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Colorado Water for the 21st Century Metro Roundtable - Meeting Minutes February 8, 2006 Denver Water Board Room Denver, Colorado 4:00 - 5:40 PM Chairman Doug Scott chaired the meeting. Eric Hecox led a discussion of the "Proposed Agenda for 2006". He said that it is important for the Metro Roundtable to apply ample focus, time, and consideration of the Basin-Wide Water Needs Assessment and Definition of Challenges. Prior efforts at state-wide water planning may not have been successful because of inadequate consideration of overall challenges before attempting to define appropriate solutions. SWSI is currently In Phase 2, which includes identification of proposed alternates. Members should look at the IBC website (through the Division of Natural Resources website) for information that has been posted for general use by Roundtable members. Carl Wilson (CSU Cooperative Extension) generally described water resources research that is underway by numerous groups at CSU. He provided a handout. Chips Barry, Doug Scott, Peter Binney, and Hal Simpson provided their observations from attending the February IBC meeting: 1. Chips believes that there is a reasonable basis for productive discussions among the basins concerning water sharing. The IBCC members are "Here to solve a problem." 2. Doug reported that IBCC is considering adoption of bylaws and a charter to be approved at the March 3 meeting. These documents must be available for review by the legislature in early April for formal legislative approval by July. 3. Hal reported that there was discussion of the role of the IBCC in relation to ideas that come from, or are sent to, the basin roundtables and specific processes that will be adopted. 4. Eric said that the basin roundtables, at some point in the future, might prepare a list of perceived issues and concerns. There was a general discussion of the processes to be used in reviewing and considering information from SWSI and other sources. Page lof2