Michael Bartoszek: Thank you for the update, I understand about timelines, I learned my lesson from last year.
Thank you again.
Discreet_Suffolk said...
Hi mike,
Glad to see you are keeping touch with your blog.
Can you provide us with any update to the Permit process?
also, have you heard that the city of Berlin was thinking about hired Jonathon Peress as a lawyer to represent the city.
Thanks in advance
Discreet_suffolk
May 21, 2009 10:50 AM
Michael Bartoszek said...
I have tried to avoid giving timelines on the permit because invariably with something of that magnitude things will probably slip a bit.
I can tell you that we have a significant number of people working on it on a daily basis - engineers, environmental consultants, attorneys and our own personnel. We have a weekly meeting to review the timeline and discuss open issues.
Based on our current timeline, we should file by mid-August, but as I said, this is not cast in stone.
Regarding your other comment, I think it is a good idea that the city hired Mr. Peress. We have encouraged the city to intervene in the process and it is good that they hired someone who knows what he is doing. He used to work at the McLane law firm that is representing us and I am told he is a good man for the job.
