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<br />Rick McCloud: Had a meeting while back, formed committee, communication, talked by conference call Friday. Rich was <br />part of it, Lisa, grapple with idea of a person who helps project management, person assistant or representative for users to <br />know all proponents of this project and assist Tom. Lots of different opinions, process will take time, need broad buy-in <br />from all of us before reach this conclusion. Area of urgent focused need - area of Environmental Impact and mitigation <br />issues in this project. We don't anyone on our team with that technical expertise to help us, we would be well served to <br />have someone help us, this is going to be very expensive, 38 possible solutions, huge magnitude, something that will come <br />out in this preliminary draft, review and comment needed soon. Need to figure this out as soon as we can. Group takes the <br />co-manager idea and set this onto a more deliberate timeframe, and split out consultant on mice and wetlands issues. We <br />have a good source, available and experienced, name is Steve Doherty of BOR(sp?) resources. We can get more details on <br />that if needed, Steve is well qualified person to help us on this EIS and mitigation area. Main recommendation of group I <br />am speaking for, do this in at least 2 part process. Escrow manager part, funding we didn't really think about this. Is there <br />a way in the funding to pay for this EIS and mitigation area? <br /> <br />Lisa Darling: This is focused on moving forward, prioritizing our tasks, seems like an immediately need. Need of project <br />coordinator, we needed to hear from more people. But that is the spirit in which this is offered. Speak highly of Steve <br />Doherty. <br /> <br />Betty (on phone): Did you intend for Steve to be working with Tom Ryan and Gary Rehndal on one hand and the water <br />users on the other hand, looking at water supply, purchase of land or easements, types of plantings, who could be involved <br />in doing the planting, providing the water doing monitoring and other O&M water for the 38 mitigation sites? <br /> <br />Rick: He would be working for the water users, and with the consultants in whatever it takes to pull together and provide <br />this mitigation plan. Weare in reactive mode. . . you are doing the work and coming up with your recommendations. So the <br />end goal is to come up with a mitigation plan we all think is the wisest most efficient plan to get the job done at lowest cost. <br /> <br />Betty: You have not provided any information in the cells of table that was provided at CWCB's meeting? <br /> <br />Ronda Sandquist: There was a commitment there for temporary water supplies, they were going to go back and look at <br />permanent water supplies. Brooke Fox from Chatfield also attended that meeting, she though there were additional sites <br />where mitigation could be done, was going to get with Tetra Tech and discuss this. <br /> <br />Rick: Work in progress, filling in this table. We wanted kind of a point person to help us hammer out the most useful type <br />of.. <br /> <br />Dan McAuliffe: What you are hearing is basically an offline meeting with the water users, not to be confused with what <br />COE is working with CWCB already. Don't be confused about what you are hearing now about hiring of an outside <br />consultant with what you are doing yourself. <br /> <br />Rod K: I agree. There are other entities working together. I don't want to be caught limited to what TT says in areas of <br />mitigation, because there are other things being discussed. <br /> <br />Eric Laux: (on phone) - having someone in working meetings with TT, working with water users, doesn't sound like a bad <br />idea to me. Fine idea. <br /> <br />Rick: It's only intended to be helpful. <br /> <br />Eric: It is a complex issue, trying to make unilateral decisions is a time-consuming issue. Hard to get your mind around it <br />all. Get everyone at the table feeling good. Good idea to get someone at table at working level. <br /> <br />Rick: When preliminary draft comes out will it have chapter 4 and 5 in it? <br /> <br />Eric: In my mind we are going to have something at the end of this month, my intent to have something like an EIS , some <br />holes in it, have some work to do still. Hoping to have something, not the final preliminary draft, to hang their hats on. We <br />still have that date out there as a target to work hard to get things done. Ijust wanted to say ifthere are specific questions I <br />could answer quickly, from a NEP A standpoint, to just hangout and listen to the phone call. <br /> <br />Rick: Any contractual hang-ups? <br /> <br />6 <br />