City Council ends grant funding for telemarketer

Jerome Tharaud

Havre Daily News

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Jerome Tharaud

Havre Daily News

jtharaud@havredailynews.comjtharaud@havredailynews.com

The Havre City Council voted 7-0 Monday night to end a contract that provided state economic development money to the Havre call center of an inbound telemarketing firm.

Under the contract approved in 2000, Advantage Line - a subsidiary of Call_Solutions - was reimbursed for hours spent training employees once they'd undergone 624 hours of training and reached a wage of $7.15 an hour, said Paul Tuss, executive director of...