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<br />Members, Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />July 1, lS80 <br />p.s~ <br /> <br />3. Emergency fund authority. <br /> <br />Over the past two years, the staff has received requests <br />for emergency monetary assistance from existing irrigation <br />organizations to repair or replace facilities caused by <br />flood flows or high runoff from above average snowpack. <br />These requests are for the most part received in the <br />spring of the year during the high streamflow period and <br />after the Board's recommendations to the legislature have <br />been submitted. Unless special action on these requests <br />is taken by the General Assembly, funds are not available <br />to accommodate these requests. <br /> <br />To accommodate these re-occurring requests for emergency <br />financial assistance, the staff recommends that five <br />million dollars of the Board's construction fund be autho- <br />rized and reserved for such emergencies. This proposal <br />would require legislative approval. If the Board concurs, <br />the staff will draft legislation for the Board's approval <br />and seek to obtain such authorization in the 1981 session <br />of the General Assembly. <br /> <br />4. Additional personnel to administer the construction program. <br /> <br />Senate Bill 149 passed by the 1980 General Assembly appro- <br />priated $40 million to the Board's construction fund. This <br />amount, plus funds made available by Senate Bill 537, will <br />result in a greatly expanded program during the upcoming <br />and subsequent fiscal years. To administer the program, <br />we will require the acquisition of additional personnel <br />in our Projects Construction Section. At a minimum, this <br />will require the addition of 4 employees in this section. <br />We plan to add 2 new employees as soon as the personnel <br />actions can be completed. Two additional employees will <br />be added later in the fiscal year depending upon how <br />rapidly we can complete the contractual requirements and <br />initiate construction on the eighteen projects authorized <br />by Senate Bill 67. <br /> <br />5. Applications for feasibility studies, <br /> <br />Stemming from the increased funding to the Board's <br />