Anyone Know More About The City Council Member Helping Kirkers and Getting Rich While Doing It?
Sumner owns SynTier Engineering, which is the engineer of record on the proposed Edington Subdivision — a 235-acre annexation, rezone, and 130-lot plat on West Palouse River Drive. The land is owned by Andrew Crapuchettes through A&E LLC (Crapuchettes is the ex-Emsi/Lightcast CEO, RedBalloon founder, and a prominent Christ Church–aligned figure).
The conflict: Sumner sits on the council that votes on annexation, rezoning, water/sewer extension, and area-of-impact decisions affecting that exact project — while his private firm gets paid by the developer.
Any vote he casts on Edington without a written recusal is a textbook municipal conflict of interest under Idaho Code § 74-403.
https://www.dnews.com/local-news-northwest/large-subdivision-planned-in-moscow70259cb0