BOARD01321

• Board Meeting Date: 3/7/1961
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

All right, we'll then turn to Item #7,
the 'Director's Report'."

MR. SPARKS:

"Mr. Stapleton stated he was surprised
that there was nothing controversial so far
at this meeting, but that was not by acci-
dent. Our staff has had about enough contro-
versy for the past two or three months. We
simply couldn't stand any more. This has
been one of the most hectic periods we have
ever gone through. It seems that emergencies
arise not by the day any more, but by the
hour, as a result of such a gigantic program
now coming to a culmination. We have a pro-
gram going that is without parallel in the
history of Colorado and probably without
parallel in the history of any state insofar
as reclamation is concerned, and it is
spreading our staff extremely thin. We give
you reports on these projects and it appears
that there are no difficulties. Actually we
haven't a single project to which a great
many difficulties are not attached. We have
tried to follow a policy of meeting those
difficulties immediately as they arise so
that there is scarcely a day goes by that
some member of our staff is not attending
some conference which is the result of a
problem which originated on some project.
There are no exceptions in connection with
these projects.

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Some of the problems are extremely crit-
ical. On the Fryingpan-Arkansas I gave you
what I consider a favorable report, but
actually some critical problems have arisen
recently in connection with that project.
To date we have been able to solve or keep
on top of those problems. We have taken the
attitude that no problem is insurmountable
and to that end we keep working on it. It
is a little discouraging. It's like the
Dutch boy putting his finger into the dike.
It seems like you just run out of fingers
pretty soon. But they are problems which
have been incredibly complex in scope and in
number, particularly the last few months, and

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