West Richland Complex Information & Comments Form

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In 2021, Benton REA purchased 17 acres of land for future development. The land is located in West Richland on Cooperative Way, just off Keene Road.

 

Aging facilities require improvements in both West Richland and Prosser. 

  • Increase costs to address maintenance and repair issues 
  • Current HVAC failing - increased frequency of service calls and cost 
  • Electrical issues causing internal loss of power, overloading circuits 
  • Run down facilities due to age and increased traffic 

 

All members benefit from future property improvements. 

  • West Richland complex results in several properties in Prosser and West Richland that are surplus and can be sold 
  • District office and crew will remain in the Prosser area to serve members closer to it
  • Will consolidate district office facilities and eliminate crews stopping at 2-4 locations to get material before they leave for the outage or job site  
  • Operational efficiencies result in more work time, faster response time = better service
  • Improves service to everyone, not just those closer to West Richland 

 

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All comments will be posted on this site for members to view. Please refrain from using profane language. All comments will be reviewed for such language prior to posting.

Community Comments

Nadine Highland

After reading the comments, especially from previous highly respected, knowledgeable and proven Management, and viewing it from the perspective of my career in Financial Management (DOE-RL CFO for the Hanford Site), I cannot support the plan to move ahead with a new facility. Yes, it would be more attractive and I do not doubt some specified cost savings would be realized, but not only is your timing incredibly poor given utility rate increases, your statement lacks substance. Some factual information, hopefully utilized by the current Board and Management in this decision, would help in assessing this plan. What is the estimate of current cost impacts that would be relieved with this change including estimates of numbers of and cost of inefficiencies of the existing arrangement that would be alleviated? What is the planned increase in debt servicing per annum over time? What are the estimates of receipts from sale of facilities that could be realized? Your public statement supporting this decision does not provide a convincing argument. If you can support this with real information, then please do so.