Board Meeting 12/05/1979

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

:-lembers , Colorado Water Conservation Board
and Colorado Water Congress Executive Committee -
November 26, 179
Page two
3. While the factors evaluated by the staff have been explicit, the
procedure for weighing and comparing them for different projects
has not heretofore been carried out pursuant to explicit criteria.
Thus , I have asked the staff to examine how we might improve our
evaluation procedures in order to insure that projects are treated
consistently and equitably insofar as the staff's recommended
service charge is concerned.
4. The alternative procedures for establishing service charges which
have been reviewed by the staff are as follows :
A. Continue our more or less informal process of evaluation,
which process relies primarily upon the staff's judgmental
comparison of the above-cited factors for different projects.
B. Develop a numerical rating system designed to insure that the
relevant factors will be weighted uniformly from project to
project.
C. Adopt a single service charge (e.g. , 4 percent) which would be
applied to all projects regardless of project purpose and with.
out regard to an evaluation of the factors cited in paragraph 2.
D. Adopt service charges which would vary by project. purpose
(e.g. , 3 percent for irrigation projects and 4 percent for
domestic water supply projects) , but which would not take into
account an evaluation of the factors cited in. paragraph 2.
5. Staff recommendation.
A. We recommend that service charges henceforth be fixed by
project purpose, with no consideration given to variations
in the rate charged similar projects even though the factors
cited in paragraph 2 may vary as between two such similar
projects .
B. The fixed rates we recommend are:
(1) Flood control and recreation -- 2 percent.
(2) Irrigated agricultural projects -- 3 percent.
(3) All other projects -- 4 percent.