BOARD02498

• Board Meeting Date: 6/11/1951
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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before many interstate commissions and boards, and at conferences with high
officials of'the States in the Missouri, Arkansas, Rio Grande and Colorado
River Basins, and

WHEREAS, the responsiblity entailed in the perfonnance of such work
demand's' the services of a man of outstarxling abiihity, integrity, loyalty, and
experience who is willing to work long hours and under arduous conditions, and

,Jl1lEREi\.S, in, Cl~ford H. Stone, the Director of the Colorado Water
Conservation Board since its organization in 1937, the State of Colorado
has a man who fulfills all of the qualifications for such work and who has
rendered and is now rendering invaluable service to the State of Colorado
in its water matters at a salary which is completely disproportionate to
that paid ~o those perform~g similar work for other States and for the
United States. . . ,

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board that. it most respectfully requests the Civil Service Commission of
the State of ' ColoradO to place the position of Director of the Colorado
Water Conservation Board in Grade .32 of its "General Grade and Classification
Plan." . .

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Colorado Water Conserva.tion Board most
, respectfully requests the Honorable, Dan Thornton, Governor of the State of
Colorado, to fix the salary of the Director of the Colorado Water Conser-
vation, Board in' Step 3 of Grade .32 which carries a salary of $9,780 a year
or ~8l~ a.month.

C. J. McCormick seconded 'the motion to adopt this resolution and on
vote being taken, the motion carriied unanimously and the resolution declared
adopted.

The Board instructed Ray E; Peterson, Secretary pro-tem, to forward copies of
the resolution to the office of Hon. Dan Thornton, Governor of the State of Colorado,
and to the office of the Civil Service COmllission of the State of Colorado.

Mr.. George A. Pughe, Craig, ann01mced that the Board of County Collllllissloners
of !loffat County, Colorado, had extended an invitation to too ColoradO Water Conservation
Board and a few other individuals to make a tour of inspection to the Echo Park dam site
in the Dinosaur National Monument. He said the trip would include a limited persoIUlel
without public announcement, to give the Board members an opportunity to see for them-
selves the topography of the reservoir area. The Board decided that the invitation of
the Moffat County Commissioners 'would be accepted and that the trip into Echo Park would
be made on Monday, July 9, 1951.

Morning Session
Tuesday, June 12, 1951

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The executive session adjourned at ':45 p.m.

The, meeting was called to order by Vice Cha.irman Bailey at :JOllO a),m.