BOARD01663

• Board Meeting Date: 8/6/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Referees will be under the judicial de-
partment. The judicial department is not
actually under civil service. They come
under much the same privileges as civil
service but they are subject to dismissal
at any time. I shouldn't say that either.
Court clerks now, Ray, haven't they been
frozen under some system?"

MR. MOSES I

"They are under a merit system of
some kind."

MR. SPARKS I

"Anyway, it's the court's own system
and it's a little different from the civil
service system.

As of July 1st, mileage for people
on state expenses or state salaries has
been increased. The mileage for private
automobiles has been increased to lO~ per
mile. That's up from 8~ per mile. Any
travel after July 1st by the Board members
or anyone else receiving expenses from
the state will be reimbursed at the rate
of lO~ per mile. This increase took
place, but our travel budget was reduced.
It is creating a rather critical problem
for us as far as our travel is concerned
under our present budget.

Turning to the field of flood cohtrol,
the recent legislature enacted the Urban
Drainage and Flood control Act establish-
ing a district which essentially covers
the Denver metropolitan area. It includes
most of the counties of Boulder, Arapahoe,
Denver, Adams, Jefferson, Douglas and, I
think, a little of Weld county. The first
meeting of that district has been called
by the Mayor of Denver and the board mem-
bers have been appointed by the various
appointing authorities. These board mem-
bers for the most part are county commis-
sioners and mayors from the counties which
they represent. There are certain other