BOARD00380

• Board Meeting Date: 7/30/1958
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. MOSES:

"I don't want the members of this
Commission to feel that that is a final
figure, that $1,000. It is just a desire
to have the Board see what is going on
before any further expenditures are made.

May we have the question?"

MR. CHRISTY:
MR. MOSES:

"Question."

"All those in favor signify by saying
'aye'; opposed the same."

The motion passed unanimously upon vote.

Mr. Moses spoke to the nominees of the Water Investi-
gation Commission, telling them that while all they had heard
were questions and objections which might indicate the atti-
tude of the Board was entirely negative to the proposal of the
Commission, this was not the case at all.. He stated that on
behalf of the Board he wanted to thank the Water Congress and
the members of the Commission for the work already done; that
the remarks they had heard were only out of a desire on the part
of the Board to fulfill its obligations; that he believed the
proposal and commission was a wonderful thing and would have
remarkable results.

MR. MOSES:

"Do you want to make your report now,
Mr. Sparks?"

MR. SPARKS:

"The staff of this Board has been aware
of the need for commencement of the Glen
Canyon Reservoir study at the earliest
possible date. Mr. Kuiper, whom I believe
to be one of the most competent hydraulic
engineers in the State, will corne to work
for the Board next week and he will be given
the primary responsibility of completing
the Glen Canyon study.

I have been in recent consultation with
Mr. Goslin, Secretary-Engineer of the Upper
Colorado River Commission, and I am advised
that the Commission has been studying this
problem for several months past.

As Mr. Barnard has already stated, the
State of California has already commenced a