IBCC Meeting Notes May 22nd

• Title: Meeting Notes
• Date: 5/22/2006
• Interbasin CC - Doc Type: Meeting Notes

Agenda

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Welcome and Introduction s
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Start review, discussion and approval of the Bylaws
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Approaches to handling appropriations and funding, and establishment of a working
group (Working Lunch)
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Review of roles for the IBCC and clarification of concrete actions for the Committee to
take in t he next six months
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Date for the next IBCC meeting

Welcome and Introductions

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Eric Hecox introduced the 6 governor’s appointee to the committee, Peter Binney.

Review of the Draft Bylaws

The facilitation team reviewed the general sections and contents of the bylaws as a prelude to
committee discussion, and reported on the process of revising the bylaws to reflect IBCC
conversations on the charter during the previous three meetings. The group then raised issues of
specific substantive concern and discu ssed potential changes. In some cases, concerns were
raised and the facilitation team has suggested edits to address these concerns in the revised draft
accompanying these notes.

Items Discussed/Revised:

Alternates and Proxies: The Committee discussed the use , merits and drawbacks of alternates
and proxies and decided to define both in the bylaws so that individual roundtables and
members, where appropriate, could make decisions concerning which they prefer to use to
accommodate situations where regula r representatives to the IBCC are unable to attend. The
bylaws specify that proxies are to be used during decision making, and count in the tabulation of
votes when the group makes the decision to move from seeking broad general level of support to
voting , and in the subsequent vote on the issue before the committee. The bylaws were amended
to specify that proxies can only be used if the member who has given their proxy is not already
represented by an alternate.

Quorum: Section 5.6 defines a quorum as 2/3 of the members of the committee, to include
members attending by telephone and alternates. A sentence was added to the bylaws to clarify
that p roxies are not included in a quorum.

Properly N otified: Members noted that the phrase “properly notified” a s used in Article VI,
Decision Making, was not defined in the document. Properly notified has been added to
definitions, and defined to mean that a member has been sent the email meeting notification to
the most recent address on file with the Office of C ompact Negotiations .

Tenure: After discussion, members elected to remove the bylaws section dealing with tenure.

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