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Rick: This memo was written to try and say, do we need this and what would it accomplish. Why do we need this entity? It's a draft to look at, and similarly there has been drafted bylaws and articles of incorporations, talk about board of directors, and how voting works, and assessments, those have been drafted and being reviewed by oversight committee, will be circulated to broader group, if this is an idea makes sense, it has to have 15-16 entities to sign up on it. Want everyone to start thinking about this, is this a better organizational structure than what we had in the past. Having this be the one down the road playing the bigger role, thing that triggered was I didn't know this legislation would have state-wide controversy. Dan: This is what Kathleen does, it is only big a deal as people make it. It is what has been contemplated since beginning. Kevin: : CWCB, the authorizing agreements between the Corps, the CWCB will be given this space, it can then re-contract to give the storage space. Financial part will be from the CWCB, and complete the ROD and the mitigation through coordination with the CWCB. Any change to this structure would probably incorporate major changes to the EIS. People need to understand this. There will be contracts with CWCB. Austin: There would be one contract, if we do this corporation. Kevin: What users need to decide, given the status of CWCB with the corps, is there a need for another layer. Important to understand the relationship between the CWCB and the Corps before we make a decision. Britta (?) (Next to Rod): There seems to be a voiced interest of contracting with one rather than with 15, coming from the CWCB as a preference. That was the impetus to go in this direction in the first place, to simply and organize this process. Sheela(?): Just need to understand what the role of this new entity would be how far we can go without messing up the relationship they have with the corps. Dan: Memo does a good job laying out what this entity would be, good way to organize, and then rather than to change contracts you guys decide internally. We have been working hard to get the water to the entities, what Rick raised is who is responsible to get the water to the entities, if you don't have absolute authority to contract with the Corps. . . if it took 18 months to get an agreement, do you realize how long it will take to get this done without this authority? Trying to say let's cut through all this BS to give us ironclad authority to get this done, and if not, you need to let us know real fast. Rod: The devil will be in the details, but if you think, if we are invited to the table to help craft the legislative language, we can work with CWCB to make sure that our mutual interests can be accommodated with the statutory authorities they want, with the safeguards we want. Ifwe do this, I can see three people sitting in this room instead of all of us. I think they are both good ideas, we can benefit from melding these two together.