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<br />~~ <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has entered <br />into a contract with the United States whereby the United States <br />has agreed to provide at least one-half of the total cost of said <br />channel im9rovement; <br /> <br />NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the members of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board in regular session assembled at Denver, <br />Colorado, this 16th day of August, 1982, that the board does <br />hereby authorize and direct the director of said board to acquire <br />on behalf of the board, by grant, purchase, bequest, devise, or <br />lease, all real property and interest therein necessary for the' <br />channel improvement project and all easements and rights of way <br />necessary for ingress to and egress from the channel improvement <br />project. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that when appraisals on the <br />properties to be acquired have been completed and have been <br />reviewed and accepted by the director or his designee, the <br />director or his designee shall use the appraisals as a basis for <br />negotiations for the acquisition of the necessary properties from <br />the owners thereof. Once accepted by the director or his <br />designee, the amount set forth in the appraisal for the fair <br />market value of a property and for the damages, if any, to the <br />remainder shall be the amount of just compensation for the <br />property's owner. The director or his designee shall offer to <br />acquire a property from its owne~ for an amount that is not less <br />than the just compensation set forth in the accepted appraisal <br />for that property. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in the event any owner or owners <br />of any of the properties necessary for the completion of the <br />channel improvement project rejects the offer for purchase <br />tendered by the director or his designee, then the director, <br />acting through and with the consent of the attorney general, is <br />authorized to commence condemnation proceeding to acquire such <br />properties in the manner authorized by law. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution shall supersede <br />that certain resolution authorizing the purchase or condemnation <br />of certain lands along the South Platte River below Chatfield Dam <br />which was adopted by the Colorado Water Conservation Board on <br />January 18, 1973. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a true and correct certified <br />copy of this resolution be furnished to the attorney general of <br />the State of Colorado and to each of the landowners whose <br />property or any interest therein must be acquired for the <br />proj ect. <br /> <br />-2- <br />