Maricopa County v. Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No. 1

OPINION

EUBANK, Judge.

This appeal arises from a dispute over a $2.00 entrance fee charged by Maricopa County (County), and then remitted to Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No. 1 (MWD), for each vehicle entering Lake Pleasant Regional Park. In 1984, the parties entered into an agreement providing that the County would collect the $2.00 fee for MWD’s benefit to help offset MWD’s spiraling costs for the operation, maintenance and safety of Waddell Dam and Camp Dyer Diversion Dam. The agreement supplemented a 1969 contract authorizing the County to manage a regional park…