Imperial Irrigation District directors fighting one another in court
Members of the Imperial Irrigation District board of directors are pitted against one another in a months-long battle that has spilled from public meetings to controversial closed-door sessions and now into a courtroom. At stake is an agreement with organized labor that will determine who gets tens of millions of dollars of IID business. Only days before a new board was seated in December 2020 — and after major campaign contributions by unions failed to gain support for their preferred candidates — IID's outgoing board quickly pushed through a project labor agreement, or PLA. This gro...