BOARD00736

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/1958
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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understand it, Section Five says they will
be paid but the commission itself, under
Section Two, will not be paid. I would like
to see the matter postponed to give us all
a chance to think it over and to give the
staff of the Water Board, the Director and
its counsel, an opportunity to consider the
matter and point up any defects or any prob-
lems that they can foresee and then we will
be better advised. I personally would be
much more satisfied to study it over myself
for a week and then make a decision on it."

MR. SAUNDERS:

"Mr. Chairman, to get these facts clear.
I think the suggestion about allowing a week
for the districts to make their selections is
a good suggestion all right if we have an under-
standing the thing is going ahead.

On this Paragraph Five, I want to point
out a precedent. This paragraph provides that
the Study Commission will carry out the studies
through the employment of special personnel to
do these jobs. Now we have precedent for that.
When we got this report out we had an unpaid
commission or committee which, in turn, recom-
mended to this Board a paid group from outside
to do this work. We even went outside the State
to get that group. The Water Congress has dis-
cussed this and the members feel we have ample
engineering and legal talent within our own
State to undertake this work. If a member of
the committee of five or six, whichever it may
turn out, is called upon to do technical work
in his field, the thought was that he would be
paid for that but that serving on a committee
of this kind, he should not be paid any more
than a member of the Water Board is paid. If
a member of this Water Board was employed to
do some special work because of his technical
training, he should be paid for that technical
work."

MR. MOSES:

"Do you all want to approve the principle
of the program suggested by the representatives
of the Water Congress? This is in the form of
a'~otion. All those in favor signify by saying
'aye'; opposed the same. Will all those opposed
raise their hands."

After a count of the vote, the motion was declared
passed six to four.