Monday, October 27, 2008

Bend -- Closed for Business

Welp, if you can't tell, I'm pressed for time, and people seem to want to talk about McPAIN no matter what I post, so this will be just a short weekly placeholder.

I noticed something on Wall St that I haven't seen in a long, long while: 9, count 'em, NINE empty parking spaces in a row. Nine! I the middle of the day. Last year at this time, on a nice sunny day, you just started rounding Bond & Wall, and finally settled on something way off the beaten path.

I can SEE Bend slowing VISIBLY. Which is bad. Cuz once you can SEE it on the streets, it's pretty damn bad.

The Pita Pit, which opened with such fan-fair & crowds, similar to Sonic, was DEAD EMPTY. I mean, the half life of The Big Bang Openings, has gotten down to 1 week. It's just one week, and the honeymoon is over.

And Bend's Beautiful People, you know, the people with 278 non-profits started in the past 3 months... you know, people with morals, looks, titties and MONEY so superior to you and me, that you & me make THEM wanna VOMIT.... well, those people have started engaging in the lowest, most VILE activity known to man:

THEY ARE APPLYING FOR JOBS!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! MY GOD!!!!!!! NORMALCY IS FOR LOSERS!!! ONLY THE START-UP & ABANDONMENT OF NON-PROFITS IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Yeah. These people are applying for jobs. OK, this is like The Yankees putting a penguin on first base or something. It's so alien to these people to engage in NORMAL LIFE, even they don't know how to do it well, if at all.

Well, if you have 2 cents to rub together this should all be obvious. Hard times are here to stay. If you're looking for The Turn, don't look in Bend. We're 18 months behind, and twice as deep in the shitter.

We're supposedly 3X the exposure to RE as the rest of the state. Bullshit. We're 5-6X MINIMUM. 150% MINIMUM of this regoins growth over the past 10-12 years is due to RE. Without it, we'd have SHRUNK.

This "Credit Crunch" is the End of Days for us. We're dead meat. $120K medians may look Way The Hell Too Optimistic at the end. Why? Bend was purposefully BILKED FOR EVERY FUCKING CENT by RE INTERESTS. And they were enabled by our beloved City Council. Realize that these positions have NO PURPOSE but dispensing influence.

TOM GREENE is the PRESIDENT of the Central Oregon Realtors Association, and I'm sorry, but we DO NOT NEED yet another BOUGHT & PAID FOR WHORE RUNNING THIS TOWN. We have FAR MORE than enough. My God.

These people got us HERE. This is the "Who could have possibly predicted THIS would have happened?" types. They literally cannot predict the sunrise.

Bend council candidates all over map in fundraising

The second-highest fundraiser, attorney Jeff Eager, has brought in $17,563 in his bid for the seat currently held by Mayor Bruce Abernethy, who is not seeking re-election. About $4,000 of Eager’s money comes from Central Oregonians for Affordable Housing and the Central Oregon Association of Realtors’ PAC.

In the three races with an incumbent seeking re-election, the challengers all have raised more money. Former Mayor Kathie Eckman, who is trying to unseat Councilor Linda Johnson, has raised the most of any candidate: $19,446. More than a third of that money has come from Eckman and her husband, Paul, but a large amount has also come from a handful of political action committees, including the Bend Firefighters Association, Deschutes County Republican Central Committee, Central Oregon Association of Realtors and Central Oregonians for Affordable Housing, a builders’ group.

Eckman said this election is the first time she’s received money from political action groups. She said the builders and real estate agents are supportive of her because of her earlier work in city government.

Fundraising efforts in the race between Councilor Peter Gramlich and Tom Greene, the president of the Central Oregon Association of Realtors, are more evenly matched. To date, Gramlich has raised $9,329 and spent $4,007, while Greene has raised $10,034 and spent $8,899.

Gramlich has not received any contributions from organized PACs. Greene has received $3,000 from the Realtor’s association’s PAC and $1,000 from the builder’s group.

In the race between Councilor Jim Clinton and propane company owner Don Leonard, Clinton has raised $5,149 — including $500 from the Bend Firefighters Association’s PAC — and spent $1,279. Leonard has raised $9,100 and spent $6,171. About half of Leonard’s bank account has come from the Realtor’s and builder’s PACs. He has also received $250 from the Deschutes County Republican Central Committee.

No. That is NOT BULLSHIT. Nearly every SINGLE FUCKING CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE is a bought & PAID FOR WHORE of the LOCAL RE PAC's. Every fucking one.

This Jeff Eager fucker takes the cake, in that he's a LAWYER too.

OK, NONE of these FUCKWADS are worthy of having me pee in their fucking mouths. they are to a one, INFLUENCE PEDDLERS. That is the ONLY GROWTH INDUSTRY LEFT in this town. Hell, it's almost the only industry, period.

This is similarly how I feel about Obama-Nation & McPAIN: This country has become a nation of Politco's, influence peddling whores. WHY is the HELL would Osama spend $160 MILLION in one month?

Because politics is the industry of SELLING OUT EVERYONE ELSE. Get as close to The Honey Pot as you can, and then FUCK EVERYONE.

This country is doomed. They're starting to raise the idea of AmeriKKKa as a second-rate power in mainline media. That means it's really already here. And believe me, it IS inevitable.

Don't vote for these City Council fuckers. Write in someone. Write in Dunc. Write me in, I Hate To Baste Your BUTTERBALL. Write in someone. This town is going to shit, and COAR has their hands firmly on the rudder, which is planted in the asshole of EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE. COBA too.

We're losing this place. To the worst fucking bunch of thieves on EARTH. read the above article and DO NOT VOTE FOR A SINGLE FUCKER that is either:

1) Supported by RE or builder PAC's, or

2) Won't disclose their funding sources. Dallas Brown comes to mind.

Send a message folks. Write in someone you know. This town is LOST cuz of these fuckers. They have put us on the road to OBLIVION. Go look around downtown. It's a fucking GHOSTTOWN.

THAT is what RE has gotten us. We put ALL our eggs in ONE BASKET, because RE PAC's have bought every election for a generation in this town. You CAN SEE they are trying to buy this one. They will probably succeed.

They will SUCK THIS TOWN DRY. They will DESTROY IT. They really already have. We are already totally doomed. Vote, and tell these fuckers to FUCK OFF.

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Anonymous said...

What I'm worried about more than suicides are murders.

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Homer caught hell, but we have already established the fact that most of Bend's 'silent' (BULL) suicides were in fact 'bank' mob hits.

Bend is already a murder capital, for its population.

LavaBear said...

>>>People also want to be astronauts on the space shuttle. People want to eat donuts without getting fat. People want to have Green Lantern's ring.


Superman's x-ray vision. That's what I always wanted. Then you realize 90% of americans are fat and pretty ugly and it takes the fun right out of it.

Anonymous said...

Quimby said...

Bend is different, Bend is Exceptional! We'll make it through this unscathed because people WANT to live here.

Well, true, people want to live here, the reality is that they can't.

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Well quim, I have been here forever, and spent a lot of time around PDX, when I was younger I always made a habit of having a beer with homeless guys and hanging out time to time. Chat's, I especially enjoy the homeless in Ireland.

Bend isn't making homeless, as quick as they're coming here, Bend is a great place to live in you truck, and hang out with friends by a fire at night. Don't underestimate the ability of new BUSH homeless from all over to migrate to BEND, cuz its a great place to be homeless. Just make sure you get your spot at WALMART.

I have never seen the metrics for Bend but last years the willy-week in PDX sent out panhandlers to work the roads, and they averaged $75k/yr for the time spent on 8hr shifts, not a bad-haul, and then toss in the free food, and no taxes, ...

People have no fucking idea what the homeless thing is about. Sure for people like BP, they see a mother and rug-rats, but I know my bud's. ...

Here's my typical conversation, "So buster I had this $50k job, a wife, kids and a tract home, and hated my life, now I get drunk and stoned everyday, there is always pussy, and I get to hang out with my friends all day long, when I was working I had no friends"

This is a consistent message from homeless that I have known for over 30+ years in ORYGUN.

Anonymous said...

Homelessness isn't a bad thing.

It's more like "Trading Places", its way more fun to see the RE-HO's, MTG folk, city-council, HO'ing to pay the rent, now that is who we should be feeling sorry for.

Yes, live on one income, this idea of living on two incomes, and still spending more than that, hell the USA has had a negative savings rate since 1998. Never in fucking history, thats the good thing when credit disappears, it will be impossible to have a negative savings rate.

With an average of say 2.2 kids, how in hell can folks pay $600/mo ( per-child) so $1400/mo for child care? Especially in Bend at $30k median income, that's over 1/2 the take home before taxes, something had to give, why the fucking surprise????

Anonymous said...

I recently visited my Dr. and he said that they are slammed with people suffering from insomnia, depression, despondency etc in the past few months. It actually made me sad because that shit is real, not just blogger talk.

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So mark that UP HOMER, besides pawn shops, and the shrink biz is BOOMING, ...

How long will it last? No job, no med insur, these guys are going to be collecting a salary in a year.

I think that all the un-censored talk here has always been REAL.

Anonymous said...

Well, true, people want to live here, the reality is that they can't.

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'LIVE' isn't the right word, me & dunc as businessmen here have talked about it for years, like the day-care closing today cuz they're down 30% shit, ... if you can't afford to go down 90% get the fuck out of BEND.

The only reason I have 'SURVIVED' three recessions in this fucking town, is cuz I was prepared to survive at -90%.

'LIVE' live like they do in ASS-PEN, thats called BURN-RATE, Marge knows that's why she is always talking about beans, bullets, & booze. Why do you think Walmart is so fucking popular, folks can buy a flat of can beans for $1/can.

If you can't 'live' like the above, then get the fuck out of Bend, cuz you'll never survive the tough times, and this down cycle is going to last at least five or more years, and we haven't even hit bottom.

Anonymous said...

Who would have guessed, ad-nauseum, the poor fucking people,..

Remember these are the same fuck-tards that were bragging at BBQ's two years ago, cuz they didn't have to work, and only had to flip one house a year to make $100k in Bend, and it had always been that way, and all their friends moved here to do the same,

Now these fucking people who don't have a skill, and haven't worked for years, are fucked.

Who would have guessed??

Nobody saw it coming.

Nobody ever knew.

Bend only goes up 25%/yr apr always has always will.

LavaBear said...

212 Defaults

Another new monthly record. 1521 YTD.

Bewert said...

Re: Bruce somebody should have told them?

Fuck, I've groveled/whined in front of them multiple times. And sent many more emails.

Buster may have been right. Maybe I should have taken a swing this time around.

BULL purchase: land swap with Hollern for land worth $10M in ridge above Century/Reed Market roundabout. Above Bend Athletic Club, look west, the big building. City bought land for $5M, to build new city office to replace the ones scattered around the Library downtown. Now wants to sell it, can't. At least without a big loss.

Bewert said...

City bought SAME land.

Although it might be slightly smaller. Hard to tell.

Bewert said...

Marge, can you give us a number of total housing units to compare to total NOD's?

This afternoon, NWA received a certified letter of NOD on their building, along with a notice of Assignment of Rent. At virtually the same time, the building "owner", Pete Wilkinson, called Norway the shop owner and offered to cut his rent by $500 if he paid today's and next months on the spot, to him. Norway was smart enough to read the letters, and didn't.

But it shows you how desparate things become, how snakes operate.

And that that RE auction wasn't a true auction at all.

Bewert said...

OK, my one posting of Obama. Anyone who wants to send money to stomp the pugs, email me. bewert at that old favorite gmail.com. And I'll forward the latest fundraising plea.

They will spend your bucks pounding McCain in his home state of Arizona.

Which is truly satisfying.

tim said...

>>It made be think their might be something in the air or maybe its getting harder to get cash for cards at the bank??????

Hard to believe the way they're printing it.

Anonymous said...

>>Pete Wilkinson, called Norway the shop owner and offered to cut his rent by $500 if he paid today's and next months on the spot, to him. Norway was smart enough to read the letters, and didn't.

It's amazing what some people will do when they hit trouble. No grace. No character.

I know of a couple cases already where renters have been paying rent and the owners haven't been paying mortgages. Truly sleazy.

Anonymous said...

Has anybody read about the depression that hit in the 1860's way more brutal than the one in the 1920's. And still at that time gold was the basis of the currency. You people have not seen nothin yet. God I would hate to be a liberal in these times.

Anonymous said...

'liberal', sheeet I think we have already killed that dead, horse on this blog, even though over 60% of BEND voted for that dog-damn-god-dick sucking cunt bush, cuz they eat shit for breakfast, nobody admits it,

Everyone here voted INDY, 'none of the above', and we have dunc,bruce,'hbm-kunt' who claim to suck clinton-cock(DEM), and want to be fucked by OREO, but NOBODY in bend at the 11th hr is admitting to even ever have been a fucking PUG, so what is your point??

BEND PUG's are the ones that are finished, they're the SUV drivers, they're the gays that who big debt on their penis enlargement, most Bend liberals didn't play the 'flip', and thus aren't fucked, BLEDSOE comes to mind as a pure PUG play in Bend, dinosaur.


Vote for Jim Rogers, or Ron Paul.

Anonymous said...

I know of a couple cases already where renters have been paying rent and the owners haven't been paying mortgages. Truly sleazy.

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Sleazy? are you out of your fucking mind? Its the game, can't handle the game then don't play.

In the 1983 recession, it was MOST popular to sell a house you didn't own or rent a house you don't own, any fucking 'renter' who rents a house, and doesn't ask for proof that the MTG is being paid deserves to get fucked - end of story. Its' a fucking public record shit-heads.

Anonymous said...

Hard to believe the way they're printing it.-tim

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Yes, but if you don't have to close to 800 on your fica/fico then they'll show you the door, you know what percentage in BEND has that?? Like less than 10%.

Same for Jap/US zero % interest, its not available to goblins, orcs, and shit-heads.

Anonymous said...

Anybody that has a dog, and doesn't know what to do with the shit, please email bewert@gmail.com, cuz OR-EO needs to feed his people.

Anonymous said...

Buster may have been right. Maybe I should have taken a swing this time around.

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You ain't getting any young BP, always be on the ballot, in my zillion years in this state I can tell you that a dead-fish wrapped in the BULLETIN will get elected on his third, its all name recognition.

I don't know why you didn't put your name on a year ago when we told you to, its probably the same reason you haven't emailed your 'complaint' to the governor, as Marge would say quick on the talk, but quicker on the ejaculation.

Just do it BP, now its going to take you a couple of cycles to get in, sheeeeeet the fucking Bend economy will have recovered before we have you in their to readjust the seats on the Bend Titanic.

Anonymous said...

What is this talk today about Bend-Bloggers not representing Bend??

It this not the only fucking free-speech forum in BEND? If you can't say it here then where?

We represent all left, right, top, bottom, ...

Pity for the shit-heads that voted for BUSH-CHENEY 2000&2004, and now are fucked, no fucking crocodile tears. Vote for Bush/Cheney and even Bend Hair-Lips can make a million, by just being here, ya right, it doesn't work that way. Your fucked, and there will be NO FUCKING PITY.

Anonymous said...

Just do it BP, now its going to take you a couple of cycles to get in, sheeeeeet the fucking Bend economy will have recovered before we have you in their to readjust the seats on the Bend Titanic.


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Wanted 'City of Bend", north of artic circle, sinking have hit iceberg, will sink in 1-2 years, need liberals ( pussy bambists ) to adjust deck chairs and praise voters. Pug's wanted for ballast, no experience needed, largess preferred.

Anonymous said...

So lets talk about the BULLETIN Property.

IN 1998 the LORD HIMSELF HOLLERN gives the BULLetin a $10M property for free, just to own the BULL.

Then the BULL sells the property to the city of BEND, the only buyer in town with credit and enough stupidity to buy, ... $5M, which means HOLLERN got a $10M write-off, and the BULL makes $5M pocket-money.

Oh, but now the city don't need to move, but can't sell the white-elephant. Who would have guessed?

Who would have thought there was a relationship between HOLLERN/THE-CITY/&THE-BULL??

Anonymous said...

This town is going to shit, and COAR has their hands firmly on the rudder, which is planted in the asshole of EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE. COBA too.

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This this week the BULL had a story about Bend going to financial shit, who would have guessed??? Short fall at building&planning? Then give your owners an SDC exemption.

Lord Hollern has a problem? Then buy his land for $5M, and stamp the check with 'In care of the BULL".

I want the pussy to find the fucking balance sheets for this city, fuck the income statements.

In this town its all about fucking off book debt.

City is short of short term cash, what about the $400k they squirreled away this year for lawyers as a retainer for their own defense?? How come no mention of that money??

Anonymous said...

BIG BEND City of BEND SPENDING... Lets see...

(1)
Hollern gives allegedly $10M property to BULL ( Bend name for Bulletin newspaper ) for free (1998), by allegedly I mean the public-record says it was worth $10M, but is a number someone pulled out their ass. The city buys same property from BULL for $5M with real City of Bend taxpayer DEBT.

(2)
Last year out by Boyd Acres city of Bend again bought a $4M lot with a building from Hap-Taylor, again hidden as debt.

(3)
Last fall city of bend spent over $10M in making the LesSchwab Campussy 'shovel ready', at a cost of $800k/acre. All funds were payable to Knife-River(HapTaylor),aka NW-TAYLOR.

(4)This fall in secrecy an emergency city does same deal for Suterra, this time ten acres, shovel ready, paid by city at a cost of $8M, ok the city allegedly made $2M on the sale, so only lost $6M on the deal. Again all payables to Knife-River ( Hap-Taylor ).

Who does ALL the fucking excavation for HOLLERN? Taylor-NW aka Knife-River.

Above is $25M just the tip of the iceberg during the last year, where is this debt hidden? Where the fuck do they hide these payments??? We know they haven't even yet issued bonds for the LesSchwab.

My humble opinion is what they're doing is using real cash on hand to pay all these 'costs', and NOTE all this Hap-Taylor/HOLLERN, and as Bruce has pointed out here all along a member of Hap-Taylor family sits on council. The rest of the Birds are RE or HOA.

