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Senators consider barring delinquent landowners from voting on drainage projects
Summary
House Bill 12-80 would prevent landowners who have failed to pay required special assessments from voting on whether a watershed district can obligate the district for the project costs; supporters said the change would prevent landowners who decline to pay from blocking repairs and maintenance.
Senators on the Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee heard testimony on House Bill 12-80, a measure aimed at streamlining approvals for maintenance and construction of legal drains by withholding voting rights on project obligations from landowners who are delinquent on required assessments.
Representative Mike Brandenburg, the bill sponsor, described longstanding difficulty with Legal Drain 11, a multi-county system that supporters say has generated increased flows onto Sargent County property after culvert work on a state highway. Brandenburg said the drain is "41 miles long" and that when Highway 13 culverts were upsized the county…
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