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• Board Meeting Date: 11/18/2007
• Description: IBCC Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Wayne T~anderschuer•e: Who is on the technical team?
DanMc.9uliffe: Right now, three CWCB people. Once we're ready for procurement, we'll
ask IBCC members to sit on the group that produces the RFQ and reviews responses.
Throughout the study process, there are many opportunities to make sure we have right
people at the table.
Harris Sherman: Why does it take 6 or 7 months to get started?
Dan nlcAul~e: A contract over $100,000 takes at least 4 months to go through the state
procurement process. To be realistic, it may take 6 months to get started. Once we've
selected a consultant, we still have to negotiate with the contractor on the scope of work and
price.
Eric Wilkinson: Won't the consumptive and non consumptive needs analysis be done by the
end of 2008? Why does it take a year and a half to incorporate those into the model? Is it
because of resource or manpower limitations? I don't think we're going to have an effective
dialogue until we have these answers. With what Colorado is facing, the middle of 2010
seems too long to wait.
Ray Alvarado: It takes a year and a half because the mechanics are complicated. We have to
make sure voe have the right tools inside the model to implement things the way the users
would like to see them implemented, and do it correctly. Some of the mechanics will be
new. Also, voe won't know what phase 2 will look like until we've gotten input based on the
outcome of phase 1.
Rick Brown: It will take time to figure out how to analyze future demand scenarios, and do
best estimates of projects that are now conceptual. We will be taking academic research and
translating that into the model. We're relying on experts to develop ways to do that.
Eric Kuhn: I look at phase 1 as "how much water do we have available as a whole" and I
think we can have good discussions between basins based on that information. Phase 2,
when you start dealing with risk, will be more difficult and introduce many unknowns.
Eric Wilkinson: I would like to see this group commit itself to having productive dialogue
after phase 1. That will make the product of phase 2 even better, and help the technical team
identify some of the challenges in phase 2.
Eric Hecox: We should talk about the questions we want to ask the model after phase 1.
Harris Sherman: Our ability to do this study depends heavily on the legislature.
Sen. Jim Isgar: I will tty to fund all of your high priority items.
Rep. Dan Gibbs: It would be useful to have folks come to the joint Agriculture Committee
meetings to talk about why this is important. We support the priorities of the Department.
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