This city can't get loans, on the original loan that KURATEK put together in 2007 for Juniper-Ridge, the best deal they could get was $20M at 20% from UBS, mafia loan rates, this city's credit is fucked.

So now we're sitting on $25M just from this year of debt, where the fuck is this debt??

We here that reserves are low, we here that building&planning is low, but hell SDC's are now deferred and were too fucking low during the bubble to make HOLLERN rich, and of course the low SDC's enabled folks from the valley to come over and build STD's which made even more business for hap-taylor.

Today we have a Hap-Taylor & Brooks Resource crisis in the city. The city was fine, the county was fine!!!

But in the attempt to float cash the city has bankrupted the city to keep hap-taylor and brooks resources afloat with fraudulent land purchases and public works projects that enrich some of the richest companys in the USA ( Suterra is owned by a BILLIONAIRE, and L-SCHWAB ain't hurtin ).

I keep going back to Deschutes County, they're doing fine, they didn't do any stupid shit!! Why cuz the county board isn't beholden to excavators&developers.

The County saw this recesssion coming and planned. The City saw this recession coming, and shuffled as much CASH as DEBT as they could with a straight face in emergence executive secret sessions. Since the BULL is at the epicenter of the WHOLE fucking chinese-pocket-dollar shuffle, complete fucking silence.

Who would have guessed??

Then we have our SORE ( Bend name for the Source weekly newpaper ), complete fucking silence, as they're effectively by advertising revenue owned by Brooks Resources.

Anonymous said...

Never fear citizenry, the city just budgeted this summer $400k of taxpayer cash to have in a reserve fund payable to a local law firm to defend city council from lawsuits wrt due diligence.

Who would have guessed???

This town has been looted before your very eyes, and not a chipmunk in this town has the balls to talk about it or even run and hide. Like a deer in the headlights, The City taxpayer in Bend is about to get bitch-slapped like you could have never imagined.

Run, hide, leave, those who are still here will get stuck with bill of epic default.

Homer calls it 'drinking your own kool-aide'.

Kuratek like Rasputin enamored city-hall with great vision, COVA/COBA, ... et-al convinced city-hall it was just around the corner deja-vu 2004 return in easy-money. So Hap-Taylor & Brooks got the city to do ten's of millions of dollars of debt financing to ride them over during the storm, trouble is now the storm has no fucking end, the city is broke, and hap-taylor & brooks resource are broke.

Like I have said for 2+ year here, Brooks is going down, but its going to bring the city down with it.

I had a very rational talk about this subject this summer with the Deschutes County Controller, and specifically asked if they had done any of this stupid shit that Bend had done, and they said 'NO' a big NO, they had seen the recession coming and planned, and cut back.

Instead the city of Bend, tried to SPEND its way out of the fucking mess, but like all good PUG (rePUGlican ) CORP WELFARE schemes city-hall made sure that ALL the spending ONLY trickled to HOLLERN or Hap-Taylor, and then I guess it was supposed to trickle down???

As people in business know, when you see a financial collapse coming, you don't SPEND, you cut back and survive, this city will not survive, the county will get stuck cleaning up the mess, as they have the deep pockets.

Who would have guessed??

HOLLERN ain't a stupid man, and neither are the Hay-Taylor heirs and family. All of on BB2 saw this coming 3+ year ago.

Bruce is only quoting Sonia the fucking city-financier, this woman is a professional fucking liar, and bruce doesn't ask the right questions, cuz he's always running for office ( but TOO stupid to put his name on the ballot ), his attempt to make all people like him, and always agreeing with everyone means that he never forces anyone to admit their mistakes.

Deschutes County is ran by rational people who deal with truth, the City of Bend is town of liars, cheats, criminals, and common thieves, the trouble is that is 100% of Bend, there is nobody to fix the problems, the kool-aide has permanently disabled the brain.

All these people like sonia & aber-pussy(mayor), have no where else to go, and are not employable in this recession, so they hang on and do their bidding for the owner of Brooks, Hay-Taylor(knife-river), and Bend Bulletin, ...

Anonymous said...

MT-B has really fucked itself this time,

Desperate for cash they over sold the season passes at a discount to get early cash to tide them over, ...

Now that he season is near, they expect too many people to ski on saturday, and to avoid long lift lines, they have astronomically raised local day prices.

Don't worry 'resorts' will still be handing out passes to 'guests', so tourists will not be fucked.

The way EYE see this is LOCAL's buy a fucking pass, or you'll be fucked.

Who would have guessed???

No business should be ran by collecting all the money prior to the service, most of the resort passes are COMP. What's going to happen now is that MT-B will have very little money to carry them through the season, because they already spent all their cash on-hand in Oct.

Sure management will say I'm full of shit, but guess what?? The fucking management collapses and get's re-invented yearly, the birds last year were wrong and now gone, and these birds will be wrong and gone next season, and I'll still be here NOT skiing at MT-B because its a fucking RIP-OFF.

Long lines, and broken equipment, oh yea get a week-day pass, where 90% of lifts are closed, have a nice day and try some prison quality food while your on the MTN.

Anonymous said...

The way EYE see this is LOCAL's buy a fucking pass, or you'll be fucked.

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What I mean is that the management of the week at MT-B ( Powdrz HO's ) is telling BEND citizens that they either buy a season-pass or NOT ski.

The savings of skiing at Hoodoo, now pay for the gas, and Sisters has a great new brew-pub called 'three creeks'.

In many ways Powdrz is perfect for Bend, but hell Powdrz is a real-estate resort company, they bought MT-B not to run a ski lift, but build condos', that biz is now dead, so fuck now they're re-cycle management until they find a buyer.

MT-B today is no different than Tetherow, Deschutes County court ruled in 1998 in the Bauhofer Broken-Top case that golf courses only exist to sell houses, that their was no implied golf course when you bought into a resort. Likewise with POWDRZ/BEND thinking the ski-lift on MT-B only exists to sell CONDOS given that the biz no longer exists, then the lift biz, has no financial gain.

Like our day-care yesterday, thats getting out because their gross sales is down 20%, shit this is BEND, ... Does anybody really thing that POWDRZ will hold on until they're down 90%???

My guess like all other FUCKS in this town that the City of BEND is DEBT budgeting to purchase MT-B at some over-inflated price with our money.

Anonymous said...

You would almost think that Hap-Taylor is owned by Brooks, we know in effect that the BULL is owned by Brooks, it seems at times the SORE is owned by Brooks.

The way city money gets spent towards the same people, in such a tight group, and there is no other rational argument, especially given that it appears from my eyes watch NWXC that hap-taylor gets a permanent no-bid contract to do ALL excavation at NWXC, which is brooks.

At the level of excavation that brooks does I find it crazy that he didn't buy into an excavation company, just a theory, knowing people who work at both, its not clear their joined at the hip, but watching how the city spends DEBT, and only on these two birds, I must assume that TWO birds are one, because there is NO other argument to defend the generosity of city-hall towards hap-taylor.

I understand Brooks, cuz he is the god-father, the heir to shevlin-hixson, a company town.

I'll be you cunts that deep into the mire of muck in the Brooks 1,000's of LLC's there is a tether between HapTaylor & Brooks Resources, and this would explain everything that is going on.

For instance we already know that the land surrounding Juniper-Ridge is owned by Brooks, this is ONLY reason they (city-hall) wants to make the land more valuable. JR is a fucking rock, thats why the city sold all 1500 acres for one-dollar in 1990 to the city of bend.

Anonymous said...

I was talking to a Hap-Taylor dump truck operator the other day.

He said ...

"This is the worst I have ever seen, we have NEVER been slower".

There is more going on folks than meets the eye.

Anonymous said...

Here's another theory on our pussy, I have always suggested that he's a bought & paid for, given how he just showed up here.

Note all that he can't seem to file his complaint, nor put his name on the ballot???

A paid shill for team-hollern or some other 'interest' in Bend, would also not be able to RUN for office on an explicit contract, or file complaints on contract.

Not to pick on the pussy, we love him, but for all his hours he puts in he seems to have a physical wall separating himself from actually accomplishing anything.

Just a theory. Once I see the pussy, and his name on the ballot, then I'll know that he is really working from the heart, and not the wallet.

With regards to the 'complaint' lets be honest the way Bend does business with executive session is standard-operating procedure here in ORYGUN. It might have riled the pussy's feathers, but anybody that has spent years at Orygun 'public' meetings knows that exec-session has always been where the public business has been done.

Anonymous said...

As of today there are 203 residential sales for October. That is county wide all types.
I am sure more will be reported sold in Oct. next week.

Anonymous said...

Another note on 'shovel ready' and JR,

JR is all rock, last fall it cost the city $800k/acre to prep the JR land for Les-Schwab, ...

But note that was last year, year-to-date, the cost of diesel has almost doubled, all that equipment out there is diesel, and these days that's the biggest cost.

Thus I can safely say that this year, this fall the Suterra PREP shovel ready is an easy $1M/acre paid by the city of bend in order create an illusion in Juniper Ridge.

By 'prep' and what LS called 'shovel ready', and suterra called something else, in effect, leveling the rock to datum, water-well, sewage, power, roads, ... same deal that LS got, which was that LS only had to put up the building, and pave the employee parking lot, that city paid all else, ... sweet deal .

Anonymous said...

As of today there are 203 residential sales for October. That is county wide all types.
I am sure more will be reported sold in Oct. next week. - marge

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Marge, can you show us the surrounding numbers and comparisons to last year so we can see the trends, and ratio to those on the market.

I guess if you eat, sleep, and fuck RE, that single number means something, but its only a number by itself.

That number is still a hell of a lot better than the county number for crook or jefferson.

That means that 10% of the realtors got a check in the country this month? How many realtors are there now? Is that 2000 number still even accurate??

Anonymous said...

The other day on ghost-towns, ... but there were clear, people came in with life savings, most lost their ass, and whores, merchants, ... moved on to another gold rush-town,...

Then there is BEND, an old washed up mill town in the high-desert, with all its natural resources long extracted.

These modern isolated towns are really new, sure a lot of people came here to get rich ( RE,MTG,...construction), but we had the baby-boom, a lot of Bend, is just people came here to die.

Most people that went to ghost towns were healthy and young, and idealistic, otherwise they wouldn't have been there.

Bend was sold & marketed as a geezer paradise, where also you could make 25%/yr apr on your housing investment, and later down-size a millionaire.

So there will be divisions in the collapse of Bend, the gold rush people will leave first to other rush-towns, ... the elderly who can't sell sit until their 401k is gone and they can't pay the MTG.

Then you have the city doing crazy shit, in old gold-rush towns the they just didn't have the city-hall to issue debt, sure the mines could issue debt on wall-street, this was where the real money was made selling mines to morons via the stock market, but the city's themselves were often non-existent in terms of infrastructure, you might have a sheriff, judge, and mayor, what else would you have needed??

Today we have BEND government a vested self directed, and energy perpetual motion machine that just keeps spending, on debt, which is still easy for city's. Last bastion of safety for investors? So they think!

Then in our modern ghost town you have these huge big foot print merchants, all subsidized by national easy-money.

The other day I saw a figure, the USA has 17sq-ft of retail/office space per person, while the world average in western industrial is like 3 sq-ft per person.

The scale of waste because of easy-money and easy building is mind-boggling.

So Bend will lose its young, its ambitious, it will be saddled by a cronyism in goveverment, and a ton of dependent elderly.

Is this NOT what we have today??

The biggest spender in town, is now the city of Bend, that is ran by incompetent cronyism.

We'll be a ghost town that is largely huge empty hulls of buildings, made of materials that have no scrap value, other than their structural steel. Which I heard the other day is un-profitable if hauled more than 70miles to the recycling center.

Anonymous said...

We were low on money this summer 2008, then city council went to a say private law firm and said, we need representation, we're going to be sued for 'failure to act in due diligence".

The private law firm in Bend replied, "Glad to help you, but it will cost you $400k as a retainer". Sonia paid the retainer, where did that money come from the reserve fund!

Soon we'll be bankrupt, there will be nobody for anybody essential service such as fire, police, water, sewer NADA.

Those lawyers are smart, get the cash up front while you still can.

Anonymous said...

Bruce, why don't you have a bake-sale to raise money for the defense of city council, so we don't have to use taxpayer dollars to defend them???

Rush Limbaugh used to have bake sales, and it always worked for him.

Anonymous said...

With tight credit, the 'bio-ethanol' market fucking totally implodes...

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'BioTown' ethanol firm files for bankruptcy
Sat. November 01 - 2008
Norm Heikens - nheikens@ibj.com
IBJ staff
The ethanol producer that planned to build a plant in Reynolds, the town where Gov. Mitch Daniels is attempting to showcase energy independence, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

VeraSun Energy Corp. announced yesterday that it and 24 of its subsidiaries filed the voluntary petition yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.

The Sioux Falls, S.D., company blamed the move on losses resulting from rising corn prices and tight credit. It said it intends to continue operating as usual.

VeraSun opened a plant in August 2007 at Linden, which is between Lafayette and Crawfordsville.

Anonymous said...

Ok, this AM I wrote about who caused the BEND bankruptcy, now here read about what it means, this town in Cali is a good example of what it will mean to Bend, note these folks filed in May of 2008, most interesting is the city-manager still gets $360k/yr, not bad for BK? Eh?

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Vallejo takes steps to help fill budget gap

Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

(10-28) 18:28 PDT VALLEJO -- Vallejo is asking most city employees to take unpaid time off work to help close an unexpected $3 million budget gap.
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City Manager Joe Tanner also volunteered to take a 10 percent pay cut off his $316,000 salary to help the ailing city, which filed for bankruptcy in May.

The City Council was expected to give preliminary approval of the cuts Tuesday night.

In other bankruptcy news, a federal appeals court agreed Monday to hear the police and fire unions' appeal of the city's bankruptcy filing, which was granted by the federal bankruptcy court Sept. 5 in a 52-page ruling.

"The appeal is a good opportunity to allow another set of eyes to look at this," said Detective Mat Mustard, vice president of the police union. "In this current economy, everyone recognizes the implication of a city going into bankruptcy. We don't disagree that the city has financial difficulties, but we want to make sure the proceedings are accurate."

The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel in Pasadena is likely to rule on the matter in February or March.

"I'm extremely disappointed," said Councilwoman Stephanie Gomes. "People are really hurting in this economic climate and yet the unions continue to play this legal game and bleed the city dry."

The city has already spent about $2 million on legal fees related to the bankruptcy.

The city's $3 million mid-year budget shortfall is primarily attributed to unexpected drops in tax revenue linked to the credit crisis and housing market, according to the city manager. The city's general fund is committed to about $77 million in expenditures this fiscal year with no cash in reserve.

In an attempt to get a handle on the crisis, city employees will be asked to take two unpaid days off work by the end of the fiscal year June 30. Sworn police and firefighters will not be affected.

The city also hopes to save $800,000 by leaving six currently vacant police officer positions unfilled and by cutting fire truck company staffing from four to three. Since 2006, Police Department staffing has dropped from 158 to 118, and is expected to drop further, to 100, by Jan. 1, Mustard said.

In total, the city hopes to save $3 million by making the cuts.

Union leaders were not happy about the city's plan to force employees to take unpaid time off.

"I don't know if telling people to stay home is going to solve the city's budget shortfall," Mustard said. "Our question is, what is the city doing to solve these long-term issues?"

Councilwoman Joanne Schivley said the appeal, coupled with the newest round of budget cuts, is just more bad news for Vallejo.

"It's pretty grim," said Schivley. "I thought things had settled down, but this is going to lead to more instability, more departures. We're infringing now on basic services, like police."

The North Bay city of 117,000 filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in May after failing to close a $16 million budget deficit. City officials have blamed that shortfall on police and fire salaries, which make up about 74 percent of the general fund budget. Most California cities spend about 50 percent of their general funds on public safety.

The unions appealed the bankruptcy ruling last month, saying the city's financial quagmire stems from long-term fiscal mismanagement, not its labor contracts. Further cuts to the police and fire departments will threaten public safety, union leaders said.

In the midst of the debate, the city asked a federal court last summer to nullify its public safety union contracts. A hearing at U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Sacramento is set for Dec. 2.

Vallejo is the largest - and at the moment, only - city in California to file for bankruptcy.

But it may soon have company. Its neighbor in Solano County, Rio Vista, is also on the brink of financial ruin, facing a shortfall of about $1 million on its $7 million general fund.

The Rio Vista City Council met last week with bankruptcy attorneys Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, the same firm representing Vallejo.

Anonymous said...

But it may soon have company. Its neighbor in Solano County, Rio Vista, is also on the brink of financial ruin, facing a shortfall of about $1 million on its $7 million general fund.

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Rio Vista is a PURE bend-town, not that Vallejo, right before they filed BK dealt if with a lawfirm to protect themselves, something that Bend did just a few months ago to the tune of $400k, its funny that the citizens are the last to know.

Anonymous said...

Rio Vista is a suburb of Stockton, one of the worst fucking STD shit-holes in Calif.

100% Bend Oregon.

Anonymous said...

Here is the model, just so you know how the game is played, all cash of city treasury is stolen to fund real-estate and excavation shuffling from one pocket to another, then the town hires a lawfire, and votes for BK, and then nullify's payment to cops and fire, ...

Sounds just like Bend-OR

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Bankrupt City Could Serve As Model


13 May 2008 - 9:00am

The northern California city of Vallejo has declared bankruptcy, becoming one of few cities and the largest in the state to do so. Other struggling cities are watching closely to see if the strategy helps to save the city.

"There's a wave of this coming across the U.S.," said Sajan George, an adviser to struggling public entities who worked on restructuring Orange County after it declared bankruptcy in 1994. "What happens in Vallejo could definitely set a precedent."

Battered by the plummeting housing market and skyrocketing public employee contracts, Vallejo made dubious history Tuesday night by becoming the largest California city to declare bankruptcy. The North Bay city of 117,000 was on track to start the fiscal year July 1 with a $16 million deficit and no money in reserve.

By declaring Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the city hopes to freeze its debts and gain time to renegotiate its police and fire contracts, which comprise about 74 percent of its $80 million general fund budget. It also hopes a judge will void part or all of the contracts, allowing the city and unions to start from scratch.

