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Thanks, Barb.
Barbara A Hueter 11/03/2000 02:15 PM To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: John Stokes/HOU/AZURIX@AZURIX, Janine Migden/NA/Enron@Enron Subject: Azurix, Grand Rapids contract John Stokes. Laird Smith and I spoke with Eric Schneidewind this afternoon. Varnum is currently representing the city on isolated matters. Varnum is approaching the city attorney to obtain a waiver of any conflict of interest so that they may engage in lobbying activities on Azurix's behalf. Eric is very confident that the city attorney will issue with waiver. Varnum made it clear that should Azurix lose the contract and wish to engage in any legal action against the city, then Azurix would not be able to use Varnum b/c of their existing relationship with the city. John assured Eric that it is extremely unlikely that Azuriz would ever pursue legal action against the city. John Stokes has asked that Varnum deal directly with Tom Maxwell in the Edmonton office once the waiver is obtained. They will keep us posted on progress. ---------------------- Forwarded by Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron on 11/03/2000 02:08 PM --------------------------- Barbara A Hueter 11/03/2000 09:26 AM To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: John Stokes/HOU/AZURIX@AZURIX, Janine Migden/NA/Enron@Enron Subject: Azurix, Grand Rapids contract I have spoken with Eric Schneidewind our attorney at Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Howlett in Lansing. He is contacting other attorneys in the firm to follow up on this immediately. Varnum is one of the two major west Michigan law firms and is based in Grand Rapids. John Stokes and I have spoken. As soon as I learn anything from our attorneys, I will be in contact with him. I also have a call into our lobbying firm, Karoub Associates. I doubt that they could be more effective than Varnum on this one, but I want them in the loop b/c they might have some pull with key officials in Grand Rapids. I will keep you posted. From: Steven J Kean on 11/02/2000 08:52 AM To: John Stokes/HOU/AZURIX@AZURIX cc: Janine Migden/DUB/EES@EES, Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron@Enron Subject: Re: Help in Michigan John -- I'm copying Janine and Barb on this message as they are most likely to be able to identify someone. Janine and Barb -- could one of you get in touch with John? John Stokes@AZURIX 11/02/2000 06:45 AM To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Amanda K Martin/HOU/AZURIX@AZURIX Subject: Help in Michigan Once again, I come to you for help. We were awarded a biosolids dewatering contract in Grand Rapids, Michigan about a month ago. We had bid against the incumbent, a company called Synagro. You may recall that Azurix is in litigation with Syangro over a busted acquisition, but the two events are not related. In any case, we were low bidder, and the recommendation was made to award the contract to us. Synagro has been working to get the award overturned, and appears to have been successful. It is not yet clear whether they are going to award the deal to Synagro, or re-bid. It is not even clear what the grounds are for overturning the award, which indicates that it may be pure politics. Do we have any good political consultants that could help us in Grand Rapids? We do not have much of a presence in that area, and were responding to a publicly advertised bid. Price and technical qualifications were the only issues. Politics did not enter into it until now, so we were caught a little flat-footed. Any suggestions?
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