Biomass Investigative Review Will Begin Soon in Gainesville, FL

- Octo­ber 16, 2014, WCJB

It’s offi­cial — an inves­tiga­tive review into deci­sions made between GRU and GREC offi­cials will soon begin.

City offi­cials vot­ed to approve the con­tract to begin the review that will ques­tion deci­sions made relat­ing to the bio­mass plant.

The city will be shelling out close to $190,000 for the review. Addi­tion­al costs will need to be approved by city offi­cials. Nav­i­gant is expect­ed to con­duct inter­views and go through mem­os, emails and oth­er doc­u­ments between GRU and GREC offi­cials between Octo­ber 2007 and Novem­ber 2013. At the end of the months-long process, the firm will be expect­ed to make rec­om­men­da­tions to improve sim­i­lar process­es in the future.

“We’ve had some deci­sions that quite frankly were ques­tion­able in the past, that while i don’t think nec­es­sar­i­ly there’s any­thing that we can do about them, we’ve asked some­body to come look at it,” City Com­mis­sion­er Todd Chase explained.

City offi­cials expect the entire review to be com­plet­ed in Feb­ru­ary of next year.