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B- i3 D. ConstructIon Phase The City and County dra I nage coordi nator wou 1 d ,)e des I gnated for th is project and would, in consultation with the CIty and County officials, establish pdorltles for construction and land ,~cquIsitlon, The land officer for both the City and the County should initially option and/or acquire all necessary water~lay ri9ht.'of-way for all chan- nels IndlcatEld. Those lands zoned for flood pl,iin purposes need not be acquired unless such lands are necessary for greenbelt and open space purposes. The cost of these latter lands 'woul d not be Included as project costs. Project Coordinator; A project coordinator is needed to muster and channel the efforts of City, County, State, Federal, and Regional per- sonnel, WIthout coordination, there Is little hope of financing and executing the project. It would appear that a man L, the City of Boulder administration could best fit Into this function. APPLICATION OF STRATEGY TO PROJECT The Master Plan for dralnageways in South Boulder must be fi nanced to be executed. The means of financing I's a local pol icy decision, How- ever, consideration needs to be given to pay-as"you-qo financing which has a particularly specIal appeal in thIs age of bond Issues. For that reason, the thrust of the suggested application of the financing strategy to the Boulder pilot project is for a pay-as-you'-go procedure, The avai l- ability of Federal funds make such a procedure an apparent. possible one to undertake. This does not mean to say that more conventional procedures for financing are not satisfactory, They should be considered, The City and the County both have oth"r drainage problems, If all the costs of all the problems were added together, the total cost would be huge and chances are that nothing wou!;d be done, The secret to getting something done Is to set priorities and proceed. In South Boulder a plan has been developed, There are few other comprehensive drainage plans in the area. It would be prudent to put these E,oulder dralnageways at the top of the priority list for those reasons, alorg with those in North Boulder, No matter how lIttle or how much the City and County undertake in South Boulder as a result of this Master Plan, both should take hard and fast policy and administrative steps to forest"ll additional encroachment of the proposed rights-of-way and waterwclYs, as well as all other major water- ways In Boulder County. Initially, perhaps more important than the actual construction in the first one or two years, the right-of-way should be acquired and flood plain zoning implemented to protect waterways which \.11 I have rout.es not requiring right- of-way acquisition.