Letter shows where Harrisburg Incinerator's owner could come up with $8 million debt payment

From the Patriot News:

When Dauphin County Commissioner Jeff Haste said during his annual State of the County address that the Harrisburg Authority had an additional $8 million available in its budget, then-authority Chairman James Ellison publicly scoffed, challenging the commissioner to show him where.

But a few weeks earlier, county officials already had.

In a letter dated Feb. 12, county legal firm Mette, Evans and Woodside outlined $8 million in savings in the authority’s 2010 budget and contended the group’s missed payments on incinerator debt over the previous year were “directly related to overstated and excessive [operating and other] expenses.”

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