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IID - Board Prefers Counsel's Resolution

Todays is : Friday, 09 January 2009

Written by George Gale
Wednesday, 23 August 2006
(THE IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT COMES UP WITH A RESOLUTION THEY LIKE)…THE BOARD TUESDAY COULD NOT DECIDE ON A RESOLUTION THEY LIKED TO INDICATE THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE SALTON SEA AUTHORITIES RESTORATION PLAN, AND PROTECT THE DISTRICT FROM LIABILITY. IN OPEN SESSION, TEMPORS FLARED AS THE BOARD DISCUSSED 3 DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS. ONE WAS FROM THE AUTHORITY. ANOTHER FROM THE IID GENERAL COUNSEL, AND THE 3RD WAS ONE DEVELOPED BY BOARD PRESIDENT ANDY HORNE. HORNE SAID HE DEVELOPED HIS RESOLUTION BECAUSE THE ATTORNEY’S PROTECTED THE DISTRICT FROM LIABILITY, BUT DID LITTLE TO SHOW THE BOARD’S SUPPORT OF THE SALTON SEA AUTHORITIES PLAN. JEFFERY GARBER, THE GENERAL COUNSEL, ASKED THAT THE ISSUE BE DISCUSSED IN CLOSED SESSION BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR LITIGATION. AT THE END OF THE MEETING THE BOARD WENT INTO CLOSED SESSION, AND WHEN THEY CAME OUT THEY APPROVED YET ANOTHER RESOLUTION. THE ONE APPROVED WAS, IN ESSENCE, THE ONE PREPARED BY COUNSEL, BUT WITH ADDED LANGUAGE. THE BOARD ADDED ‘NO FURTHER WATER TRANSFER’ TO THE LAST WHEREAS, AND ‘SUCH AS THOSE DESCRIBED IN THE SALTON SEA CONCEPTIONAL PLAN’ TO THE LAST ‘THEREFORE.’