The Trib could learn a thing or two from the Timberjay.
We’ve seen too many examples already where school boards and taxpayers have been taken for a ride. In Duluth, the controversial Red Plan, developed by JCI, has divided that city and will ultimately cost taxpayers more than $300 million. In the St. Louis County School District, Johnson Controls exaggerated savings stemming from their proposed school district restructuring plan, in order to sell a $78.8 million bond measure from which JCI stands to reap nearly $12 million. And in the community of Paynesville, in central Minnesota, what began as a $100,000 steam boiler replacement morphed into a $16 million capital project, one that has now embroiled that school district in a growing controversy of its own, thanks again to JCI.
