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Ray — often entities are not willing to take on a feasibility study if the outcome is <br />uncertain <br />Travis — fund the front end and then at times help implement <br />Ray - noted that most of the infrastructure was built by develope rs — a “land scam” — the <br />sources of money are not available any more — now faced with the challenge of <br />maintaining the status quo for ag related infrastrucute <br />Rio - also a reverse process where capital is going to change use of water from ag to <br />other uses — maybe we need to specify funds for purchase of water rights for <br />environmental purposes and sustaining ag <br />Travis - initially, this was looked at for state sponsored projects <br />Mike - maybe this should support analysis of projects on the front end <br />Paul — how to keep th e money from going to projects and groups that are already well <br />funded — so the criteria should includes “needs based” - i.e.: #1) value of project to <br />Roundtable and #2) n eeds based <br />Ray — contraty point of view — ex: Union Park where Arapahoe County is proposing <br />b uild ing a reservoir on the Gunnison and take water to Aurora — A County wasn’t willing <br />to spend their money addressing Gunnison Basin’s needs — but the state could spend <br />some of this to address Gunnison’s needs <br />Doug — worried about this money being spent on wron g things and not the Basin’s that <br />are impacted <br />Ray — agrees with Paul’s concern — encourages state to look at ways that otherwise <br />might not be looked at <br />Paul - want to figure out how to get funding to entities that need it to protect and <br />understand impacts to t heir water <br />Mike G - only used for needs that do not have other sources <br />Mel - in RG Basin, we have a lot of needs #1 to restore aquifer — depends on Mother <br />Nature and what we do in SLV — what can we do to restore aquifers? One thing we can <br />do is decrease water consumption. Are their ways to salvage water in big water <br />years — need to look at that during drought in anticipation of future water years <br />Charlie — if we set up criteria that doesn’t deal with just needs vs effectiveness towards <br />meeting a goal of this basin - what are the merits of a given project? <br /> Page 4 of 11 RGBRT <br />Minutes <br /> <br /> June 12 , 2006 <br />