Because so few public entities have declared bankruptcy, no one's sure how labor contracts will be affected. Vallejo's public safety unions have vowed to fight the proceedings, arguing that the city has plenty of money stashed in hidden accounts and is using bankruptcy to avoid paying police and fire fighters what they're owed.

Anonymous said...

City infrastructure is boring until it collapses

31Oct08

A few days ago I was chatting with the CEO of a Toronto manufacturing company that employs about 400 people. He was not happy.

The City’s water main had burst, one of several in recent days, forcing him to shut down his plant, which uses copious amounts of water in its processes, and send employees home. Manufacturing companies and workers have already taken a big enough hit in the last few years, and in the last few weeks, and are hard-pressed to put up with failure of basic infrastructure too.

People don’t think about infrastructure much until it fails. They don’t think about the water that comes out the tap, until it stops flowing. They don’t think much about bridges much until they collapse, as the Latchford bridge did a few years back on Highway 11, or the bridge in Laval, Quebec. They don’t worry about electricity until the lights go out, as they did in the massive blackout in August 2003. They don’t worry about dikes until they burst, as they did spectacularly in New Orleans when Katrina hit.

This makes it easy for governments to spend money on other things they people can see and enjoy right away. Sometimes this gets really out of hand. The City of Vallejo, California (pop. 120,000) declared bankruptcy last May. The city’s contractual obligations for huge salaries (In 2007, 292 city employees made more than $100,000) and other entitlements pushed it over the brink.

Infrastructure is one of the most basic functions of government. It provides the basics for large complex societies: water, transportation, and markets. Early governments always undertook massive public works projects soon after complex societies arose, whether of Mesopotamians or Aztecs.

The City of Toronto’s capital budget, was released yesterday. Mayor Miller has decided to let the backlog of repairs to roads and other basic infrastructure grow. According to City Manager Joe Pennachetti, [the road repair backlog] “goes up slightly for the next three or four years, and then as we near the end of the five years, we're catching up and we're starting to eat into the backlog.”

On a quick search of their budget I could not find anything on fixing up the water mains. Such boring stuff, until it fails.

Anonymous said...

Bend Oregon Bankruptcy seen in Calif Mirror

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Bankrupt Calif. City May Be a Harbinger
Economic Decline Saps a Budget Already Stretched by Massive Payroll Costs
PHOTOS
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Vallejo, like many California cities, once enjoyed revenue from a booming housing market. That money dried up, then the economic crisis made things worse.
Vallejo, like many California cities, once enjoyed revenue from a booming housing market. That money dried up, then the economic crisis made things worse. (Photos By Eric Risberg -- Associated Press)

The "City of Opportunity" slogan almost seems like a cruel joke now, as Vallejo seeks court protection. It is the largest California city to go bankrupt.
The "City of Opportunity" slogan almost seems like a cruel joke now, as Vallejo seeks court protection. It is the largest California city to go bankrupt. (Eric Risberg - Associated Press)


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By Karl Vick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 19, 2008; Page A03

VALLEJO, Calif. -- When this city of 120,000 declared bankruptcy in May, the extraordinary step appeared to arise from an extraordinary circumstance: Vallejo's payroll largess. Police captains in this blue-collar town north of San Francisco make more than $200,000. The city manager's $338,000 salary is more than that of the vice president or anyone on the Supreme Court.

"I think it's fair to say everybody's here because the wages and benefits are very good," said city Finance Director Bob Stout, with a tight smile.

But as the nation's financial system staggers and recession looms, officials across America's most populous state are nervously eyeing the other side of the equation that brought the City of Vallejo into the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California: tax revenue that sank with the economy while payroll and pension obligations continued their rise.

"Are they unique?" said Dwight Stenbakken, deputy executive director of the League of California Cities. "I think we may have some other cities that this whole economic downturn is going to test."

Stockton, in the Central Valley, is furloughing city employees. Sacramento is slashing budgets to make up a $58 million shortfall in the capital city, where state lawmakers -- who under California law can reach down to "borrow" property tax receipts from cities and counties -- only recently finished a budget billions in the red.

California was hit hardest by the crash of a housing market that, when it was hot, brought cities and counties fat transaction fees and a rare boost in property taxes. The follow-on credit crisis has only made matters worse, spreading trepidation and inhibiting the consumers whose purchases provide the sales taxes that drive many city, county and state budgets.

The scale of California's exposure to the downturn was made vivid this month when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) wrote to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. to suggest that the state might need to borrow $7 billion because of the freeze-up in credit markets. Last week, however, the state succeeded in raising $3 billion itself, with the governor himself investing $100,000 in state-backed bonds.

California's pain is unique -- for now. The Golden State has long been known for leading the way nationally.

"This is going to be a serious problem," said Max Neiman, associate director of the Public Policy Institute of California, a San Francisco think tank. "I think it just happens that it's hitting hard and fast in California because the system is set up to take a revenue stream out of the building and retail sectors. But as property values stagnate and if unemployment goes up, all of these things will broaden this problem across the country."

In Vallejo, the catastrophe was a long time coming. Nestled below sun-splashed hills overlooking San Pablo Bay, this was a Navy town until the shipyard was shuttered in 1996. The city's failure to replace that income stream was masked for a time by the boom in housing values and by disarray in City Hall -- Vallejo had six city managers in four years.

Employee unions, meanwhile, displayed impressive focus. They helped make the "City of Opportunity" the first in California to send arbitration issues to an outside party, which frequently ruled for the unions. Police and firefighters routinely won contracts so bountiful that in 1993 a panel of citizens predicted that, absent an interruption of the upward cycle of raises and benefits, Vallejo would go bankrupt in 2010.

The reckoning was bumped forward two years by the housing crash and a dip in sales taxes that accompanied the closure of a car dealership and a Wal-Mart. Fiscal 2008 found the city with no reserves and 80 percent of the general fund obligated to police and fire services.

Anonymous said...

Well somebody had a Bend Bankruptcy thread going over at BEBB and it was alive all of 15 min, before bebb deleted the thread.

Anonymous said...

The vallejo-ca bankruptcy is interesting $300k for city-manager, $200k for cop, ... certainly they were also ASS-PEN, but city-hall got all the $$$.

In Bend, the city-hall office folks is NOT where the money went, in Bend the money got spent on purchasing HOLLERN land at peak of market, and crushing rock at JR,

Total fucking waste, at least Vallejo played robin hood with the RE bubble money.

Bend just transferred all the fucking bubble money to the boss hoggs account.

Quimby said...

Buster, thoughts on Sizemore?

Anyone who can stir up the shitstorm of public employee union wrath like that guy gets my nod.


Gawd they hate him!

Quimby said...

>> Well somebody had a Bend Bankruptcy thread going over at BEBB and it was alive all of 15 min, before bebb deleted the thread.

Fuck those shiteaters.....I haven't visited there in MONTHS.

Smug pricks.

Anonymous said...

Buster, thoughts on Sizemore?

Anyone who can stir up the shitstorm of public employee union wrath like that guy gets my nod.


Gawd they hate him!

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Sizemore is 100% like our PUSSY, the guy has been around forever, and ran a business on peoples emotions, just like OCA (oregon citizen alliance ) did a few years ago on the gay issue ( measure 9 ), ... his name was Lon Maybon, .. Sizemore has been sued so fucking bad, he ain't got shit. The state unions took him to the cleaners. Before that he was a lobbyist and basically ran as non-profit.

Does he believe in anything? Not really like OCA, he just milked conservatives of their money, no different than O'Reilly or Limbaugh.

Liberals give their money to icons of stupidity also, then Sizemore got real fucking egotistical and ran for governor, I think that's when the courts figured he could be a hitler, or more likely like the guy in Louisiana that got shot and called for 'chicken in every pot'.

A populist of sorts, but at the end of the day a self dealer, not a Ralph Nader by any imagining or a ghandi.

I mean think about it 'quim' a PUG ghandi is a fucking oxymoron.

Of course allow me to SAY that "SIZEMORE IS 100% RIGHT" on virtually all subjects.

The public unions run this State, and as I have written over the years here read the fucking book "america what went wrong", about how Oregon PERS (state union retirement) money was used to start, create, and build KKR, the largest junk bond firm in the world.

OR-PERS are the biggest crooks in the state, but guess what the judges are also beholden to PERS as well, so SIZEMORE got fucked by the 500LB gorilla of OREGON.

They hate him, and he was the only one in the state to fight them in public, and they butt-fucked him and made him insolvent. A good example of publicly telling the truth in ORYGUN.

Sizemore, he's finished, the liens, and garnishee's on his name are so deep he'll never crawl out.

There have been many Sizemores in Orygun history.

Anonymous said...

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/

* kluster fuck nation

I'll not paste, but lets just say that Kunstler today could be talking about Bend city hall.

Anonymous said...

Bankruptcy all over Central Oregon on the Horizon.

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Resorts ride the economy up, now down in Central Oregon
by Matt Preusch, The Oregonian
Friday October 31, 2008,

Matthew Preusch/The OregonianChris Pippin, project manager for the Remington Ranch resort in central Oregon, stands atop a view platform at his unfinished resort. Like other resort projects in the region, Pippin's has all but ground to a halt due to a lack of financing and buyers.

PRINEVILLE -- As resorts sprung up across central Oregon in recent years, so did concerns about how their golf courses and thousands of new homes fit into the rural landscape.

Opponents filed appeals, community groups formed and lobbyists were deployed. This week, Crook County threw out its resort zone, and now the state is considering the first major changes to its resort laws in two decades.

But the collapse of the credit and housing markets has done what no anti-resort activist has been able to: put a halt to new resorts altogether.

"With the state of the economy, we're not going to see new resorts in the next couple of years. That's an absolute certainty," said Steven Hultberg, a Bend attorney who represents several resorts.

Destination resorts -- rural developments allowed under an exception to the state's strict land-use guidelines -- have been part of the landscape since at least the 1970s, with the development of Sunriver south of Bend.

But increasing numbers of baby boomers seeking vacation homes, combined with the surge in real estate investment during the housing bubble, led to an unprecedented increase in resort development in the region.

Since 1984, when the state crafted a resort law to encourage economic development in rural areas, there have been 10 new resorts covering 17,000 acres with as many as 8,300 homes, nearly all in central Oregon, said Bob Cortright, a resort expert with the state Department of Land Conservation and Development.

"Looking back to 1984, I think that's a much higher level of development than we could have envisioned at that time," Cortright said.

In recent years, new resorts such as the 1,800-acre Brasada Ranch between Bend and Prineville boasted of selling more than 200 lots for between $200,000 and $450,000 in a matter of hours.

Now those buyers have largely disappeared.

"The customer is a having a hard time selling their current house or getting financing," said Dennis Pahlisch, a Bend home builder and partner in a proposed 4,125-acre resort in Crook County.

At the upscale Pronghorn resort east of Bend, partner Scott Denney likes to share the saga of one of his buyers, a person with excellent credit and worth hundreds of millions of dollars who was seeking a loan for a $625,000 lot.

First the bank told him he'd have to put 25 percent down. Then it was 40 percent, and finally it was 60 percent.

Nationally, the difficulty in getting loans and a hesitancy among consumers to shell out for big, nonessential purchases such as vacation homes have led to a decline in the second-home market, according to the National Association of Realtors. And investment home sales have dwindled.

In central Oregon, the once stratospheric real estate market is now distinctly earth-bound.

In 2006, Deschutes County's home prices appreciated at 21.4 percent, faster than any other metro area in the country, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. It now ranks 240th out of 292 in home appreciation rates.

The median price of a home sold in central Oregon is down 14 percent from last year, according to the Association of Central Oregon Realtors. And homes are staying 50 percent longer on the market compared with in 2006.

Pronghorn sold more than $50 million worth of real estate in 2005 and again in 2006.

"And this year we've got our fingers crossed to hit $20 million," Denney said.

Even if they had buyers waiting, builders themselves can't get financing to fund construction of new infrastructure or amenities at partially built resorts.

"Right now the banks are just taking a position that they are not in the real estate lending market anymore," Pahlisch said. His planned Hidden Canyon resort is on the back burner until at least next year.

And last month a New Jersey bank backed away from a loan at the last minute that would have funded the construction of a hotel at Pronghorn, Denney said.

"We're effectively on hold right now. We've really slowed down our construction schedule. We've got things scaled back from our original budget, timeline, etc," said Christopher Pippin, project manager for Remington Ranch, which opened a sales office in downtown Prineville last year and has stopped construction after finishing a nine-hole golf course.

Right now, no one is mentioning bankruptcy. But the possibility of failure is real. In Idaho, a judge agreed Wednesday to let an outside company run ailing Tamarack Resort, a victory for Swiss bankers trying to recover $273 million from a syndicated loan to the central Idaho vacation destination, The Associated Press reported.

"We're weathering the storm, but it's obviously very difficult out there," Pippin said.

Anonymous said...

his name was Huey Long. Long was a supreme populist who promised “Every Man a King” and “A Chicken in Every Pot.” Long was elected Governor and Senator ... Lousiana

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Yep Huey Long, one time in Baton Rouge there on a physics conference at LSU I managed to hike over to the 'Huey Long' sky scraper, and his museum to see the shit about him, and the gun that shot him.

I think that folks like Sizemore aspire to be 'Huey Longs', fascinating character, many movies have been made about him.

The governor building to this day is like 100 floors in Baton Rouge, in a town that doesn't have fucking building over two storys. In a fucking county that is flat swampland, here is this fucking pyramid a mile high, its like the 'empire state building' and you can take an elevator to the top. Except that this is the only building of this size in visible world. There ain't a mtn or anthill visible to the eye that is even 10%.

All done during the depression, shows you want a populist egotist backed by the likes of HOLLERN can do in a state where the press kowtows.


You can see the whole state of Louisana on top of Huey Long's building breath taking.

"A chicken in every pot".

Anonymous said...

Destination resorts -- rural developments allowed under an exception to the state's strict land-use guidelines -- have been part of the landscape since at least the 1970s, with the development of Sunriver south of Bend.

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Perpetual lie, JD-GRAY started sunriver in the 1960's, when Mike Hollern started Black-Butte Ranch.

JD-Gray, owner of OMARK, inventor of the modern chainsaw was the richest man in ORYGUN in the day, when he passed away, the title went to HOLLERN.

In 1972 JD-GRAY got LCDC (SB-100 OREGON ) passed to justify the building of MEGA-RESORTS in ORYGUN legally. That's when the BOOM in sunriver took off and it became a mega-tourist resort city.

The logger's ( HOLLERN & GRAY ) lobbied to get passed the golden-calf that almost BK'd hollern in the 1980's, and then he went on to build the City of Bend BK post 1998.

Bewert said...

Re: We were low on money this summer 2008, then city council went to a say private law firm and said, we need representation, we're going to be sued for 'failure to act in due diligence".

Actually, the $400K was to be used to hire in-house lawyers, but since hiring is frozen it hasn't happened. They are still using the two outside lawyers.

Anonymous said...

In Vallejo, the catastrophe was a long time coming. Nestled below sun-splashed hills overlooking San Pablo Bay, this was a Navy town until the shipyard was shuttered in 1996. The city's failure to replace that income stream was masked for a time by the boom in housing values and by disarray in City Hall -- Vallejo had six city managers in four years.

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JEEBUS xmas this is BEND, dependent on tourism, obsession with STD's, and then a storm, overpaid city-staff, and wallop .. BK

Anonymous said...

Jobs In Bend Oregon, Great place to live.

Wanted: Bend, City Manager, $500k/yr, must be professional liar, and tell public that everything is fine. Must kowtow to city council, and do as told. Must bankrupt the city according to boss hogg schedule.

Bewert said...

JR is a fine example of just how fucked up the process is. We are now talking about hiring the fourth master developer, while still paying 6% on every sale in the first 50 acres after LS to the third--JRP.

As far as I can tell, JRP no longer does anything. Yet, they will make $146K on the Suterra sale.

Anonymous said...

As far as I can tell, JRP no longer does anything. Yet, they will make $146K on the Suterra sale.

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Yes, they do, if the city didn't pay JRP their money, then JRP would sue the city.

Then all the dirty laundry would be public, and the city would lose ten's of millions, and lose millions on legal bills.

Way cheaper to pay JRP.

Welcome to Bend.

Anonymous said...

Never been a better time to simply 'NOT PAY YOUR MTG".

For that matter don't pay your credit card bills, all will be forgiven.

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More Than 2.2 Million Are 60 Days Late

The banking and mortgage industries have been criticized for not doing enough to prevent foreclosures and to modify the terms of troubled loans. According to the most recent data compiled by the Hope Now Alliance of lenders, counselers, and other industry players, lenders started the foreclosure process on 565,000 homeowners in this year's third quarter. Some 265,000 homes were actually foreclosed on, nearly twice the number from the third quarter of 2007. Moreover, more than 2.2 million homeowners are more than 60 days delinquent in their mortgage payments, also a near doubling from last year.

Bewert said...

From BEBB before it gets deleted:

One of the commercial brokers in town told me that when the Bulletin announced Suterra was moving to JR that Suterra hadn't made any commitment, in fact they were actively negotiating on several existing buildings and other pieces of bare land.

When Suterra's CEO read the Bulletin article, he went to the City and told them they were way premature with their announcement. Of course the City couldn't stand the thought of the deal not going together after it was in the paper, so they started offering incentives, and after they'd given away the sun, the moon, and the stars Suterra agreed to the deal.

Anonymous said...

When Suterra's CEO read the Bulletin article, he went to the City and told them they were way premature with their announcement. Of course the City couldn't stand the thought of the deal not going together after it was in the paper, so they started offering incentives, and after they'd given away the sun, the moon, and the stars Suterra agreed to the deal.

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And this my friends is a loving BULLSHIT bedtime story for your milk & cookies, ... by our resident PUSSY, ... do you actually believe this shit PUSSY?

YOU know what I know, and that is after LES SCHWAB everyone would get the same deal, and that deal is the same deal that Les Schwab got which was basically over $16M in improvement to their infrastucture and site.

