Klamath County Commissioners
postponed making any
decisions on the board’s
stance on the Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement until
at least next week.
The KBRA was on the agenda of the commissioners’ regular meeting Tuesday, but given the 600-some emails and letters the board received last week, the commissioners said they needed more time to review.
At last week’s regular
meeting nearly 70 people
spoke both for and
against the KBRA and the
Klamath Hydroelectric
Settlement Agreement,
which seek to establish
reliable water supplies
and affordable power
rates for irrigators,
restore fish habitat,
help the Klamath Tribes
acquire the 92,000-acre
Mazama Tree Farm and
remove four dams on the
Klamath River.
Commissioners Tom
Mallams and Jim Bellet
campaigned against the
KBRA. Commission
Chairman Dennis
Linthicum voted against
the two-year extension
of the agreement last
November, when then
commissioners Cheryl
Hukill and Al Switzer
carried the vote to keep
the board of
commissioners involved
as a party to the KBRA.
At Tuesday’s meeting,
Linthicum and Bellet
agreed to wait a week
before deciding on or
discussing the KBRA
again. Mallams had to
leave the meeting early
to attend another
meeting, another reason
the commissioners wanted
to postpone.
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