Laserfiche WebLink
<br />UUUGJ.t <br /> <br />J.lIC .:)LC<:11UUU<1.l rUUL: L.-uy aISKt:U LU lOOK aL recreanon water ngms <br /> <br />.t'age 1. ot 1. <br /> <br />Wilson said.' <br /> <br />The city has time, he said. Unlike the towns of Golden, Pueblo and Lafayette, the Yampa River has not reached the <br />point where it is over adjudicated and people are raiding water rights. <br /> <br />"It seems to be the sky is falling sort of thing, and I don't want you to think that it is," Wilson told the commission. <br />"We have tim'e to be prudent and to make good choices." ' <br /> <br />The more than $100,000 In legal fees it could take to acquire water rights is another 9bstacle for the city in'a tight <br />budget year. The need for water rights would have, to be weighed over the requests for new ball fields, parks and <br />trails, Wilson said. <br /> <br />The Parks and Rec Commission decided to hand the issue to the Rivers and Trails Committee and the Community <br />Advisory Committee, which has been working on the Yampa River Management Plan. Both committees have been <br />looking at recreational water rights and have established it as a high priority. <br /> <br />Those committees would give a recommendation back to the Parks and Rec Commission, who could then choose to <br />pass aiong a recommendation to the City Council. ' <br /> <br />. . . . . - . . <br />Brenner 'aiso, rciised, the question' of the city usin'g Trout, Witwer and Freeman, p;c, as Its legal water attorneys when <br />those same .attorneys argued against the May 19 supreme court case. <br /> <br />"The people defending against this are the people we have been using as legal advisers for how to get, this project <br />complet~d," Brenner said. <br /> <br />, , <br />, ' <br />Wilson admitted the situation has raised some red flags within the city but said the firm has been the water attorney <br />, for several years and deals with the city's enormous water portfolio that extends far beyond recreational water rights. <br />He also said the attorneys have not been asked to start the legal process of getting recreational water rights. <br /> <br />Copyright @ 2002 The Steamboat Pilot, all rights reserved <br />Visit us at http://www.steamboatpilot.com <br /> <br />http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/ archive/storypr/l 73 58 <br /> <br />4/23/2004 <br />