Comments on: ACRC Announces January Closure – November 1, 2011

By: Alisha Mills

Alisha Mills — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:11:21 +0000

Change the employees salaries! If you read Times Standard the employees hours have already been cut. As for what they make how can you get any lower than minimum wage. Humboldt are idiots if they don’t think Willits underbid to destroy the local infrustucture to later rake you over the coals. Do you homework people. It has happened all the cross the country

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:24:07 +0000

The questions that seem obvious, at least to me:

1) will ACRC go through bankruptcy;

2) if yes, can the Samoa plant be operated profitably by a different entity, which is not burdened by ACRC’s debts;

3) can the local politicos save some or all of the 35 jobs at risk, and keep a local facility operating without the waste stream from HWMA.

I get the sense that there is a general assumption that if the plant cannot be operated profitably by ACRC, it cannot be operated profitably. That may be true, but it would be interesting to find out, rather than rely on that assumption.

Variables that could be considered are the elimination of debt service, changes to employee salaries, changes to employee positions, reduction of hours and programs, changes to the rates charged local businesses for processed output. Changes to these variables might not please all, but might keep local jobs.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:58:22 +0000

What does the ACRC Board say in their defense? What a horrible business decision to build a giant processing facility with the accepted loan terms, who was responsible for that? Follow the money, not to Willits, but to the decsion makers.

By: David Holmquist

David Holmquist — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:26:54 +0000

What does HWMA say in their defense? Nothing?