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Chips B a rry : If you ask applicants to pay a part of what is required for a study, a match, <br />it will cut out spurious projects. Otherwise, if the money is there, people will go after it <br />and wil l not be willing to reject a proposal by a neighbor. <br /> <br />Jeris Danielson: The Arkansas basin requires a n applicant be sponsored by a R oundtable <br />member. We have not had any prob lems in rejecting applicants. I am c oncerned that if <br />we have mandatory match re quirement, it m ay limit low income applicants. <br /> <br />Rick Brown: I’m c oncerned that there may be too many criteria – there is a lit tle of <br />something for everyone. The criteria guide which projects are funded , and right now they <br />let in everything . Is it a proj ect to help the little guy, single user that benefits a small <br />group, projects of st ate wide importance that deal with transbasin issues – which are the <br />priorities? <br /> <br />Carl Trick: If our criteria are too tight, it will remove decision - ma king from the <br />Roundtab les. Individual R oundtables need to decide how to make judgments about a <br />neighbor’s applications. We need to leave as much authority as possible with <br />R oundtables, and not have major limitations imposed by the state. <br /> <br />Ray Wright: H ow to make decisions ab out applications without politicizing the process <br />or blowing up the R oundtable because someone’s proposal has been rejected is a <br />dilemma. There is a need for R oundtables to create clear priorities and criteria for <br />funding, and then determine if sticking w ith them is important. There is also a concern <br />that if money is not spent by one basin, it may be used by another. <br /> <br />Eric Hecox: We will be looking at the substance of the Water Reserve Account <br />guidelines and criteria at the next meeting. Right now, the k ey question is do we have th e <br />right people on the committee? Currently 1.3 m illion dollars is in the statewide account. <br />An additional 6 million may come into t he overall account in August. <br /> <br />Bill Trampe: If the IBCC does not have any specific policy dire ctions on needs to be <br />studied, then it should not impose more detailed criteria for applications or the kinds of <br />projects that are funded. <br /> <br />Sen. Jim Isgar : Is the problem that R oundtables do not have clear criteria or process for <br />informed decision making? <br /> <br />Rick Brown: Some are formal and others are less formal. We (CWCB) have seen good <br />spirit and breadth of applications. People have really tried to make the system work. If <br />something in an application is egregious, which we have not seen, we will help mak e the <br />cut. We can also help provide information on more realistic rates. Also, the a pplication <br />process is a screening criteria. If the applicant cannot fill out the grant, they probably <br />cannot do the project. <br /> <br /> 14 <br />