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[Andreas Schou]

And Washington was preventing a sovreign state (ID) from exercising
its water rights -- a right to which, I might add, we are entitled to
by federal law, as opposed to some muddy-headed concept of "economic
development plans," to which Washington is not.

-- ACS

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>  Sue - it was not only imminent litigation, it was actual litigation -
> Moscow had already filed suit on the water transfer.  Fits perfectly!
>
>  And Moscow was impacting the ability of a sovereign state (WA) from
> pursuing their economic development plans.  Again, fits perfectly.
>
>  Now, let's move on to something substantive - the actual agreement signed.
> What are your problems with the accord reached?
>
>
>
>  At 01:14 PM 2/14/2008, you wrote:
>
> Well e involves competition with other public bodies and f involves imminant
> litigation, so how do those fit?  Certainly none of the other options do,
> but even so, looks like a stretch to me.
>
>  Sue H
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Jeff Harkins
>  To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:13 PM
>  Subject: [Vision2020] (no subject)
>
>  To those interested, it would appear that items e and f of the state
> statute for executive sessions would be applicable.
>
>
>  (e)  To consider preliminary negotiations involving matters of
>  trade or commerce in which the governing body is in competition with
>  governing bodies in other states or nations;
>  (f)  To communicate with legal counsel for the public agency to
>  discuss the legal ramifications of and legal options for pending
>  litigation, or controversies not yet being litigated but imminently likely
> to be
>  litigated. The mere presence of legal counsel at an executive
>  session does not satisfy this requirement;
>
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