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JA UARY 21 - 27, 1981
SERva G TRa..cOU TV $OUT ESTER
CHIGA
bonmar e lined its 01, ethan plant in the
o 0 po et ith from ci y of Benton H or.
e fmancially trapped coording to Re it-
Benton Harbor City. liam DO· e r 0 in
On Sept. 30, 1980 boo- . gton, 'municipalitic
m ch bmitted an appli- ere prohibited from app y-
cati to the Department
of nergy (00 ) to obtain
83,675 for itself and billed
city 2,165.47 for tb
on the plication. On Janu hen
che the th Citizen
nd to do fea' the e . tence
billty study for the location hol/re uree recovery study
of a rce recovery/ga - d by bomnarche and
ing for the fund, only
private entities could apply"
illiarns id the Abon-
marche reque t w s not
approved, bu t declined to
explain why.
billed to the city, Ron
Schult an ered questions
concerning the study.
He to d this p per that
the g 01 study don by
iog ain d Second St.,
declared b ruptcy, it
failed to li t UCDC
creditor, though it had
bono ed 50,000 from the
UCDC the city's official
local devel ment corpora-
tion.
ccordin to -court
appointed tru ee for to
bankrupt firm, J 0 ph
Chtystler of Kalamazoo,
UCOC's own failures to
file certain papers with th
ContiD 0 Pa S
Ci ty anager Paul c
Caul y authorized the
grant propo without the
know edge or con nt of th
City Commission.
his firm hich the city
p id for was not connected
to the Danco G 01 plant
trying to loea te in the
Public ork buildin .
Schults id that the
commissioners were all
aware of the dy. H
explained, "there are
eral cop' s of i and we
ha had er discu
ions about it."
Since then Schults has
drafted two memos to City
ana r P lUI cCauley ex-
p
aining 'the p and pre-
nt statu' of the project.
The fir memo
drafted January 14, th
_ cond as written Janu-
ary18, according to Schult
The-Citizen has copy of
the memo of the 14th but
not tb 18th. Schults said
fir t memo draft-
and the.
more invol-
a "coup of
e different
ritten in the fir t."
The first memo outline
th p:
1. Abonmarche COOt
sultants, Inc. found Depart­
ment of Energy Grants
availabl fo f ibility
studys through our on going
p . g researches.
"2. e 'd ith the
City �r d Commu-
nity Development to do this
Grand Application for th
City.
"3. e found that
City un't. eligible for
recipt of fund only
private . corpora ti