BOARD02257

• Board Meeting Date: 3/13/1963
• Description: Table of Contents, Agenda and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KUIPER:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KUIPER:

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sense, that the bill was improperly drawn, that
if it passed it should state the specific pur-
poses for which it was appropriated and not
identify it with the basic ground water program."

"Any other conunents on Senate Bill No. 123?
If not, let's go to the next one."

"Senate Bill No. 239, by Senator Donnelly,
has been printed. It deals with 'Water Conser-
vancy Districts' and what it does is to change
the break point for the change in permissible
mill levies. This, I understand, was made to
make well the Trinidad Conservancy District
because of their loss in assessed valuation
over the past several years. The conservancy
district law, as it stands, does not give them
enough appropriation to do the things that they
must do for that project. I personally see
nothing objectionable in it. I think it's fair
and safe to say that this does increase the
potential mill levy in conservancy districts in
that it raises the limit of assessed valuation
of the district for the l~ and 3 mill levies,
from $10 million to $20 million.

Again, I certainly don't see any objection
to it. I don't know that the Boa~d needs to
take any position. This again is a matter of
bringing the Board up to date as to what the
Legislature is considering in the field of con-
servancy districts."

"Senate Concurrent Resolution No.9."

"This has been printed. It is by Senator
Fulghum, 'Submitting to the Qualified Electors
of the State of Colorado an Amendment to Section
6 of Article XVI of the Constitution of the State
of Colorado, relating to the Appropriation and
Use for Beneficial purposes of the Waters of
the Natural Streams of Colorado and providing
for the Adoption of a Master plan for Use of the
Remaining Unappropriated Waters and Recognizing
Certain Preferences to the Use of Water in the
Basins of Origin'. Now this is essentially a