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Finch: I know I ve handled this differently than my predecessors
City administrator discusses what led her to propose dissolving CHEDA, and what she envisions in regard to a re-established HRA and City Community Development Department, if she gets council approval
Mike Christopherson
The interview in her office completed Thursday afternoon, City of Crookston Administrator Amy Finch asked if she could add a comment on the “continuing story” she said she’s heard since she came to Crookston last October, the continuing story being told and re-told having to do with various issues arising in recent years between the City of Crookston – whether it’s the city council, previous mayors or previous administrators – and CHEDA, whether that’s CHEDA Executive Director Craig Hoiseth or the CHEDA Board of Directors.
New council, City voices, new questions, concerns about Epitome Energy
Mike Christopherson
Epitome Energy founder and CEO Dennis Egan was peppered with questions and concerns involving his proposed soybean crush venture on Crookston’s southern edge at this week’s Crookston City Council Ways & Means Committee, and two of the newest voices in the city hall council chambers – Ward 1 Council Member Kristie Jerde, elected in November 2020, and City Administrator Amy Finch, who started in October 2020 – were the most vocal.
As he did earlier this spring at a CHEDA Board meeting, Egan, who’s been working for around four years on his Crookston development, offered an upbeat update – i.e. emerging from a historically bad 2019 harvest followed by the COVID-19 pandemic – on Epitome’s pending submission of an air permit application and Environmental Assessment Worksheet to the state, its equity drive, and changes in the scope and focus of what the $300 million, 42-milli