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obtaining a state permit. He said that the Gunnison County Commissioners <br />have committed $20,000, Dos Rios Water has committed $5,000, Crested <br />Butte Mountain Resort has committed $10,000, the Town of Crested Butte <br />and the City of Gunnison have each committed to $2,000, Gunnison <br />Stockgrowers have committed $1,000, and Scenic River Tours has <br />committed $1,000. He said that he will solicit contributions from other local <br />entities, and that he is looking for $25,000 from the Upper Gunnison <br />District. <br />The manager said that the Upper Arkansas River Water Conservancy District <br />is considering including three generators in the Tomichi Drainage as part of <br />their cloud seeding effort and wants to know if this District would consider <br />paying half the cost of those three generators, which would be <br />approximately $11,000. She said that this could dovetail with Gunnison <br />County' s program, which is proposed for twenty generators, so perhaps <br />three could be removed from that program. The board expressed concern <br />that because another entity is managing those sites, the Upper Gunnison' s <br />needs might not be adequately met. <br />Jim Cochran moved that this District contribute $25,000 to Gunnison <br />County' s cloud seeing effort and that if they have a shortfall, we revisit this <br />motion and amend it accordingly. Harley Tripp seconded the motion. The <br />motion carried. <br />The manager said that she included money in the Regional Water Supply <br />Improvement Program line item to support the cloud seeding program. <br />The manager described her recent efforts to study project financing and has <br />learned that an enterprise fund has to be 90% funded by non property tax <br />revenues, which would mean that people would have to pay on an annual <br />basis in order for contract water to be available to them. John McClow <br />recommended that the board develop a policy of calculating the costs and <br />assessing the buyers accordingly. <br />The consensus of the board was to include the issue of cost recovery on a <br />future agenda to discuss. <br />The manager said that the Budget Message sets forth wages and hours she <br />considers necessary under the Other Salary line item. She said that she has <br />revised the job descriptions, and has based Jill' s salary on an average of <br />thirty -five hours per week, and Rick' s on forty hours per week. <br />Page 3 of 8 <br />