BOARD00140

• Board Meeting Date: 5/7/1980
• Description: Agenda and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Last year he managed to get an appropriation out of

the general fund. He was told this year that he'd have

no success whatsoever. The scheme that was hatched at

the last minute, without knowledge to myself, was

inclusion of the $200,000 item in Senate Bill 67.

As I said, it lost on the House but now it's back

in front of the Conference Committee. My attitude

toward this item all along has been as follows: Number

one, I certainly support the need for research and

particularly what we mean here is research aimed at

improving palnning and management methodology such as

better understanding of the information and modeling

that needs to go into the conjunctive use of groundwater

and surface water; of those kinds of things.

So I have no hesitation about the need for research

dollars and I think the sum is appropriate. I have,

however, not supported the inclusion of the $200,000 in

Senate Bill 67 on the grounds that the Board has

consistently taken the position that the construction fund

is a revolving loan fund, in effect, not a grant fund for

things like .research.

And consistent with the position we took on the

Sea Springs Flood Control project where this Board

instructed me to make that point to the legislature, I

have not thoughtit appropriate to really promote this item

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