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<br />I <br /> <br />. discussion of this Board of what we actually are doing as far as these <br />projects from a point of :view of standards. . <br /> <br />Why. for instance. can't Pueblo get help through. this fund as opposed <br />to Brighton? I think we do need to very. very carefully set some ba.sic <br />parameters of the conditions under which the state will loan money to <br />a municipality or a county to do this kind of work which is generally a <br />local mill levy bond issue type of activity. .. <br /> <br />Now. there are probably good reasons why we ought to do this. I'm not <br />quarll:'eling with the overall concept. but I am concerned that we really <br />don't have a firm standardl if you will, as to why one place will get <br />it and another place doesn t. .. . <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Well. Mr. Jackson. we went into that at length. Let <br />me tell you my impressions of what we talked about. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. JACKSON: All right. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: First of all, I was talking in terms --:1 couldn't <br />understand why Brighton with the capacity to raise bonds needed this <br />parti~ular help. :I'm told by.Larry that, for example, the cost of <br />putting water meters in Brighton is something.that might.very well <br />double the cost of water, and: that therefore, it might not be feasible <br />from a bonding or practical water use standpoint to do that without <br />some state help. <br /> <br />As you know; we've had a ~ong-standing p~sition that water meters are <br />one important element of conservation. It's my understanding that the <br />cities of considerably ~reater size than Brighton are considering these <br />matters, and I think it s timely that we have some guidelines. : <br /> <br />As a first start on that, we've asked the staff to prepare all the <br />input of these various fifteen items as to what we felt, for example. <br />some were duplication, some wet:e unnecessary. We didn't understand <br />others, and they're to come back.with the inp.ut:there with the idea <br />that from there we will try to develop a policy in this regard. <br /> <br />I, for example, have thought that maybe little c01JllIlUl1ities like Rico <br />which had no opporunity really with their property base to do anything <br />unless we help were really the meat of what the legislature was getting <br />at. Rereading the construction fund legislation, that didn't come <br />through to me, and it may be an assumption, or maybe when I was talking <br />to the legislators when it was ,passed those were their thoughts. <br /> <br />But I think your point is well taken. This might. be a start with it. <br />and I think we ought to formulate a policy. and perhaps the thing we <br />should do is suggest a policy statement that would come before the <br />Board and give it adequate attention at the next meeting so that we can <br />come to grips with it. <br /> <br />MR. JACKSON: I think that would be excellent, Mr. Chairman. and some- <br />thing in the.area of assessed value, current. water rates. There are <br />several parameters, certainly, that could be considered as a basis, and <br /> <br />-25- <br />