BOARD00296

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

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Estes Park area. Mr. Hubler, with the aid of various charts, gave an excellent
review of the preliminary survey which had been completed.

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The statenent of Mr. Hubler continued until Governor Knous appeared
for an executive session with the Board on the question of salaries and com-
pensation for members of the Board s~aff.

The executive session continued for an hour at the conclusion of
which the Board resumed its open sessions.

Mr. Hubler concluded his statement, which was supplemented by the
Director who urged that the Board authorize the appointment of a committee to
confer with other State and Federal agencies in an effort to initiate a policy
and program for the recreational facilities incident to reclamation development.

The Board then reverted to a further discussion of the matter of the
salary of the Director and compensation for the consulting engineer and the
attorney at the conclusion of such discussion, Mr. Dille offered the following
motion:

"I move that the Board, through the proper procedure, authorize
and approve an increase in the compensation of Royce J. Tipton,
consulting engineer, and of Jean S. Breitenstein, attorney for the
Board, to $6,000 a year for each of them; that the Director be
authorized, with the approval of the Governor, to enter into the
necessary contracts, in each case, for such services; and that such
contract be for the period from July 1, 1948 to June 30, 1949; and
that the Vice Chairman appoint a committee to investigate ways and
means of increasing the salary of the Director, the activities of the
committee to be carried on through discussions with the Director,
Attorney General, and the Governor, and through such other means as
may determine whether or not such increase in salary can be made.
And I further move that the committee appointed by the Vice Chairman
be given power to act in this regard."

The motion was seconded, and upon vote being taken, unanimously
carried and declared adopted.

Thereupon the Vice Chairman appointed Silmon Smith and George A.Pughe
to serve on the committee authorized by the motion of Mr. Dill~.

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Thereupon Ed C. Dutcher made the following motion:

"I move that the budget of the Colorado Water Conservation Board
for the fiscal year, July 1, 1948 to June 30, 1949 be approved by
the Board, except for such changes therein as are 'necessary-to
effectuate the increases in salaries t'ortthecDil!ector, consulting
engineer, and attorney for the Board."

The motion was duly seconded and upon vote being duly taken,
unanimously carried and declared passed.

The Board reverted to a further discussion of the matter of effectu-
ating policies and rules and regulations regarding recreational facilities
incident to the reclamation project development. After further discussion, the