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Eric said that communications would be handled through email and postings on the website. If you want to receive email updates, let Eric know. Veva McCaig, CWCB Veva did a presentation on the Water Conservation Planting & Grant Program and distributed her PowerPoint presentation and brochures to the group. Main points of the presentation: • Water Conservation & Drought Planning was created in 1991 and housed in CWCB. Statutory mission to provide technical & financial assistance for drought mitigation planning in the state Water Efficiency Grant Program ^ Received $3 million to be used between 2004 through 2012 for conservation and drought planning ^ Municipalities, counties, water user groups, conservancy districts and some NGOs are eligible for grant money She discussed the details of the grant application and guidelines which help applicants provide successful applications. San Miguel Basin Needs Assessment Kay Hartman, Norwood, gave a presentation on the needs of the San Miguel Basin. He reported that they're okay with the water around Telluride and that Uranium is coming back around Uravan and Naturita. Their current needs include: • raising the water level in Gurley 2feet-rework spillway (2m$) • update the study for raising Lone Cone dam • water management & conservation study • Norwood water system needs repairs to their infrastn~cture • additional studies & engineering for projects selected from WMCS They're still in a drought, even though it seems they've had a good precipitation year. The Nucla power plant needs several thousand acre-feet of water, and the San Miguel Project is trying to get storage that was promised in the 1968 Project Act, but was never implemented. He added that Norwood and Sawpit may be applying for S 179 money and that other roundtables have applied for 5179 funds to study water needs for energy development. Applications for Financial Assistance: Goodman Point J. R. Berry, President of Goodman Point Water Association made a presentation requesting $260,000 (12.8% of entire project cost) in financial assistance to bring domestic water to Goodman Point residents and provide increased structural fire protection. DECISION: Jerry McCaw moved that $100,000 be provided from Southwest Basin Roundtable, with the condition that the state supplies the other $160,000. Marls Ragsdale seconded the motion. Jem1y expressed a concern that this amount of money was too large