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MR. NELSON: I MR. SPARKS: MR. McCANDLESS: MR. SPARKS: I 1119 "Why not contract these men so that you can get them going right away and then get them on the payroll on your regular budget as of July 1st. I am thinking that you need them right away, providing you can find qualified people." "I am sure that is correct. We have done some thinking along that line, out of this $50,000 and by the time the next meeting comes around we will have some more firm plans for these project inves- tigations. The problem right now is first I must have the approval of this Board to add these people to the staff, then I have to go through the gamut of the Civil Service Commission, the Appropriations, the Budget, the Governor's office, and the Legislature. There is a lot of work to it." "You wouldn't if you used the con- tract method to get it initiated." "No, not on the contract basis but it would have to come out of our current funds, the $50,000 and I am not sure even then. We did appropriate some - we have people on a contract basis already, as you know, on the San Juan-Chama and on Glen Canyon. But insofar as these two people are concerned, I am not sure the type of person who would be qualified could be secured on a contract basis. I have particularly in mind one person who will come either from the Corps or the Bureau who is recognized as an out- standing man. Those things happen in the Bureau, according to the grapevine. They get transferred out of here. They are willing to even take less money in order to stay here in Denver. One man I am thinking of must, in my opinion, be' intimately familiar already with either the Corps, the Bureau or other Federal agencies."