{"id":3506,"date":"2011-01-29T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2017-03-01T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:41:47","slug":"timberjay-calls-for-legislative-fix-for-jcis-villainy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Timberjay calls for legislative fix for JCI&#8217;s villainy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trib could learn a thing or two from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timberjay.com\/detail.html?sub_id=7905\">the Timberjay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trib could learn a thing or two from the Timberjay. We&#8217;ve seen too many examples already where school boards and taxpayers have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20478,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/20478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}