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Commission approves $5,000 payment to resolve Cooke City Water District invoice after staff debate over resort tax funding

Park County Commissioners general weekly meeting · May 5, 2026
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Summary

After testimony from the Cooke City Water District clerk and lengthy questions about historical invoices and which resort‑tax pot could pay it, commissioners voted to pay $5,000 of a revised invoice using Cooke City resort tax funds and requested supporting invoices from the engineering firm.

Marilyn Hartley, clerk for the Cooke City Water District, told Park County commissioners that the district revised an earlier invoice after identifying a grant shortfall and disputed engineering charges dating to 2018–19.

"Because of all the confusion and the lack of being able to prove anything on their side or our side, the waterboard decided to drop the $8,000 of engineering amount, just to be done with this, basically," Hartley said, and noted the district still sought about $5,000 related to a DNRC grant discrepancy; with finance charges the revised amount in the board…

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