BOARD00198

• Board Meeting Date: 1/15/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Congress when it first was organized. I have
been aware for a number of years now that we
have not dealt with adequately nor sOlved
the problem of groundwater appropriations.

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My only concern and interest is that we
somehow address ourselves constructively to
that problem and solve it. I'm reminded a
little of the position I find myself in as a
suburban resident of Denver in an unincorporated
area which is still seeking the ideal, perfect
utopian solution to local government, as a
consequence of which we have virtually none.
We asked for more studies and let's look at
another thing or somebody's going to come up
with a better solution further down the road.
I just hope we don't get ourselves into that
box. I suspect we are in it already. I hope
we won't give up efforts at least to get out
of that box.

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I respect and admire the op~n~ons of
people of far greater knowledge in this field
than I have. I do hope that we, in our search
for perfection or utopia or the one and only
solution, don't stop to consider the possibil~
ityof one or two halting steps in the direc-
tion of solutions that will somehow resolve
this thing. This legislative effort of one
year, which has now expired, was supposed to
give us a little breathing room. Whether or
not we made good use of it, I don't know. So
my only hope and-desire in the,poat I find ~y~
self in, is that we for heaven's sake don't
give up the struggle. Let's keep working on it.
If we have a basis of a good beginning for the
solution, let's not throw it all out. Let's
do what we can with what we have spent a good
deal of the state's money for. If there is
any merit in it, let's try to support that
part that has merit. I suspect that no perfect
legislation has ever yet been enacted. It is
continually tampered with, adopted, modified,
amended and I think that is one of the wonders
of our system of government.