Two local agencies have formally objected to an effort to confirm title to Tehachapi Basin water rights in Santa Barbara Superior Court. The Bozenich Family Trust, with Nathaniel D. Carey as trustee, has petitioned Santa Barbara Superior Court to confirm title to 55 acre-feet of water rights that Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District records show transferred to Golden Hills Community Services District around 1998. The matter is set for hearing in Santa Barbara on Oct. 3. The petition is part of a larger case to settle probate matters related to the Bozenich Family Trust. Gary Bozenich died in February 2022. His mother, Dorothy Bozenich, died in 2002. A review of water district records and a description of a series of real estate transactions between various parties beginning in 1979, shows a conflicting history of 110 acre-feet of Tehachapi Basin water rights that once belonged to former Tehachapi resident Sue Sullivan. Sullivan died in 2007.