Minutes Apr 2007 CBRT

• Basin Roundtable: Colorado
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 4/23/2007
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

IBCC Colorado River Basin
Minutes of Meeting on April 23, 2007

1. Next Meeting: Monday, May 21, Glenwood Springs Community Recreation Center, 1:00 to
4:00.

a. ~gE1llii: Discussion of upcoming Water for the 2151 Century Grant requests.

b. Salinity and Selenium in the Colorado River Basin

2. Approve March 2007 meeting minutes. The March 2007 minutes were approved.

3. Reporter: These minutes were prepared by Ken Ransford, Esq., CPA, 970-927-1200,
[e-mail].

4. Upcoming meetings:

a. May 23: Montrose CWCB meeting.

b. A workshop will be held in Gunnison on May 24 from 10:00 to 3:30 to attempt to adopt a
common approach to do a NCNA.

c. A joint roundtable meeting of the 4 Western Slope roundtables will be held Monday,
June 18,2007, in Montrose. The agenda includes:

1. Eric Kuhn will discuss the Colorado River Compact and responding to a Lower
Basin Call.
2. SB 122 (if it passes) calls for a study of water availability in the Colorado River.
3. Recent case that requires additional water to flow down the Black Canyon of the
Gunnison River.
4. Aaron Million's proposed Green River Pumpback project.

5. Report from other Roundtables - None.

6. Survey of spheres of influence in the CBRT.

a. Lyn Kathleen, PhD, with the Colorado Institute of Public Policy, Julia Lynn, Research
Assistant, and Regal Wascomb, Executive Director of the water Research Institute, all with
CSU, conducted a survey ofCBRT members to determine a conceptual map of stakeholders.

b. The survey goal is to determine how CBR T members connect and communicate, in order to
determine how decisions are made through informal social networks. The study focuses on
ties between people rather than characteristics of people, such as their job titles or employers.
The survey listed all of the CBR T members by name and asked participants to rate who are
the most influential members among Colorado water stakeholders, and how often they
communicate with those individuals.

c. The Education and Outreach subcommittee of the IBCC funded the study, and the CBRT was
the first roundtable that took the survey. It is hoped that other roundtables will also take the
study. The results will be written up, and discussed with the CBRT. Participants must
consent before they will be publicly identified by the survey as influential.

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