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Chino Valley staff recommends pausing $2M water production facility design amid debt and siting concerns
Summary
Staff told council new financing terms and planning data mean the town should pause a proposed $2 million design for a water production facility and reassess siting, master planning and lower-cost resilience options; the water reclamation facility expansion (~$10M) and PFAS treatment at Brightstar were also discussed.
Town staff recommended that the council pause a planned $2,000,000 design expenditure for a proposed water production facility and instead revisit the project after additional master planning and hydrology work.
Staff explained that updated loan/financing terms would effectively make a design-only loan a short-term “balloon” obligation, leaving the town roughly $1.2 million due after two years if construction did not immediately…
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