South Platte 1-31-06 minutes

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 1/31/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting
Ft. Morgan, Colorado
January 31,2006
Minutes of Meeting

Meeting called to order at 4: 10

Lisa McVicker: temporary recording secretary:
Please send any corrections to the following minutes to Lisa McVicker prior to the
meeting of3/14. Please send corrections to minutes to: [e-mail]

Bill Jerke: Temporary Chair, asks for motion for corrected minutes
John Metli: Motion
Second
Motion passed

I. Agenda items; changes to order of items:
1) Non-voting seat vacated by Doug Kemper of Aurora:
Lisa Darling from Aurora introduces self; member of Colorado Water Congress;
Joe Frank nominates; seconded by Bill Brown; motion carries; Lisa Darling is 3rd
non-voting member of roundtable
2) Leadership positions: nominations taken:
Chair: Bill Jerke for Chair; seconded; carries;
Vice Chair: Jim Young, motion, seconded, carries;
2nd Vice Chair: Fred Walker, motion, seconded; carries.
Recording secretary: Lisa McVicker, motion, seconded, carries.

II. Discussion of Roundtable Goals, Planning for Upcoming Year, Shared Values
and Direction for our IBCC Reps.
Eric Hecox from DNR:

1) List of members and interested parties; updated list provided.

2) Proposed Agenda for 2006, distributed via email by DNR and hardcopy at
meeting.
--Eric summarizes past accomplishments of the roundtables. IBCC reps chosen;
first meeting ofIBCC reps will meet Friday, 2/4. Procedural phase has been
successfully accomplished. Substantive phase commences. The "Proposed
Agenda" is a list of proposals; intended to help each roundtable to focus on future.
-- This agenda is broken out into ideas for Roundtables, IBCC, Education and
Outreach, and services of DNR.
--Roundtables: Basin Wide Water Needs Assessment---
Comments: these processes can fail if everyone focuses on results; instead, look
first to needs and challenges, then move forward to alternatives and solutions.
--wise to step back even further to looking at what objectives are and what
underlying beliefs and values are: See White Paper by Lyn Kathlene on beliefs

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