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2-28 House Committee amended to appropriations Page 13 of 22 Madame Chair: You know I don't see that that is a problem in some of the divisions, but I was a little hung up on the Metro area roundtable trying to figure out which two people would get appointed and if they lived in downtown Denver, chances are they don't own any water rights, you know, just a thought, but I'm not ready to take that on right now. I'll let the Metro people worry about that. Any - Representative McFadyen? Rep. McFadyell: Thank you Madame Chair. Trying to get to the right page. On, I'm just going back to the same topic and would ask that conceptually we consider an amendment on Page 10, Line 9, that would continue that sentence to say, and no more than a majority of whom shall be from the same political party and maybe Mr. Morris can help with that. And it looks like Representative Penry has a comment. Madame Chair: Go ahead Representative Penry. Rep. PelllY Thank you Madame Chair. I'm fine with it conceptually. The challenge and implementation though is remember that each roundtable is going to sort of appoint their own person. And so it's gonna be difficult to dictate - which either way you could refine it is that each roundtable has to appoint somebody from a different political paliy and you could say that the Governor's appointments have to come from political parties. But you have the appointments coming from different spots. So it's gonna be hard on the - do you understand what I'm saying, it's gonna be hard to get that balance. Madame Chair: Yeah, a point of clarification, Representative McFadyen, did you mean the Governor's appointments per se? Representative McFadyen. Rep. McFa~ven: Thank you Madame Chair. My whole goal is that the roundtables and the Interbasin Compact Committees be bipartisan, and I'm hearing the point that Representative Penry is making. So I'm hoping that we can work that out with the bill drafter, so we can have something that leaves this committee that would satisfy me so I can vote for this legislation. And I'm feeling confident that Mr. McNulty will help this as well. Madame Chair: Representative Harvey I think yours was up first but - Rep. Harvey: My - I only have a question about, what is the reason for having a bipartisan political makeup of the Boards? In my experience in the legislature, the water issue has never been a partisan issue, it's been www.escriptionist.com Page 13 of 22