LOGAN – Jeannie Simmonds is on the Logan Municipal Council, but she’s also a board member on the Cache Water District. She said it’s good to have a state-directed agency to look after the area’s water interests.
“And it’s only been in the last eight years that we’ve decided that it was time for us to have a water district. Because the water district, as you well know, is a state agency, we’re a special service district, they call it. And because of that, we have a little more, shall we say, voice in the process,” she explained.
Simmonds said what’s been nice the last little while too, is having the Institute for Land, Water and Air at Utah State University.
“The fact that we have people who have statewide recognition but Cache Valley roots,” Simmonds added, “whether they went to school here or they were born and raised here, has made a tremendous impact on our ability to be part of all those conversations.”
And she said an added benefit is that a couple of those individuals that are very instrumental in the statewide conversations have also chosen to be part of the water district board.