BOARD00226

• Board Meeting Date: 4/1/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. SPAJU<S:

MR. BERTHELSON:

MR. KROEGER:

MR. SPAJU<S:

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to get away from the present system in which
the Director bf Natural Resources does all the
lobbying for everybody in the de~artment so to
speak, what would it take to change this proce-
dure where we would get a hearing before the
Budget Committee? Can the Governor do that
under the law?"

"No. This is strictly a legislative matter.
The Governor has no control over it."

"He wouldn't have anything to do with that."

"Well, could some understanding be created
with the Director of Natural Resources whereby
these agencies could have a little more direct
line into the Budget Committee?"

"The work is basically done during the year
prior to the time the legislature convenes. It
is done mostly by the staff members of the Joint
Budget Committee. That is a corlstantly changing
staff. People come and go; You hardly ever
know from one year to the next who is handling
your budget and that's where the breakdowns
actually occur-..,

I think that Mr. Ten Eyck is making every
effort to improve the situation. We hope that
we can sit down with the staff of the Joint
Budget committee in the next few months and
try to work out some procedure where the staff
member who is handlih~ our budget or the Game
and Fish or whatever it is, sits down and talks
to us.

The next item is the John Martin Reservoir
permanent pool problem; A few months ago, Mr.
Ten Eyck called a conference with members of our
staff and the Game, Fish and Parks staff to
determine how we can solve this permanent pool
problem. It was finally agreed that it would
be the responsibility of the staff of this
Board to consummate the purchase of water for
the permanent pool. The legislature has