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NOlih Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 22,2007 3 Debbie Alpe asked Paula Belcher what other processes for approval were used on the other roundtables. Paula talked about their process, which includes presentations, first round approvals, and a checklist of criteria and guidelines. Kent said the roundtable needs to go back and re-visit these criteria since there wasn't a great deal of discussion formerly, as things were expedited at that time. Now the roundtable needs to become familiar with those criteria for considering applications. Kent asked for volunteers to sit down and work on that and report back to the roundtable at the next meeting. Kent volunteered Debbie Alpe. Debbie agreed, but wants someone else to bounce ideas around with. John Rich and Paula Belcher agreed to help Deb-they will form a committee to work on the application evaluation process. Kent said that the CWCB is meeting in Montrose today, and they will probably finalize the proposed application process at that meeting. Ty Wattenberg asked about who gets priority for projects (example: people living on the Colorado river). Paula B. said their roundtable had three new applications presented on the Colorado. She said that people favored projects where existing reservoirs could be enlarged or improved, and where existing shareholders couldn't afford to pay for it. The only application that was turned down was one which would have benefited the town's tourism As money gets tighter, and more applications come in, we have to have better ways to rank the applications, Paula mentioned. Statewide account moneys are going to become more competitive, Kent said. He also said if this Roundtable recommends a project for funding from the basin account, and the proposal meets the threshold criteria, the projects would be funded out of the basin-wide account by CWCB. All water supply reserve account applications have to go through the roundtable. Discussion ensued about application evaluation process, and if this roundtable would want projects to go to locals over non-locals, etc. Kent said that's why the roundtable needs to agree on the application approval criteria, so we have those questions answered before applications come in. Kent announced that all agenda items for today have been discussed. The education group at the IBCC level will have a website soon, Kent said. Ted Kawolski and Ray Alvarado with the CWCB staff had some questions about the roundtable's task order on the unappropriated waters from April 24th meeting's discussion. Ted and Ray are coming up here on June 13th to meet with needs assessment committee; Kent will let everyone know the venue and the time of the meeting. Sandy Knox asked what the roundtable had asked to be explained. Kent said that the roundtable wanted the unappropriated waters in this basin quantified by tributary and use, so we know what is available for our needs assessment. Bob P. passed on comments from April 24th meeting to Nicole, who passed on to Ray and Ted about the CWCB interface.