2 million isn’t too great a price to pay to protect the Treasure Valley’s air quality from uncertain pollutants. Good riddance Dynamis.

Infuriating, to be sure, to see Dynamis walk away with $2 million. That said, Tibbs and Case get kudos for making the right call.

You’re right on the culprits, Two Cents. What I’m wondering is, when the contract was written w/ little/no recourse to reclaim funds, did BOCC (at the time) override legal advice or didn’t the lawyer see the worst case coming?

It was probably worth the 2 mil to get rid of Sharon, can you imagine how much more she could have bilked people out of if she had been reelected.

To prevent this from happenning again (there are other landfills in the State) someone in the Legislature needs to step up and write a bill where the Public Hearing is held BEFORE the contracts are signed

http://www.adaweb.net/Commissioners/MeetingAgendas.aspx

The agreement is online for the Tuesday hearing.

We are governed by fools and idiots! Most of the people in public office would not make it to the interview if they had to apply for their jobs. All you have to be is 18 years of age, be a person in good standing ( no felons) and have the ability to get yourself elected.
The sad part is we put these fools and idiots in office and hoped they would at least do some due diligence before giving the “Music Man Mahaffey” any money.

I say if they have any PERSI pension payments they need to be garnished until the money is paid back! Take these fools to court and get a judgement and it will make future stupid decisions less frequent.

I forgot to add, it is my belief elected officials have a “fiduciary” responsibility to taxpayers and look out for their best interests.

PERSI pension payments they need to be garnished until the money is paid. Good idea!

This all started with an illegal loan of public (taxpayer) money. At minimum, the assets purchased, computers, software, etc. should all be returned to Ada County.

In response to CJ Petrovsky, I think the contract was written by legal staff in a manner designed to meet the demands of the commissioners, which meant it was lopsidedly favorable to Dynamis. Although the results of the so-called investigation into how that contract was created and payments were made was that there was no criminal activity per se, we will all wonder forever what actually went on behind closed doors, and what may have been promised in exchange for that $2 million. We will never have all the answers nor an equitable resolution such as getting money back from Dynamis. We also will never have Tilman/Ullman/Yzaguirre held accountable. But we all must just move on and be grateful the project has been stopped.

I’d like to see a reasoned statement of the facts, along with the names of the Dynamis people involved, published, widely with the hope that others could be protected from these predators.

What is amazing to me is the acceptance that the loss of $2MM of taxpayer dollars was “the best deal” that could come out of this mess by the current Commissioners.

Secondly, is the acceptance by taxpayers this was an acceptable closure to the Dynamis project.

Lastly, where did all that money go and if any is left it should be returned in good faith to the Ada County taxpayers.

Hey kids, how about us taxpayers fund the design and feasibility studies for a private nuclear power plant? To heck with garbage gas. Nuclear power is so cheap it will pay for itself! Idaho power will buy all the electricity while we watch our utility bills practically dissapear.

“It’s dead, Jim!”

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Thanks to all who stepped up.

“Let the cities annex the rest of the county and we won’t need most of those county offices.”
Sam, Sam, Sam, is that the way they did it in the People’s Socialist Republik of Kali, or Texas or WA state? It really doesn’t matter from whence you came, the only thing we care less about than you transplants is how you did things wherever you ran away from. . .if you like the way things were done “there” hit the road home, it does run both directions.

Although your land rapers and little demigod politicians in Boise, Eagle, Meridian, Kuna, Nampa and Cladwell have tried their best to annex and subjugate as much open ground as possible there still remain a few rural areas of Ada and Canyon Counties that are not run by those bicycle pedaling trolley fetishists to whom the Bench and the North End are nirvana.

These are the days of teflon coated politicians, where even American representatives, murdered by the incompetence of “our” leaders (and then lied about) are mere “speed bumps” to be ignored or just denied away. It would seem that graft, favoritism and payola exist at even the most basic local levels. Incompetence that results in multi million dollar school district shortfalls is dismissed as “Oh, they made mistakes in accounting.” Far too many elected and appointed officials get by, quite literally with murder and suffer no consequences, let alone penalties. Why would we local tax payers even expect ANY return from the TWO MILLION DOLLARS (even if they are deflated obamma marks instead of real US dollars) of OUR money that was handed over by elected crooks to opportunistic sheisters?

Sam, I apologize then for going directly to the ultimate “double dog” slur and calling you one of “them.” I did so based on your possibly, in retrospect, facetious comment about even more county wide land grabs by omnipotent little self serving politicians. The part about total annexation sure sounded like just one more cockamamie proposal that some refugee would drag in when they migrated here. If you want to get rid of one layer of bureaucracy, just don’t live in incorporated areas.
(Just curious, would you also do away with our elected law enforcement officer, the county sheriff, and have only one more political appointee animal as supreme local enforcement officer for us all?)

As far as more people moving here and getting involved, see if you can find an older native kali and asked them how that has worked out there. Or even better yet to see the phenomenon of what happened there and is happening here on a condensed scale, research Antelope Oregon and those miscreant migrants.

The only good out of this is the EVIL TRASH BURNER, TIRE BURNER FROM HELL won’t be built and more than likely won’t ever be reserected again in most folks lifetimes.

We are not in short supply for landfill ops by any stretch of the imagination. And for something like this to be sold on that issue is pure folly. Too bad it took $2MM to learn this lesson for our elected deciders.

I am disappointed that the project was not able to find a path to success. As it is, our community continues to pour 2000 tons of waste into the landfill each day. That’s not theoretical pollution – but actual and ongoing. That’s not going to change unless some different approach is taken to managing our waste stream. The Dynamis approach was a different approach. Perhaps the management of this project was a bit inept, but it seems to me that a major impediment was also a resistance to change in the community.

Change will happen. If we do nothing, it’ll be the change of an ever-growing landfill. Approaches that change our waste stream into a resource ought to be encouraged and not discouraged.