BOARD00444

• Board Meeting Date: 1/11/1961
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MILLER:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. . MILLER:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. MILLER:

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IIMr. Miller."

"I assume that this bill is drawn on ~e
theory that land can be in two or more water
conservancy districts?"

"It is. I don't know whether it can be,
but it is."

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"That particular point has never been de-
cided, whether it can or can't be in two, and
there.is no decision. It seems to ,me that
this point ought to be determined as part of
. this proposed legislation."

"I gave that a lot of hard thought, Dave.
All I know is that there are overlapping dis-
tricts at the present time that the court did
form. I think perhaps, at least in one case,
it was inadvertent and we tried to take care
of that. We think the people ought to be
specifically advised. If they are going to
be in two districts, that fact should be
called to their attention. There is no pro-
vision in the law now to call it to their
attention. That's a matter which I think,
Dave, could be fully explored at this meeting
of the conservancy districts attorneys.

There are certainly situations where they
may want to be in two districts because it .is
possible in a specific area to get benefits
from two different projects."

"It seems to me the act was on the assump-
tion that you could be in two districts, but
this point has been raised on several occa-
sions and has never been answered. Perhaps
the answer could be forthcoming.

I might also add here that there are
many other parts of the conservancy district
act that need a little bit of clarification.
This question of the tax roll has been a sore
spot and it seems to me that it, would be simple
to say that the ownership as appearing on the
assessor's records for the latest year would

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