BOARD00985

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MRS. !<EATING:

MR. STAPLETON:

at ndorti We will try to reconvene here
promptly at 1:30 P. M. ana cbJ'li:HiuEi this
important Board meeting thereafter until
each of you have had an opportunity to
adequately express your thoughts.

As a background for this meeting I'd
like to point out that under the statutes
which created the Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board. among the duties of the Board is
the duty 'to formulate and prepare drafts of
legislation. state and federal. designed to
assist in securing greater beneficial use
and utilization of the waters of the state
and protection from flood damages'.

I

As I see this meeting. it is an attempt
to obtain a policy position by the Board on
the water bills that are now being considered.
I take it that the bills we are talking about
are the six bills that have been promulgated
by Mr. Geissinger and his staff and the one
bill which the staff of the Board has pre-
pared. The latest draft of it came hot off
the press late last night under date of
February 4. 1969.

To begin the meeting then. I will ask
Mr. Sparks. as director of the Board. to
state some preliminary matters and then dis-
cuss his draft. Then I think in fairness
for a full presentation. we ought to then
have Mr. Geissinger discuss his six pro-
posals. Then we will see from the people
who have signed up to speak how we should
direct the rest of the meeting. So with that
in mind I'll ask Mr. Sparks to begin this
discussion."

"Pardon me. Mr. Stapleton. If I put this
tablet down there with a pencil could the
people who wish to speak just sign their
names?"

I

"Yes. if you'll just come up and indicate