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<br />., <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />DENVER VVATER <br /> <br />1600 West 12th Avenue' Denver, Colorado 80204-3412 <br />Phone 303-628-6000' fax No. 303-628-6199 <br /> <br />December 5, 2005 <br /> <br />Mr. Bart Miller <br />Water Program Director <br />Western Resource Advocates <br />2260 Baseline Road, Suite 200 <br />Boulder, CO 80302 <br /> <br />Re: Lettet of Support Related to the WRA CWCB HB-05-1254 Grant Application <br />Providing Communications and Technical Assistance to Colorado's Water Community. <br />Regarding Water Conservation <br /> <br />De~:ba.-- r <br /> <br />Denver Water is happy to endorse the joint grant application referenced above by Western <br />Resource Advocates, the Colorado WaterWise Council and Great Western Institute. <br /> <br />, . <br />Out organization's mission is to provide our customers with high quality water arid excellent <br />service through responsible and creative stewardship of the assets we manage. In <br />performing our mission, we fully embrace the importance of water conservation, water use <br />efficiency and wise water use in our community's efforts to manage our most precious water <br />resources now and into the future. <br /> <br />Our organization applauds the CWCB for developing, maintaining and administrating its <br />water conservation and water efficiency grant programs, and we will continue to show our <br />support for these important state programs into the future. In addition, we recognize the <br />importance of communications and technical assistance in helping to promote and support <br />more meaningful water conservation statewide, which is the underlying goal of the CWCB <br />grant programs. <br /> <br />While we do not anticipate needing the services proposed by the grant, we do support the <br />idea of helping our neighbors by sharing useful information. The conservation trai.nirlg <br />around the State will certainly help our near and distant neighbors. We will offer meeting <br />space for one training session at our Recycled Water Treatment Plant, and a tour following the <br />training if you like. We understand the training would be all day plus an additional half-day <br />. overview of the State's process which would be open to not only conservation professionals <br />but also their governing boards. We would provide lunch on one day and refreshments for <br />those attending the training at that site, and we would certainly provide the services of key <br />members of our Water Conservation staff to assist in anyway possible. These in-kind <br />contributions are valued at $500 for the meeting facility, $600 for the food if we assume 30 <br />attendees, and at least $645 in staff time, assuming 12 hours of in-class time plus 3 hours of <br /> <br />~ ,", '-. '"'~. ~~ ~ - - - -" . - <br />- - <br /> <br />CONSERVE <br />