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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Ind. Gov't. - Perry County judge rules meetings did not violate Open Door Law
This is all the ILB knows about this right now, from WITZ NEWS:
January 03, 2012 - The City of Jasper and officials got good news from their perspective from Judge Lucy Goffinet of Perry County Circuit Court this morning: The lawsuit brought by Health Dubois County against the City of Jasper on the grounds of violations of open door laws regarding meetings on the Jasper Power Plant plans to burn Miscanthus grass as a biomass fuel source has been rejected. Judge Goffinet found that there were no violations and that Healthy Dubois County did not prove its case against the City.In a related event, City of Jasper principals have signed off on the lease with Jasper Clean Energy LLC that will allow the conversion of the power plant to move forward. The signing of the lease was not made public until after the decision came from Goffinet so as to not appear to influence the judicial process by the judge in the case. Those who signed the lease included former Jasper Mayor Bill Schmitt, former City Attorney Sandy Hemmerlein, Utility Service Board President Wayne Schuetter and Jasper Clean Energy President Jay Catasein. The signing of this lease took place on Thursday, December 29th. The reason for the signing before the end of December is so that those who created and have their names on the lease could sign it before they left office. Jasper Clean Energy has the green light to move ahead with their part of the lease and as stated in previous meetings, the hurdles to getting that done will be major. Included in those hurdles will be Federal and State regulatory approvals, and perhaps the most difficult will be obtaining financing to fund the entire project to the specifications of the lease.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 4, 2012 03:18 PM
Posted to Indiana Government