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false. Mr. and Mrs. Rooks continue to live on this farm three years after this an- nouncement. January 11, 1993, OMID manager Rooks signed an agreement with Chepita Golf Course Inc. concerning irrigation water, open drains, and the burvinQ of that seQment of MML crossinQ this Qolf course. This agreement is in the form of a letter addressed to the Mesa County Commissioners. The reason for this agreement has not been established. However, one must think Mesa County required the closing of MML as a condition of rezoning the proposed golf course property from agricultural - Forestry - Transitional (AFT) to Planned Unit Devel- opment (PUD). Comment: Irrigation District law of 1905 under which aMID was formed, authorizes elected a designated board member, not a paid employee to execute agreements for aMID. December 15, 1993 Emery C. Johnson, SCS Area Conservationist, and James D. Rooks, OMID manager, conducted a status revue of MML. The review docu- ment shows OMID owns the land MML serves. October 17, 1994 Jeff Burwell, SCS Area Conservationist, and James D. Rooks, OMID manager, conducted a status revue of MML. The review document shows OMID owns the land MML serves On the fifth day of December 1994, John Van Sciver, CWCB staff planner, pro- vided OMID manager James D. Rooks an application for a construction loan from the Coloradq Water Conservation Board (CWCB), stating in the accompa- nying memo that the loan would be used to line an OMID ditch. In a January 13, 1995 memo to the CWCB board John Van Sciver advised that he had met with NRCS planners and engineers to tour the proposed MML proj- ect on January 9th. The names of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) planners and engineers on this tour are not known. In this January 13th memo, Mr. Van Sciver wrote that NRCS had prepared an enQineerinQ plan durino 1992. and that aoency had estimated the total proiect cost at $1,500,000. He noted that he found NRCS's cost estimate satisfactory, and that NRCS had prepared an environmental assessment and found no sig- nificant impact. The board was told that Jim Rooks would be present at the January 25th. CWCB Board meeting to discuss the project with them. At OMID's January 25, 1995 annual meeting, manager Rooks asked landowners to approve a loan from CWCB for $1,000,000 to convert the entire 21.500 foot MML to a closed system. (The OMID annual meeting was held the same day as the CWCB board meeting.) Landowners were told that NRCS had estimated the 4