BOARD00033 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 9/19/2006
• Description: CWCB Strategic Plan Update
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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suppliers through meetings, workshops, and personal contacts. Assure conservation plans
meet statutory requirements to ensure they are of high quality. Make recommendations
and foster the development of model plans.

Promote Droueht Plannine - Assist water suppliers to develop drought response and
mitigation plans. Provide assistance to water suppliers through meetings, workshops, and
personal contacts. Assure drought plans meet statutory requirements to ensure they are of
high quality. Encourage communities to prepare and implement drought plans. Prepare
and disseminate water conservation information and model drought plans including Best
Management Practices for landscape and turf management for a wide variety of water
users.

Conservation and Droueht Plan nine: Assistance - Develop and maintain an inventory
of communities with conservation and drought plans. Provide technical and financial
assistance to water users and communities to evaluate their water supply facilities under
drought scenarios and to help communities develop conservation and drought. Contact
water users and communities to detennine the status of conservation and drought
planning efforts and determine if technical or fmancial assistance is needed. Administer
grant program (HB 04-1365) for water conservation and drought planning assistance per
statute and guidelines.

Imolementation of Conservation Plannine: Goals - Utilizing information and
guidelines from the conservation planning technical assistance effort and HB 05-1254
implement the water efficiency grant program.

Serve Water Providers and the Public - Assist water providers and the public by
coordinating the need for conservation and drought plans with the CWCB Construction
Fund Loan Program and Colorado Water Resource and Power Development Authority to
ensure loan applicants have satisfied the requirements of HB 91-1154. Monitor
compliance with grant contracts and coordinate with grant recipients to ensure
completion of plans and projects. Assist in the development ofa standardized method to
report and receive water use data.

Statewide Outreach and Education - Each Section shall perform outreach and
education including participating in public awareness and program advocacy activities to
increase public and organizational understanding of CWCB and develop opportunities for
each Section to achieve their goals.

Water Information and Education - Make infonnation accessible to CWCB's
customers and the public regarding water supply conservation and drought planning and
protection, as well as general information related to the Section, through publications, the
Internet, databases, and the imaging of documents. Work with the Colorado Foundation
for Water Education to make water information available to the pubic, water users,
educators, and elected officials.

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