BOARD00444

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

'j

,~.:r .

I

I

MR. SPARKS:

MR. L. WILLIAMS:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. L. WILLIAMS:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. PETERSON:

MR. STAPLETON.:

MR. PETERSON:

LL~I

be preferable to using a tax roll which is
one year older. I think it is a question of
policy. Of times it is better to accomplish
a small task than to argue about a bigger one."

"We tried to make, of course, a minimum of
changes. Because every time you tinker with a
statute, you are trying to accomplish one pur-
pose and you may throw the whole machinery out
of balance in some other way. So we are trying
to make the very minimum of changes. But
those are worthwhile points. They have been
brought up already, Dave, in some of the com-
ments. We have received some very good com-
ments from the conservancy districts up to date."

"It's only corrective legislation anyway."

"It's corrective, yes."

"Thing;; like that will have to be argued
out in the committees in the House and Senate."

"In all probability they will pass it right
through. If our Board and the conservancy dis-
tricts say this is fine I assume that the
Legislature will pass it right on through."

"Mr. Cl1airman."

"Mr. peterson."

"I believe this proposal of corrective
legislation is very important and there is a
time limit on action that this Board could
take becauee, to do us any good, it has to be
taken care of during this present session of
the Legislature. I would like to see us take
some kind of action on this proposal at the
present tillle. I am aware of the fact that whe:1
the attorneys for the conservancy districts get
together they could change it considerably and
I would not want to give blanket authority to
something that might be developed in the future,
but it seemS to me that if we could give tenta--
tive approval to this at the present time, and