Kent Singleton, who identified himself as a 77-year-old property owner, used the public-comment period at the Boating Advisory Council meeting on Dec. 2 to say Morgan County declared his driveway a public recreation area on May 21, 2019 without notice to him as the new owner.

Singleton told the council that commercial outfitters and large numbers of recreational users have been directed by government signage to enter and exit the river using his land, that he has shouldered liability and that repeated GRAMA (Government Records Access and Management Act) requests for navigability records have gone unanswered. He asked the council to "acknowledge that my driveway is being used," recognize that the Public Waters Access Act (PWAA) is not being followed, and call on DNR and DWR to produce navigability records. He concluded his remarks by saying he was seeking six months’ jail time and a $2,000 fine (as he phrased it) if state action did not follow.

Chair Jeff Salt and staff accepted Singleton’s comment for the record and asked him to submit documents to Jorge Vasquez or Ty Hunter for follow-up. No agency official disputed the factual assertions during the meeting, and the council did not take formal action on the request during the session.