BOARD02205

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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aid. Federal aid began in 1956. Since that
time we have 279 projects that have received
a little over $26 million in federal aid of
a total 94.1 million dollars in construction
costs, so it isn't all a free ride for these
communities. Actually, it amounts to about
$1.00 of federal money to every $3.00 of local
money, except, say, in the case of Denver Metro
where I think it came out to $1.00 of federal
money to $7.00 of local money. At that time
there was a limitation on the amount of aid
they could get.

In 1967 the state law was amended to
provide for state assistance for destitute
communities. Each year we asked for money and
each year we didn't get it. Last year we did-
n't ask for money so we got $100,000. I don't
know - maybe that's the answer.

We have received 11 applications request-
ing over $221,000. The commission has looked
over the applicants and decided to give the
full amount of the request, which is 30 per-
cent for the treatment facilities, to three
communities and a partial grant to five other
communities. Yesterday it allotted the re-
mainder of the money we had of this $100,000
to three remaining communities in hopes that
this will get them going towards building a
sewage treatment plant.

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With regard to industry, we have re-
ceived, I feel, very good cooperation, at
least from the major industries. I don't
know whether it has been from the standpoint
of wanting to clean up pollution (I think
they do). I think it is also from the stand-
point they don't like bad publicity as being
a 'bad boy'. The problem areas have been
with smaller marginal operators.

We had one particular plant in south-
west Colorado that we did have to go to
court on. We lost the battle so to speak,