Articles with the Tag: Flathead Joint Board of Control
Mission Irrigation District underwent a major change in direction on April 21, as two new commissioners were sworn in and the district obtained new legal counsel. The district also voted to align itself with the Flathead Irrigation District in an attempt to reform the Flathead Board of Joint Control or a ...
ST. IGNATIUS — Documents that could play a critical role in various lawsuits pertaining to water rights disputes on the Flathead Reservation are missing from the Mission Irrigation District’s files. Last week the district’s staff and commissioners asked people to come forward if they have a...
POLSON — Results of a mail election polling Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators have been canvassed and the final figures are close — 36,593 for and 36,588 against. Irrigators may have one to several hundred votes based on how many irrigable acres they own. The irrigat...
POLSON — In the latest twist on water rights, two of the three irrigation districts that make up the Flathead Joint Board of Control — the Mission Irrigation District and the Jocko Valley Irrigation District — asked District Judge Deborah Kim Christopher for a temporary restrainin...
The Flathead Joint Board of Control passed Resolution 2013-5, which requested that any irrigation district whose commissioners desire to withdraw from the FJBC first conduct a referendum of the fee land irrigators they represent. Irrigators within the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project may vote on t...
ST. IGNATIUS — Three Flathead Joint Board of Control Commissioners — Boone Cole, Chair, Wayne Blevins and Jerry Laskody — gathered on Oct. 14 to talk to newspaper reporters about Resolution 2013 and what brought about the resolution. The FJBC, voting 6 to 5 with the chair abstainin...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Flathead Board of Control held a special meeting on Aug. 8 at 11 a.m. First up was an agenda item to ratify the filing of a suit by the Flathead Joint Board of Control, Boone Cole and Jerry Laskody vs. M. Paul Wadsworth, Jerry Johnson, Kerry Doney and Roger Christopher. C...
ST. IGNATIUS — At a special Flathead Joint Board of Control meeting on June 19, Duane Mecham, senior attorney with the U. S. Department of the Interior, Portland, Ore., office, attorney Jennifer Frozema from the same office and Travis Teegarden, Bureau of Indian Affairs attorney, met with board members...
News from the Jocko Irrigation District ARLEE — In a 2-1 vote, the three Jocko Irrigation District representatives voted to withdraw from the Flathead Joint Board of Control on June 14. Kerry Doney and Roger Christopher voted yes, and Boone Cole voted against. The three representat...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Flathead Joint Board of Control met on June 10 for their monthly meeting. Attorney Jon Metropoulos reported on the two law suits in which the FJBC is involved. One is a suit filed by the Western Montana Water Users in December against the Flathead, Jock and Mission ...
