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North Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting Minutes 2-22-06 1-4 pm, Parks District USFS Conference Room Submitted by CSU Extension Agent, Debbie Alpe Present: 10 members and one guest. See sign up sheet for names. Rick motioned to accept minutes of 2-9-06 meeting and Paula seconded. Motion passes. Purpose of the meeting is to discuss IBCC drafts prior to Kent and Carl's attendance at the IBCC March 3rd Draft Charter Recommendations Refer to the 4 questions from the 2-9-06 minutes Kent posed to lead the discussion. Preamble: . Need to reiterate that language in underlined sections is directly from statute. II. Foundational Legal Principles: . #4. What is takings protection.. .just compensation? Colorado has pretty good statues on takings. This is right out ofHB 1177. Takings are for public good only. Afforded by the Colorado Constitution. . A discussion ensued regarding the definition of consumptive use. . Question-- When IBCC talks about adopting in the statutory language, is the current system we're working with OK? Critical that the appropriation system we have must stay in place, in tact with nothing superseding it. III. Foundational Guiding Principles . #4. Change last word to approval rather and consensus. . #5. Only addresses Ag water and perhaps should include all water. Recognize that transfer of ag water is the big topic. When these principles were developed through the Club 20 group they were focused only on Ag water. Suggest striking word Ag out of#5 to include all water uses. . #5c. What does the word "adequately" mean? . #6. Are these all non-consumptive uses. After a long discussion it was decided to leave it up to our reps Kent and Carl to interpret concerns regarding non-consumptive uses. IV. Roles of the Committee . #7. Additional 2 additional roles. One should be an educational role and the other a role to develop proceduresfor rat[fying compacts or other agreements between basins... etc. as on p. 7 section X V. Use of the Negotiation Charter . #2 Use language directly between the roundtables involved. VI. Negotiating Framework 1. Use language--Members qfthe IBCC. 2. Do not want to use consensus, prefer majority vote.