Board Meeting 12/05/1979

• Board Meeting Date: 12/5/1979
• Description: Minutes, Agenda, Memorandums December 5, 1979
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
MINUTES OF THE
DECEMBER 5, 1979 REGULAR MEETING
COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL
I/ DENVER, COLORADO
The meeting was called to order at 10 :15 a.m. by Chairman Ben
Stapleton. Members in attendance were: Fred Kroeger, Vice-Chairman,
John Fetcher, Chris Furneau, Floyd Getz, Pat Gormley, Bob Jackson,
David Leinsdorf, Herb Vandemoer, J. D. MacFarlane , Attorney General,
Bill Smith, Acting State Engineer, and Bill McDonald, Director and
Secretary. Harris Sherman, Executive Director, Colorado Department
of Natural Resources , was absent.
The first order of business was the approval of the minutes of
the September 19 , 1979 meeting which had been previously distributed
to the Board members . Mr. Gormley moved, seconded by Mr. Getz, that
the minutes as printed and distributed be approved. The motion was
adopted by a unanimous voice vote .
The Chairman then suggested, and with the leave of the members ,
the Board proceeded to consider agenda item 4, concerning the Board' s
policy on reimbursement of construction funds for flood control and
recreation projects . Mr. McDonald then briefly summarized his memo-
randum to the Board members concerning this agenda item (copy attached) .
He pointed out that with the passage of Senate Bill 537 (1979 session)
flood control and recreation had been added as statutorily authorized.
project purposes for Board projects . In the passage of that bill,
Mr. McDonald pointed out that it was specified that all or any portion
of the costs attributable to flood control and recreation could be
considered non-reimbursable at the discretion of the Board. In turn,
of course, the Board's recommendation in that regard would be subject
to the Legislature's approval when they reviewed the Board's recom-
mendations . Mr. McDonald noted that the issue before the Board was
whether the Board would like to consider flood control and recreation
projects to be non-reimbursable or reimbursable.
Mr. McDonald went on to explain that it was the staff's recom-
mendation that flood control purposes should be reimbursable as are
projects with any other purposes . The basis for reaching this con-
clusion was twofold: (1) the spirit and intent of the construction
fund was that it be a self-sustaining, revolving fund, and (2) the
staff's opinion that as long as the beneficiaries of a project can be
readily identified and there are not major administrative problems in
collecting payments from those beneficiaries , then the costs of a