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Arkansas Basin Roundtable Meeting of August 9 , 2006 Meeting Notes The meeting notes attempt to follow the agenda. 1. Chairman Hamel convened the meeting at approximately 12:30. 37 members of the Roundtable were present, a 75% attendance, and a quorum was established. Ms. Jane Rawling made a motion and Mr. Tom Verquer seconded the motion to approve the minutes of the June and July meetings , which motion passed . Chairman Hamel called the question concerning formation of a Groundwater Subcommittee (Jim Broderick, Reeves Brown, Dan Henrichs, John Reid, and Frank Wallace., which likewise passed , with Gary Barber to act as temporary chairperson . 2. The IBCC monthly meeting was held in Pueblo that morning and members of that committee stayed for a portion of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable meeting. Chairman Hamel introduced those IBCC members in the audience and asked them to consider making remarks after our IBCC rep resentatives reported. Chairman Hamel discussed the Needs Assessment work by the IBCC and Mr. Eric Hecox gave a status update on a Request for Proposal under preparation for a contractor to assist the Roundtables on that effort. Mr. Danielson reported on his work as a member of the education subcommittee of IBCC and distributed copies of the C olorado Water Resources Research Institute Completion Report No. 205: “ Toward Optimal Water Management in Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Valley: Monitoring and Modeling to Enhance Agriculture and Environmen t, ” b y Timothy K. Gates, Luis A. Garcia, and John W. Labadie, Colorado State University. Mr. Vanderschuere discussed the Water Reserve Account Criteria under consideration to distribute funds appropriated under 06SB - 179. Chairman Hamel asked Mr. Russell George, Director of Compact Negotiations, to make some remarks. Director George opined that the issues in the Arkansas Basin were perhaps the most difficult of any basin and encouraged the Roundtable members to persevere . Mr. John Porter, Mr. Mike Shimmin and Mr. Eric Kuhn of the IBCC also made remarks . 3. Vice Chair Jay Winner distributed a document prepared by Mr. Lawrence Sena entitled: “ Proposed Guidelines/Principles for Arkansas River Basin Roundtable Re: Interbasin Water Transfers.” Mr. Winner encouraged members to contact Mr. Sena directly to work as an informal subcommittee on this topic for later presentation to the Roundtable. Mr. Winner gave a report as Chairman of the Needs Subcommittee meeting of July 28, 2006. The minutes of that meeting and a draft needs matrix were distributed to the members prior to the meeting and copies were available for pick - up. Mr. Barber gave a brief overview of the rationale behind the needs matrix draft. Mr. Dennis Smith commented that Lake County supported the initial use of SWSI data for Lake County. By a show of hands the members agreed that the Arkansas Roundtable shall adopt the SWSI data as the initial needs assessment for the Basin. The members expressed general approval of the needs matrix concept and the subcommittee’s effort to continue the ir wor k along similar lines.