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Chatfield Reservoir Water User Coordination Meeting Meeting Summary for April 2, 2007 Meeting held at CFWE Conference Room 1590 Logan. Tom Browning started off the meeting indicating his interest in working with the water users to develop project goals and maintain effective communications. The Water User Coordination Meetings will be conducted to help maintain effective communications and streamline the TetraTech EIS Project meetings. Tom Cech indicated his interest in having storage space ready for use in Chatfield by 2011. We decided to develop a project timeline/schedule that will help the water users understand the future line-up of tasks and activities that will lead us all to wet water. Other users agreed that the space is needed ASAP and supported the 2011 date, or earlier if possible. This was discussed as a significant goal for the group to work toward; future efforts of the group were to be "checked" against whether the work would help further this goal or not. Tom Browning and David Howlett provided an update on the federal funding through the continuing resolution (CR) process. Based on communications with USACE Omaha, the project has received at least $125K for this calendar year (October 1, 2006 to September 30,2007). Based on costs already incurred by USACE Omaha, only about $40K of this total remains. In addition, by next Wednesday the 11th, the $200K from the water users should be available to the USACE for the EIS and related project costs. Finally, the CR may provide up to $354K for USACE Omaha. The total amount that will be provided from the CR to the project should be determined shortly by the USACE. The group also spoke about the project funding through the Greenway Foundation to support ongoing efforts of Capitol Representatives and Great Western Institute. The instream and downstream users have approved most contracts and invoices. The upstream users are still considering their options, with 4 or 5 committed to paying Greenway for services in the 2007 calendar year. John Hendrick indicated that the South Metro folks had for the most part approved the process, and they are "ready to go". Invoices will be forwarded to South Metro, Roxborough, Parker, Perry Park, Denver Botanic Gardens, and any other upstream entities that need them to move the project funding along. A review of a draft project task list, created and circulated by Tom Browning, was performed. The key activities that need to be performed include: . Having Tom Browning and Sandy Rayl discuss local priorities for the EIS with USACE Omaha and TetraTech, as necessary, prior to each EIS project meeting.