RGBRT Minutes of February 14, 2006

• Basin Roundtable: Rio Grande
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 2/14/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

Ray called for nominations for Vice-Chair, and Doug Shriver was unanimously
appointed Vice-Chair.

Recorder:
Ray called for nominations for Recorder. Travis Smith nominated Rio del a Vista, who
was seconded by Doug Shriver. Rio was unanimously declared the Recorder.

Report by IBCC Representatives:
Ray Wright reviewed the first meeting of the IBCC. Russell George addressed the
meeting, again outlining the purposes of the IBCC and the roundtable process.
Facilitators from CDR being introduced who subsequently ran the meeting followed this.
The IBCC members were asked to introduce themselves and to give their comments.

This was followed by discussion as to the need and timetable to develop the Charter for
submission to the legislator before the end of this session. A draft of a document had
been prepared for the representatives to work with. Similarly, draft of Principals and
Bylaws were handed to representatives for the representatives to work from in
preparation of drafting Bylaws. Eric said copies of these drafts were sent to the R.G.
Roundtable representatives and Ray asked for comments from those present before the
next IBCC meeting on March 3, 2006. Ray said he felt it necessary that alllBCC
representatives had some knowledge of the issues confronting each Basin, including
not only water but also how this affected their economies and quality of life, and had
suggested each Roundtable prepare a "White Paper" regarding these issues that would
be distributed to the IBCC members and representatives of the other Roundtables.

Steve Vandiver said he had gone to the IBCC meeting optimistically, but came out
feeling pessimistic. He said he felt the legislation was not clear on a number of issues
and that these should have been clarified before the I BCC had to prepare a Charter as
to how it would function. There were basic issues that, unless they were addressed
relatively quickly, the process would fail. He said many representatives did not yet have
a level of comfort regarding the process.

Steve said that staff from CSU had prepared the draft Charter and Bylaws from
literature reviews and interviews with IBCC members. Steve also said it was important
that the basin-of-origin of water required some protection in the future process and that
without this the concepts might fail.

Mike Gibson spoke briefly about his observations of the IBCC meeting, saying that he
left both optimistic and pessimistic, as there were many issues that needed to be
overcome, including the process, definitions, and an awareness of the perceived issues
of each basin. Mike said there were obviously members of the IBCC who were not
familiar with the broader issues in the state, while other members are very familiar with
their specific issues and those of the state. He noted that there are new people
involved with water issues through this process both locally and at the IBCC.

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RGBRT Minutes
February 14, 2006