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the precedence for other federal agencies to apply the same tactics. For example, “NDOT comes in and says we need a surcharge on Humboldt County of $100,000 a year to cover the cost of snow removal,” he says. “It's exactly the same argument,” he said. Commissioner Ron Cerri said he opposed the agreement on the grounds that it’s “doubledipping.” “We are paying taxes to those firefighters.” Cerri said, “when we put those fires out and then they're going to charge us again to put them out even if they weren't there.” The commissioners objected to the inability of the county to reduce fire risk. “There's no way in the world we can take any
WATER COURTESY PHOTO
The Rotary Club of Winnemucca purchased and installed a covered bench next to the fitness park and splash pad at the Whitworth Recreation Complex, with matching funds from the Rotary Foundation. (left to right) Rotarian Kevin Coleman, Community Volunteer Travis Holman, Rotary Board Member Harold Gudmundsen and Rotarian Brad Borowski put the finishing touches on the bench.
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to how inter-basin transfers occur and we're talking about protection of groundwater subsurface and subsurface connection and surface waters,” he said.
Nevada is a prior appropriation doctrine state. Fontaine said CNRWA is interested in making sure the doctrine is maintained and respected. “We see bills that come up in legislature that threaten to comprise that doctrine so those are issues we get very much involved with,” he said. Commissioner Ron Cerri said that in the past he was against membership in the CNRWA because Humboldt County cur-
action that we can take to minimize our risk that way,” French said. “We have no say at the table whether there's any forage management or fuels management on the front side so we can't manage the risk on that end of it.” French added “There's absolutely no involvement on our part in terms of how to put that fire out or what they're going to use to put that fire out.” Commissioner Mike Bell suggested rejecting the agreement in favor of having the NDF come back with an agreement the county could better accept. French agreed saying, “I would say to them that we wouldn't accept anything more than a 10% increase in that premium period, annually.”
rently has membership in the Humboldt River Basin Water Authority (HRBWA). He has since changed his mind because he believes “that we've seen a paradigm shift in legislature that isn't going to go away,” adding that water will “only become a bigger issue in this state as we grow.” Fontaine said that by submitting its application it would be showing solidarity with the eight other countries. It would also create a majority that will have a significant voice as to how the respective counties’ water resources are used.
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