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Show Crucial meetings next week decide fate of Mijl Creek Project Two important meetings, scheduled for successive nights next week, may well determine the fate of the Mill Creek Water Development Project in Spanish Valley. On Tuesday night at 7 o'clock in the County Courtroom, Board of Directors of both the Grand County Water Conservancy District, and Moab Irrigation Company, plus the entire list of shareholders of Moab Irrigation Company, will meet to review the latest tentative agreement agree-ment between the two agencies. Attorneys for both groups will present the latest draft of the water agreement that is nearing completion comple-tion now. Then on the next night, Wednesday, April 5, shareholders, having had a chance for the first time to review the tentative agreement, will be asked to vote on it. If the vote passes in favor of proceeding with contract signing, then work will be scheduled to begin on the large water storage project in the immediate future. If the vote goes against the signing, then the future of the project will be very much in question, according to K. E. McDougald, chairman of the Grand County Water Conservancy District board. Mrs. Margie Shafer, secretary of Moab Irrigation Company, told The Times-Independent Wednesday Wednes-day that she was strongly in favor of conducting the meeting over a two-night span. "Although our Board of Directors have been deeply involved involv-ed in the details of the various drafts of the contract, our stockholders stock-holders have never had a chance to even look at it," she said. "It would be unfair to them to be asked to vote on the contract immediately after hearing it read," she continued. "By scheduling the meeting on two successive nights, they will have a chance to hear the contract read, ask questions about it, and have a day to think about it before voting, ' ' she said. Mr. McDougald was" also in favor of the two-night meeting. " "We have been trying for. a long time to get the contract before the shareholders, but have had no sucess in getting their board to present it to them. Now that they have the opportunity to hear the details of the contract, and see how their interests are protected in it, they should be given a little time to think about it. " There is quite a bit of urgency in getting final action on the contract next week. On Friday, April 7, the Utah Board of Water Resources will be meeting in Salt Lake City. If, at that time, an agreement has not been reached by Moab Irrigation Company and the Grand Water Conservancy Board, there is a big possibility that the state agency will withdraw its formerly-approved loan authorization authoriza-tion for $3'2 million. Officers of both local boards are urging shareholders of Moab Irrigation Company to attend the two very important meetings next week. |