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. . You suggested I talk with Jan llliarn, an attorney in your office, about the Amendment One issue. On :-lovember 7, approval of ballot question Measure 2B permanently removed the Town from Amendment One prowions. I am sending ~Is. llliam a copy of this letter with the ballot question and official election results and will assume this removes the Amendment One issue with you. -Item 12. You and I are meeting this Friday with a representative of the Leonard Rice consulting firm to discw.s the inadequacy of their 1983 Water Rights Analysis report. As we have discussed, I will request an adjustment and an update of that study at that meeting for a less than full price because of the 1983 inadequacy. -Item 18. I will open discussions with t.::e Water District regarding their needs alld how those needs can be met to the advantage of the Palisade project. This probably will not be until early January as I need to discuss it with at least the Town Board Public Works Committee if not the entire Board. We also discussed that before finalizing an agreement with Ute, the Town's operatioitaJ. information of physical capability, legal availability, basin capacity, and basin yield in a dry year be known. Those infonnation items will become known as the Feasability Report is being completed and from present infonnation. - We briefly discussed my two rough ideas on the cost of engineering and partial force- accOlmt work. The engineering possibility is for the Town to hire a staff engineer to which you said, as long as the engineer was certified, that was satisfactory. The force account work involves the posst'bility of the TOVlln hiring a work crew just for this project under the direction of an excellent foremen or the hired engineer. You said the CWCB preferred not to do the project this way, but left the poslllbiJity open depending on the specific plan. -We discussed the possibility of grant fimds and you said I should contact DLA and Cluis Bridges of your office. I will make both contacts. -Even though you thought it was not practical, you suggested the FeaSlbiJity Report consider the reservoir option. As we all realized in our disCussion, it is not possible to make all of the above things happen by the early January deadline to make this CWCB legislative appropriation, Because of the information needed, having a year to determine the best possible financing, , which may include Ute and grant funds which would save the Town a considerable amolUlt, and looking into the question of how much can be accomplished by Town forces, I am not disappointed in the year delay. Thank you for coming to Palisade and being most helpful in working together for the best possible, least expensive project. Sinc~ely, c!/.~ y~ Jack Yates Town Administrator