South Platte Basin Minutes 3-14

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 3/14/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting Minutes
March 14,2006
Longmont, Colorado
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

Bill Jerke: convenes meeting at 5:11 pm
Lisa McVicker: Corrections to Minutes? Send to [e-mail]; DNR will get
them. Regarding membership lists and attendee lists: DNR is keeper of these records.

(Agenda items represented with Roman Numerals)

I. IBCC Representative's Report
Eric Wilkinson and Mike Shimmin: Minutes and Reports emailed and
distributed to Roundtable Members.
Items that need focus:
1) Charter / Agreement: White Paper/Issue paper: options 1, 2, 3 on pages 1
& 2 of The White Paper: How to make agreements between basins legally
binding: should be considered in the charter;
Options:
. Create the Charter without these procedures;
. State in the Charter that agreements will be legally binding only if
parties agree to that - nothing in the statute that gives IBCC authority
for this; thus agreements not predetermined by the Charter thus
affirming the voluntary nature;
. Layout processes that would make these agreements legally binding.
--All voluntary process;
--Negotiating parties: If there is a negotiation in place, can that negotiation
take place between the parties or do the roundtables need to be involved in
these negotiations: concerns: what if negotiation is going forward, then there
is insistence that roundtables be involved, could this be an obstacle? On other
hand, if those negotiations are hitting rough road, roundtables could be
involved.
-- Wilkinson thinks the purpose of the roundtables is to facilitate not intmde.
--Shimmin: in first two meetings, agreement on broad concepts on how
process should work: 1) voluntary process: no hammers in statute to force
anyone to reach any particular outcome in any of this; thus, at IBCC level
consensus is that this will be driven by the roundtables-ground level up; goal
of IBCC is to set up a framework where negotiations between basins can take
place when roundtables see that to be appropriate; no top-down forcing.
To the extent that IBCC does make decisions, decisions must be based on
broad based agreement-no majority over minority; goal is to look for
solutions that can get broad based agreement; thus, we will approach some
issues perhaps differently than have been traditionally done so.
Approach problems and identify solutions from broad based agreement.
--Next IBCC meeting on 3/24 with goal of finishing the Charter.

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