The director of the Utah Lake Commission said it would provide millions of dollars to help Lake Restorations Solutions secure a federal loan to dredge Utah Lake and turn it into a city of half a million people.
In two secret letters, Eric Ellis said he would provide tens of millions of dollars in support of a project that would have built artificial islands.
But the funds were not under the commission’s control. And the state agency that managed them had no idea they’d been pledged. Neither did members of the commission’s board. “I was pretty surprised by the contents of these letters,” said Jamie Barnes, director of FFSL. “My understanding was the Utah Lake Commission never had its own funding. I don’t know how he would give his commitment for other agencies.”
Had LRS’s WIFIA loan been approved, state agencies or cities could have been in a bind with Ellis’s financial commitments, especially if they had used that money to leverage other federal funds. “This letter,” Barnes said, “it really concerns me that he put it on Utah Lake Commission letterhead and sent it out.”a more powerful institution with a bigger budget
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