BOARD00021

• Board Meeting Date: 7/12/1965
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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HR. STAPLETON:

HR. SPARKS:

NR. STAPLETON:

HR. ECKLES:

"Felix, I'd like to suggest that you get
up, with your staff, a letter outlining all
the possible help, where it can be obtained,
what project act, and so forth, and send it
to municipal governments and so forth around
here. In a large community you have the
specialized knowledge, but in most of the
other communities nobOdy knows where to turn.
You often get more bad information than you
could good because half the people you ask
don't know any more than you do about it.
This, I think, ought to be one of the priori-
ties and helpful things that the Board can
do.1I

"He will get to work on that. Things
have moved so rapidly that we are not as well
prepared at this meeting as we hoped to be.
Ne will propose to the Board certain coordi-
nating committees. For instance, in the
Denver metropolitan area, vIe think it is
necessary to put together, we'll say, a
metropolitan advisory committee so that the
cities of Denver, Aurora, and the other cities
will have a firm liaison with our Board and
with all the federal agencies. A little later
I am going to recommend that our Nater Investi-
gation Commission, as such, be disbanded and
that we go on a sectional basis, . that is,
that we get more concentrated advice from
specific areas of the state where these problems
occur. Through such coordinating agencies I
think we can get the word out. This is the
difficulty of planning - trying to accomplish
proper liaison with the people of this state."

" Hr. E dele s has a collimen t . "

"Ben, I think this is of interest to all
districts of the state but especially ~tr.
Hilenski's and Mr. Vandemoer's. There is a
proposal - and I won't go into the construc-
tion or the design of these impoundments -
before Congress right now to increase the
maximum capacity of soil Conservation dams
from 5,000 to, I believe, l2,500 capacity.