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.r Tiridad mayoral candidates agree growth a critical issue http: / /www.chieftain.com/print /wednesday /news /articles /nil3.htm <br />sound budget management, good schools and medic 1 facilities staffed with professionals, then it will <br />take all of us to do this." <br />As council incumbents, Martinez felt council's greatest achievements were to keep Monument Lake <br />intact and building the new waste -water treatment plant. He said the long construction delay in getting <br />the new Trinidad prison built was a big disappointment along with the now - expected Colorado <br />Department of Transportation construction delays in renovating Interstate 25 through Trinidad. <br />"I think one of our greatest accomplishments was when we secured a fixed -rate (natural) gas contract <br />with a local producer," said Plant. "We were able to negotiate a fixed rate contract at $2.40 when the <br />open market was somewhere around $4.80. The end result for Trinidad gas consumers was <br />somewhere in the vicinity of a $2.1 million savings for our customers." <br />©1996 -2000 The pueblo Chieftain Online <br />2 of 2 10/31/013:12 PM <br />