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SUNMine Kimberley

The  City of Kimberley is looking for a buyer for the SunMine???  Is there something we don't know? The city financials for 2016 for the SunMine show it made after expenses $134,000 in 2016. It cost $5.65M (that we know of)  business case would be payments of $360,000 annually for 25 years.   $3.65M was subsidy money, the city borrowed $2M in a referendum that said taxpayers would not every pay again.     They say they have to make $216,000 annually to break even, so what is their plan?  Will they sell it to Warren Buffett?  He made his billions this way, he might get it for say $1.5M all the remaining $4M taxpayers money is free a gift.  He could dismantle it and take it to Arizona where the sun actually shines and they have a heavy air conditioning load in summer and burn coal for power. If you look further it gets pared down to only about $12,500 income, I don't pretend to know their bookeeping tactics.  And apparently the city put in even more money, its shown as up to