Articles with the Tag: BIA
ST. IGNATIUS — Election ballots that weren’t sent out during the Flathead Joint Board of Control May mail-in election are soon to be unsealed to see why they didn’t go out. According to Lake County Election Administrator Kathie Newgard 754 ballots were held due to a new requirement that one...
Library to host humanities speaker News from North Lake County Public Library POLSON — North Lake County Public Library in Polson will host the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program “Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History: Women in Science” with Mary Jane Bradbury on Thu...
RONAN – The Flathead Joint Board of Control will appeal a federal lawsuit to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to regain local control of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project. The board’s attorneys said Aug. 25 that they will also try to work out an agreement outside of the...
ST. IGNATIUS – A proposed rate hike for Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators might be off the table until next year’s tax bills go out. Flathead Joint Board of Control Irrigation Commissioner Shane Orien said Aug. 25 the board’s office was informed that because a proposed ...
BOZEMAN — Adjudication of water claims in the Flathead Basin will not take place until after January 2017, per a July 27 order issued by Chief Water Judge Russ McElyea, though the state of Montana will begin examining some claims that have been filed in two local basins. The judge issued the stay to...
ST. IGNATIUS — Irrigation commissioners for the Flathead Joint Board of Control refused to increase assessments on their constituents last week, despite a request from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to do so. It is unclear what the ramifications of not instating the 29 percent operations and maintenan...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigation commissioners said last week that a lack of drought management plan and adequate staffing at the Bureau of Indian Affairs is exacerbating water delivery to Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators. According to commissioners, individual ditchriders appear to be c...
ST. IGNATIUS – After hearing complaints from Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators about delivery problems and concerns about possible future increases in operations and maintenance assessment, Flathead Joint Board of Control irrigation commissioners said May 13 that one of their main objective...
ST. IGNATIUS – After hearing complaints from Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators about delivery problems and concerns about possible future increases in operations and maintenance assessment, Flathead Joint Board of Control irrigation commissioners said May 13 that one of their main objective...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigators who use the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project to water their crops will likely see a significant increase in fees on their next assessment bills, as project managers try to raise funds to tackle millions of dollars of improvements needed to keep the decades old, dilapidating ...
