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Residents question fuel‑surcharge repayment term and $1.24 million cemetery irrigation payment
Summary
At a town-hall public comment session, a resident questioned the city’s decision to use a long repayment term for fuel-surcharge financing and to pay $1,236,130.14 for a cemetery line from water funds; staff said the fuel site is a street asset and the cemetery pipe is a water department main.
At a Pocatello town hall public comment period, resident Heather Disilcone questioned the city’s treatment of two capital costs: a fuel‑site financing arrangement she described as a $2,600,000 loan with a 50‑year repayment term, and a December payment of about $1.236 million from water funds to replace a cemetery irrigation line.
“I reserve the remainder of my time,” Disilcone said, and asked council members to explain why a fuel-surcharge repayment for a $2,600,000 loan was set at a 50‑year repayment term when the recorded approval showed a 30‑year term, and why $1,236,130.14 for the Mountain…
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