On February 21, 2013, the City of Llano mailed an “In the Know” newsletter, written by Lynda Kuder, which distorts the history of our sewer plant and our “plans” for necessary upgrades.

This paper will attempt to provide a more accurate picture of our sewer plant’s past and future. Only available documents and numbers available from 2007 and from the newsletter are used and presented here.

The hypothesis of this paper is that if Hejl, Lee and Associates’ and Lynda Kuder’s business case had been complete, then the City would not be facing millions of dollars of upgrades now. We are still on a path to make more bad decisions unless we change players and process.

The best available City documents lead to the following conclusion: the actual total cost for the 2007 plan of renovating the old sewer plant is $16.5 million. The total cost of switching to state-of-the-art GE technology would have been $2.6 million. This is in stark contrast to the business case presented by the City at the time.

The intent of this effort is to prevent the City from repeating the same mistakes made in 2007.

See the complete Llano Wastewater Treatment  Plant: Then and Now paper here

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