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Where the original FAA approval required four levels of lights, the new one only requires two with all bird concerning steady burning lights eliminated. Also, I want to reiterate that we need your help in preventing a replay of what happened with the first application. Magnum worked hard to dot all of the i's and cross all of the t's. Your independent tower consultant, Evans, deemed the tower to be in the public interest. What did Magnum and his engineers earn for all of their hard work? Evans was called a "cheerleader" for the Magnum proposal. The competence of Evans was called into question. Evans was accused of not even being qualified to do such work. Magnum and Evans were said to "be in cahoots." Magnum was even accused of"paying Evans under the table." According to Magnum, you told him you felt Rutland was just"throwing things up against the well (he said you said"well"not wall)to see if they could make something stick." Magnum said you also told him that Rutland questioning Evans was "below the belt" and that you were concerned from Dane's stand point about the credibility of Evans being questioned. It is our understanding that Evans did the studies for the three Rutland towers that have been built and that Evans has served in this capacity for Dane County Tower studies for many years. In spite of Magnum being required to pay some $5,000 to Dane and Rutland in fees to pay for the Evans study, it was in-effect set aside by Rutland. Even though every answer posed by Rutland residents was clearly answered in the Evans study, no credence was given to it by Rutland. Instead, Chairman Beske promised time and again that due to the questions raised about the Evans study, he was seeking an alternate engineer. Magnum anxiously awaited an alternate study because every engineer works from the same FCC database. It's all math so the same conclusions will be reached regardless of who is punching the exact same numbers into the exact same data base. Finally, right before Rutland voted on the application, Chairman Beske announced that he had in his words"struck out" on finding an alternate engineer. Meaning, that the Rutland resident who is an attorney/ham radio operator, was given heed as a broadcasting "expert"but not Evans. Interestingly, during discovery in the law suit, it was learned that Chairman Beske did in fact speak with a number of other engineers but could of course not find one that would contradict Evans.