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" . County with the intent of providing settlement language which will ensure that any instream flow appropriations on the subject streams will not deprive the water users of the North Platte River and its tributaries of the water guaranteed to them by the Nebraska v. Wyoming equitable apportionment Supreme Court Decree. Since the January meeting, staff has approached the Jackson County Water Conservancy District through their Attorney, Kent Holsinger, on two different occasions in order to try and set up a meeting to begin negotiations. In e-mail correspondence dated April 11, 2007, Kent Holsinger indicated that his client had asked him not to perform further work on the matter at this point as they are assessing their options and are therefore not yet ready to discuss specific language with the CWCB. Staff will continue to try to contact Jackson County to move negotiations forward. It should be noted that the Jackson County WCD has also filed for participant status on the unrelated, yet contested Division 3, Alder Creek, instream flow recommendation. . CWCB Awards a Water Conservation Planning Grant to the City of Brighton: The City of Brighton was awarded $24,900, from the Water Conservation Planning Grant Program, to aid in developing a Water Conservation Plan that meets the requirements outlined in HB 04-1365. Brighton is a covered entity located in Adams and Weld counties. The City derives its water supply from eight wells in the South Platte Alluvium and three wells in the Beebe Draw Drainage Basin. In addition, the City owns surface water rights from ditch companies for augmentation purposes and to provide non-potable irrigation water. The entity has demonstrated their financial ability to provide 25% of the project budget with matching funds in the form of $13,213 in-kind contributions. With the assistance of Great Western Institute, the applicant will use the CWCB's Water Conservation Plan Guidance Document as a framework for the Plan's organization and content, incorporating the State's 9 planning steps and addressing the statutory requirements for all plans. The planning process will begin mid-April, and is scheduled for CWCB's approval by December 2007, at which time the entity will be eligible for water efficiency grant money to assist with implementing their plan. City policy shift leaves some farmers without water: Farmers who literally stood in line for days might not get rental water they depend on, which could mean a tough summer for many of them. The pinch comes as the city of Fort Collins changes the way it rents surplus water to agricultural users. City officials on Tuesday allocated 8,400 acre- feet of water to farmers who have shares in North Poudre Irrigation Co. on a first-come- first-served basis. The water represented shares Fort Collins owns in the North Poudre system. Without limits on how much could be rented by individual users, most of the water went to . 25