South Platte Basin Roundtable Minutes Sept 26

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 9/26/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting
September 26, 2006
Longmont, CO

(Next Meeting: When and Where:
Joint Meeting with Metro Basin: Wednesday, October 11,4 pm-6pm;
dinner break;
South Platte Basin Roundtable: Wednesday, October 11, 6pm-8pm;
Longmont; Weld County Services Building)

Please send any corrections to Lisa McVicker: [e-mail]

Chair Bill Jerke calls meeting to order at 3:20 pm

I. Standard Reports:
A. IBCC report
Eric Hecox: IBCC Staff Report:
1) Criteria and Guidelines: DNR has compiled all comments for
recommendations to IBCC and CWCB; CWCB has approved the draft; IBCC will
consider draft at next meeting on Oct 18; part 3 of this draft has been sent via
email and has been made available in hard copy at meeting;
Note: 2 separate accounts: Statewide and Basin Accounts: debate on relative
levels of these accounts; workgroup has agreed to leave the basin accounts at $1
million but has extended the time frame where roundtable can access this money
by one year; stronger language re: review process: every year in October, there
will be a review of guidelines to see that guidelines are doing what they are
intended to do; roundtables have role in this process in terms of giving feedback;
--RE: basin accounts: $ 1 million, Roundtables have wide discretion over this: most
impOltant criteria: roundtable must agree on project and project must comply with
the threshold criteria:
--Re: statewide account: must have approval from roundtable, meet threshold
criteria, then the evaluation criteria (see Evaluation Criteria in text); thus these
evaluation criteria only come into play when a water activity is getting money out
of the statewide account and when there are more applications for the statewide
account than is available.
--DNR is here to help us focus on what is the best way to move these projects
forward; today, small groups will meet again to try to decide which projects
would be best suited for the roundtable accounts and which are best for the
statewide accounts; which avenue is most appropriate for furthering plans.
Questions: none

2) Contracting: DNR has a contract that will bring on a team of firms that will
help us move forward with projects; South Platte has decided that we will
adopt SWSI needs assessment but would like some help in fleshing out certain
areas that SWSI did not focus upon; final selection of firms to happen by next
week; contract negotiations imminent; hope is that by mid October, the

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