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<br />B-7 <br /> <br />The same ground or land that may be preserved as open space, greenbelt, <br />or park and recreation area, can be used for draina!Jeways and flood plains. <br />So the problem Is one of program plannin," or program identIfication, There <br />are numerous potential sources of funds for DR/liNAGE, The practical i ty <br />of being able to USE such sources Id discussed belm" <br /> <br />A, CITY <br /> <br />1, The City of Boulder should earmark part of its one cent sales <br />tax, which is now being used for major thoroughfares and ac- <br />quisition of open space. to drainage, If $1'50,000 of the <br />$600,000 whIch is now allocated for bridges and highways under <br />the sales tax were transferred to a "draInage budget," the <br />very same work that would be done in a bridge program could <br />be accomplIshed In the drain<~ program, The purpose of an <br />adequate bridge is not only to carry traffic over a d,'ainage <br />channel, but to make certain thaI: an adequate drainage channel <br />remains to carry off the watE"r, A briclge merely recognizes <br />that drainage water Is flowing d()Wnhi 1 I to a larger channei, <br /> <br />2, In Boulder, the City's street maintenance budget of $300,000 <br />has a certain figure for cleclnin~J up, repairing, and f'ebuilding <br />streets, culverts, grading of gravelled roads, and so forth, <br />due to surface water not being adequately carried away. It <br />would seem that a very conservative approach would be to attrib- <br />ute five to ten per cent of the cost of street maintenance to <br />dralna~e Improvements, <br /> <br />3, The City presently fdentlfies In its budget certain draInage <br />operations whIch consist of storm sewer maintenance and plan- <br />ning moneys for design of draIna~l'~ faci 1 ities, II: might be <br />that the City could directly identify, for example, $30,000 <br />of its operating funds for drainage reptIrs and minor improve- <br />ments, I n order to have a sing 1 e sou rce of fund i ng f "om the <br />City to which federal funds may be matched on a 50-50 basIs, <br />a sImple budgeting procedure of putting the above suggested <br />sources of revenue into a "drai nS'<je budget" to be coordi nated <br />by an existing CIty official would make it much easie,' to <br />acquire the federal matching funds and In turn the develop- <br />ment of major drainage projects, <br /> <br />4, Any development agreements worked out with subdividers on the <br />basi~; of a one-time $250,00 per lot charge, or perhaps $10000 <br />per acre charge, for drainaqe improveme'lts~ for example, would <br />go into this same fund, <br />