AG WATER VS DEVELOPMENT
WATER • With new subdivision being built
around Mona, the Mona City Council is again
revisiting the water problem and it's creating all
sorts of problems for the City Council
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Once again, the city attorney who isn't, is doing a
job for Mona.
Yes, the council asked for his legal expertise.
Cory Squire, council member, has contacted Phil Lowery
to have him review the ordinance requiring water shares be
dedicated to each building lot prior to a building permit
being issued.
"He is working on an ordinance and will have it ready
for us to review and then notice next week," said
Squire.
Squire said that each council member had done as Mayor
Bryce Lynn requested and put their ideas for items they
thought should be included in the ordinance.
"I gave all of your concerns to Lowery," said Squire.
"He is reading your notes."
"I talked to Attorney Bill White," said Quinton Kay,
council member.
He said White, who wrote the three-way agreement
dealing with water, said it would be a simple thing to add a
paragraph into the existing ordinance.
"Mr. White said that a lot-owners association would
work," said Kay.
White, who was in town for a water board meeting with
Mona Irrigation Company, was at Kay's office.
White called the original work, which he had written,
up on his computer and showed Kay how a simple addition in
wording in the third paragraph would allow the lot owner's
association the right to manage the water for the
subdivision rather than having the water dedicated to the
lot.
The water would be dedicated to the association and,
if the articles of organization are written correctly, Kay
said, the agreement would work as well as a deed dedicating
the water to the property.
"Mr. White said that it was not that big a deal," said
Kay.
He had made notes from what White had said and told
Squire the notes should be passed on to Lowery.
Working with Lowery should be fine, said Lynn.
"Cory (Squire) is the only one authorized to work with
him on this ordinance," said Lynn. "No one else is going to
go running to him with a different idea."
Squire said the new ordinance will be noticed properly
so that it will not have to face a charge of being done
illegally.
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