Board Meeting 02/03/1986

• Board Meeting Date: 2/3/1986
• Description: Minutes of the Special Meeting of the CWCB February 3, 1986
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

legislative proposals (Appendix D) and by bringing to the
Board ' s attention a proposed statement of position concerning
water project financing legislation (Appendix E) . After brief
discussion, it was agreed that the Board did not wish to take
positions on individual bills but did wish to consider the
position statement proposed by Mr . McDonald . Substantial
discussion ensued about the draft position statement and
possible changes to it .
Following this discussion, Mr . Johnston moved , seconded by
Mr . Meyring , that the draft position statement be approved with
the addition of language indicating that the Board agreed in
principle with the legislation being proposed by the Alliance
for Colorado ' s Future . Discussion on the motion ensued at some
length, with Mr . McDonald being asked to explain the
particulars of that proposed legislation . At the conclusion of
the discussion, the chairman called for a vote, whereupon three
members voted for the motion and four voted against it . The
motion was declared lost .
Mr . McDonald then suggested that the first sentence of the
third paragraph on page one of the draft be deleted and the
second and third paragraphs combined into one paragraph . Mr .
Lochhead moved , seconded by Mr . Smith, that the draft position
statement , with this suggested change, be adopted . Again,
discussion ensued among Board members . Some members indicated
that they agreed with the position statement , as so amended , as
far as it went, but that they did not think that it was a
strong enough statement and they would therefore vote against
it . The chairman then called for a vote . Four members voted
for the motion and three voted against it, whereupon the motion
was declared lost because of the statutory requirement that
there be six votes to bind the Board to a position (see section
37-00-107 , CRS) .
After additional discussion, Mr . McDonald proposed that the
draft position statement be amended by : ( 1 ) deleting the
first sentence of the third paragraph on the first page , with
the second and third paragraphs being combined into a single
paragraph, and (2) adding a new sentence following the third
sentence in the last paragraph to read as follows :
"In light of these circumstances , the Board recommends to the
General Assembly that tax revenues be increased and earmarked
for the benefit of water project finaDCiDg . » Mr . Meyring
moved , seconded by Mr . Wright, that the draft statement with
these two changes be adopted by the Board as a statement of its
position . He further stated that the motion was offered with
the understanding that the Board was not taking a position on
any particular bill pending before the legislature nor did the
position statement imply a position on any particular
bill . There being no further discussion, the motion was
unanimously adopted .