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ce- ber 'etary, Ltion for for s. er- kin do. .e ion .ned ;he ;orney 'ly ~he , 'eat- lfJ.y 'Y l.ed That Jean S. Breitenstein be retained to perform legal servioes for the Colorado Water Conservation Board, subject to the approval' of the 'Attorney'GeReral.at' art :lumual.'salltry oft4,ooo.oo. until further action '"f.'the Board. After further discussion a vote was taken and the motion 1lllanilllously passed. The Chairman declared the motion passed and so ordered. Thereupon Attorney General Gail L. Ireland stated for the record as follows r "Attorney General Gail L. Ireland being present at the meeting and having voted in the affirmative on the above motion. stated to the Board that the employment of Jean S. Breitenstein to perform legal serviCeS for the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as outlined in said motion. meets with his approval." Thereupon Director Stone stated that members of the engineering staff of the Board who have entered the military services of the United States had requested leaves of absence during the time they are engaged in such military service. He stated. however, that all of the technical and engineering employ. eeS of the Board. exoept in one case, were provisional employees and that the Civil Service Commission had informed hilll that wi th respeot to suoh provisional employees, it could not grant leaves of absenoe. He asked that the Board determine the policy to be followed in suoh oases. After disoussion it was moved and seoondedl That two members of the Board be appointed to draft a reso- lution and present at the afternoon meeting a suggested resolution respecting the granting of leaves of absenoe to members of the staff of the Board entering military servioe. The motion was unanimously oarried and declared passed. Chairman Wallrich appointed a oommittee to draft the above mentioned resolution oonsisting of Judge John ~. O'Rourke and George Bailey. Director Stone then reported to the Board that, pursuant to previous authority given to him at a'Board meeting. he had entered into a oooperative agreement wi th the United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reolama- tion to install, operate end maintain stream gaging stations within the State of Colorado where the same were needed for the projeot investigational water program as distinguished from stream gaging for administration purposes. He explained that during the last fisoal year the Board had oontributed. in ao- oordance with a similar cooperative agreement. the sum of $5.000, and that it would require $6.500 to continue the neoessary work for the present fisoal year. He oalled attention to a provision of the oontraot for the oooperative arrangement for the present fiscal year which read as followSI "This agreement covers the operation of a group of stations in Colorado which were installed and equipped by the Bureau of Reolamation. By so doing the Bureau of Reclamation is a third party to this cooperative agreement, and in addition will detail to the Survey one of its engineers (paying his salary and field expenses) to maintain the cooperative stations in the Arkansas basin."