GALLATIN LOCAL WATER QUALITY DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
This board meets on the first Thursday of each month at 8:15 a.m.
in the Community Room at the Gallatin County Courthouse.
The County contact is Alan English, District Manager, at 582-3148.
OUR MISSION
Committed to protect, preserve and improve ground water and surface water quality
within the Gallatin Local Water Quality District.
In 1991, the Montana Legislature passed a new law giving local governments the authority to form local water quality districts. The Gallatin Local Water Quality District was created by Resolution No. 1995-55 of the Gallatin County Commission, and approved by the Montana Board of Environmental Review in 1997. The focus of the Gallatin Local Water Quality District is on water resources education and water quality monitoring for increased awareness of water-related issues and public health.
From Montana Code Annotated,
"7-13-4516. Board of directors. (1) Except as provided in subsections (3)(b) and (5), the commissioners shall appoint a board of directors for the local water quality district.
(2) The board of directors consists of not less than five members, including one county commissioner or member of the governing body of a city-county consolidated government, one member from the governing body of each incorporated city or town that is included in the district, one member of the county or city-county board of health, and if the district includes a substantial amount of land that is within a conservation district or districts, one conservation district supervisor.
(3) The remaining members of the board of directors are selected from interested persons, as follows:
(a) from persons whose residences or businesses are distributed equally throughout the district if a county is the only unit of local government participating in the district; or
(b) through mutual agreement by all governing bodies if a county and one or more incorporated cities and towns are participating in the district.
(4) Terms of members of the board of directors are staggered and, after the initial terms, are for 3 years.
(5) In counties that have a full-time city-county health department, the city-county board of health, created as authorized by 50-2-106, may be designated as the board of directors for the local water quality district. If the city-county board of health is designated as the board of directors and if the local water quality district includes a substantial amount of land that is within a conservation district or districts, the board of directors must also include one member who is a conservation district supervisor."
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Name |
Title/Representing |
Term Expiration Date | |
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Kaaren Jacobson |
Bozeman City Commission |
September 2008 | |
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Board Secretary; Gallatin County Commission |
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September 2010 | |
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Manhattan Town Council |
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September 2010 | |
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City of Belgrade At-Large |
September 2010 | ||
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Vacant |
Gallatin City-County Board of Health |
September 2008 | |
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Board Chair; Gallatin Conservation District |
September 2008 | ||
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Vacant |
Town of Manhattan At-Large |
|
September 2010 |
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Belgrade City Council |
September 2008 | ||
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City of Bozeman At-Large |
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September 2008 | |
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Planning Board Liaison |
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There are currently two vacancies with only one that could be filled by a Bozeman resident.