BOARD00736

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

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5. To enable said study commission to carry out the studies
above set forth, we recommend that said study commission be
authorized to employ the services of competent engineers,
attorneys and other technicians from local irrigation, con-
servancy, conservation, drainage and other districts, and
private individuals and firms within the State, any contracts
of employment to be subject to the approval of the Director
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Governor (or his
duly authorized representative>, the Attorney General in the
case of attorneys, and such other officers of the State of
Colorado as may be required by law. Said study commission and
its engineers, attorneys or other technicians should carry out
its studies in close cooperation with the Director of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board, its engineers and legal staff,
and the staff of the Upper Colorado River Commission.

6. We recommend that said study commission be directed to make
written reports, from time to time, to the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board as to its findings with respect to the matters
set forth above, the first of such reports to be made before
January 1, 1959, and that such reports should include, among
other things, any recommendations which said study commission
may have.

7. We recommend that all expenses to be incurred by said study
commission in connection with making such reports, including
the cost of preparation of the same and the costs of hiring
the services of engineers, attorneys and other technicians, be
reimbursed and paid from the funds nOW available to the Colorado
Water Conservation Board heretofore appropriated by the State
Legislature.

8. In connection with the studies herein recommended to be.
undertaken, it is recognized that an earlier report covering
certain portions of the matters to be investigated by said
study commission is already available, said report having been
prepared in 1953 by the engineering firm of Leeds, Hill and
Jewett. This report, however! was made on somewhat short notice
and has not received universa acceptance in the State. The
. work undertaken there and the matters covered must be extended,
completed and defined to the point where citizens generally
throughout all major sections of the State will give acceptance
to the data developed.

The Colorado Water Congress stands ready to be of any
assistance that it can to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
in connection with the implementation of the recommendations
made herein and is ready and willing to cooperate to the fullest
with the Board to the end that if the Board is disposed to under-
take the studies herein recommended, said studies can be carried
forward immediately and to the advantage of the people as a whole
in the State.

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