Oxbow ND Boondoggle “an” Elaborate Taxpayer Shakedown
Was it all a bluff to see if Fargo would back away from the FMDA’s Class 1 High Hazard Dam, while secretly crossing fingers in hopes of a taxpayer funded windfall?
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Fargo Dam and FM Diversion Costs as of April 30, 2018
Fargo Diversion Authority spent another $ 1,804,590.50 from March 31, 2018 to April 30, 2018. Over 26.76 percent of the original projected cost. The Fargo Diversion Authority has pumped over $125.4 million into OHB ring-dike-levee and private country club, which provides ZERO FLOOD PROTECTION BENEFIT TO FARGO, all courtesy of state and local taxpayers. With unfinished internal flood protection projects the Fargo Diversion Authority continues to pump millions into the non-flood prone OHB ring-dike-levee and private Oxbow Country Club, courtesy of state and local taxpayers.
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North Dakota’s Most Expensive Taxpayer Subsidized Golf Course
Spineless politicians had a hand in the excesses at Oxbow, ND.
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West Fargo Brace for Tax Assessments
Revenue projections are only part of the financing dilemma forcing the assessment issue. Spending on the stalled project is hemorrhaging at a higher rate than tax collections.
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Defending Richland and Wilkin counties May 3, 2018
Richland-Wilkin Joint Powers Authority Original Publication Date: May 3, 2018 Wahpeton Daily News Republished with permission from: Trana Rogne, Richland County In 2013, the North Dakota Senate passed an amendment to a spending bill to fund Fargo’s flood protection. The amendment directed that any state tax dollars going to Fargo needed to be spent on […]
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Fargo Dam and FM Diversion Costs as of March 31, 2018
Fargo Diversion Authority spent another $ 1,179,178.91 from February 28, 2018 to March 31, 2018. Over 26.6 percent of the original projected cost. The Fargo Diversion Authority has pumped over $128 million into OHB ring-dike-levee and private country club, which provides ZERO FLOOD PROTECTION BENEFIT TO FARGO, all courtesy of state and local taxpayers. With unfinished internal flood protection projects the Fargo Diversion Authority continues to pump millions into the non-flood prone OHB ring-dike-levee and private Oxbow Country Club, courtesy of state and local taxpayers.
Continue ReadingMoorhead Mayor Gets Schooled by Local Residents
Wake up and smell the coffee. Moorhead has awesome flood protection for less than what the FMDA has pumped into Oxbow, ND boondoggle and the member only Country Club.
Continue ReadingFear, Flooding and Fargo
Fargo is at fault for developing natural flood plain, restricting the river flood-way, displacing water and causing Fargo’s flooding…, and the Red River was here long before the un-civilized built any infrastructure.
Continue ReadingFMDA Seeking $66.5 million from State Water Commission
Partial veto must be so exercised that it eliminates or destroys the whole of an item or part and does not distort the legislative intent.
Continue ReadingIt’s the Flood Plain
Minnesota statute says, “the proposed project must represent the minimal impact solution to a specific need with respect to all other reasonable alternatives.”
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