IBCC Meeting Notes September 12

• Title: Meeting Notes
• Date: 9/12/2006
• Interbasin CC - Doc Type: Meeting Notes

D R A F T
Agenda

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Discussion on Needs Assessment and Criteria
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Presentation by the Rio Grande Basin Roundtable
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Report from the Public Education and Outre ach Working Group
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Discussion of Report to the Legislature
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Report from the Needs Assessment Working group
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Discussion on Future Topics for the IBCC
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Public Comment

Discussion on Criteria and Guidelines

Eric Hecox began the discussion on the revised draft of the Criteria and Guidelines by sharing
five thoughts that guided his approach to the document:

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H ope that the Criteria and Guidelines will foster collaboration and cooperation within and
between Roundtables.
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H ope that the Criteria and Guidelines will enco urage creative approaches to solving our
water problems .
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H ope that the Criteria and Guidelines can achieve equitable allocation of resources and
not create “winners and losers.”
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Desire to assure we invest the public’s money wisely, and can show that these funds have
a positive impact on solving our water problems .
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Desire to keep the grant program and process open and transparent and help build trust
among people .

For this meeting, Eric prepared a document summarizing Roundtable feedback to date on the
dr aft Criteria and Guidelines. Four of the nine Roundtables met and discussed the document
prior to the IBCC meeting, and the remaining roundtables have meetings scheduled this week.
The summary focused on three main areas for discussion – 1) the relative dollar amounts of the
Statewide and Basin accounts, 2) single purpose versus multiple purpose projects, and 3) the role
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of the IBCC in funding decisions. The working group plans to meet September 15 at 1:00 p.m.
to revise the document and forward a new version to the CWCB for review and approval at their
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September 20 meeting. If the CWCB approves the document, the IBCC will review it again at
the October meeting. Hecox asked Roundtable members to forward any comment s received on
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the document to him b y 1:00 p.m. on the 15 for the working group’s consideration.

The following issues were raised during group discussion:

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Setting a vision for use of the Senate Bill 179 monies now versus allowing ideas to rise
from the grassroots. The group discussed wh ether the IBCC should set a statewide
vision for use of the funds. Some members voiced their concern that, without a statewide
vision, few cross - basin projects will arise. Others expressed the view that the Bill set
forth a vision for the state, and the IBCC should instead focus on the grassroots nature of
the process and let ideas come up from the roundtables.
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