Melody Sablan said it best: “I’m sure people are driving by the site and thinking, ‘What the heck are they doing over there? What’s taking so long?’ ”
Sablan, State Fair Community College’s state and federal contracts administrator, was quoted by the Democrat’s Emily Jarrett in her Sept. 22 report about delays in constructing the Missouri Center for Waste to Energy at the Waste Corporation of Missouri Central Landfill site. As Sablan told Jarrett, rising costs and unacceptable bids have left the $3.4 million project on the shelf.
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