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<br />1112 <br /> <br />MR. PETERSON: <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />the past the Board has not been familiar <br />with the salary scale of the employees on <br />our staff. As a matter of fact, this <br />salary scale is brand new. It went into <br />effect on July 1st. I merely put that <br />out so that the Board could be informed <br />fully as to what the employees of this <br />Board are getting and the staffing pattern. <br />Are there any questions or discussion con- <br />cerning this report?" (See Appendix Cl. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman I have received the <br />memorandum of September 9th and have looked <br />it over carefully and I have forgotten - <br />maybe this is included in here - but I was <br />concerned, as we talked previously, about <br />the possibility of having a resident engi- <br />neer for the Board situated on the Western <br />Slope of Colorado so that he could work as <br />a liaison man between the actual water <br />users on the proposed projects, the Bureau <br />of Reclamation and the Colorado Water Board, <br />there on the ground. It is hardly possible <br />for the water users to come to Denver as a <br />group to meet with the Water Board or the <br />staff and I think inasmuch as we have 21 <br />projects which adds up to a great sum of <br />money to be constructed on the Western <br />Slope, the Board should have an engineer- <br />ing resident over there, on the ground, <br />where he can have close contact with water <br />users and the Bureau of Reclamation. I <br />think that is very important. <br /> <br />I don't know whether you have included <br />that in this or not. I don't remember." <br /> <br />"I did not specifically state that Mr. <br />Peterson. I hoped that that idea would <br />come from the Board. That has been my <br />opinion for many years past, that we do <br />need a resident engineer as we have 25 <br />projects actually mentioned in P. L. 485 <br />in Western Colorado and it has been ex- <br />tremely difficult to follow the progress <br />of those projects or to attempt to contact <br />, the conservancy districts and local in- <br />terests concerning the projects. We have <br />not given much help insofar as promotion <br />of those projects is concerned and we <br />have not been able to intelligently re- <br />view the work done by the Bureau and the <br /> <br />I <br />