{"id":3780,"date":"2011-07-11T09:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:44:58","slug":"i-wish-the-school-district-could-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3780","title":{"rendered":"I wish the School District could get&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a $2.3 million settlement from JCI! Only we should be able to collect<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3735\"> $15 million<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>First it was guaranteed that JCI wouldn&#8217;t get a dime over $4.5 million . Then it was guaranteed that we were about to get a $32 million savings on the Red Plan spending. The guarantee that the Red Plan would only cost $297 million turned out to be little more than JCI&#8217;s sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/203978\/\">Trib<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery said he places more stock in the task force&#8217;s action plan than he would in the projections of an entity that stood to financially benefit from a project.<\/p>\n<p>Memories of Duluth&#8217;s experience with Johnson Controls remain fresh. The city invested about $3.8 million in improvements at the Duluth Steam Cooperative based on the recommendations of Johnson Controls, but many of the projected savings failed to materialize. A legal battle with the company ensued, and the city received a $2.3 million settlement resolving the case in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a $2.3 million settlement from JCI! Only we should be able to collect $15 million. First it was guaranteed that JCI wouldn&#8217;t get a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,17,102,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780"}],"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=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20401,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}