We had a big rush with a lot of our developers pushing to get projects in.

I believe to deliver the projects we need to move forward,

If I'm a telco, I'd want to kill wireless or WiMAX projects but I should be encouraging fiber optic networks.

Right now, Southeast Iowa Regional Economic Development Group is working well together and has lots of projects under way and in the planning stages.

We do not want to sell away a viable PILOT program for the sake of moving the projects along. We are still collecting information because much of the information we have is based on assumptions. We are waiting to receive real, hard information. It is not our intention to block the projects, in fact we want to stay neutral.

The county has never said that it is opposed to these projects, nor is it trying to kill these projects. We are trying to determine each company's ability to pay their fair share. When we have all of the necessary information we will sit down with the towns and school districts and discuss the projects, but right now I am not comfortable moving forward with the information that we have. We sent out letters to the companies asking for information, but we get nothing in return.