BOARD00361

• Board Meeting Date: 9/13/1945
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

put these men baok on the payrell of the Board on the
basis of compensation whioh they would have reoeiTed
had they remained in the empley of the Board up to the
present time.

The motion was unanimously' passed and deolared
adopted.

Attention was oalled to the inorease in'size of the membership of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board under the Aot of the last General Assembly.
The membership before the effeotive date of the reoent Act ....as twelve, and
by suoh Aot was inoreased to fourteen members. It was suggested that, be-
oause of suoh inorease in membership of UeBeard, the rules and ~egulations.
heretofore adopted for the oonduot of the Board meetings, should be ~hanged
with respeot te the number whioh oonstitutes a quorum.

After disoussion, it ....as moved by Att~rney General
Hinkley and seoonded by Mr. Pughe that t~'rules and
regulations, heretofore adopted by the Board fQr, the
oonduot of its meetings, be amended to pr~{de that the
attendanoe of eight members at any regular i>]" ,speoial
lll8eting of the Board shall oen.titute a quorilm,.to d.
business. ""

The motion was unanimeusly oarried and deolared
..dopted.

The direotor oalled attention to the forthooming meeting of the Nation..l
Reolamation Assooiation whioh would oonTene in Denver on November 14, 15 and
16, 1945, and urged that the members seoure as large a representation from
Colorade as possible. He oalled attention to a number of important questions
relative to water clevelopment whioh would be oonsidered by the oonvention.

The direotor then 00.1 led a ttention to the faot that the Colorado Water
ConserV1l.tion Board should beoQ.me a oontributing member of the National Rivers
and Harbers Congress and that this would require an annual membership fee of
$100.00. He reoommended that, rather than this amount being paid out of the
funds of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, it be oontributed by the
larger irrigatien and oonservation distriots of the State. Thereupon dif-
ferent members of the Board agreed to attempt to seoure oontributions from
their respeotiTe areas of the State, as f.ll.....s, Judge John B. O'Rourke,
$25.00 fram the San Juan basin; Mr. Saunders, $25.00 from the Denver Water
Board; Mr. Dille. $25.00 from the NOrthern Colorado Water Conservanoy Distriot;
and Mis. Peinter, $25.00 from the Arkansas River basin.

The direotor made a brief report on the status of legislation now pending
in Congress for the establishment of riT8r Talley authoritie..

The direotor also oalled attention t.. the faot that as soon as the forth-
ooming report of the Bureau of Reolamati.ll. .n the oanprehensive plan of de-
velopment of the Colorado River Basin was made aT8.ilable to the Beard and same