5-24-07 Nonconsumptive Needs Assessment Work Group Meeting

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· It appears the work group participants are in general agreement that framework sounds good and we should go ahead and direct staff to begin working with the Basin Roundtab I es. · We will keep in mind (as Sara Duncan stated) that we are looking at strategies beyond just flow. · We want what to incorporate baseline/condition information. · We will work with state and federal liaisons from the different roundtables to include information from the various agencies, · We will work on education/communication/working with public. The group will think about what types of products would be useful to help with this · With regard to attributes, we will continue to work with this group and the Basin Roundtables in understanding what attributes are already mapped, what additional ones should be consider, and what is feasible. Questions and comments included: · Is growth is a threat? It is the elephant in living room. I don't want to live in state where my kids can't afford to live here. Need to keep in mind the consumptive/nonconsumptive balance. · Need to look at standard of attributes and must identify condition in which we need to keep it in that important. · Might want to use a different term than threats. Sometimes people ask for things that they don't mean. Challenges and opportunities could potentially be better. One suggestion was that condition is a neutral word. · Keep in mind the win-win solutions. · Growth threatens agriculture and ability to restore aquifers. Affects ability to create habitat conservation plan for endangered species. · Must involve all counties because they're the ones with the land use decision. · Must approach process in way that is non threatening. Until we go through this process, we won't be able to uncover where those walls are. When we hit those walls, that's where we have to deal with it. Those challenges are going to come up, but shouldn't put fear in process. · Getting federal databases on board is important. Presentation & Discussion of Draft Schedule -- Melinda Kassen, Eric Hecox, Sue Morea Melinda presented the schedule which is attached to this meeting summary. She mentioned frontloading the schedule with roundtable input. The Basin Roundtables, not this work group, the IBCC, or the CWCB need to establish what the priorities are. She also mentioned that different roundtables will go at different paces on this schedule. The Basin Roundtable will have input into pace at which they go through this. This is an iterative process allowing for roundtable input and decisions at each step. Each roundtable needs to decide how they want to manage this, i.e. through a sub-committee or with the full roundtable. The pace at which they want to move may drive the decision of whether to create a subcommittee or work through the full roundtable.