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RESOLUTION OF
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE
COUNTY OF EAGLE AND STATE OF COLORADO
• WHEREAS, the budget for the County of Eagle, Colorado for the
fiscal year of 1968, adopted in 1967, provided funds for a Contingent
Fund and appropriated $53,840.43 for payment of unforseen contingencies;
AND, WHEREAS the emergencies hereinafter set forth arising
during the year 1968 created contingencies that could not have been rea-
sonably forseen at the time of the adoption of the budget, requiring
payment to the persons or firms, for the purposes and in amounts indi-
cated, which accounts and expenditures of funds have heretofore been, or
now are, authorized:
Filing of Civil Action No. C-759 in United States District Court
for Colorado, wherein William G. Cook, et al. are plaintiffs and
The Board of County Commissioners of Eagle County, et al. are de-
fendants, created a situation in which the employment of special
counsel was necessary and in the best interests of the County and
• the following accounts were paid out of the General Fund in connec-
tion therewith:
Anthony F. Zarlengo and J. Fred Schneider,
retainer fees for employment as special counsel $ 2,000.00
Depositions, Inc. , for transcript of depositions
required by the County $ 109.00
Special assessment of Colorado State Association
of County Commissioners to replenish its legal
fund $ 250.00
Failure of the jail plumbing necessitated immediate repair and
replacement and the following account was paid out of the General
Fund in connection therewith:
Charles A. Stanley for services and parts $ 2,992.50
Remodeling County Court Annex to meet needs of Court for suitable
quarters necessitated payment of the following account out of the
General Fund in connection therewith:
Gotschall Construction Company, for services and
• material $ 1,011.70
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Insistence of the State and other agencies to provide adequate
sewage, garbage, and solid waste disposal facilities for the
Upper Eagle Valley, and policies formerly adopted for operation
of a dump site not proving workable, and adoption of new poli-
cies being imperative, required payment from the Road and Bridge
Fund of the following account :
Western Bridge and Supply Company for link fencing
at Wolcott Dump Site $ 2,354.00
and required, or will require, payment from the General Fund of
the following:
Settlement with Ralph Sherbondy cancelling agree-
ment of July 25, 1966, reimbursing him for prelimi-
nary services performed in developing a sanitary
land fill and access road at the Wolcott Dump Site,
said agreement being no longer practical for either
party $ 2,500.00
Assistance to Upper Eagle Valley Sanitation District
in establishing district prior to construction of
Interstate 70, and to meet problems incident there-
to $ 2 ,000.00
Lifetime Fencing Company for posts required at
Wolcott Dump Site $ 459.00
411 Jack W. Johnson for surveying dump site and
access road $ 146.50
McCoy Company for purchase of Caterpillar No.
995 trac-excavator for use at dump site $30,811.35
Failure of the Courthouse hot water system required repair and
replacement, necessitating payment from the General Fund of
the following:
Charles A. Stanley for services and parts $ 535.15
Retrial of Criminal Action No. 597 in the District Court of
Eagle County, upon remitittur from the Supreme Court of Colo-
rado required payment from the General Fund of the following
fees approved by the District Court:
Harold A. Grant, fee as special prosecutor $ 1,500.00
Robert Delaney, fee as counsel for indigent
defendant $ 1,000.00
The State changed the frequency on police equipment, requiring
purchase of new radio equipment for the Sheriff's Office to
• conform and necessitated payment of the following from the
General Fund:
Radio Corporation of America, parts and equipment $ 2 ,316.00
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AND, WHEREAS there is more than sufficient money available in
the Contingent Fund, not needed for expenditures during the balance of the
fiscal year, for the payment of said unforseen contingencies;
• BE IT RESOLVED that there be transferred from said Contingent
Fund to the Road and Bridge Fund, to reimburse the latter fund for pay-
ment made from said fund of above mentioned account of Western Bridge and
Supply Company in the amount of $2 ,354.00, and that $47,631.20 be trans-
ferred from said Contingent Fund to the General Fund to reimburse it, or
to provide funds therein, for payment of all other accounts mentioned
above.
READ, PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED unanimously by all members
of the Board, and ordered published, at a special meeting held this 16th
day of December, A.D. , 1968.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF THE COUNTY OF EAGLE, COLORADO
Chairml�n
ATTEST: Member
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C erk of the Board Member