HomeMy WebLinkAboutDISCLAIMER LETTER - R.J.Hoopes Law OfficeR. J. Hoopes Law Office PLLC
Madison Square, Suite 207
101 East Main
Rexburg, Idaho
August 20, 2021
Connect Engineering City of Rexburg
1150 Hollipark Dr. 35 North 1St East
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 Rexburg, Idaho 83440
Re: June 18, 2021, Letter from Connect Engineering to City of Rexburg
Rexburg City Council Meeting of August 19, 2021
- - Dear Sir or -Madam: — - -- — — -
This office has been contacted by Dale Jeppesen (incorrectly referred to as "Dale Jepson" in the
Connect Engineering letter) concerning a discussion which took place at the City of Rexburg, City
Council meeting held last evening, August 19, 2021. Mr. Jeppesen brought to this office a letter
from Connect Engineering addressed to the City of Rexburg dated June 18, 2021.
As regards Mr. Jeppesen, the Connect Engineering letter of June 18, 2021, is replete with untruths,
mis-understanding, and false impressions. The purpose of this letter is to set matters straight, and
to demand that Connect Engineering cease and desist from using Mr. Jeppesen's name to justify
any of their actions or inactions regarding the Centennial Townhomes project.
Mr. Jeppesen does sit on the Board of Directors of the Teton Island Feeder Canal Company.
However, he cannot speak for the company nor commit the company without speck
authorization from the Board of Directors to do so. Mr. Jeppesen was contacted in 2019 by
someone claiming to be with Connect Engineering and had a brief ten -to -fifteen -minute
conversation in which Mr. Jeppesen explained that once the water left the company's canal and
was diverted into an irrigation ditch the company had no further jurisdiction over the water, the
ditch conveying the water, or the land over which the water was conveyed. The irrigation ditches,
their uses, and their existence are the concern of the landowners and/or water users, not the canal
company. Mr. Jeppesen was not authorized to, nor did he, make any decisions or representations
concerning the existence of any conveying ditches or drainage ditches.
Sincerely urs
R.oopes
Post Office Box 485 (208) 390-2931
Rexburg, Idaho 83440 rjhoopes@dhoopeslawoffice.com
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