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May 7, 2007 Approve March 7. 2007 and April 2. 2007 Minutes Hugh Sanburg noted that in the April minutes action items read that the By-Laws committee would meet and discuss attendance issues. He did not realize this and apologized that the committee had not met. He will be looking for direction from the Roundtable. Ron Shaver made a motion to approve the minutes from both the March 5, and the April 2, 2007 meetings. The motion was seconded by Greg Clifton, and the motion carried unanimously. Report from the IBCC Representatives Bill Trampe reported that there had been no IBCC meeting since the last Roundtable meeting. The next meeting was scheduled for Wednesday of the current week. Two major issues were to be discussed: 1) The IECC wants to develop a common technical platform from which issues will be considered and Eric Hecox had prepared a memo that had been circulated to the Roundtable members; 2) To continue to work on disbursement of water supply reserve account funds and the application process. Bill distributed another memo from Eric Hecox with some ideas from him and Rick Brown. Bill mentioned that Harris Shennan was anxious to get the technical platform in place. The IBCC would also stm1 talking about the various basin compacts, and future developments of water in Colorado. There were mixed opinions on rationale and approach to these policy decisions. Report from the Educational Committee Pete Kasper distributed the annual report from the Colorado River Water Conservation District. He requested input on what his recently appointed liaison duties would be to the IECe. The Roundtable informed him that he would be the liaison for the GBRT to the IECC education subcommittee. Pete agreed that he could assume that role for the GBRT. Pete announced that the educational topics listed a year ago, with the exception of the Forest Service presentation, had all been accomplished. He requested any new ideas for the educational committee. David Kanzer noted a flyer announcing the "State of the River" meeting to be held at the Grand J unction City Hall. Eric Kuhn would be gi ving a presentation at the meeting. He encouraged everyone to look at their website and reminded the GBRT about the June 18 Roundtables caucus at the Montrose Pavilion. Report from the Black Canyon Quantification Committee John McClow summarized what had happened in the last month with regard to the Black Canyon case. 1. SWSII Report Tom Huerkamp reported that there had been a good tUlllout for the meeting on the needs assessment for the Delta County and that they were moving forward to determine the needs. Mike Gross added that they had expanded the original SWSI information to include an assessment of risk. 3