Eye On Boise

They want how much for what??

March 5, 2009 3:11 p.m. • 7 comments

It’s all online now - Gov. Butch Otter has posted on the Internet a list of all proposals submitted to his Division of Financial Management for consideration for federal stimulus funding. You can see the list here. The governor encourages anyone who submitted a request to check the list and make sure it’s accurately represented. He also said a separate state Web site will be set up “in the near future” to allow citizens to track “the allocation and use of all stimulus funding.” Jon Hanian, Otter’s press secretary, said it appears that some applicants decided to “shoot the moon.”

A quick peek at the list of requests reveals a $225 million request from Agua Caliente LLC for geothermal well drilling at various Idaho locations; $260 million to expand the Ada County landfill; $2.2 million to build a new Boys and Girls Club in Kuna; $48.2 million for a new Canyon County Jail; $14.8 million for renovation of Canfield Middle School in Coeur d’Alene; $630 million for wind farms for Idaho Wind Energy LLC; $100 million for a project at Micron; Lynn Dickerson wants $1.9 million for a private business start-up; Melody Russell (no known relation to me) wants $34,000 to pay off credit cards; and the Girl Scouts of the Silver Sage Council asked for $321,527 to “offset lower receipts,” presumably from this year’s recession-impacted cookie sales.

Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Lisa on March 05 at 3:47 p.m.
A lot of Private Businesses want a lot of money from the gravey train now. What the heck is “Agua Caliente”?? and Micron wants money?…they need to use their own money for their own projects. Its going to bad enought with Idaho Legislature grabbing money for their own pet projects that will benifit them and not the general public. And Ada County needs $260M for landfill expansion?. Idaho Wind Energy need to use their own capitol for their wind farms to sell electricity to others for profit.
Sisyphus on March 05 at 3:57 p.m.
The stimulus was designed in part to accelerate the energy transition from fossil fuels so the wind and geothermal requests make sense. But I dunno about Micron’s intended purpose.
Lisa on March 05 at 4:51 p.m.
Sis…I know that but I didn’t think it was for private companies to make money off the public. I’m all for alternative energy. I’ve never heard of Agua Caliente LLC.
scootermom on March 06 at 10:10 a.m.
Hmmm. A bail out for Girl Scout Cookies?

I don’t think so. Although I do love the Thin Mints.