Water District Board Approves Audit
The Glasscock Groundwater Conservation District’s Board of Directors (Kenneth Braden and Kent McMillan absent) approved the district’s fiscal 2008 audit on May 18. District Secretary Tisha Burnett reported that auditor Anna Thomas found no problems with the district’s finances, and said the district showed an increase in net assets and didn’t spend as much as it had budgeted.
Commenting on Clayton Williams’ quarrel with Ft. Stockton over whether he can sell water to Midland and Odessa from property he owns near Ft. Stockton, District Manager Rick Harston said Sen. Kel Seliger and Speaker Tom Craddick were both pushing bills that would favor Williams. He said it is easier and cheaper for water marketers to get state laws changed than to go to court to get what they want.
He said Seliger is pushing for Texas Water Board oversight of local underground water districts, which Harston says amounts to state control.