BOARD01109

• Board Meeting Date: 11/7/1940
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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To the above sum must be added the amount required of Colorado to
balance the difference in cost for maintaining the Compact gaging stations
in New Mexico 8.I1d Texa.s, over the cost to Coloradoforma.inte.ining the 6
Compact stations in Colorado, as provided by the budget of the Compact
Commission for the fiscal year 1940-41.

From January I, 1940 to January I, 1941
From January I, 1941 to June ;0, 1941
Travel expense fcrthe Colorado Commissioner to attend the
annual meeting, and an estimated two called meetings of the
CommiSSion at $50~00 each
Services of Consultant
Traveling expense 'of Consultant
Blue prints of records
Total amount required to July I, 1941

$ 634.00
;17.00

150.00
150.00
100.00
25.00
12753.00

It was recommended by the committee that the amounts oontained in the above
statement to meet Colorado's obligation to balance the difference in cost of
maintaining the compact gaging stations in New Mexico and Texas, over the cost
to Colorado for mainte.iningthe 6 compact stations in Colorado, as provided by
the budget of the Compact Commission for' the fisoal year 1940-41, be for the
present time eliminated from any provision made by the Board to meet this ex-
pense on the assumption that State Engineer M. C. Hinderlider would include tbase
items in his budget estimates for appropriations by the next legislature; lIJld
that an estimated further expenditure from funds of' tba Colorado Water Conser-
vation Board for the period October 1, 1940 to June ;0,"194l, in the amount of
$155.0.00, be authorized. It was explfiined that an authOrization bY the Board
for such expenditures would be in addition to the previous action taken on
February I, 1940, which authorized the expenditure of $1433~00 for administration
of the Rio Grande Compact.

After discussion of the recolinnendation, it Was moved by Mr. Dille and
seconded by Attorney General Rogers that the recol1llllendation of the committee be
approved 8.nd that the Colorado Water Conservation Board authorize the further
expenditure from funds available to the Board of' the sum of $1550.00 for the
administration of t he Rio Grande Compact from October 1, 1940 to June 30, 1941.

The motion was duly passed, adopted IlJld approved by unanimous voteQf the
Board.

Thereupon, F. R. Carpenter, Chairman of the special oommittee on small da:m
construction in the State of Colorado, submitted the following report:

-Report of' Committee
on amendments to the existing law
relating to the construction of dams
"The Committee reports:

That the construction of large numbers of stock watering reservoirs in this
State without any compliance with law, has reached such proportions that local
meetings should be bald to explain to stock:men and' govermnental agencies the
need for regulation and the danger of the present status of such reservoirs
from the standpoint of public safety as well as the protection of property
rights in such stored water.

"That Messrs. Bailey, Carpenter, 0 'Rourke and Slnith be authorized to hold publio
meetings in their respeotive districts to crystalize public opinion and that