Over a dozen times I have told the PUSSY to post the 'letter of intent' between the city & suterra, and the pussy has refused to post that letter in which time line is clear and its rather the clear that the city is tepid at best, and suterra the agressor just like that which led to the infamous les-schwab sales agreement.

YES isn't that CUTE, BEBB deletes all the REAL INFO on SUTERRA, and some masked bandit called LSMFT posts this new bed-time fable, and BEBB will leave this up, cuz its the new story the BULL wants all to believe.

Like I said about a week ago, the silence was because folks hadn't gotten their story straight, and now it appears they have a new story.

But for the correct time-line, and to see who actually was the aggressor and gave away the store, its all in the letter of intent, and its location was posted on bb2 comments last week.

The PUSSY has always from day-one here only had ONE SINGLE AGENDA, and that is to BASH KURATEK, he never mentions HOLLERN, and at the end of the day always does MEA-CULPAS for city-hall. Why not, he knows all campaign and power comes from HOLLERN, and he knows that if someday he gets his wet twat in the city-hall, he has to work with these people, hell he even agrees with RDC(BEBB) on most right-wing issues over on Dunc's site, BP is a chameleon, ... that said keep the shit flowing BP.

Anonymous said...

So this summer the city voted and located $400k for lawyers, and now today BP tells us that was for 'inhouse' lawyers, which meant payroll, and that now is on HOLD.

BP was that for ONE LAWYER, or 1/2 a lawyer??

Anonymous said...

OK boyz here is the time line,


July 18, suterra send their letter of intent to city,

July 23, 2008 bulletin prints story about suterra buying juniper ridge

july 25, 2008, city responds to suterras letter

All actions, deal and force came and were initiated by sutterra, the july-25 document is 100% city covering its arse.

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So there you go the facts that are public, suterra initiated the deal, and stated their intentions on take it or leave it deal July 18, craig cooper senior vp of suterra, then july 25, 2008 eric king, mgr of bend formally responds,

July 23, somehow 'imagine that' the BULL hears of the offer and prints the story,

Now today the BIG PUSSY is telling us that the city initiated the deal,

BEBB has deleted all the above from is site, and replaced it by the bedtime story, and then the PUSSY brings it over here to feed US.

Anonymous said...

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/24/18546160.php?show_comments=1#18547071

Because everyone in BEND deletes everything on this subject, all the info about the letter-of-intent, from july 18/25, and the original BULL story about suterra on 7/23/2008 can be found at the above site, where people don't selectively delete and create their own reality.

Anonymous said...

I have said this, and I'll say again, I LOVE KURATEK, he's the first time I have seen somebody come into this fucking town, and beat the resident crooks at their own game.

The pussy is all over himself, cuz KURATEK just keeps on getting, but hell, KURATEK knows where all the skeletons are buried in this shit-hole, he can milk this place forever.

Like I said, long ago, and Marge said recently our elected officials are 'cavers', and HOLLERN PUT in the likes of ABER-PUSSY for such reason, and then you have the two HOA council-folk that collect all the HOA's, its a perfect little family, and KURATEK marched in and collected a ton of fucking money, and why not??? NOBODY fucking cares, its JUMP CHANGE.

The city just paid $5M for a worthless lot the BULL got from HOLLERN for free, the city just paid $4M for a worthless lot they bought last year form Hap-Taylor, here we have a fucking collapse in RE land value, and the city is spending REAL fucking GOOD money, to bailout those that own and control the city, and the PUSSY dwells on KURATEK.

EVERY nickel kuratek has gotten has NOT come from taxpayers, think about that pussy.

Anonymous said...

When Suterra's CEO read the Bulletin article, he went to the City and told them they were way premature with their announcement. Of course the City couldn't stand the thought of the deal not going together after it was in the paper, so they started offering incentives, and after they'd given away the sun, the moon, and the stars Suterra agreed to the deal.

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WHAT FUCKING BULLSHIT, READ THE FUCKING TIMELINE FOLKS.

JEEBUS XMAS, BEBB deletes this shit, and then turns it around?? Go figure, everyone in this town from HBM to RDC(BEBB) are fucking insane, if you delete shit long enough, you'll end up with the truth!

Nobody in BEND cares about the fucking truth, in fact they're terrified of the truth.

Anonymous said...

When Suterra's CEO read the Bulletin article, he went to the City and told them they were way premature with their announcement.

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An absolute LIE cooked up by BEBB aka LSMFT.

Anonymous said...

Homer, quim, lava, and other rational CUNTS.

Last year, Jan 2008, to be exact I created bendeconomy2.informe.com, so we could have real thread subject debates without censorhip.

Nobody uses it, in the interim, BEBB is still on HOMERS tombstone, yet BEBB outed homer, that in itself should have been enough to remove Bebb's site from the fucking tombstone.

Here's what I suggest, cuz I do like the debate format where some picks a subject, and we debate it for months, like the 'bring it on tetherow debate', which for some reason BEBB doesn't delete, as he delete all other meaningful debates.

So heres the plan, HOMER removes the fucking bendeconomy.informe.com, and replaces with bendeconomy2.informe.com which already up, I'll give all the key people admin, and NOBODY ever deletes anything, except homer outings, and BEBB PORN solicitations.

Its really fucking stoooopid Bend stupid to list BEBB's site, when he is such a fucking asshole, and stuff, sometimes good stuff gets deleted within minutes of being posted.

Anonymous said...

So lets review the PUSSY's biggest concern in the last 24 hours.

"KURATEK GET $120k" or was it $60K??

Who the fuck cares, DEJA-VU, the city spent $16M out of pocket on the les-schwab campussy, and it was real money, and its gone.

Then last week the city sold 1/2 the land to Suterra for the same deal, which means we just lost $8M, well not really ( zero sum game ) Knife-River (hap-taylor) just gained $8M.


Do you see the pussy sqawking about that?? No he's all over himself to prove that it was the CITY who bullied Suterra to take the fucking deal.

But as we that READ already known, that when the les-schwab forced the city to accept its deal, its was les-schwab that was the 500LB gorilla.

Today its the same, except now everybody knows the city is a bunch of cavers, and everybody knows the city is going to go bankrupt ( not pay its cops or firemen, but everyone else ), so Suterra jumps to get 'cargo' while they can.

The pussy of course only seems to care about two things in BEND.

1.) He hates executive session secrecy,
2.) He hates KURATEK,

The pussy loves everything else in BEND.

Anonymous said...

I agree. List buster's bulletin board, Butter

Bewert said...

Re: EVERY nickel kuratek has gotten has NOT come from taxpayers, think about that pussy.

You forgot the $2.62M original payoff "for the master plan".

Now every dollar JRP gains from JR sales is a dollar that doesn't go into the general fund.

Where is the link to the letter Suterra sent the city?

Bewert said...

Re: "KURATEK GET $120k" or was it $60K??

$146K

BTW, that Knife River excavation crew flattening the pad I took pictures of today? Paid for by Suterra.

But we will be paying for roads, sewer, etc. to the property line.

Bewert said...

Source: Suterra scouting Juniper Ridge

In a July 10 e-mail obtained by The Bulletin, an executive for Suterra’s parent company said it would prefer a 10-acre site at Juniper Ridge immediately north of Les Schwab Tire Centers’ new headquarters.

In that same e-mail, Eric Johnson, the California-based vice president of Suterra’s parent company, said Suterra was looking at several other locations, which were not identified.

According to that e-mail, Suterra would build on 4 acres of the site initially, then double in size over the next 10 years. The e-mail suggests an aggressive timeline, too, with building construction starting by November.


I'll put in a request for all contacts between the city and Suterra to see the real timeline.

Eric Johnson, the Roll International VP, is the guy I've been trying to figure out since the special session. He accompanied Suterra president Steve Hartmeier into the Exec Session.

This July 23rd article was one of Peter Sachs last for the BULL. His last was on August 7th: SDC extension plan approved.

Quite fitting.

Anonymous said...

well. Here we are Bruce please go back wherever your'e from. We don't want your'e kind here. Tom mcall said it straight, visit but dont stay and Mark Hatfield was a true statsmen. Bruce get out we don't want you here. This a kind we don't want your kind here please leave.

Anonymous said...

You just had to ask didn't ya.
Early October stats.
County wide, all res. types.
solds.
08 214 @ $234k med.
07 244 @ $322k med.
06 305 @ $334 med.
05 613 @ $266 med.

Bend only, just SFR's Sold in Oct.
08 101 @ $277 med.
07 110 @ $319 med.
06 118 @ $361k med.
05 248 @ $301k med.
05 239 @ $232k med.

I am sure you would like ppf...I didn't run it..sorry

tim said...

Peter Sachs went to Chicago, eh? I liked that kid.

Bewert said...

Re: Anonymouse saying "just go..."

You probably shouldn't drink so much before typing...

I'm not going anywhere. Live with it.

Marge, we've still got a ways to go to get back to '05 medians here in Bend. But I bet next year at this time we'll be a lot closer.

Quimby said...

>> Peter Sachs went to Chicago, eh? I liked that kid.

Had a buddy who worked for the Bulletin for about a year. He said that it was a sweatshop and that EVERYONE hated the arrogant prick that goes by the name Costa. I didn't doubt him!

Congrats and good luck Pete.

Quimby said...

>> I agree. List buster's bulletin board, Butter

I "third" that motion.

Anonymous said...

ok if thats the way ya want to be would not want to be a liberal in these times.

tim said...

Marge, is that last 05 really an 04? You have two 05s there in that second list.

Bewert said...

Re: Sachs to Chicago

Yep, looks like it.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/petersachs

Bewert said...

Timmy, I missed that. I think you're right.

Sachs personal web site: http://www.weatherland.com/

Maybe we should engage him and see who he thinks is good and worthless at the city.

Anonymous said...

Oh yes we are just being polite at this stage

Anonymous said...

Sorry, that last line was 2004 not 05. "05 239 @ $232k med."
Who's drinking?

Anonymous said...

Oh yes I will live with it allright and be consumed with you in every breath I take

Anonymous said...

Bruce_ Think your so smart don't you want to fuck with me I will rain hell upon your soul if you let me.Still want to fuck with me?

Bewert said...

Seem to have hit a sore spot somehow...

Anonymous said...

Man I love this blog. Y'all have the best news daily, anywhere ! I lived in Bend & Sisters in the late 60's and early 70's when just about everyone worked their asses off just to be able to live there and now I can see the day where the place will be worth living in again. I wonder though just how long it will really be until these freaky fucking phony cunt lickin lesbians and fudge packin fags have been run out into Boise ?

Anonymous said...

Bruce, why is your wife posting to you on this board? Will you two keep your sex life off the internet please?

Anonymous said...

Bend's Beautiful People, you know, the people with 278 non-profits started in the past 3 months... you know, people with morals, looks, titties and MONEY so superior to you and me, that you & me make THEM wanna VOMIT...

Why are you people so obsessed with me, I make peanuts at the Source. It's not money that makes us superior to you.

Anonymous said...

>> Peter Sachs went to Chicago, eh? I liked that kid.

Had a buddy who worked for the Bulletin for about a year. He said that it was a sweatshop and that EVERYONE hated the arrogant prick that goes by the name Costa. I didn't doubt him!

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Sachs caught hell for that article in the BULL dated 7/23/2008, the one that the BULL printed on that date, a lot of people from Cali complained to Sachs about the positive praise of Suterra, his basic reply was 'fuck off, suterra is a great company'.

David Fischer sucked costa-cock, and when he left he let costa have big dick in the ass.

I don't p-sachs has those kind of balls, he's probably just going to another BULL, but so glad to be escaping from BEND-Calif.

If the PUSSY is looking for an angle on the Suterra story (BULL 7/23/08), and timing, look to this PUSSY, Sachs was forced to write that fucking story, and now the shit is hitting the fan, and he's leaving, put two&two together pussy.

Bewert said...

Re:
If the PUSSY is looking for an angle on the Suterra story (BULL 7/23/08), and timing, look to this PUSSY, Sachs was forced to write that fucking story, and now the shit is hitting the fan, and he's leaving, put two&two together pussy.

I'm still looking for that initial letter from Suterra to the City.

Anonymous said...

You are all weak people .Hey mike do own this blog ? Me thinks so

Anonymous said...

I'll put in a request for all contacts between the city and Suterra to see the real timeline.


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FUCK YOU Pussy the time-line is already public.

7/18/08 Suterra VP send letter of intent ( public record )

7/23/08 BULL PRINTS sachs story

7/25/08 City responds to letter, cuz of the BULL story.

The time line is out there, who sent Sachs the email on 7/10/08 pussy? You think it was the city?? Is the email public? Does it exist? Fucking prove it pussy?

What we have is what we have, and that is public doc's, and they have all been posted, and recorded, and the timeline established. If somebody sent sachs an anonymous email on 7/10/08, then why didn't he report earlier?? Did he ever even see the 7/15/08 Suterra letter of intent??


Suterra, is owned by a BILLIONAIRE, one of the richest men in the world, they don't need welfare, but they do have lawyers that make the twats that did the les-schwab deal look like amateurs,

Suterra's lawfirm in LA,CALIF owned by Roll INTL(owned by resnick) is the meanest fucking lawfirm in the USA.

The ISSUE here folks is the PUSSY is now saying that SUTERRA got fucked by the CITY, but that is impossible, as the record clearly shows Suterra initiated the deal. If there are public docs to prove something else, then produce them PUSSY.

Anonymous said...

I'm still looking for that initial letter from Suterra to the City.


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Folks please somebody find a bb-gun and shoot the fucking pussy in the pussy, how many fucking times I have posted this link to the pussy in the past two weeks in this forum? what ten times???

Go to the site I posted above, and download the city PDF, its 4 pages, non-editable text pdf as photocopy.

First two pages are the 7/25 reply, last two pages are the suterra 7/15 offer, jeebus PUSSY this proves that your a fucking idiot that never reads shit.

p.s. FOLKS ALL I have emailed this PDF to the pussy @ bewert@gmail.com like ten times, and demanded he add it to his blog on JR, but the pussy really wants to ignore this one, as it fucking doesn't fit in with the way his handlers want to manage the show.

Anonymous said...

http://www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/Letter_to_Suterra.pdf

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I give up, will any of you FUCKING CUNTS, pls download and read this fucking 4 page PDF, and note that the first 2 pages are 7/25 reply from city, and the last two pages are suterra offering to buy JR on 7/15,

P-Sachs the fucking KUNT that sucks costa cock, wrote his story 7/23, how did he know about the 7/15 suterra letter? Who told him??

P-Sachs is an asshole, I asked him these questions months ago, and he told me to fuck off, just like HBM does, these fucking media assholes of BEND are prima-donnas.

Anonymous said...

10.) The city of Bend, and Suterra LLC, have a letter of intent, available on the city of Bend website made available by our own reporter 'Bruce' http://www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/Letter_to_Suterra.pdf


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The first two pages are city to suterra reply, the last two pages are suterra offer to city.

Anonymous said...

Suterra scouting Juniper Ridge
Local biotechnology company wants construction to begin by November

By Peter Sachs / The Bulletin
July 23, 2008

Suterra, the Bend maker of high-tech pesticides, is the latest firm to shop for land at Bend’s 1,500-acre Juniper Ridge development, according to a document obtained by The Bulletin.

The biotechnology company, a spin-off of pharmaceutical firm Bend Research, focuses on pheromone-based....

Anonymous said...

If someone here has access to BULL archives, please post the above in entirety.

Bewert said...

Here is what you gave me:

http://www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/Letter_to_Suterra.pdf

BP make sure you link this one also, make sure you put a copy on your site quick.

This is the original letter-of-intent from City of Bend to Suterra.

..

Note it is the letter from the city TO Suterra.

Anonymous said...

Please, if you have been physically or psychologically abused by Suterra in connection with the LBAM spray public health crisis, take just a few minutes to write to the author of the article and the newspaper’s editor to share what you know about Suterra and their ’safe’ pesticides.
Peter Sachs
psachs@bendbulletin.com
Tim Doran
tdoran@bendbulletin.com

Urge these men to do their duty as members of the press by printing true, unbiased facts…not simply republishing the marketing pitches of special interest groups. Printing these kinds of statements endangers public health

Bewert said...

Suterra scouting Juniper Ridge
Local biotechnology company wants construction to begin by November

Suterra, the Bend maker of high-tech pesticides, is the latest firm to shop for land at Bend’s 1,500-acre Juniper Ridge development, according to a document obtained by The Bulletin.

The biotechnology company, a spin-off of pharmaceutical firm Bend Research, focuses on pheromone-based pesticides that don’t contaminate groundwater, affect other animals or kill the crop-damaging insects.

Suterra’s insecticides use pheromones that make it difficult for bugs to find each other and mate.

Having Suterra move to Juniper Ridge would fit squarely into the city’s vision for the project as a place that lets high-tech companies flourish.

City officials and a company executive Tuesday would not comment on Suterra’s interest in Juniper Ridge.

Financial details, the number of jobs that might be created or how much the company would invest in a new facility also were not available.

In a July 10 e-mail obtained by The Bulletin, an executive for Suterra’s parent company said it would prefer a 10-acre site at Juniper Ridge immediately north of Les Schwab Tire Centers’ new headquarters.

In that same e-mail, Eric Johnson, the California-based vice president of Suterra’s parent company, said Suterra was looking at several other locations, which were not identified.

According to that e-mail, Suterra would build on 4 acres of the site initially, then double in size over the next 10 years. The e-mail suggests an aggressive timeline, too, with building construction starting by November.

Johnson said Tuesday he could not comment publicly on Suterra’s relocation plans. Steve Hartmeier, Suterra’s president, was traveling in Europe and could not be reached for comment.

Ron Garzini, the city’s special projects manager, declined to comment on Suterra’s plans because the company has not publicly announced what it will do.

Currently, Suterra employs 55 people at its location on Southwest Columbia Street, according to Economic Development for Central Oregon. The company’s insecticides are engineered to be environmentally friendly and are designed to target specific species.

