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who is or has become interested in wat er but isn’t going to attend a Roundtable meeting? <br />The working group is t rying to look at ways that any citizen can access info without a <br />major expenditure of either cash or time. <br /> <br />Rita Crumpton : T o add to my earlier report, one other ongoing wo rking group <br />conversation has been ed ucating Roundtable s themselves -- the people who sit on them. <br />Some folks have been draw n into the process who haven’t been involved before. They <br />haven’t had the opportunity to learn as much about water in Colorado as p eople who have <br />been working on it all of their lives . We have t hought of doing some workshops <br />specifically for this audience, and might address this in the fall. <br /> <br />Marc Catlin: O ur first activity on the Gunnison Roundtable has been to educate ourselves <br />a bout ourselves. How water works within the basin, etc. That’s been a very effective <br />activity. <br /> <br />Eric Hecox: All of the Roundtable s have incorporated an education component. One of <br />the better parts of my job is having the opportunity to go around the s tate and he ar all of <br />these presentations. One challenge to us moving forward is how do we capture and <br />distribute this information. We’ve seen real benefits of having cross - Roundtable <br />workshops . From a staff standpoint and budget standpoint, it has been most effective for <br />us to help Roundtable members attend workshops that are already being put on by others, <br />such as the fall workshop put on by CSU. From my standpoint, that’s whe re we need to <br />keep our focus. It would take enormous staff resources to put on our own program, and <br />we can get more out of our budget if we piggyback on what others are doing , and look for <br />opportunities to share information . <br /> <br />Ray Wright: There is a tendency to act as if water is a stand alone to pic, and that is <br />frustrating. W e p robably need to connect with others – for example, county assessors, <br />who can tell us about the way water impacts taxes, schools etc. We need to go to power <br />providers to educate them that they may need to change their levels of predicted power <br />usage bas ed on water availability and development . When you take what SWSI has <br />generated , there are lots of decision makers that need to factor this information into the ir <br />future planning . We’ve got an o pportunity to exercise the think tank portion of our <br />mission and talk about where we see water going, as well as broaden the discussion <br />beyond water. What would the appropriate role of the IBCC be at a statewide level? <br /> <br />Peter Binney: In the past, we’ve operated as if there are unappropriated sources of water <br />avail able to meet identified needs. How does one work with issues like the City of <br />Aurora, where their issuance of too many taps is causing problems? Our p ublic <br />ed ucation mandate may change over time. It is e asy to describe moving water around in <br />a vacuum, b ut that’s not the way things are going to work. I suspect we won’t be able to <br />meet every need that everyone bring s to the table. <br /> <br />Kathleen Curry: There is a lready a lot of good work going on with regard to water <br />education generally, and we shouldn’t try to reinvent that wheel. During the legislative <br />session, it has become clear that we not only need to educate basins internally, but <br /> 10 <br />