AGENCY NAME: Water Conservation Board
<br />AGENCY NUMBER: PDA
<br />I' ROUTING NUMBER: 97 PDA OfOZj II
<br />871,000
<br />LOAN CONTRACT & PROMISSORY NOTE
<br />THIS CONTRACT, made this day of � 1996, by and between the
<br />State of Colorado for the use and benefit of the Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Water
<br />Conservation Board (CWCB), hereinafter referred to as the STATE, the ORCHARD MESA IRRIGATION
<br />DISTRICT, P.O. Box 356, Palisade, CO 81526, hereinafter referred to as the DISTRICT and the MUTUAL MESA
<br />LATERAL ENTERPRISE, P.O. Box 356, Palisade, CO 81526, hereinafter referred to as the BORROWER and /or
<br />CONTRACTOR.
<br />FACTUAL RECITALS
<br />A. Authority exists in the law, and funds have been budgeted, appropriated and otherwise made
<br />available and a sufficient unencumbered balance thereof remains available for payment in Fund Number 424,
<br />Organization YYYY, Appropriation 538, Program WTRC, Object Code 5180, Contract Encumbrance Number
<br />C153723.
<br />B. Required approval, clearance, and coordination have be
<br />agencies.
<br />C. Pursuant to the provisions of §§ 37-60-119 and 31
<br />authorized to loan money for the construction of water projects
<br />provided that the borrower assures repayment of that money.
<br />D. The DISTRICT is a duly constituted Colorado irrigation di:
<br />C.R.S. (1990) and governed by Articles 42 and 43 of Title 37, C.R.
<br />County, State of Colorado.
<br />h appropriate
<br />the STATE iS
<br />Of the STATE,
<br />2 of Title 37,
<br />sated in Mesa
<br />E. The DISTRICT applied to the STATE for a loan to be used to finance the costs of rehabilitating the
<br />Mutual Mesa Lateral Ditch by placing approximately 22,500 feet of open ditch into pipeline and constructing
<br />the necessary turnouts, valves and measuring structures, hereinafter referred to as the PROJECT.
<br />F. The BORROWER is an enterprise within the meaning of § 37- 45.1 -101 et seg., C.R.S. (Supp. 1996)
<br />and was established by a resolution of the DISTRICT'S Board of Directors adopted October 3, 1996, which is
<br />incorporated herein by reference, for purposes of contracting for the loan(s), materials and labor required to
<br />complete the PROJECT, owning new structures and facilities associated with the PROJECT, and maintaining the
<br />PROJECT.
<br />G. A feasibility study conducted by WestWater Engineering, which is incorporated herein by reference,
<br />was reviewed by the STATE and, based upon this feasibility study, the STATE determined the PROJECT to be
<br />technically and financially feasible.
<br />H. At its January 25, 1995 meeting, the CWCB approved a loan to the DISTRICT /BORROWER in the
<br />amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), which amount shall not exceed 75% of actual PROJECT costs, at
<br />an interest rate of 4% per annum for a duration of thirty (30) years to be used to finance PROJECT costs.
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<br />Mutual Mesa Lateral Enterprise
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