Suterra is the second largest biotechnology employer in the region behind Bend Research. It is now owned by Roll International, a California holding company that also owns pomegranate juice maker POM Wonderful, flower distributor Teleflora and Fiji bottled water.

CheckMate, Suterra’s most widely used insecticide, comes in variations that target seven moth and worm species.

Suterra caught negative press last fall in California when people raised health concerns over the use of CheckMate in aerial spraying for the light brown apple moth.

Juniper Ridge has attracted interest this summer from several companies wanting space for their operations.

The city’s development will include room for light industrial businesses and research and development incubators — and eventually a university and homes.

Les Schwab, which announced in late 2006 it would move its corporate headquarters from Prineville to Juniper Ridge, is set to move into its new campus this fall. Bend’s Pepsi distributor and two local high-tech companies have also said they want to move and expand at Juniper Ridge.

Outback Manufacturing, a precision machine shop that makes parts for the aerospace and defense industries, and Dent Instruments, which makes equipment used to monitor energy consumption, have both talked with the city about obtaining 2 to 10 acres of land at Juniper Ridge.

Anonymous said...

Just was in a la suburb. And if they tell me ever again do I have a problem with them. I will open fire full auto 9mm on those people. Just cause their black don't give them right to terrorise white folk.

Anonymous said...

Most interesting is that on 10/23/2008, peter sachs responded to the above DEMAND from May of 2008 by http://www.veganreader.com/2008/07/26/suterra-plotting-to-buy-1500-acres-in-bend-oregon/#comments
, the same day that the bend-blogger-brigade took this fucking Suterra buying JR national.

Read carefully below what Peter had to say about his original 7/23/08 Bull story, ... Looks like a cover your ass, but anybody in CALIF knew by 10/07 that Suterra made synthetic pheromones that are toxic, note here the P-Sachs is still talking the talking-points of Suterra from pre-calif court hearings, where the courts determined that the products were toxic.



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Peter Sachs

Suterra’s plans all along were to buy 8-10 acres of land. The company is already located in Bend where it employs 55 people. There have been no known reports of contamination — nor health problems in Bend residents — as a result of the manufacturer’s presence. Our original article on July 23 to which you refer clearly stated,

“Suterra caught negative press last fall in California when people raised health concerns over the use of CheckMate in aerial spraying for the light brown apple moth.”

The sixth paragraph of a subsequent article, on Aug. 3, stated,

“Suterra makes pheromone-based pesticides that target several species of moths and worms, and are supposed to be environmentally friendly. Its products are usually sprayed on specific fields or attached directly to plants with special bands. But the company came under fire last year when California started spraying the CheckMate pesticide from the air over several cities, leading to hundreds of claims of respiratory problems and other health effects. While the state halted the spraying program, the pesticide’s health effects remain in dispute.”

Anonymous said...

peter sachs responded to the above DEMAND from May of 2008 by http://www.veganreader.com/2008/07/26/suterra-plotting-to-buy-1500-acres-in-bend-oregon/#comments
, the same day that the bend-blogger-brigade took this fucking Suterra buying JR national.

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Whoops peter responded to the 7/26 demand by veganreader.com, because bendbubble.blogspot.com posted this story national, and that MADE p-sachs respond.

Another note on HOMER, fix BB2 so the comments ain't fucking hidden, you have been told 1,000 fucking times to fix the 'no follow' problem.

As the PUSSY mentioned on 10/20/08 bilbo went into over-drive research mode on the national suterra story, and reprinted the veganreader story above, which on 10/23/08 sachs responded, his reponse is laughable cuz, its the kind of talk-points that Suterra was using in 2006.

Bewert said...

Re: The first two pages are city to suterra reply, the last two pages are suterra offer to city.

Give me 15 minutes and I'll OCR them and post them both. I already have it up on my blog, but haven't put the link up yet.

Anonymous said...

So why did SACHS get fired??

Cuz he ran the story on 7/23/08 about the suterra deal?

If a 7/10/08 email exists, from whom, where?

Why did sachs get fired, on 10/23/08 in the veganreader ( 7/26 ) reprint at the bottom, I asked that people send their pocket change to psachs@bulletin.com, cuz he would soon be unemployed, it was a joke, but did someone take me seriously??

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Here's what we said ... Note on the same day, we wrote this p-sachs sent an email to veganreader!!
http://bendbubble.blogspot.com/2008/10/chemical-weapon-manufacturer-buys-bend.html

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"Lastly, soon to be unemployed at the BULL Peter Sachs psachs@bendbulletin.com
Tim Doran tdoran@bendbulletin.com, also ask for your kindness via a generous donation via paypal.com."

http://bendbubble.blogspot.com/2008/10/chemical-weapon-manufacturer-buys-bend.html

Anonymous said...

ok, here's what I think the shit hit the fan when the city sold the JR to suterra on 10/22/08, Bruce reported the story on same day, and on 10/23/08 buster went into over-drive with ...

http://bendbubble.blogspot.com/2008/10/chemical-weapon-manufacturer-buys-bend.html

Then sachs responded to vegan-reader with 'talking points', then later Sachs probably acutally read some of the reality of the SHOW, and realized he has been a SHILL for the BULL.

Was he fired or did he quit?

Will he write a finale like David Fisher did??

Read the following that Fisher wrote when he bailed the BULL...

http://bendbubble.blogspot.com/2008/08/bend-oregon-declared-dead-obituary.html

Anonymous said...

Bruce,

Pretty heavy shit, you started the ball rolling on 10/22/08, by publishing 'secret purchase of JR by suterra'

10/22/08 got buster thinking about what you called 'suterra', used to be for me 'bend research', ... didn't take long once I demanded you to post the suterra sales agreement on 10/23/08 to see that all was being ran by ROLL-INTL-CORP of la,calif. Thus bio-weapons was written and posted nationally, that's when sachs responded to vegan-reader, with his talking-points, which entertained nobody cuz, they were 2006 talking-points, goes to show out of the loop the BULL people are.

It would be interesting to know the time-line when sachs quit or was fired.

My guess is he may have gone against BULL party line by not keeping silent, by posting the rebuttal on vegan-reader 10/23/08, it violated the BULL's offical policy of 'OMERTA' ( mob silence ).

I hope sachs to a send off letter like david fisher did, its obvious that sachs is either an idiot, or was played a fool, neither very flattering.

Anonymous said...

Give me 15 minutes and I'll OCR them and post them both. I already have it up on my blog, but haven't put the link up yet.

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Jeebus xmas pussy, just read the shit, others can read.

The MAIN issue is I HAVE BEGGED you to put these doc's on your fucking site for two weeks and you have fucking ignored the request, and insult to injury refused to fucking read the docs.

That said BP, interesting how one PDF has first two pages the last, and the last two pages the first, typical city CYA, obfuscation while the Bend Titanic sinks.

Anonymous said...

tim said...

Peter Sachs went to Chicago, eh? I liked that kid.

When TT? What do you know, you as an old reporter, must have some inside scoop?

Did you read the above? For a kid, and you liked him, he sure bought the HOLLERN-BULL-SUTERRA 'talking points' hook, line, and sinker.

Bewert said...

Re: jeebus, pussy.

OCRed, broke into two letters, links on juniper-ridge-info.blogspot.com

Go read them. Note it is for a manufacturing facility, and that the offer is not contingent on any financing issues. Which the Council voted to put on anyway, arguing about it in Exec Session.

And according to Eric on Wednesday they have already submitted adequate documentation concerning financing viability. Being owned by Roll makes it easy.

Butter, you really do need to get rid of the "not follows" on this site.

Bewert said...

Buster, I read them long ago. I've been pretty busy of late. Sorry for not bending over at the crack of your whip...

I'm still trying to get a new post or two up about the JRMB meeting, and the Suterra pics I took today.

Anonymous said...

BP, what the point of OCR'ing a fucking hand signed PDF, just put a link on your site to the original PDF before city deletes this smoking gun.

What are you trying to hide by substituting a OCR version, is this BEBB censorship at a new level.

I say give the people access to the raw source doc's and let them decide, don't feed them shit.

Bewert said...

BTW, Kunstler's latest rant at Clusterfuck Nation is right on. Thanks whoever posted it earlier today.

In the typhoon of commentary that's blown around the world a step behind the financial tsunami that's wrecking everything, two little words have been curiously absent: "fraud" and "swindle." But aren't they really at the core of what has happened? Wall Street took the whole world "for a ride" and now a handful of Wall Street's erstwhile princelings have shifted ceremoniously into US Government service to "fix" the problem with a "toolbox" containing a notional two trillion dollars. This strange exercise in financial kabuki theater will shut down sometime between the election and inauguration day, when the inaugurate finds himself president of the Economic Smoking Wreckage of the United States. What will happen?...

And then what? The societies of the world will be faced with the task of rebuilding systems of fruitful activity, i.e., real economies based on productive behavior rather than the smoke-and-mirrors of Frankenstein-finance con games.


Truth.

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/

Out of here....

Bewert said...

Re: What are you trying to hide by substituting a OCR version, is this BEBB censorship at a new level.

Nothing. It makes the scans more readable, as well as searchable. Anybody wants the source send me an email. If you whine loud enough, I'll put the original up tomorrow.

tim said...

I liked him personally. His gal (wife, gf--I can't remember) got accepted to some prestigious program in Chicago, I think. They'd been kinda waiting on that, so it was probably always in the back of their minds that they weren't long for Bend.

Didn't know him well, but he was fun to talk with.

I empathize with these young small town reporters. I think they have these big dreams on being reporters and then they find out it's pure hell dealing with the forces around them.

Anonymous said...

Cost of Permit? Zero
Date of Purchase 10/22/2008?
Date of start of excavation 10/4/2008, who was in the hurry? Suterra.
On 10/18/2008, Suterra gave the city 7 days to except the offer, the city responded 10/25/2008, at the 12th hour, just like Les Schwab, tough lawyers once again reamed our city. Then the PUSSY says's that the CITY reamed Suterra, like HELL.

***

1 - Permit & Right of Entry
3. TERM OF PERMIT
The term o f this Permi t shall commence on October 4, 2008 (the "Commencement Date") and
shall terminate on completion o f the Work. The scope o f the Permitted Use may be expanded by
amendment hereto.
4. DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
Permittee shall be responsible for any damage to people or property caused in connection with
Per mi t t ee' s Permitted Use under this Permit. Provided, however, t hat i f for any reason the sale
o f the Property to Permittee does not close, Permittee shall have no obligation to restore the
Permit Premises to their pre-existing condition and all o f the Work done hereunder shall be
allowed to remai n in place by the City and shall not be considered damage to the Permit
Premises. However, Permittee shall leave the site in a clean, smoothly graded condition, free o f
hazards, debris or other deleterious materials.

Anonymous said...

What's most interesting is the BIG hurry to put Knife-River to work 10/4/2008 to start the Suterra Excavation.

Most notable also is that the City gives Knife-River access to other areas at JR for materials access, e.g. 'ROCK'. Which these days is worth a fortune at $200/dump-truck.

Suterra pays NO permit Fee's, what a fucking deal, the city if broke, and the planning&building are laying people off, and city waives all fee's.

Then were told the city PUSHED the deal by the PUSSY, no once again the city has allowed itself to get fucked cuz it works in secrecy.

The ONLY people who profited by this deal is KNIFE-RIVER(HAP-TAYLOR) who gets immediate public projects.

Anonymous said...

AFTER RECORDI NG RETURN To :
Barbara A. Jacobson
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP
222 SW Columbia Street, Suite 1400
Portland, OR 97201
Until a change is requested, all tax statements
shall be sent to the following address:
Suterra LLC
c/o David S. Prall
Associate General Counsel
Roll International Corporation
11444 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Anonymous said...

TT,

Why did sachs go?? Was he fired? Did he quit??

Maybe HBM knows what the fuck that is going on, being no fan of the BULL.

Anonymous said...

Garzini Bend's own MOB-MAN brokered the deal, Why is Garzini still on the payroll if we're broke??

MINUTES Bend City Council Work Session August 6, 2008 City Council ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Mr. Garzini believed the city reach an agreement with Suterra. ... He suggested that Suterra pay $6000 and the city pay $3000 towards the impact fee. ...

Anonymous said...

Mr. Garzini explained the timeline for Suterra will have to be run ahead of the Master
Plan.
Also necessary are the CC&Rs and design guidelines. A consultant will be hired
to complete those items as soon as possible; they will come through this Board for
recommendations to City Council. There are approximately eight businesses that are
interested in land at Juniper Ridge, which will put more pressure on ODOT. Further
discussion followed about several businesses that have shown interest and where the
low tech facilities would be placed.
Member James asked about whether or not Ray Kuratek is still involved or if this is a
city driven process.
The settlement agreement with Juniper Ridge Partners and the
fifty acre option was explained. The fifty acres are the most cost effective area to put
businesses in because it has the infrastructure. http://www.ci.bend.or.us/docs/JRMB_minutes_073008.pdf.


JRMB Meeting Minutes
Page 1 of 5
July 30, 2008
MINUTES
JR Management Board
July 30, 2008
1.
Introductions
The first meeting of the Juniper Ridge Management Board was called to order at 3:00
p.m. Members present were John James, Steve Petersen, Oran Teater and Staff
members John Russell, Jerry Mitchell and Ron Garzini. Introductions were made.
2.
General Orientation
Mr. Russell explained that this committee has to comply with state law for public
meetings. The role of the committee is as an advisory committee to City Council. Jerry
Mitchell and Ron Garzini will brief the committee on Juniper Ridge to date. Mr. Russell
provided a brief overview of the meeting schedule and content.
3.
Update Briefing by Staff
Mr. Garzini drew the committee’s attention to the outline that was handed out. He
talked about why the Management Board is essential and their role in the development
of a pricing strategy for land at Juniper Ridge to be recommended to Council. He spoke
about the addition of a couple more members, the time commitment of an hour to an
hour and a half per month for meetings, setting goals and strategies, using Executive
Sessions to discuss sale prices and negotiations, etc.
Member James asked for understanding on how the committee will interface with staff
and Mr. Russell responded that for the long term he and Jerry Mitchell would be the
primary staff. Mr. Garzini is starting to phase out, but will be available on an on-call
basis and serve in a trouble shooter role. Member James asked what resources would
be available in coming up with numbers. Mr. Garzini answered there is some staff;
Sonia Andrews, CFO, and engineering staff; anything else would be consultants. Mr.
Mitchell told the Board about the Wednesday, Juniper Ridge Management Team
meeting that includes department directors, program managers, and city manager.
Member Teater asked if Ms. Andrews has the skill set and time to crunch numbers and
Mr. Garzini answered he thinks so, she is trying. Once the Board is brought up to date,
he would like their weigh in on the current proposals.
Mr. Garzini explained that at some point beyond the 150 acres there will be the need for
a northern server interceptor that will be needed for the whole community. Staff would
like to discuss with the Board some of the projects that are bigger than Juniper Ridge to
the degree they affect Juniper Ridge.
Member James commented that big infrastructure issues define phasing. Mr. Garzini
explained that one reason they are working on 150 acres for Phase One is because of
the market demand for employment land. He briefly explained the colored map of
Juniper Ridge. Mr. Russell added that the urban renewal district encompasses
approximately 750 acres, incorporating the vacant land around Lowe’s and the Wal-
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July 30, 2008
Mart land; Lowes would be part of the tax increment. Mr. Mitchell added that the tax
increment coming in right now is $150,000 including Les Schwab next year.
Mr. Garzini explained that the 150 acres is being worked on for three reasons: ODOT
and Hwy 97 issue is not resolved and that land is purely employment land that does not
have large traffic impacts. Part of the negotiations with ODOT is to determine how
much land they will allow to be developed which is determined by the number of pm
peak trips allowed. Mr. Mitchell provided a breakdown of the 150 acres. Mr. Garzini
added that in order to develop Suterra and others, there will need to be approximately
$500,000 in sewer upgrades down 18
th
Street. He pointed out 90-100 acres on the
map that he wants to do planning on for a large development, should opportunity
present itself. The biggest problems are the infrastructure and political.
Member Teater asked if the city is successful in filling up portions of the area with
employment land, would there be an opportunity for some commercial land when the
infrastructure is complete and Mr. Russell answered yes they are anticipating a couple
small commercial nodes throughout the 150 acre development. The idea is to have
some services localized throughout the development.
Mr. Garzini explained that 150 of the 500 acres will be Phase I. The ODOT agreement
may modify that amount. The negotiations with ODOT are difficult, but he is pleased
with the regional director and his efforts to find a solution. He is gearing up for the
August 20
th
Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) Board meeting and an August
6
th
update to Council. ODOT is being asked to do some things that are difficult under
state planning law. He gave a brief explanation of how the process works. He will have
more information in a week or two. One of the things they are working on is a special
impact fee based on pm peak trips. The fee will go to fixing Hwy 97 once it is
determined what needs to be fixed.
Member Petersen asked if the Cooley Road issue is related to more than just Juniper
Ridge and Mr. Garzini answered yes. Once staff puts together a deal, as it relates to
Juniper Ridge, it will come back to this Board for discussion and input.
Mr. Garzini explained the timeline for Suterra will have to be run ahead of the Master
Plan. Also necessary are the CC&Rs and design guidelines. A consultant will be hired
to complete those items as soon as possible; they will come through this Board for
recommendations to City Council. There are approximately eight businesses that are
interested in land at Juniper Ridge, which will put more pressure on ODOT. Further
discussion followed about several businesses that have shown interest and where the
low tech facilities would be placed.
Member James asked about whether or not Ray Kuratek is still involved or if this is a
city driven process. The settlement agreement with Juniper Ridge Partners and the
fifty acre option was explained. The fifty acres are the most cost effective area to put
businesses in because it has the infrastructure. The agreement with JRP is being
finalized for the Council meeting on the 6
th
.
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July 30, 2008
Mr. Garzini talked about a land price of $7.00/sf for large parcels and $9.00/sf for
smaller parcels. He urged the Board to have EDCO test the market every couple
months; there is a need to continuously watch prices for these parcels. Some areas to
look at are Portland and Eugene for cost comparisons.
Further discussion followed regarding the benefit to JRP if they do or do not go with the
proposal and how it works.
Mr. Garzini wants to issue an RFP for the management and/or purchase of the 500
acres by the end of the year. There may be people who want to become a part of this
project and build a town center. There are at least 3 large companies who have
indicated an interest in being players in Juniper Ridge.
Member James asked why it would be in the city’s best interest to issue an RFP if there
is only infrastructure for 150 acres and the market is terrible. He felt going out with an
RFP was a terrible idea and premature. Mr. Garzini said the city needs a master
developer partner to do the development of the 150 acres; one who has the financial
resources, and expertise in Oregon. The northern interceptor cost to the city will be
$3M, which would not be big deal if the city had the ability to develop the 150 acres. If
the city can find a large private partner the ODOT issue might be easier to deal with; a
larger firm not needing large returns for the short period and chosen for their expertise
and financial resources. He has spoke with businesses who have the resources and
Mr. Mitchell added those conversations have happened in the last couple weeks.
Member James asked if the city is prohibited from having one on ones with developers.
Mr. Garzini answered they are working with developers now. If the city could sell the
whole track and become regulators, it would be better. If Council approves the
agreement with JRP, they will handle discussions with potential buyers. Member
James asked who would pay for the additional infrastructure that needs to be built and
Mr. Garzini answered the city pays for off-site and the buyer pays for on-site
infrastructure. In a couple weeks the Board will receive a financial plan with revenues
and expenditures. It might be easier to have a developer develop the infrastructure and
reduce the purchase price. He explained how the infrastructure costs would work.
Member Petersen asked if there would be a stated fee for land and Mr. Garzini
answered that an MAI will be ordered, which will set the fee. The thought is the price
would be around $7-9/sf. Member Petersen asked if the city is restricted in what they
can sell the land for and Mr. Russell answered not after JRP exercises their option.
There is a timeline for developing the land and a no flipping clause. Mr. Garzini
answered JRP has two years to subdivide and five years to build.
Member Teater asked where the UGB expansion boundaries fall within Juniper Ridge
and the line was pointed out on the map. Further discussion followed about the
boundaries for the UGB, what land at Juniper Ridge would be within it, different
scenarios for the UGB and the potential for another expansion in 5 years.
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Member James asked how locked in is the Master Plan politically and Mr. Garzini
commented that the Conceptual Master Plan has brought peace; the Design Standards
and CC&Rs will be developed for the 150 acres and be in place until they are changed
due to new circumstances. He would not suggest making changes to the Master Plan.
Mr. Garzini suggested managing the project 150 acres at a time and planning the
infrastructure keeping the market in mind. This is a mixed use development with a goal
to provide housing there. Member Teater suggested housing could be provided on
private land.
Member Petersen asked when CC&Rs and design plan will be done and Mr. Russell
responded in a couple months. Mr. Mitchell explained in Suterra’s case, it is being
pushed forward so fast that the design standards are not in place, but will need to be for
the 150 acres. Mr. Russell added that the design standards need to be incorporated
into Suterra’s agreement.
Mr. Garzini commented on the Board providing input and recommendations on the work
staff puts together, that larger developers will enhance the smaller ones and the area
best suited for high tech. Member Teater commented the city will need to be flexible
and Member James agreed the city has to have flexibility in order to sell the smaller
parcels.
Mr. Garzini noted that their will be two more members at the next meeting. He would
also like to invite Roger Lee or Eric Stroebl from EDCO as ex-officio members; they
keep track of the market price in this region. There has also been some discussion of
an ex-officio member from Council.
4.
Election of Chair and Vice Chair
Mr. Russell suggested the Board might want to wait until the other two members are in
attendance and consensus was yes, they would wait.
Further discussion followed about where the Board would be more involved. Mr.
Garzini suggested if Board members have any thoughts or questions to call Jerry
Mitchell or himself. Once the ODOT issue is resolved, it just becomes a matter of
adjusting details.
5.
Identification of Terms
To be discussed at the next meeting
6.
Meeting Time & Dates
To be discussed at the next meeting.
Mr. Russell explained that copies of the Master Plan were handed out; but they are not
being given out to many people due to the expense of printing. It is also on the city’s
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website. He will also get a copy of the Urban Renewal Plan to members. Mr. Garzini
will hold an Executive Session at the next meeting.
The next meeting will be on August 13
th
at 3:00 p.m.
Mr. Garzini asked the member’s opinion on a Council member as ex-officio. Member
Teater suggested waiting until they are further into the meetings to see what is needed.
7.
Adjourn
The meeting adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

