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City staff to bring formal agreement with Cimarron Terrace water users proposing higher royalties, metering and tap limits
Summary
City staff told the Mayor and Board Commissioners they will return with a formal agreement for the Cimarron Terrace Water Association that would raise royalty payments to 53¢, increase minimum payments and require metering and signed addenda for existing taps; no vote was taken at the meeting.
Gerald, a city staff member, told the Mayor and Board Commissioners the city will return at a future meeting with a formal agreement with the Cimarron Terrace Water Association that would change how the city pays royalties for water drawn from well fields located in the Ames and Drummond areas.
The draft agreement would raise the unit royalty to 53¢ (indexed every five years and applied retroactive to January 2025), raise minimum payments by changing the minimum basis to an eighth-acre unit, require identification and metering of taps on city transmission lines, and include an addendum landowners must sign to limit authorized uses of those taps. "The Cimarron Terrace is, an organization that the city's…
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