Colorado Mountain College’s Board of Trustees met on Thursday to get legal advice on how to proceed on a pending court case. The trustee’s meeting was closed to the public.
The board met about a case that’s been in the courts since 2012. Back then, the energy company SourceGas sued Colorado Mountain College, claiming the school refused to recognize the legitimacy of a lease. SourceGas wanted to use five acres of land on CMC’s Spring Valley campus to erect a compressor station. Initially college administrators agreed but then the Board of Trustees voted not to recognize the lease.
Board President Glenn Davis told the Post Independent last year, in addition to addressing the college district’s authority to enter into such leases, the trustees were “responding to concerns raised by students, faculty and area residents” when they decided the lease was not legitimate.
CMC prevailed in two lower court rulings and now SourceGas must decide whether it will take the case to the Colorado Supreme Court. SourceGas filed an extension and has until late November to appeal the latest ruling from the Colorado Court of Appeals.
The Board of Trustees adjourned Thursday's meeting with "no action taken."
