BOARD00296

• Board Meeting Date: 6/22/1948
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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RayE. Peterson, Administrative Assistant of the Board, was called
upon to make a detailed. explanation of the items appearing in the budget.
In this connection, he discussed the salaries and reclassifications of the
various members of the staff of the Board. He explained reasons for in-
crease in salaries as well as reclassification of personnel which had been
approved by the Civil Service Commission. He pointed out that the budget
reflected the automatic increases which are in conformity with rules and re-
gulations established by the Civil SerVice Commission.

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In connection with the consideration of the budget, the salary of the
Director and the compensation for contractual services of Royce J. Tipton,.
Consulting Engineer of the Board, and of Jean S. Breitenstein, Attqrney for
tJ1e Board, came up for ElXtended discussion. It was proposed that &vernor
w'. Lee Knous., Chairman of the Board, be asked to attend an executive session
later in the day in an effort to ascertain what could be done.to provide
adequate salaries for these staff manbers.

It was recognized by the Board that one of the present difficulties
in filling the position of Chief Engineerwa~ that, under the State set uP.
adequate salary could not be paid to obtain the type of man desired for that
position. It was explained that several men, who were capable of filling the
ppsition, had been interviewed, but none had yet been found willing to work
for the salary which could be paid by the State.

Further consideration of the budget and compensation for members of
the staff 6f. the Board was de-Iayed until t he afternoon session when the Gov-
ernor could be present.

. Th,ereupon item No.5 of the agenda, "Report of Special Committee
appointed to. arrange ways and means of. compliance by Colorado with proviSions
of North Platte Decree of United States Supreme Court", came up for discussion.
Jean S. Breitenstein, Chainnan of the Committee, made the report on the matter.
He stated that he had prepared a fonn of report to be made by the State of Colo-
rado in compliance with the Decree of the United States ->Upreme Court. This
report is one which must be made each year. He said that after discussion with
the Director, it was agreed that the Attorney General should send a letter to
the States of Wyoming and Nebraska and to the Department of Justice of the
United States, showing the form of report which Colorado proposes to use and
specifying where these reports would be placed on file each year. Copies of
these reports, he stated, should be filed in the office of the Colorado Water
Cbnservation'Board, the office of the State Engineer and Assessor's office of
J~ckson County, Colorado.

Mr. Breitenstein also. explained that Chief Engineer Patterson last
year had advised that the making of the survey in Jackson County would not be
necessary. He expressed the belief that this was a wrong decision and that
this year the Director of the. Board had arranged for the annual survey to be
made and for the preparation of the report in. compliance with the procedure
above mentioned.

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The Director suggested that an item, not appearing on the agenda,
should be reported to the Board. He explained that an agreement between the
States Colorado, New Mexico and Texas and with the A~ Engineers and Bureau
of Reclamation, in connection with a plan of development and operation of the
proposed Middle Rio Grande Project, New Mexico, recently had been reached