Board Meeting 03/17/1980

• Board Meeting Date: 3/17/1980
• Description: Agenda and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

DRAFT MINUTES

FOR WATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEETING

OF MARCH 17, 1980

Vice-Chairman, Kroeger, called the meeting to order and asked

for additions or corrections to minutes of the May meeting forward-

ed to members in the mail.
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A motion to approve was made by t1 I) .' :><t' fyJ /l'Y\x.V<-t

seconded by Mr. Fetcher. Vice-Chairman, Kroeger declared them

approved.

He then called for a report on status of legislation by Mr.

McDonald. Mr. McDonald commented on House bills 1039 and 1040

previously sent to board members and briefly reviewed in January.

Both are potential funding sourceS for the Water Conservation

Board construction fund. House bill 1039 does so by diverting

a percentage of the sales and use tax into the construction fund

in the amount of 5% per year for the next 10 fiscal years, House

bill 1040 has a different source in that it takes a percentage of

the tax surp&us that exists after general fund spending, now 1imitedd

to a 7% increase per year, and places that percentage in the

construction fund. Both bills have passed out of the House Agri-

cultural Livestock and Water Committee and have been referred to

the Committee as a whole. Neither has received floor action. Mr.

McDonald pointed out that a number of considerations are going on

in the legislature about significant increases in funding for

Water Development projects. He has been aslkd to provide infor-

mation on the ability of the Board to initiate construction on