Laserfiche WebLink
3. Mr. McDonald recommended that Item 3, Approval of <br /> Minutes, be deleted. • <br /> The changes to the agenda listed above were approved by <br /> consensus. <br /> Agenda Item 4 - Director' s Report <br /> Mr. McDonald reported on the following items : <br /> 1. President' s' FY 1985 budget request for Water resources <br /> planningand -devel'opmentIn -Colorado <br /> Mr. McDonald stated that the President's budget request <br /> for projects under construction appeared adequate to continue <br /> construction activities as scheduled. The budget request <br /> included funds for the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (Hbrsetooth <br /> Dam) , the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Projects (Grand <br /> Valley and Paradox Valley Units) , the Dallas Creek Project, the <br /> Dolores Project, the Fruitgrowers Project, the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br /> Project, the San Luis Valley Project (Closed Basin Division) , the <br /> Uncompahgre Project, and the Chatfield Channelization Project. <br /> Mr. McDonald also reported that no funds were included <br /> in the budget request for the Animas-La Plata and Narrows Projects. <br /> Funds for these projects were included in the FY 1984 Supplemental <br /> Appropriations Bill which had then been passed by the House. <br /> Subsequent action by the Senate Appropriations Committee retained • <br /> funds for the Animas-La Plata Project but deleted funds for the <br /> Narrows Unit. Mr. McDonald indicated that, in Senator Armstrong' s <br /> view, state cost-sharing would be mandatory and action on the two <br /> projects would not move until this issue was resolved. Following <br /> considerable Board discussion on this question, Mr. Robbins moved, <br /> seconded by Mr. Kroeger, that Mr. McDonald contact the General <br /> Assembly leadership to express the Board's concern over inaction <br /> on this cost-sharing issue and to emphasize the urgency..of the:._ T <br /> problem, which requires early resolution before these two projects <br /> will move to the construction stage. The motion was adopted by <br /> unanimous voice vote. <br /> 2. Cost-sharing announcement <br /> Mr. McDonald reported on the President's cost-sharing <br /> announcement, which was transmitted by letter to Senator Paul <br /> Laxalt (Nevada) in January, copies of which letter had been trans- <br /> mitted to Board members prior to the special meeting. <br /> 3. Salinity legislation <br /> Mr. McDonald reported that, during his trip to Washington, <br /> he contacted members of the state's congressional delegation and <br /> others concerning the status of amendments to the salinity legis- <br /> lation. Stemming from these contacts, it appears that markup of <br /> -2- <br />