{"id":4960,"date":"2013-07-12T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2013-07-12T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:49:02","slug":"capx-transmission-economic-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"CapX transmission economic benefits???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birdie-eveninggrosbeak-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"birdie-eveninggrosbeak\" title=\"birdie-eveninggrosbeak\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birdie-eveninggrosbeak-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birdie-eveninggrosbeak.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another little birdie reminded me of the CapX push about all the great gobs of dough that this project brings to communities.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, fine, we know what we are, and let&#8217;s discuss the price.<\/p>\n<p>From the CapX 2020 website, here&#8217;s a blurb that I&#8217;d missed somehow, propaganda extraordinaire:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7WBow-ff9U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From Wisconsin, in a March article on board candidates for New Holland Township, this report:<\/p>\n<p>When asked what were there 3 most important subjects, Naegle gave the following answer.\u00c2\u00a0 His answer illustrates the degree of impact the above board bribe can have, perhaps did have, in weakening local government resistance to the line.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>NAEGLE:<\/strong> <em>CapX2020. The project will be starting soon. We need to be aware of what is being done and to protect the town of Holland. The town of Holland will be receiving $615,540 as a one-time payment in mid-2013, which is to be used for parks and environmental projects. The town will also receive $72,800 annually beginning in 2014 with no specific designation. It is important to spend this money wisely. I think some of this money should go to paying down town debt. Paying on loans for the new fire truck and Holland Sand Prairie would be my priority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Roads and sign repairs. The town is behind on road repair work for many of our town roads. Town speed, stop and street signs are also in need of repair or replacement. This is state mandated. There is a timeline to get this work done. This could be one place we could use the CapX2020 annual payment of $72,800 in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Parks Committee would like to improve our parks by putting in more equipment, shelters and signage. I would propose using the one time CAPX2020 money in the mount of $615,540 to help improve parks. To keep taxes down, a portion of this money should also be used to pay off the Holland Sand Prairie.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And in the paper in Minnesota (and while reading this, don&#8217;t forget the Xcel smashing success in slashing utility personal property tax in half or more since the 1994 Prairie Island agreement, grrrrrrrrrrrrr). from the St. Cloud Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\"><strong>CapX 2020 line bumps up area property tax revenues<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\">The new CapX 2020 transmission line cutting across Stearns County also is generating property tax dollars to local governments.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\">Northern  States Power, an Xcel Energy company, is the top property taxpayer in  the county, replacing Crossroads owner St. Cloud Mall LLC, which had  long held the top spot. Xcel is one of the utilities building the CapX  line from Monticello to Fargo, N.D.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\">NSP  will pay $3.3 million in property taxes this year on Stearns County  property with a total estimated market value of $93.7 million, according  to a report from the county assessor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up from $2.7  million in taxes paid last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\">The  transmission line already is operating between Monticello and St.  Cloud. Construction is underway on the stretch between Fargo and St.  Cloud.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\">The route  follows Interstate Highway 94 from Fargo to Sauk Centre, then veers  south near Freeport before connecting to a new substation in St. Cloud.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\">The  Minnesota Department of Revenue calculates the property value of  utilities such as power plants and transmission lines based on their  cost and the amount of income they generate. The amount of property  taxes paid by Xcel next year will increase more as the remainder of the  line is completed, County Assessor Gary Grossinger said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS01\/306190037\/CapX-2020-line-pushes-up-area-property-tax-revenues\">The  other taxpayers in the top 10 are CentraCare Health, Minnesota Pipeline  Co., Wal-Mart, Coborn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, St. Cloud Medical Group, IRET Properties, Cold  Spring Granite Co. and Great River Energy.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another little birdie reminded me of the CapX push about all the great gobs of dough that this project brings to communities.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, fine, we know what we are, and let&#8217;s discuss the price. From the CapX 2020 website, here&#8217;s <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=4960\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,11],"tags":[14,848,847,849,31,28,850,75],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fargo-st-cloud","category-news-coverage","tag-capx-2020","tag-costs-of-transmission","tag-economic-benefits","tag-local-government","tag-no-capx-2020","tag-transmission-line","tag-utility-personal-property-taxes","tag-xcel-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}