BOARD01700

• Board Meeting Date: 9/22/1961
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. SPARKS:

of water in one area - the Bijou area - which
in the past has been designated as a critical
ground water area. It becomes increasingly
apparent that the State of Colorado must move
rapidly in order to get some semblance of order
to the ground water situation. If this Bijou
development takes place there will be nothing I
but a series of law suits in that valley. The
ground water table has been lowered consider-
ably in that area during the past 20 years.
We can no longer fool around with the ground
water problem."

"Now I think everybody has a copy of the
budget so let's revert to Item #1."

"You will note that our budget is slightly
lower than last year. Generally, our program
is almost identical with the exception that
the topographic mapping has now been taken over
entirely by the Department of Natural Resources.
That's the place where it properly belongs.
All state agencies are now coordinating the
topographic mapping for the State of Colorado
through the Department of Natural Resources.
The money is now being appropriated to the
Department of Natural Resources for that pro-
gram. There is, therefore, no necessity
whatsoever for us keeping up our topographic
mapping program. So the reduction in the bud-
get is primarily because of the dropping of
our mapping program. otherwise the program
is almost identical with what we've carried
on the past year.

General Administration reflects a slight
increase. That is because of salary increases
which the Legislature granted this last year.
State employees all received a 5% salary in-
crease.

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Are there any particular questions on the
Administrative budget? You will notice that
we have increased our travel and subsistence
by a substantial amount - not too substantially,
but by $2,000. We simply have been strapped
each year for travel money. In view of the