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In response to Mohr's question as to the Board's plans for school develop- ment in the City of Louisville, Hager stated that the Board began in April of this year taking a look at a long range facility plan. He acknowledged that Coal Creek is "bulging at the seams." A demographic study was done through 1991 that shows the present conditions of growth in all of the areas of the district. There is enough housing capacity to house all the children through 1991. However, the housing is located in the wrong areas. Probably by the end of 1987 or close into 1988, the Board will have to go to the voters on a bond issue. Hager stated that cooperative endeavors from Homart, the City and the District have been taking place wherein there has been an exchange of land of over 10 acres and the Board has approved the purchase of two additional acres plus some parcels. "So we have a site for a new building. Thursday night, the Board will take action to build a four-classroom addition plus restroom facilities plus other ancillary ser- vices on to Coal Creek to have that open by September of 1987." "We are in the same position as the City. We have unlimited needs and limited re- sources." "One of the things I commend Terry and his staff on in working with us, we starting to talk about what can we share. What can we do in the way of library services. What can we do in the way of recreational facilities. I think it takes the kind of time that we are talking about right now and we hope to have a proposal from the Board as early as Decem- ber to say 'Yes, there is a bond issue'...so we are looking at that and making a long range facility plan that will accommodate all the student needs for housing through 1991." Mohr asked the City's water attorney, Steve Williamson, to outline the amount of water the City has now and the amount of water that is in the process of being transferred into the City's use and ownership, and how that relates to the City's present approved contracted housing and commer- cial developments. Williamson stated that it is estimated that the City of Louisville will use about 2865 acre feet of water through the balance of this calendar year. The water supply available for this year is 3820 acre feet leaving approximately 1000 acre feet difference between what the City owns and what the demand is expected to be. Projecting supply and demand for the next few years; It is estimated that there will be a demand of about 3200 acre feet in 1987 with a supply of 4262 acre feet. In 1988, it is estimated that there will be in excess of 4500 acre feet of water available. This is based simply on transferring water rights that the City now has without any projection of acquisition. These water rights are already in the City's inventory. This gives approximately a 40$ buffer over expected demand. These figures were based upon the assumption that next year lawn irrigation water demand will increase. Mohr asked if Williamson was the water attorney for the City of Louisville in 1984 and asked if, in his opinion, the City experienced a water crises. Williamson confirmed that he was the City's attorney during that time and that it would be more accurate to explain the problem that occurred in 1984 as a "treatment plant bottle neck because, in fact, that is what it was. The City had anticipated the need to do some plumbing at the Louisville reservoir plant and it was under contract... but unfortunately behind in construction, so we had for a period of about. 7-8 weeks, water restrictions based simply on the fact that we couldn't get available water through the plant. In fact, 1984 was a very good year for us water wise. Our yields were excellent that year and at the same time we were restricting residen- tial use of water, we lease out to farmers about 500 acre feet of surplus 10