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GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT o 0:) ... Ql> ton W Colorado State Statutes provide the District shall be under the direction of a Board of Directors repre- senting the area covered by the District. The Court Order creating the Southeastern Colorado Water Con- servancy District Ruled that each of the nine Counties in the District would have two appointed Directors, with the exception that one person would represent that portion of Prowers and Kiowa Counties within the District. Other Counties represented are: Chaffee, Fremont, El Paso, Pueblo, Otero, Crowley and Bent. The members appointed to the Board are (lbli- gated to carry out not only the provisions of the State Statutes. but are also bound by such other agreements and contracts as are entered into by the District in the conduct of water business in the interest of the present and future citizens within the confines of the Con- servancy District. On April 20, 1972, the Honorable William L. Gobin, Water Judge, Division 2, gave the Oath of Office to the following, who he had either reappointed or appointed for the first time to a two year term on the Board of Directors: Harold Christy Dave Ciruli Roy Cooper George Everett Leon Hook John Huebsch Dr. Wendell Hutchinson John E, Javernick Three Charter members of the Board of Directors requested to be retired from th~ Board after serving consecutively since 1958. These included the first Pre,ident, J, Selby Young 01 EI Paso County, and James Shoun and Frank Dilley of Fremont County. Mr. Shoun served the District as the first Secretary and as Treasurer for a number Df years. Tom McCurdy Frank Milenski J, Sid Nichols Joe Purvis Herbert Schroeder J ame5 Wagner Keilh Webb At the regular monthly Board meeting immedi- ately foHowing the Swearing In Ceremony in the Water Court, the Board of Directors unanimously elected the following Officers to serve for the coming year: President, Tom McCurdy Vice President, Roy Cooper Secretary, Harold Christy Treasurer, Joe Purvis Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, Charles L. Thomson The Board of Directors meet monthly, at the District Ollices, 905 Highway 50 West, Pueblo, Colo- rado, and aU meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month at 10:00 a.m., unless the Board, by majority vote, elects to change the date, or the place or both. Visitors and members of the news media are 5 always cordially invited to attend the Board meetings, and the Directors are pleased with the large number of such persons who attend. TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS On January 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon recommended to the Congress of the United States that $38,500,000 be appropriated for continued construction on the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. This was the largest amount ever requested by a President since construction began in 1964, and~ if approved by the Congress, would permit the awarding of a contract to complete Pueblo Dam ~ continue construction on the much needed Mt. Elbert Pumped-Storage Power- plant; awarding of a construction contract on Cun- ningham Tunnel, an integral part of the Northside Collection System; and continued preconstruct ion planning 011 the remainder of the Project features. The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District is the Legal Agency for the Fryingpan- Arkansas Project, having entered into a Contract with the Uniled Slates on January 21, 1965, whereby the District would repay, with intcre5t, the assigned re- imbursable costs of the completed Project. As such, its Board of Directors has a primary responsibility to see the Project completed at the earliest possible date, to keep the final cost to a minimum, and have a Water Management Project which will accomplish those things authorized by the Congress in 1962. After carefully evaluating the request submitted to the Congress by President Nixon, the Board deter- mined it ,..'ould be necessary to ask the Members of Congress to increase the request by $1,300,000, in order that necessary land could be acquired at Twin Lakes. Represf!tltarives from the District then joined with U.S. Senators Gordon Allott and Peter H. Domi- nick, and Congressmen Wayne Aspinall and Frank Evans, to testify 'before the Appropriations Subcom- mittees in support of the much needed additional funds. The request for adequate funding was also supported in testimony from the Arkansas Basin De- velopment Association, Arkansas River Basin Interstate Committee, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, Water Resources Congress and the National Water Resources Association. The Members of Congress en- dorsed the request, and President Richard Nixon signed it into Law in September 1972. The District also testified in support of adequate funding for the Army Corps of Engineer Pro"jects at Trinidad Dam, and the Las Animas Flood Control Project. Both of these items were approved by the Congress and President Nixon. This Program requires careful evaluation by the Board; close cooperation with the Colorado Congres- I , .J.",,,,,;wC'c";;~C' ;,; 6 ,-"-',"