No decision on private utility proposal
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By Nate Delesline III
Published: October 7, 2008
After voting last month to halt consideration of a private company’s multimillion-dollar proposal to build a county water and sewer system, the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors decided today to officially end their consideration of the deal despite being asked to reconsider by the company.
In September, the supervisors voted 5-2 to take the Culpeper Utility Partners unsolicited deal off the table, citing concerns about the county’s financial liability in the proposed project.
But CUP reintroduced its proposal at today’s monthly BOS meeting with revised financing and asked the county to think again. Headed by Angler Development Executive Vice President Steve Vento, CUP is a limited liability company formed specifically for the Culpeper project.
“Everything you’ve told me to look at, I’ve looked at,” Vento told supervisors. He also said that Lynchburg-based English Construction would take Angler’s place as the project’s leading firm to relieve concerns about Angler’s financial stability.
But Supervisor Larry Aylor said he still wasn’t satisfied, noting that the financial elements of the revised plan were not ready.
County Attorney Roy Thorpe explained that in order to reconsider the CUP proposal, any of the board members would have to make a motion to rescind the Sept. 2 action. However, no board members made a motion to that effect, essentially bringing the plan to a close.
Look for full coverage in Wednesday’s Star-Exponent
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Posted by ( cul_peper ) on October 07, 2008 at 2:48 pm
This debacle should die a quiet death and Vento should try peddling his snake oil with some community desperate for his kind of financial wizardry. It is, was and continues to be a bad plan designed to line his pockets while picking the public’s pockets. Go away Vento. Thankfully, five board members stuck to their guns and didn’t revisit Son of Angler. You can bet the town’s two so-called representatives Steve Walker and Steve Nixon would rather deal with Vento than forge a deal with the town to provide water and sewer services. Sorry Steves that you couldn’t hoodwink your colleagues.
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