After eight years of legal wrangling, Missoula Mayor John Engen announced what was termed ‘a global settlement’ with Carlyle Infrastructure Partners in which the City of Missoula will pay $4.13 million to settle all claims.
The effort continues by a media company in Missoula to gain access to information regarding legal fees paid by the City of Missoula during its takeover of the Mountain Water Company.
Missoula Attorney Quentin Rhoades has filed a motion to lift stay and enter a scheduling order in the Mountain Water case, as it pertains to the attorneys fees paid by the City of Missoula to obtain the utility through condemnation.
A jurist who has been at the heart of some of western Montana’s most impactful cases, Fourth Judicial Court Judge Karen Townsend has announced that she will be retiring this summer.
On Monday, Missoula Mayor John Engen was the guest of ‘Public Water Now’, an organization fighting to take control of their own municipal water system in Monterrey, California.
At Wednesday's Missoula City Council Committee of the Whole meeting, differing views were raised over the issue of financing the debt incurred by the city to purchase the utility, as well as projected capital expenditures.
The meeting began with a recap from attorney Natasha Prinzing Jones over some of the underlying issues about why it was more necessary for the city to own the utility, as oppose
At Wednesday's Missoula City Council's Committee of the Whole, members heard reports from experts involved in financing the debt incurred by purchasing the Mountain Water Company.