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<br />001137 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />by M~yor John D. Gillaspie and Clerk Leonard R. Jones for <br />Boulder, and by President Jacob S. Schey and Secretary J. M. <br />Dille, for the District, on August 2l.t, 1953" Its terms were <br />embodied in the decree. <br />The District Court hearing began on August 31 at Greeley. <br />After proof of sufficiency of the petitions and the benefit <br />to be obtained, Judge C~ffin recessed to September 8, 1953, <br />to give opportunity to the District Board to act on Boulder's <br />petition for allotment of..~2,700 acre feet of water. The <br />Board ordered the allotment at its r'egular meeting of September <br />l.t, 1953. The hearing was completed with this showing at Dis- <br />trict Court at Ft. Collins on September 8, 1953. Consent <br /> <br />of the Secretary of Interior was necessary to the inclusion. <br /> <br />To expedite it by a September 8 telegram required efforts <br /> <br /> <br />of both parties in Denver and Washington, and had the assistance <br /> <br /> <br />of our United States Senator Millikin. <br /> <br />Among other terms of the inclusion so decreed are: <br />repayment by Boulder, in 10 annual installments with 2% <br />interest, of general tax levies for District purposes from <br />1937, the petition and allotment of 12,700 acre feet of water <br />to Boulder, at a price of $2.00 per acre foot, the construction <br />by Boulder of an 11,700 acre foot reservoir for equalization <br /> <br />and storage, to be utilized 2/3 by Boulder, 1/3 by the <br /> <br />District, each to have reciprocal rights on unused capacity <br /> <br /> <br />of the other, the District to repay 1/3 the cost with interest <br /> <br /> <br />at Boulder's debt financing rate, over a period of l.to years, <br /> <br /> <br />out of revenues from the Boulder area water. <br /> <br />The 11 page decree was filed with the City and the <br /> <br /> <br />District and with the 7 counties of the District, and so <br /> <br /> <br />became effective in time for October 1, the determinative <br /> <br /> <br />date on inclusions of land for purpose of levies of 1953 <br /> <br /> <br />general taxes for District purposes. <br /> <br />-29- <br /> <br />.- -.,..... <br />~ <br />