Anonymous said...

City used the $3M Suterra RE transaction as emergency buffer for the now bankrupt 'general fund'. 10/22/2008

...

THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEND DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
To approve the supplemental budget providing for the following additional
appropriations to the 2007-09 Biennial Budget in accordance with ORS 294.480:
General Fund
Increase
Decrease
Resources:
Juniper Ridge Suterra Proceeds
2,300,000
$
Requirements:
Expenditure Appropriations
2,300,000
$
To authorize revenues and increase appropriations related to Juniper Ridge Suterra
proceeds. Proceeds will be transferred from the General Fund to the Juniper Ridge
Construction Fund.
Adopted by the City Council the 22nd day of October, 2008.
YES:
NO:
Authenticated by the Mayor the 22nd day of October, 2008.
Attest:
Bruce Abernethy, Mayor

Anonymous said...

City is $6M in the hole, and the Les-Schwab give-away, which was paid to Knife-River as short-term line-of-credit debt. Below is the original budget for 2008, next post will be new budget, as the $6M Les-Schwab WELFARE has destroyed the general fund, as the city could not secure a bond to hide the debt.

What is good news is that over the last year, the city has managed to recoup a whopping $1M from Les Scwhab in SDC's, must be guilt???
***

BACKGROUND: The original FY 2008-09 budget included land sale proceeds of $10 million,
repayment of the $6 million line of credit (LOC), and payment of the Les Schwab SDCs of
$1,046,000 to the City. Based on current events, our revised projections include Juniper
Ridge Suterra proceeds of about $2.3 million and additional capital and master planning
expenditures of $3.5 million. The LOC and Les Schwab SDCs will not be repaid in FY 2008-
09

Anonymous said...

. The $6 million LOC will be repaid in future years when land sale proceeds are available or
from General Fund monies. The remaining debt service payments are $180,000 in
interest payments on the LOC.

*

So the theory is that future years of land sales will pay back the general fund its $6M, if & when JR land sells??

Sort of a chicken&egg, had city not given away the store to get LS into JR, then there would be no JR, so we're told?? How about just old fashion corporate welfare, with no hope of ever recouping the LesSchwab welfare?

Anonymous said...

e. Additional capital costs include infrastructure necessary to serve Suterra and surrounding
lots and master planning costs. These costs total approximately $3.5 million.

*

The cost to the city for the infrastructure of Suterra exceeds what they took in on the sale.

That's ok Knife-River gets all the work, the city can bury the future infrastructure costs, and book the sale on the books,... Hokey accounting in Bend

Anonymous said...

So now we get to the truth of the matter, the entire Suterra sale cash will be used to 'defer the Les Schwab' SDC's, so in effect LesSchwab has STILL never paid anything. Also this may explain why a few months ago the BULL fought hard for temporary and permanent SDC deferral, not for STD's, but for Les Schwab.

***

FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE & RECOMMENDATION (Finance): Approval of the proposed
budget adjustment will allow completion of master plan and infrastructure improvements
necessary to serve Suterra and surrounding properties. These improvements will be funded
by proceeds from the transaction with Suterra, deferring payment of the Les Schwab SDCs,
and a $180,000 capital loan from the General Fund. The $6 million LOC is due in full in 2010
and the City may be able to refinance the LOC if funds are not available to repay it

Anonymous said...

The original Les Schwab deal, rotten to the core, seems to be sinking the city deeper and deeper into debt and corruption.

The entire money that came from the Suterra sale was used to defer Les Schwabs SDC costs on the BURA books.

Bura has borrowed millions from the Bend general fund to cover the debt to feed Knife-River. There is no hope of ever getting the money back into the General Fund, on every sale made at JR, the hole is dug deeper.

***

g. Original budget included interfund transfers to pay SDCs for the Les Schwab property.
Payment of SDC’s has been deferred, and also the original $180,000 General Fund loan
will no longer be repaid this fiscal year

www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/IS_BURA____Suterra_102208.pdf

Anonymous said...

I empathize with these young small town reporters. I think they have these big dreams on being reporters and then they find out it's pure hell dealing with the forces around them. - tt


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He sure did a great job of parroting Suterra, and BURA talking points.

Anonymous said...


Why the City of Bend is financially insolvent.

( Homer read this fucking budget, and write about it, its laughable to hell )


www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/IS_BURA____Suterra_102208.pdf

Original budget included interfund transfers to pay SDCs for the Les Schwab property.
Payment of SDC’s has been deferred, and also the original $180,000 General Fund loan
will no longer be repaid this fiscal year

*

This is something we never thought about. The SDC-DEFERRAL of a few months ago promoted by the BULL, was never about developer deferral, and building, it was about legally creating $10M pool of non-performing debt (LesSchwab) that could be booked as a asset. Without this 'cook of the books' the city would today have a negative 'general fund'.


BURA has done two interesting things in their budget, they have booked $10M of JR sales that never happened, when in fact on the first sale all the money went to KURATEK, and the new sale Suterra, doesn't even cover infrastucture cost.

Anonymous said...

http://bendeconomy2.informe.com/forum/index.php

Homer, or somebody who can influence the CUNT, be sure to replace the above link with the 'BEBB' link so we can have meaningful long-term subject debates without censorship.

Link as above, so the initial screen appears just like BEBB.

Bewert said...

Re: The entire money that came from the Suterra sale was used to defer Les Schwabs SDC costs on the BURA books.

No, you missed the details. The entire money, less JRP's $150K, was not enough to build out the infrastructure.

They needed the sale money, PLUS the money that was to be used to pay LS's SDCs PLUS a transfer from the general fund.

They hope that the infrastructure buildout for Suterra can also be used to sell 10-20 more acres without much more investment.

Of course, that ignores the ODOT "problem", which will need $50M in identifiable funding to solve.

As for Garzini, he wasn't at the JRMB meeting, so he is probably gone for now.

tim said...

>>Why did sachs go?? Was he fired? Did he quit??

His chick got accepted to graduate school in Chicago.

Anonymous said...

The biggest problems are the infrastructure and political. - garzini

*

Imagine that the biggest problems are that it costs more to excavate the JR land than it worth, and it must be subsidized by the city, we call that an 'infrastructure problem'.

Secondly their is the fucking problem of the citizenry.

Bewert said...

Re: The SDC-DEFERRAL of a few months ago promoted by the BULL...

It allows the City to defer payment to themselves on the LS SDC's, plus Suterra will be allowed to defer.

Just one more nail in the coffin. We are only a few big snowstorms and a major equipment breakdown away from BK.

Remember that the Council and BURA are one and the same. The "Joint" special meeting was kind of comical, as Pete the lawyer would remind them when to switch hats. At least in the public section.

They never bothered with any public comment on the Suterra land sale, either, which is required by state law.Not that any public was there...

Anonymous said...

>>Why did sachs go?? Was he fired? Did he quit??

His chick got accepted to graduate school in Chicago.

*

So he neither quit no was fired, but left.

This is typical of this town, invent an explanation that is useful to everyone.

So he's going to live in her dorm room?

I love this, he didn't quit, and he didn't get fired. He just left.

ONLY THE BULL COULD INVENT A COVER LIKE THIS.


TT, He quit. The girlfriend moving was what gave him the final kick in the arse.

I just wanted to know that if he was fired, or laid off, but given that he was such an ass kisser and parrot of the Suterra talking-points, a guy like this would have been very useful to Costa.

tim said...

>>We are only a few big snowstorms and a major equipment breakdown away from BK.


Didn't we go way over budget on snow clearing last year? It's certainly something that can happen.

Anonymous said...

BP,

My point on you OCR for the 'letter to city' 7/18/08 from Suterra is barely legible, and there is lots of important scribbling.

I just didn't think a OCR could do it justice, as most of the text has many different fonts, and very light, somebody made sure this doc would be difficult to made into OCR, that said, maybe they have magic shit now, but this document is a copy of a copy with useful hand-writing. Such it needs to be kept on your server as an original.

Bewert said...

Re:
Didn't we go way over budget on snow clearing last year? It's certainly something that can happen.

Yes, and they halved the budget.

tim said...

I'm assuming he quit. I haven't talked to him for several months. All I know is that they had been itching to go for quite a while, and were waiting for her to get in.

Bewert said...

http://www.juniper-ridge.info/BEND JR Letter_to_Suterra-raw.pdf

Only scribbling I can see is the signatures and a date below Russell's signature.

Anonymous said...

Didn't we go way over budget on snow clearing last year? It's certainly something that can happen.

*

Read the above what is happening in Vallejo-Ca, where they're about 6-9 months ahead of Bend, on the BK slope.

Bend is technically insolvent today, only the funny books where they book non-performing SDC's as reserve assets keeps the general fund positive. When the Suterra sale was completed 10/22/08, it was the first cash infusion the general fund had, had in a long time.

The city is now addicted to sell JR land for cash, but every sale, creates 2X-10X in SDC deferred debt that is non-recoverable. They still borrow the money short-term as a LOC, but the day of reckoning is coming.

When all the assets in the budget is worthless paper, you wake up one AM not being able to pay your bills. In many ways the City is like issuing its own CDO's or CMO's, ... Huge debt all financed to keep Knife-River afloat, and never recoverable, but booked as a deferred (SDC) asset.

This is why the BULL is demanding these debts be permanent rather than temporary, right now the city just keeps extending them.

The basic problem is that they ROBBED the general fund to pay Knife-River tens of millions of dollars, and now the budget only contains phony-paper debt as an asset to keep the budget in the positive.

Will they plow the snow? What is the reserve? It was $50k, its most likely zero now, as all cash was raided this year.

Anonymous said...

BP,

Sorry about being so hard on you, but if your ever to survive in this city, you must be able to take a lot of shit from idiots like us.

That said, now that you know the time-line and ignoring the fucking BEBB crap, what do you think about who pushed the deal??

Suterra was similar to Les Schwab, schwab gave city one-hr to except the deal, Suterra gave them 7 days.

The Bulletin pushed the hardest for the SDC deferral, which is now clear not done for STD's, but done to hide the JR (DEBT load), and book it as a deferred asset, rather than pure fucking debt.

The city was desperate for the Suterra sale, the check hadn't cashed and aber-pussy put the money in the general-fund to pay bills.

I don't feel sorry for Suterra, there owned by one of the richest men in the world, no need for corp-welfare. They're paying about $2M for JR, and the infrastructure will cost us $4M, all their fee's and permits have been waived a hell of a deal!!!!

What is the fucking point??

Knife-River gets candy money, millions and millions, ... Suterra gets a new campussy, and the taxypayers get to see their city BK.

Everybody wins.

Bewert said...

I'll put up some pics of Knife River's fine work for Suterra later today.

I think Suterra bent the city over and got what they wanted. While, everything except any water rights.

tim said...

>>Welp, if you can't tell, I'm pressed for time...

Why are you pressed for time anyway, Butter? In danger of coming down with the Bends? Come to town with money and leave without it?

Quimby said...

Buster, BE2BB is over-run w/ porn/spam. Anyway you can clear it out and turn on Captcha or some similar technology?

Anonymous said...

[http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=9279206]

I would not want to be that guy when he gets out of jail . . . some pet lovers might want to neuter him!

Bewert said...

Latest UGB expansion draft to be discussed Monday at 5 PM at a City/County work session.

Map here:
http://www.ci.bend.or.us/depts/community_development/docs/Alternative_4_100308.pdf

Anonymous said...

Buster, BE2BB is over-run w/ porn/spam. Anyway you can clear it out and turn on Captcha or some similar technology?

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quim,

email to bilbobend@gmail.com, and I'll send you a admin account and you can do as you wish, I agree, but if you look closely all that porn got dumped right when the account was created in jan2008, and not since, probably was bebb.

we still need homer to change the link to that site, make sure he uses

http://bendeconomy2.informe.com/forum/index.php

So the right page shows up, also if lava, bruce, marge, anybody else wants admin for bendeconomy2 just send email, remember we're doing this so we can have extended topical debates un-censored.

Anonymous said...

Quim,

or anybody else go to

http://bendeconomy2.informe.com/forum/index.php

create yourself a username or account profile, and then send me email, and then I'll make you into a admin,

Just tell me the name, and I'll add to the admin list, then you can delete anything you wish, or manage the porn filters.

Anonymous said...

quim,

Done acct info has been email to you at quimbybend@gmail.com, and admin priv, and all bebb porn pruned from bebb2 site, now lets hope that homer makes the switch, so we can have long term un-censored topical debates on chosen subjects.

http://bendeconomy2.informe.com/forum/index.php

Anonymous said...

Anyway you can clear it out and turn on Captcha or some similar technology?

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They have a tool called 'prune' that removes all shit over N days that hasn't had a reply, given that nobody has touched this site since BEBB kiddy-porn folk back in jan-08, I pruned all topics to ten days, now everything is clean, looks like all the bad crap came in back in jan08, and not since,

I'm sure if home makes the switch, out of anger BEBB will probably add the site to some porn spam king, but eventually he'll get bored and come over to us, where we'll not delete his posts.

Anonymous said...

I think Suterra bent the city over and got what they wanted. While, everything except any water rights.

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City cannot give out water-rights, that is controlled by the state water master. I can explain it to you if you wish.

So you do agree that it wasn't the city that fucked Suterra like the lsmft poster on bebb was trying to start a rumor, poor poor suterra, own be richest man in the world and got fucked by bend, i don't think so.

Anonymous said...

BP,

Did you notice that your original suterra report came out on 10/22, and on 10-23 I did the bendbubble on veganreader gal where she demanded an apology from sachs(BULL), and note he obviously never saw it (DUH),... but I posted it in my 10/23, so he went to her site, and answered her questions in PURE Suterra talking-point BULL, and then a few days later quits.

Very interesting, all above in this weeks comments if you search for sachs.

