<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165044"><span>Bill et al,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_163156"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165049"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165048">I posted the full article from behind the paywall. The article didn't talk about what the Supervisors had to say.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_163154"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165071"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165094">The agenda item and all the backup can be found at:</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_163152"><a href="http://docs.trinitycounty.org/Departments/Admin-Bos-Cao/AgendaMin/Backup20161004/501.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165073">http://docs.trinitycounty.org/Departments/Admin-Bos-Cao/AgendaMin/Backup20161004/501.pdf</a><span><br></span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165074"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_163150">Tom Stokely</div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_163150">Salmon and Water Policy Analyst</div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_163150">Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165092">V 530-926-9727 Cell 530-524-0315 </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165092">tstokely@att.net </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_165097"><br></div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 8:16 AM, Kier Associates <kierassociates@att.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2334222327"><style>#yiv2334222327 #yiv2334222327 --
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#yiv2334222327 </style><div><div class="yiv2334222327WordSection1"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style="">Tom</span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style="">Who knows what the Trinity Supes had to say about the county’s water being shipped out of the county/the need for the County to collect a tax on it ? – even the Trinity Journal now has a pay-wall/ one must create an account to read its articles in full.</span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style="">But the headline, alone, takes me back 40+ years to when I was the CA State Senate’s principal natural resources staffer and a Siskiyou County delegation, the particulars of which I can’t now recall other than it appeared their ringleader was the rascally publisher of a Ft Jones-based weekly (did I get that right?), wanted me to advise them on how to construct legislation which would put Siskiyou County in the water marketing business. The publisher, in particular, kept emphasizing in our meeting that ‘southern California’s desperate for water, and we’ve got more water than we need …’ </span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style="">I asked the Siskiyou-ians how that was going to work – how were they going to get out of the water delivery business when they finally needed the water in Siskiyou County? They didn’t think that would be a problem at all. But it got me thinking hard for the first time about the issues surrounding water marketing – issues with which I’m still concerned/ concerns which I expressed in a recent posting to ‘On the Public Record’</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://onthepublicrecord.org/">https://onthepublicrecord.org</a><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style="">‘Sorry to be a wuss about the Trinity Journal thing but I’m suffering from password overload.</span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><span style="">Bill Kier</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"></span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv2334222327yqt9499176548" id="yiv2334222327yqtfd37527"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> env-trinity [mailto:env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Stokely<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 12, 2016 7:29 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Env-trinity<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [env-trinity] County seeks ‘fair impact fees’ for diverted Trinity water</span></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv2334222327yqt9499176548" id="yiv2334222327yqtfd07393"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal"> </div><div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129499"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_57e73f68-9014-11e6-85c4-37acbc2291a1.html">http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_57e73f68-9014-11e6-85c4-37acbc2291a1.html</a></span></div></div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129655" style="margin-top:15.0pt;margin-bottom:30.0pt;"><h1 style="margin-right:75.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:31.5pt;">County seeks ‘fair impact fees’ for diverted Trinity water</span></h1><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129658" style="margin-top:15.0pt;margin-right:75.0pt;"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">By Sally Morris The Trinity Journal</span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">44 min 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id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129698" style="color:#333333;background:white;display:inline-block;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></li><li class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129702" style="color:#333333;background:white;display:inline-block;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></li><li class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129706" style="color:#333333;background:white;display:inline-block;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></li></ul></div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129711"><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129712"><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129713" style="margin-bottom:.25in;"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="line-height:20.25pt;background:white;"><span style="">In a resolution adopted by unanimous support last week, the Trinity County Board of Supervisors is seeking to collect “fair impact fees” for out-of-basin transfers of water from Trinity Lake, diverted through the Judge Francis Carr Tunnel beyond the lake and dam.</span></div></div></div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129714"><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129715" style="margin-bottom:.25in;"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="line-height:20.25pt;background:white;"><span style="">Citing numerous drought impacts including declining tourism, increased infrastructure demands, loss of property values, loss of economic activity, loss of fisheries and severe environmental damage, the board resolution is seeking accelerated payment of impact fees as the lake levels drop lower and lower. No such fees have ever been paid to the county since Trinity Dam was built.</span></div></div></div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129717"><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129718" style="margin-bottom:.25in;"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="line-height:20.25pt;background:white;"><span style="">The resolution was drafted by the Board of Supervisors’ ad hoc water committee of Sups. Bill Burton and Keith Groves, and was tabled from the board’s Sept. 20 meeting after additional input was received from other board members to be included in the final wording.</span></div></div></div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129719"><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129720" style="margin-bottom:.25in;"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="line-height:20.25pt;background:white;"><span style="">The proposal favors full, or nearly full, operation of Trinity Lake, noting greater water storage benefits communities</span></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129725" style="margin-top:15.0pt;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><ul type="disc"><li class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129492"><div id="yiv2334222327yui_3_16_0_1_1476208385753_129491"><div class="yiv2334222327MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>