Legislators object to 'sweetheart deal' for PMI

RIDGWAY - Local legislators are speaking out about a "sweetheart deal" the North Central Regional Planning and Development Commission is proposing to offer PMI to lease its ITEC training center.A meeting was held at state Sen. and Lt. Gov. Joe Scarnati's office in December with North Central board Chairman and Jefferson County Commissioner Paul Corbin and Executive Director Eric Bridges. All the state House members in the six-county area - Clearfield, Elk, Jefferson, Cameron, McKean and Potter - were invited, and Reps. Martin Causer, Sam Smith and Matt Gabler attended."The issue at hand was that North Central has been moving forward with a plan to broker with PMI to go into a lease agreement with them in their ITEC building for a technical training school," Scarnati said Thursday. "After about a year and a half of my requesting the financials" and other information, "sometime back in July, I finally received what they deemed the financial plan. I just finally had a meeting with the executive director and several things troubled me in the whole process.".............MORE
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