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Prospective neighbours hope AMD will buy them a fire station
THE GOOD FOLK of Malta, New York, can hardly contain themselves at the prospect of having AMD build a fab new fab on their doorstep.
While some residents in the locality face the prospect of having to stump up for a new sewerage treatment works in case Chimpzilla decides to move in, others expect the chip maker to make a contribution to its could-be neighbourhood.
It seems these contributions will include chipping in to the expansion of the local community centre and meeting half the costs of a new fire station and town office building, if some Maltese town officials get their way.
Town Supervisor Paul Sausville told the local Post Star that he thinks AMD should get its wallet out.
"The people of the town of Malta have spent millions on fire infrastructure, " he complained. "With AMD coming, there will be a greater responsibility for our fire departments. It’s only appropriate that AMD invest in them."
The townsfolk are also keen on getting AMD to commit to employing local people and some are hoping the firm will help out with a some new library facilities too.
But AMD has until July 2009 to fully commit to building its proposed $3.2 billion facility on the Luther Forest Campus or forfeit a $1.2 billion state incentive package on offer.
And some residents fear that asking for too much will drive the chip maker elsewhere.
Mongoo, who we assume is local, comments on the Post Star's web site: "Idiots. Get greedy and you will drive AMD away before they even start building. Be thankful that you are getting a large company to move into the area that will provide high paying jobs and security for the surrounding area."
Others may be wondering whether AMD will still exist in its current form by 2009. µ
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Contrary to beliefs, most jobs in fab plants are rather menial in nature, put the wafer carrier into the tool, push the start button, call the engineer if the red light turns on, take the carrier with processed wafers out of the tool and load them on the transport. No real education, and some on the job training.

Maybe have one or two engineers on each shift, plus a manager and a few supervisors. Those won't be locals.

Oh, and you need someone to keep the grounds neat, and an HR guy to avoid employees with issues.
Sounds like Mongoo's the only one whose brain is working there. Why the hell would AMD pay huge taxed on $4B worth of property, employ locals specifically (anyone who moves in to work there would be a local anyway) AND pay to build a new library, city center, town offices, and firehouse. It's not like AMD's ONE complex in an industrial park would put some huge burden on the fire department.

Maybe they should ask AMD to buy new houses for everyone in the community, build new schools, buy everyone new cars and pay all their taxes for the year as well.
"The townsfolk are also keen on getting AMD to commit to employing local people".
How many of the townfolks are process engineers I wonder?
Like all other New York politicians, Paul Sausville, the Malta Town Supervisor, moans about how much all this is going to cost his little town, but the honest truth is that the state goverment, i.e., all the taxpayers of NY, end up footing the bill. Is Malta going to have to raise their property taxes to pay for any of this? Not on your life! So Paulie is being the typically devious NY politician. He'll take the state's money AND raise property taxes, while complaining that they didn't want AMD, all this new construction is just so big a problem for the town, etc., etc....

NY state has a definite bias against business, the government is very business-unfriendly, except when it's a showcase effort to deceive the public so they get reelected, right, Senator Joe Bruno? Mr. I-never-met-a-hand-I-didn't-want-to-put-taxpayers-money-into....

And this sewage treatment plant? Another scam, as the state department of environmental conservation (DEC or EnCon, as the case may be), will require AMD to pretreat their effluent to river-ready standards BEFORE they tie into the town sewage grid. Heck, the water AMD sends to this new treatment plant will be cleaner than the effluent from the plant is required to be under state law.

These NY politicos will rob everybody blind just to ensure voting loyalty from the public employees unions.

But then any group of people that would elect Hilary Clinton as a U.S. Senator deserves to get screwed. Long and often.

Rich Wargo
Voorheesville, NY
Local Hillsboro folklore says that Intel had to buy the Hillsboro fire department a new fire truck that was capable of extending a ladder up to four floors since an Intel building was going to be the tallest in town and the local fire department (brigade) wouldn't be able to rescue anyone in the Intel building. I heard the fire truck cost a quarter million dollars. This was well over a decade ago.