IBCC Meeting Notes September 12

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

D R A F T
Discussion on Fu ture Topics for the IBCC

The facilitation team began discussion of future topics for the IBCC agenda by reviewing
suggested agendas for the October and November meetings. The October meeting will take
place in Steamboat Springs, and include a presentatio n by the Yampa/White Roundtable.
Melinda Kassen informed the group that the Yampa/White Roundtable meeting (scheduled
immediately following the IBCC meeting) will include a report from the Roundtable members
representing environmental and recreational int erests on suggested issues to include in the basin
needs assessment. Melinda encouraged IBCC members interested in these issues to attend the
Roundtable meeting.

IBCC members agreed that meetings should continue to be held around the state, and include
p resentations by the host roundtable. For meetings hosted in Denver, other possible topics could
include SWSI Phase II and the subjects presented on the list of future meeting topics prepared by
DNR and the facilitation team in advance of this meeting. Pa rticipants also discussed the timing
of meetings, and the need to take travel times and number of nights in hotels into consideration
when choosing meeting times.

Participants remarked on the emphasis on procedural issues during IBCC meetings to date, and
expressed a desire to move on to other topics. The facilitation team and DNR suggested that the
IBCC engage in strategic planning early in 2007 to build on the roles for the IBCC articulated in
the Charter. Group members noted that the November election s, and the selection of a new
governor for the state, may influence the IBCC. The committee discussed when and how to
engage political figures, and some expressed the view that the IBCC should move forward with
strategic planning without necessarily waiti ng for the input of a new governor, while remaining
open to such input. Members stressed the desire for any IBCC planning activities to be based on
the grassroots nature of the process.

Regarding timing for a strategic planning exercise, participants exp ressed the need to complete
outstanding procedural tasks before embarking on that activity. Group d iscussion then centered
on whether to focus on targeted educational activities for the IBCC prior to planning, or as a
product of planning. Members remarke d that some Roundtables have created and continue to
create educational opportunities for their members, in some cases as a part of their standard
meeting format.

The committee asked the facilitation team and DNR to design a process for facilitated strate gic
planning and present the plan to the group. Strategic planning should include a focus on
education, outlining what the members of the IBCC feel they need to know more about to meet
the goals outlined in the plan or vision that is created. The plannin g process should also address
the purpose or mandate of the group to work on statewide water resource issues, and answer
tough questions, such as those posed by the transfer of water from agriculture to municipal use.
Several members expressed a desire to talk about questions of vision, and revisit the purpose of
the group, a subject many felt had not yet been discussed enough. The group agreed to
commence the planning process once procedural issues are largely complete or underway, and
asked to see a pos sible planning agenda at the November meeting.

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