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I I COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES Cosmopolitan Hotel Denver, ColoradO November 15,1977 The Colorado Water Conservation Board met, pursuant to notice, at 9:00 a.m., Frederick V. Kroeger, Vice-Chairman, presiding. MR. KROEGER: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Ben will not be here this morning, so we will start our meeting. The first agenda item is the consideration of projects and priorities for the State Water Conservation Board Construction Fund. Larry Sparks will make an explanation of that, and then we will hear from the various people representing the communities. MR. SPARKS: Mr. Chairman and members of the Board and guests, this is the annual meeting at which we consider completed feasibility reports for construction of small projects utilizing the ColoradO Water Conservation Board construction Fund. Last year, the legislature authorized fourteen of such projects, four of which are now under construction. We are having some prOblem in getting money to construct all these projects in a timely fashion. A significant breakthrough occurred this year when the Legislature ear- marked part of the Mineral Leasing Fund revenues for project construc- tion. Under that Act. passed this year, we will receive annually approximately one and a half million dollars to be utilized for the construction fund. This will, however. not be sufficient in the im- mediate future to get all of the authorized projects under way. We are requesting an additional two million dollars for the forthcoming year from the General Fund to accelerate project construction. Under the law, it is the responsibility of this board to submit annually to the General Assembly a list of projects recommended for construction by the Board and the recommended priority. The Legis- lature itself must specifically act on each project, and it is the province of the Legislature to determine the actual priority and what projects shall be constructed. What this board does, under the statute, is to furnish advice. Follow- ing this meeting, I will render a report to the General Assembly. ad- vising the General Assembly as to the action taken by this board at this meeting. I will also inform the General Assembly of the progress and expenditures made prior to this time on projects previously autho- rized. The question of priorities is of considerable importance, although all projects recommended by this board last year were authorized by the General Assembly. The General Assembly did fairly well follow the priority list suggested by the Board, but that body made some adjustments in the priorities which we recommended.