{"id":804027,"date":"2020-02-10T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378844"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:30:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-taxpayers-foot-the-bill-for-both-sides-of-fiester-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-taxpayers-foot-the-bill-for-both-sides-of-fiester-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Taxpayers foot the bill for both sides of Fiester lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-who-pays-for-fiester-preserve-lawsuit\/\">Letter writer Mary Ellen Gilliland<\/a> has a very good point about taxpayers footing the bill for a Fiester Preserve lawsuit, but she only got it half right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paragraph 9 of the easement clearly states that Summit County (the grantor) agrees to pay for the enforcement of the easement by Colorado Open Lands (the grantee). So the taxpayers get to foot the bill for \u201cthe best specialist lawyers\u201d for both sides!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-taxpayers-foot-the-bill-for-both-sides-of-fiester-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter writer Mary Ellen Gilliland has a very good point about taxpayers footing the bill for a Fiester Preserve lawsuit, but she only got it half right.&nbsp; Paragraph 9 of the easement clearly states that Summit County (the grantor) agrees to pay for the enforcement of the easement by Colorado Open Lands (the grantee). So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 05:06:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}