You still need to find this 7/10/08 email he has alleged to have, maybe somebody can email him and ask for it, his email address is above in this thread.

Anonymous said...

So did anybody here read this SDC deferral report issue above, I mean we were all told the SDC deferral was about building permits, and letting little guys stay busy.

It turns out from above, that the entire SDC deferral is just a way to keep all the JR costs to knife river off the books and booked as an asset, rather than a liability. Without this slight of hand demanded by the BULL, today the Bend general fund would be negative.

Anonymous said...

You can also see why the BULL demanded that the SDC deferral be make indefinite, because its quite clear that Les-Schwab and Suterra NEVER HAVE TO PAY EVER.

Book and expense as a recoverable asset to become an asset with no hope of recovery ever!!!

We would call this expense a non-performing loan to les-schwab and suterra where the recipient was knife-river. There was NO reason to do this shit, other than sending over $10MILLION dollars to knife-river, of course both les-schwab and suterra got deals they couldn't refuse.

Bewert said...

Re: So you do agree that it wasn't the city that fucked Suterra...

That was the way I read it from the beginning--the city got fucked as usual. From the LSMFT post:

Of course the City couldn't stand the thought of the deal not going together after it was in the paper, so they started offering incentives, and after they'd given away the sun, the moon, and the stars Suterra agreed to the deal.

Anonymous said...

I'll put up some pics of Knife River's fine work for Suterra later today.

I think Suterra bent the city over and got what they wanted. While, everything except any water rights.

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BP the budget data I posted above clearly states that Suterra is getting $3.6M in infrastructure from the city for free. This expense is in the budget as an SDC deferral, which they can now legally do.

So knife-rivers fine work is coming eventually out of the taxpayer hide.

Anonymous said...

Of course the City couldn't stand the thought of the deal not going together after it was in the paper, so they started offering incentives, and after they'd given away the sun, the moon, and the stars Suterra agreed to the deal.

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I disagreed with this, 7/18 suterra sent the 7 day expiration letter, the city responded in 7 days with a 'cover their ass letter'.

Sure the CITY had to have this NO FUCKING DOUBT, they expense the KNIFE-RIVER work on a line of credit and book it as a SDC-DEFERRAL asset, but took the $2.8M from Suterra and put it directly into the 'general fund', had that not happen, right now today cops and firemen wouldn't be getting paid.

The city's balance sheet and budget is fucking criminal its disgusting, this city is way beyond bankruptcy. Its living hand to mouth on cash by fraud.

The city line of credit will soon be fucked, its obvious that the city can't get a 'BOND' on any of the SDC infrastucture, its not like a bridge, a school, or post office.

Can you imagine a muni-bond "We need $10M muni-bond that will be used for a toilet-seat at les-schwab". It's obvious that the city can't get BOND-MONEY for corporate welfare. So they use the land sales to stuff the general fund, the first land-sale went 100% to kuratek, now there is over $10M in outstanding short-term LOC debt that is booked as a recoverable SDC deferred asset, trouble is NONE OF THIS MONEY will ever be seen, cuz nobody has to pay, this is why the BULL is demanding the permanent SDC deferral.

Anonymous said...

Yes, suterra gets a great deal, basically just like Les-Schwab, all they have to pay for is the building.

NOTE BP, as I do this shit the way the sales-agreement is written suterra on the behalf of knife-river gets to excavate for fill at JR for their site, the cost of excavation is rock, crushed rock, the sales agreement says that its to be provided by the city using JR material, thus suterra doesn't have to pay to have any building materials hauled in this is why the Suterra deal is costing the city $3.6M,

Our council doesn't care because the deferral will be in EFFECT for SDC long after all these pols are gone.

Bewert said...

Re: link to the new budget cuts coming next Wednesday:

http://www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/IS_Budget_Reductions_110508.pdf

A couple of excerpts (the tables don't replicate to well here):

ISSUE / COUNCIL DECISION & DISCUSSION POINTS: As discussed at the September 29, 2008 Council Worksession, the downturn in the housing market and the economy has severely impacted planning, engineering, and building revenues, which necessitates General Fund re-allocations and budget reductions. Council is asked to hold a public hearing and adopt the attached resolution to adjust the 2007-2009 Biennial Budget as proposed by staff and approved by Council at the September 29, 2008 Worksession. Budget adjustments are proposed in the following funds:
* General Fund
* Fire/EMS Fund
* Street Operations Fund
* Public Transit Fund
* Accessibility Program Fund (not the ADA Construction Fund)
* Building Fund
* Planning Fund
* Private Development Engineering Fund
* Internal Service Fund:
-- Transportation and CIP Engineering Division
--Economic Development Administration Division

BACKGROUND: During the 9/29/08 Worksession, the following actions were proposed:
* Reduction of Development Services budgets by 11% to 15% through the layoff of 12 staff positions, and one resignation in lieu of lay off. (13 total)
* Increase General Fund support from $660,000 to $990,000 to fully support Long Range Planning
* Provide total funding of $865,000 from General Fund to support Engineering
* Reduce Public Safety budgets by 1% by delaying hiring of positions and reductions in reserves
* Delay hiring 4 Public Works positions
* Delay hiring 6 overhead positions – Assistant City Manager, Assistant City Attorney, Attorney Assistant, Communications Coordinator and Accessibility program support and inspector. The budget reductions in the attached resolution reflect the actions approved by Council in September. Details of the budget adjustments by fund are as follows: General Fund – the following table details the General Fund re-allocations and expenditure reductions. Police Department reductions are due to the delay of hiring 3 positions.

[TABLE]
Notes on table:
-EMS gets cut $150K that was to be used to hire cops.
-Engineering gains $800K and Long Range Planning gains $330K (this is related to JR planning)
-Public Transit loses $50K of the $70K supplement it gained a few months ago

Building Fund –Budget reductions include layoff of 7 staff, not filling 1 vacancy, and a reduction in transfers to other funds. During the 9/29/08 worksession, staff proposed 5 layoffs in Building, however based on the revenue forecast, 2 additional employees were laid off. Proposed reductions total $1,743,900 ($748,000 reduction in expenditures and $995,900 reductions in reserves).


In the actual resolution you can see the contingency fund reductions, a total of over $2.5M.

Scary.

Bewert said...

Re: ...they expense the KNIFE-RIVER work on a line of credit and book it as a SDC-DEFERRAL asset, but took the $2.8M from Suterra and put it directly into the 'general fund', had that not happen, right now today cops and firemen wouldn't be getting paid.


Actually, they took the Suterra money, $2.3M after JRP's $150K cut, and passed it through the General Fund directly to BURA.

And to add insult to injury, the "loaned" BURA another $180K, deferred the payment of $1M+ Les Schwab SDC's (which is why Engineering needs $800K from the General Fund), turned $200K interest payments from the General Fund on the BURA Line of Credit into a five-year loan. The Line of Credit is due in 2010.

This was the BURA part of the special meeting on the Suterra sale.

The doc: http://www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/IS_BURA____Suterra_102208.pdf

BACKGROUND: The original FY 2008-09 budget included land sale proceeds of $10 million, repayment of the $6 million line of credit (LOC), and payment of the Les Schwab SDCs of $1,046,000 to the City. Based on current events, our revised projections include Juniper Ridge Suterra proceeds of about $2.3 million and additional capital and master planning expenditures of $3.5 million. The LOC and Les Schwab SDCs will not be repaid in FY 2008-09....Additional capital costs include infrastructure necessary to serve Suterra and surrounding lots and master planning costs. These costs total approximately $3.5 million. Total budget of $4.2 includes the $3.5 million of additional costs and carryforward costs from FY 07/08 of approx. $700,000...The $6 million LOC will be repaid in future years when land sale proceeds are available or from General Fund monies. The remaining debt service payments are $180,000 in interest payments on the LOC... Original budget included interfund transfers to pay SDCs for the Les Schwab property...Payment of SDC’s has been deferred, and also the original $180,000 General Fund loan will no longer be repaid this fiscal year.


Approval of the proposed budget adjustment will allow completion of master plan and infrastructure improvements necessary to serve Suterra and surrounding properties. These improvements will be funded by proceeds from the transaction with Suterra, deferring payment of the Les Schwab SDCs, and a $180,000 capital loan from the General Fund. The $6 million LOC is due in full in 2010 and the City may be able to refinance the LOC if funds are not available to repay it.


The actual resolution shows the transfer of $2.3M from the General Fund.

Bewert said...

Buster, here is the resolution the Council passed at about the same time they passed the BURA one:
http://www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/Resolution_Suppl_Budget_in_GF_for_Suterra_102208.pdf

General Fund Increase Decrease

Resources:
Juniper Ridge Suterra Proceeds 2,300,000 $

Requirements:
Expenditure Appropriations 2,300,000


The appropiation went to BURA.

Bewert said...

Smoking gun?

FINDING:
Chapter 1, Policy 4 (Development within the UGB): New developments shall pay to extend planned sewer, water, and transportation facilities to and through the property if the development occurs prior to the scheduled construction of those facilities shown in the capital improvement plan.


The record shows that sewer and water facilities to serve the site are being planned and will be extended to serve the property prior to development of the site with urban uses. The Applicant has submitted a specific development proposal separate from the zone change request. Based on the proximity of the site to existing public facilities, only minor extensions of the City of Bend sewer and water facilities will be necessary to serve that proposal. Adequate sewer and water capacity is available within the existing City of Bend system adjacent to Juniper Ridge to accommodate development that can occur on the site under the requested IL zoning. With respect to transportation facilities, the findings made above under Statewide Planning Goal 12, and below under BDC §4.7.400 are incorporated here by this reference.


Of course, it's just a policy, not a statute, so it can be overridden at will.

Anonymous said...

Welp, if you can't tell, I'm pressed for time...

So little time, so much PUG cock, ....

What's a Bend mother to do??

Anonymous said...

www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/IS_BURA____Suterra_102208.pdf


read this one BIG PUSSY

Anonymous said...

If the OREO wins will Bend go pussy?? Or stay PUG??

Will HBM ever find a kotex big enough for his Kunt?

Will Bebb finally get legal and marry his poodle?

It's Bend, we're exceptional.

Bewert said...

Re:
read this one BIG PUSSY


You have to stop being such a dumb fuck. I linked to that doc and extensively quoted from it five posts above this.

It begins, after your BS, "Actually, they took the Suterra money, $2.3M after JRP's $150K cut, and passed it through the General Fund directly to BURA."

And then I fed you all the supporting docs.

The real issue is that on Oct. 22, the city took $1.2M above and beyond the Suterra sale proceeds to build out their land.

Then on Nov. 5 the city is going to cut reserves by over $2.5M and other expenses, including not hiring cops, by several hundred thousand while increasing funding to Engineering and Long Range Planning by over $1.1M, much of which is needed for the JR buildout.

Basically, no cops, no buses, more Knife River bulldozers at JR.

Say thank you as you bend over.

You can still write me in for Position 3, instead of Linda Johnson or Kathie Eckman.

Bewert said...

JRMB report up on my JR blog.

No pics, I'll put those up with another post about the Suterra funding versus the general fund.

Anonymous said...

Today I filed my complaint on the city.

Anonymous said...

Changes afoot for some resorts
Developers point to future promise, despite the general downturn, but critics question their economic model

By Jeff McDonald / The Bulletin
Published: November 02. 2008 4:00AM PST

While slower-than-expected sales have forced a pair of destination resort developers in Deschutes County to make various adjustments, both of the resorts’ developers contend the market still holds promise for the future.

Critics of destination resorts, meanwhile, say resorts are functioning as residential subdivisions with no guarantee of long-term sustainability.

Sales have slowed dramatically at Pronghorn Resort, which had projected through increases in total memberships and sales that it would break even by 2009, according to a letter sent to resort members last month from Tom Hix, managing partner.

That’s no longer the case after the economy dramatically slowed sales and membership growth in 2007 and 2008, according to the letter.

The resort confirmed last week that instead of raising membership dues, it would lay off 40 employees, 30 of whom were seasonal workers, and reduce winter operations, effective Nov. 1. It’s also closing its downtown Bend sales office Nov. 13 to save money and moving sales staff to the resort.

In 2007 and 2008, the resort reported 15 and five home and lot sales, respectively, according to Real Estate Solutions, provided by Western Title & Escrow Co.

“Certainly the slowdown in the market will have an impact on the pace of sales in the short run; however, we were fortunate to complete the construction of nearly all of our infrastructure and amenities prior to the market slowdown,” Hix wrote in an e-mail Thursday.

“This will allow the project to weather the current market conditions without large expenditures,” Hix wrote.

During the market downturn, Pronghorn has asked for and received permission four times from the county to delay construction of a hotel. The resort, which opened in 2003 and is 10 miles northeast of Bend, has built 48 overnight units so far but is required to build 192 overnight units, according to previous reports in The Bulletin. It has cited a poor real estate economy as the reason it needs more time.

Destination resort opponents question the long-term financial viability of resorts, saying their economic model is based on lot sales.

“We know that developers will say this is a short-term thing, and we’ll get past it,” Erik Kancler, executive director for Central Oregon LandWatch, said about the economic slowdown. “But we’ve gotten to the point where there are so many lots, there’s a staggering amount of supply and questionable amount of demand both in short term and long term as well.”

Eugene-based Spring Capital Group, which is developing 188 of the 379 lots approved at Tetherow Resort as well as the 18-hole Tetherow Golf Club, which opened over the summer, has already invested close to $50 million in the project and recorded between $15 million and $16 million in sales, said Bill Bernards, a partner in Spring Capital, which also owns Salishan Spa & Golf Resort on the Oregon Coast.

“We believe all that to be viable,” Bernards said of the lots around the golf course, the golf course and the clubhouse, the latter of which will open in March. “We would not have entered the project if we felt the market was overcrowded.”

Spring Capital can rely upon future sales for a return on its investment, Bernards said.

“We believe in Central Oregon,” he said. “We believe in Bend specifically. It is a terrific spot on the planet for outdoor pursuits and quality of life. Tetherow’s proximity to Bend and Mt. Bachelor (ski area) are things that made us get involved.”

To assist with Tetherow property sales, Spring Capital has hired Modus Inc., a Bend-based sales and marketing company, according to Mike Parker, president of Modus. Parker said Tetherow is starting to see more online inquiries about real estate and is seeing a lot of pent-up demand for second homes.

Separately, Arrowood Development LLC — which transferred its ownership of the Tetherow Golf Club to Spring Capital in April but retained ownership of 123 lots in the Tetherow resort and the land on which up to 298 overnight lodging units will be built — has made its own adjustments at the resort.

The Bend real estate development firm recently received permission from county commissioners to decrease the amount of its bond for overnight lodging from $16 million to $8.7 million. Originally, Arrowood had planned to build a 150-room, four-star hotel that would open in spring 2009 at Tetherow, but it put those plans on hold indefinitely. Instead, Arrowood plans to build 198 rooms in separate lodge homes before it builds an approximately 100-room hotel, said Don Bauhofer, a partner in Arrowood.

“We’re not going to build anything we can’t sell,” Bauhofer said of marketing the proposed lodge homes. “If we can’t build something that supports the quality of the resort, we will have shot ourselves in the foot.”

All told, 55 homesites have sold since sales began in October 2007, according to data provided by Tetherow. It recorded 50 sales through June and five since then.

The destination resort market will thrive as the housing market recovers, Bauhofer said.

“Fundamentally, I believe that destination resorts can be and will be successful in the future in Central Oregon,” he said. “The economics of destination resorts are being driven by the housing market, not by golf, and not by hotel operations.”

At Caldera Springs adjacent to Sunriver, sales in 2008 could match last year’s sales and have already passed total sales in 2006, according to the data provided by Western Title.

Through Thursday, there were 22 home and lot sales recorded at Caldera Springs, compared with 29 home and lot sales in all of 2007 and 20 sales in 2006, according to the data.

The resort is planned for 320 lots and 45 cabins, which are for overnight lodging purposes, said Steve Runner, vice president of development for Sunriver Resort Limited Partnership, which is developing Caldera Springs. Sixty homesites have been built or are under construction, Runner said.

“We are about 80 percent sold out on lots,” Runner said. “We were kind of at the tail end (of the boom). Considering the state of things in the economy, that’s heartening.”

Jeff McDonald can be reached at 541-383-0323 or at jmcdonald@bendbulletin.com.

Anonymous said...

Trudi Ewert keeps little Brucey home on halloween.


Parental scare: Sex offenders on Halloween


By Jennifer Ewert, KTVZ.COM

The ghouls, goblins and ghosts may scare your children this Halloween, but something much more terrifying to parents could be waiting behind a friendly-looking door.

A Bend mother of two, Katrina Ewert, said, "It's one big reason why I will not let my children go, not just on Halloween probably any time with out me."

Some cities require sex offenders to leave their lights off or not be home on Halloween.

In Bend, there is no city ordinance forcing registered sex offenders to turn off their lights.

"It definitely makes me nervous," said another Ewert mother of two, Tristann Harrison.

Ewert agreed: "That is definitely a concern."

Even though parents may not know the house with the orange light on and candy waiting could be the home of a sex offender, there is a way to check neighborhoods in advance. The Oregon State Police list sex offender residences at their Website .

Bend Police Community Liaison Officer Steve Ewert said, "If you are concerned, check those Websites out and you can see what neighborhoods you want to avoid."

Most parents say they stay in neighborhoods they are familiar with.

"I think the stick is to stick your kids," Harrison said.

If you do let your kids go out alone, the Bend Police Department says make sure they are in a group, know there route, and when they will be home.

There are things you can do to prepare for them going out alone.

Officer Ewert said, "Nothing can beat a good set of fingerprints and a recent picture of your child. So we do offer the fingerprinting service."

Anonymous said...

Went and ate at one of the local Italian establishments in the Old Mill tonight. We were one of two parties eating there. Very quiet. I've been reading about places failing, slow business, but this is the first time I've seen it first hand and it was really quite sobering to see.

Anonymous said...

>Went and ate at one of the local Italian establishments in the Old Mill tonight.

