September 13 2007
Harvey Whittemore Attends LC Power District Meeting

By Dave Maxwell

Photo by Dave Maxwell

Harvey Whittemore, owner and CEO of Coyote Springs Investments, and Klif Andrews, of Pardee Homes of Nevada, were in attendance at the regular meeting of the Lincoln County Power District Board of Directors Monday to address some issues of concern to both parties.

Whittemore and Andrews came to the meeting because they personally wanted to make comment about six items that attorneys for the groups involved had come to an impasse.

As members of the board and the developers discussed each item, Whittemore on a number of occasions expressed the total commitment of Coyote Springs and Pardee Homes to work with Lincoln County Power to work through issues of concern on a fundamental operational agreement.

About the most significant item of concern is about the capacity load availability from the power facilities with Coyote Springs Investments paid for being made solely available to the Coyote Springs users. Mrs. Cargill posed a possible an example, “With Coyote Springs paying for the upgrade of a transmission line (from the Glendale power plant) from 69 kilovolts to 138 kilovolts, to handle the needs, if some one else comes along and hooks into those power lines, Coyote feels there should be some type of line extension fee or something that is a “buy in” that gets credited back toward the revenue source,” so that CSI will be able to recoup the cost of putting in the line when someone else with a big load later taps into it.

The issue was not resolved at the meeting, but the two sides did agree that the matter as well as the other five “deal points” can be worked out by the attorneys and staff for the groups who are Ed Lubbers of Lubbers Law Group in Las Vegas for the Power board and Emilia Cargill for Wingfield Nevada Group.