I ate at Anthonys last night - my first time. We finished our meal around 8:30 and there were only around four other tables of diners. That place is waaaay to huge to be supported by as few people as were in there last night. Since it was my first time I don't know if was an anomaly or not.

Last week we were out at Zydeco, which wss still busy. Tomorrow night I'll be down at Deschutes as usual, with a 45 minute wait for a table as ususal.

Anonymous said...

Yes, Deschutes will rock tonight as it does every monday night.

Happy hour list folks ...

mon-descutes brew
tue-bend brew
wed-cascade locks
thur-silver moon

All else is fucked.

Everything in the old-mill will implode, even the REI is hurting so fucking bad they have cut to one person per floor, other than one at counter, ... Depending who you talk to their it is seasonally expected, or they have laid off so many people there is nobody left to layoff.

We always knew 'EVERYTHING' in the old-mill would implode, we always knew that the old-mill would become a ghost town. All the towers surrounding the old-mill were once realtors and mtg-brokers, appraisers, now its all law-firms.

Bend's only fucking profession is now legal, aka bankruptcy, and good old fashion collections for non-payment of service.

We should rename the 'Old Mill' to "Lawyers Lair".

There will come a time when there s no money, and nobody to fuck, and even the law-firm's will have to move on, that is the 'canary in the coal mine' to watch at this point, watch the law-firms.

Anonymous said...

Many of us come from different fields here, but its clear their are no CPA's, and BP don't fucking tell me your a CPA, your not.

Homer is an mba, tt a reporter, rdc(bebb) realtor, quim&lava who fucking knows, marge realtor, ... but no fucking CPA's, ... will somebody here find a fucking CPA and explain me something?? Dunc is just another fucking biz man like me, ... Does can anyone get a CPA to answer??

Ok, here is the question, and I want a REAL FUCKING ACCOUNTANT TO ANSWER.

Why is does the City on the behalf of the BULLetin borrow short-term money to pay for SDC's for rich comapanys for their infrastructure, and then book expense as a long term deferred SDC albeit non-collectable, on budget doing this hokey pokey accounting shows a balanced budget.

Now the QUESTION: "The city takes the money for the sale of JR land, and puts the money into the General Fund as cash", fine. But the city seems to be able to borrow all it wants for 'infrastructure', on its letter-of-credit.

Why doesn't the city just borrow money on its Letter-of-Credit and dump the money into the 'general fund', is it NOT ALLOWED to do this?? I mean the racket I see as a business man of 40+ years that always has done cash-basis accounting. It makes no sense to me as what the city is doing.

They're OBVIOUSLY not allowed by city charter to simply borrow money on its line of credit, and then dump the cash in the 'general fund'.

Instead they use BURA as a front for JR, where JR sell's land for cash, and the cash is placed in the general fund. Then the city spends 2X->10X of the amount of the sale on infrastructure for same, for instance, Les Schwab paid $3M for JR, and it went to the general fund, they paid off KURATEK $2.5M that was an infrastucture service expense paid with line-of-credit(LOC) debt, and booked a deferred SDC, which is shown as an asset. On the same deal knife-river got over $10M in developing JR for Les-Schwab and that also is booked as a deferred SDC.

What the city is doing is for every $2M of cash they put in the general fund, they create $10M in short term debt, albeit they book the debt as an asset, however the 'deferred SDC' is never going to be paid, which is why the BULLETING is demanding these deferred SDC's be deferred indefinetly, aka 'written off'.

Then in the recent weeks the Suterra deal, city got $2.5M ( or close ) from suterra, and booked as cash to 'general fund', to pay cops , fire, and city-staff salary. Then on the same deal they're going to spend $4M for Suterra's infrastructure, which is finance by short-term LOC debt, but booked as a 'deferred SDC'.

This is going to go on FOR ever, the city can continue to sell JR land, as any business will buy into the deal, the city will load JR up with beautiful shit, but the DEBT, even though hidden by balanced accounting is still fucking there.

Somebody who is a CPA explain this to me why this is legal???

Somebody explain other than the fucking pussy, why the city just doesn't borrow on its LOC and dump the cash in 'general fund'.

Sure Knife-River gets Millions, the BULL gets millions for worthless land given by HOLLERN, hap-taylor got millions for worthless land near boyd-acres, ... so yea the city is handing out millions here and there of cash to its OWNERS.

All the while chump-change is deposited into the general-fund.

How is this legal??

Anonymous said...

The city anticipates that the other $24M will come from land sales at JR and from bonds supported by the JR redevelopment district. However so far land sales have resulted in multi-million dollar losses due to the cost of infrastructure improvements agreed to by the city.

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Yes, BP every deal the city does it loses more money, my figure on Les-Schwab is that it was an 8 to 1 loss, the Suterra was a 4 to 1 loss, so perhaps the next deal might be a better loss? Maybe even someday the city will make a paper profit.

For consider this, the ONLY benefactor to date of the JR spending spree has been Knife-River(hap-taylor).

What I'm saying above is that for every dollar that city got to deposit into their general fund on the Suterra deal it cost them $4 for dollars.

things going on here.

1.) Money is being pushed to Knife-River as a make work project. I can explain this, hap-taylor, taylor-NW, is sitting on MILLION's a month of heavy-equip costs, if they don't have recurring revenue from the city they'll have to auction their equipment all this shit is to keep one company in biz.

2.) Hap-Taylor, taylor-nw is the no-big exclusive excavator of HOLLERN, aka brooks resources, its rather certain with the cozy relationship that Brooks MUST have financial interest in Taylor(knife-river).

3.) The BULLetin paper has sold worthless land it got from HOLLERN to the city for $5M, which keeps the BULL afloat this year.

4.) The city bought worthless land from Taylor in boyd-acres for $4M, to keep them afloat.

The city is being made bankrupt, in order to keep the BULL, HOLLERN(BROOKS), TAYLOR(knife-river) afloat, that is whats going on, nothing more.

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Lastly, BP this year the city anticipated on paper on their BURA budget a receipt of $10M on JR sales, which in fact they got $2.4M from suterra, so their estimate was off by 75%, next year they're estimating $24M in sales. They used the estimate as a FUTURE ASSET to balance the budget, but look at it this way, the JR DEBT is increasing 240% per year!!!!! That is what the hell is going on, every year the debt increases on JR, they project that amount of anticipated sales to balance the budget.

This FUCKING KIND OF ACCOUNTING SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.

Anonymous said...

This is funny on this blog, a month ago it was 24/7 of palin/mc$ain, and we were getting almost 1,000 comments a month, and people bitch that we were not talking about Bend.

Now in the past two weeks, we have been only talking about Bend, and nobody is commenting.

People in this town, don't even want to think about this town.

Anonymous said...

It's that time Bend Newbie Cunts snow is coming tonight, a public service announcement.

***

Traction tire options
Oregon state law allows motorists to use studded tires between Nov. 1 and April 1. Because of the damage caused by studded tires to roads, ODOT encourages drivers to consider using chains or non-studded traction tires.

Traction tires without studs meet Rubber Manufacturers Association standards for use in severe snow conditions and carry a special symbol on the tire sidewall showing a three-peaked mountain and snowflake. Research shows these tires provide better traction than studded tires when used on bare pavement.

Studded tire facts

* Studded tires can be used in Oregon between Nov. 1 and April 1. They are defined under Oregon law as a type of traction tire. Driving with studded tires on your vehicle prior to Nov. 1 or after April 1 is a Class C violation and carries a $145 fine.
* Research shows that studded tires are more effective than all-weather tires on icy roads, but can be less effective in most other conditions.
* Oregon spends about $11 million a year fixing road and bridges damaged by studded tires.
* When it rains, water collects in the pavement ruts caused by studded tires and creates dangerous driving conditions. In cold weather, that water can freeze and cause extra-slippery roads.

Anonymous said...

Never been a better time to be in a homeless camp.

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Five homeless found killed in Los Angeles
03.11.08 06:10

Los Angeles police are investigating the killings of five people in a homeless camp beneath a Long Beach freeway, CNN reported.

The victims — three males and two females — were found shot to death Sunday, Long Beach Deputy Police Chief Robert Luna told reporters.

Very little is known about the victims, who are still being identified, Luna said.

Some of the victims were shot multiple times, and all are believed to have been killed within the past two days, according to the coroner’s office.

Anonymous said...

Because politics is the industry of SELLING OUT EVERYONE ELSE. Get as close to The Honey Pot as you can, and then FUCK EVERYONE.

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Homer, do you have any proof in Bend to back up this accusation, or is this just butter coming out of your ass??

Anonymous said...

I've used studded, studless, and chains on the pass and in town.

I've heard a few people say the studless are as good as the studded.

I'm telling you that's crazy talk. Be prepared to slide on the ice with the studless when you would not slide with the studded.

Anonymous said...

>>I ate at Anthonys last night - my first time.

I hate Anthonys. No matter what you eat, all you can smell is fish.

Bewert said...

Suterra pad pics up at the JR blog.

Bewert said...

Re: 4.) The city bought worthless land from Taylor in boyd-acres for $4M, to keep them afloat.

Anybody ever been out there to see if the city has done anything with it?

Anonymous said...

"I've heard a few people say the studless are as good as the studded."

My car has AWD and ABS. I got a set of studless "sticky" tires last winter and they worked just fine in snow, ice and slush. But you have to know the basics of how to drive in those conditions.

The trouble with studs is a lot of people put them on and then think they can drive the same in snow and ice as they do on dry pavement -- especially if they have AWD.

Bewert said...

Re: The trouble with studs is a lot of people put them on and then think they can drive the same in snow and ice as they do on dry pavement -- especially if they have AWD.

Yeah, you see them scattered around in the snow banks on the way down from Mt. B.

Biggest and simplest thing is to simply slow down.

We used to go out on frozen lakes and race when we were kids. Learned a lot that way about traction and speed, in a relatively safe environment.

Bewert said...

Buster, didn't you have a link to Suterra's entry permit somewhere? I can't find it and want to upload and link it to the picture post I put up today.

Anonymous said...

'suterra's entry permit', you can get the 'text' from the suterra sales agreement.

The 'entry permit' is on the 'back-dated' sales-agreement, its in their BP. The way the sales contract is written is that payment is executed 10/22/08, on that day $2.4M went to the 'general fund', in that same contract, it says that Suterra has legal access to property as of 10/4/2008.

So here's the deal we now know, and I want EVERYONE to know this SHIT has NOTHING to do with the election, its just that all these public doc's became available in the last few weeks to us, so we could put 2 & 2 together. Just happenstance that we're discussing the city of bend, who would have guessed.

OK, so here's what really happened BP, and I wish you would post it over on bebb as he deletes what I post.

This summer Hap-Taylor ( Taylor-NW ) hit bottom, they had a hard-time paying their heavy-equipment costs, which means all their machines get REPO'd, 100% of ALL Brooks development in tri-county I done by (KNIFE-RIVER aka taylor) I'm sure given the NO-BID deal of city&brook with KR that Brooks has a financial interest in Taylor.

The excavation started 10/4/2008, because the Tetherow stopped then because the money stopped, Taylor had no work, the work at NWXC has slowed, in order to get work for Taylor the city allowed Taylor to start the Suterra development infrastructure on 10/4/2008, even though the date-of-sale is 10/22/2008. What difference did it make? The deal was always about 'make work' for Knife-River, nothing about JR.

If KR(hap-taylor) bend folds that means there is NO excavation, which means development folds, this is what happends when a no-bid preference monopoly by brooks is allowed to run out 1998->2008, now KR is the last man standing on one broken leg.

The answer to your question BP, is that the 'suterra access' is implicit back-dated to 10/4/2008 in the Suterra Sales agreement of 10/22/2008.

There really was no suterra access to speak of, all work being done is paid for by the city of Bend to KR, so its all a big joke. Just on paper its a deferred SDC, but everybody knows that nobody ever has to pay ( well except taxpayers ).

Anonymous said...

You folks have to understand what is going on in BEND.

The way HOLLERN has this city setup is that Knife-River(TaylorNW) is the ONLY excavator in the tri-county.

They have no work, which means they can't pay their big yellow lease payments, fuck the employees that is what un-employment insurance paid by state is, but BIG YELLOW EQUIP that costs $1M per machine, do the math, that $10k/mon per machine. KR has 100's of machines.

When Tetherow went down, cuz of lack of funding last month, all projects in the area ceased, there is a little work going on at NWXC, but that's it, folks that work for KR are telling me that they have never seen things this slow in their working lives.

BP there are TWO rhetorical questions that you must focus on.

1.) Why did the BULL&HOLLERN bush 'deferred SDCs' when in fact their only purpose is to treat JR expenses as on asset??

2.) Why is the City spending on average $10M in debt to get $2M in cash?? Thats a 500% interest charge.

Bewert said...

Roubini Says US Needs $400 Billion Stimulus Package

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government should enact an economic stimulus package of between $400 billion and $500 billion before the end of the Bush administration in January, New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said.

Roubini, who predicted the current financial crisis in 2006, said the economy risks falling into “a self-fulfilling animal spirit recession that is more severe than otherwise” because of the collapse of credit markets and weak consumer and corporate spending.

“The only way to increase aggregate demand is going to be through” government spending on roads, bridges and other infrastructure, Roubini said at a Bloomberg conference in New York. “We need a huge plan, $300 billion is not going to be enough. I think we’re going to need a plan of $400 billion to $500 billion.”

U.S. Treasury officials and other policy makers are grappling with financial turmoil that has pushed down the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by 42 percent this year, its worst annual retreat since 1931.

“If we don’t do that fiscal stimulus today, three months from now, six months from now the collapse of the real economy is going to be so severe that anything we’re doing today to recapitalize the financial system is going to be undone,” Roubini said.

Tax Rebates

President George W. Bush in February signed into law a $168 billion measure that sent tax rebates of as much as $600 to individuals and $1,200 to couples. Checks went to 111 million households beginning in May.

Government efforts to revive lending have made central banks around the world the “lender of first resort” while credit and other markets remain “extremely dysfunctional,” Roubini said.

“Financial markets are becoming totally unhinged,” he said. “Fundamentals don’t matter, valuation doesn’t matter the only thing that matters right now is flows, and the flows out there are sellers, and no buyers.”

Investors withdrew a record $43 billion from hedge funds last month, according to TrimTabs Investment Research in Sausalito, California. The Goldman Sachs VIP Basket of stocks with the most hedge fund ownership has lost 47 percent this year, more than eight of 10 industries in the S&P 500.

“We’re entering literally a vicious circle where economies are spinning down, financial markets are spinning lower, and the policy makers in my view -- and that’s my biggest fear -- have lost control of what’s going on in financial markets,” Roubini said.


Between Roubini and Kunstler it's pretty ugly reading.

Anonymous said...

The way HOLLERN has this (BULL) town setup is that when KR(TaylorNW) gets is machines REPO'd all excavation will cease. Think about the ramifications.

For ten years ALL profit 100% was made on taking worthless desert land outcropping's, flattening them to datum, and flipping the dirt for $millions/acre. Without the heavy equipment, Bend becomes a wasteland.

That is, Bend returns to its former self.

Anonymous said...

Re: 4.) The city bought worthless land from Taylor in boyd-acres for $4M, to keep them afloat.

Anybody ever been out there to see if the city has done anything with it?
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Wasn't it supposed to be the bus-barn, to store the millions of dollars of LA buses out of sight that don't run???

Anonymous said...

bruce said...

aber-pussy Says Bend Needs $40 MILLION Brooks/Taylor/Bulletin Stimulus Package


Stick to bend pussy.

Anonymous said...

bruce said...

aber-pussy Says Bend Needs $40 MILLION Brooks/Taylor/Bulletin Stimulus Package


Stick to bend pussy.

Bewert said...

Buster, I found it attached to the end of the PSA. It's dated and signed Oct. 3. If you look at the planning departments list of docs you can see that the city and Suterra started meeting in July 31.

I don't believe you on the issue of the city paying for Suterra's pad. The Entry Permit refers to "the Permitee's [Suterra] Contractor [Knife River]" and includes this clause:

Permittee agrees to pay, when due, all sums for labor, services, materials, supplies, utilities, furnishings, machinery, or equipment provided to the Permit Premises. Permittee shall not suffer or permit any liens to attach to all or any part of the Permit Premises or any interest of Permittee in the Permit Premises by reason of any work, labor, services, or materials done for, or supplied to, or claimed to have been done for or supplied to, Permittee, Permittee's Contractor or anyone occupying or holding an interest of Permittee in all or any part of the Permit Premises through or under Permittee.

We are on the hook for the $3.5M it will cost to plan and build infrastructure to the site, but not the site preparation itself. The city hopes to make that up when it sells more land, after making nice with ODOT and the OTC.

They are meeting with the OTC on Nov. 6, and then their is another JRMB meeting on Nov. 10th to debrief the OTC meeting and to bring in several city commercial real estate bigwigs and brainstorm a rough layout of acreage parcels and roads.

Then in January the city hopes like hell that they will have their shit together enough to convince OTC to allow further sales next spring. If not then, at the next quarterly meeting, which is my guess as to the timing of any OTC approval.

Also, the actual payment by Suterra will be made after a due diligence period of up to 30 days. Suterra has only put down a $35,000 deposit so far. When the records hit the county recorder, we'll know the full amount has been paid.

Anonymous said...

"Now in the past two weeks, we have been only talking about Bend, and nobody is commenting.

People in this town, don't even want to think about this town."


Let's face it: all the straw men have been shot dead.

As Homer has said, the initial purpose of this blog has been achieved.

Is there anyone who still believes we didn't have a bubble?


Now the focus has turned to documenting the inevitable decline and hardships, watching the mighty fall, and pointing out wrong-doing where it exists.

Most of us are unclear exactly what Suterra does and is.

We don't need 50 more posts telling us what has gone on in Cali.

Very little FACTUAL has been established. We don't know ANYTHING about the pheromones.

The only clear thing is that there may have been some disception regarding JR.

But even there, it's not clear if there was any problem, or IF it's worth worrying about.

For all these reasons, the comments have declined.

Quimby said...

400th post (life's little pleasures)

Time to click the Newer button.

And get back to work bitches!

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