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engineer's office: how to monitor bills without fiinding; sponsors need to <br />find fiinding; <br />SB 119: re: limited exemption for water collection from residential <br />rooftops; lots of concern in over-appropriated basins; <br />HB 1030: re: exemption of depletions for pumping prior to 1974; concern <br />and arguments on both sides; <br />SB 28: Reduction of evaporative loss at Bom1y Reservoir and Republican <br />River <br />HB 1126: RE: Colorado Water Resources Research lilstitute has passed <br />out of house; <br />HB 1141: RE: sufficient water supplies for land use approval: pulled while <br />committees work on it. Local governments and developers <br />Bills that have died: <br />Facilitation of excess water credits; <br />Acquisition of property by wildlife commission. <br />Bill Jerke: 1330: pops up: popular election of conservancy board election; <br />currently it is judge appointments; controversial bill <br />• Mike Shimmin: CO Supreme Court has formed a special committee to <br />look at any changes needed in Water Court; five subcommittees have been <br />formed; Water Commissioners; use of Expert Witnessesreform needed <br />because experts seem to not be objective enough; Outreach to Water Users <br />Subcommittee: trying to get more input from and to water users (written <br />brochure that is distributed is result of their work) -this brochure aimed to <br />have public give feedback to Supreme Court (March 10: Supreme Court <br />Conference Room on Sti' floor) would like continents in writing prior to <br />the meeting; <br />Bench Bar and Engineers education subcommittee: how to assure that <br />judges, lawyers, engineers better: <br />Case Management Subcommittee: review statistics to see how the water <br />courts are actually processing water cases; how is process working <br />Website: www.courts.state.co.us/supct/committees/waterctcomm.htm <br />Minutes of subcommittee meetings are posted; resource material is posted <br />there; committee meeting minutes posted there. This is best place to keep <br />track; public comment is invited; March 10 meeting is not the only way to <br />comment. <br />Process is at point of expansion; how does water court process work. <br />• Education Liaison Report: <br />Walt Knudsen is no longer a member of the Roundtable; Jefferson <br />County: Board of County Commissioners expresses thai~lcs to Walt; Jeff <br />Co has limited participation in Roundtable; asks instead that staff will <br />montor these roundtable meetings; <br />Bill Jerke: Any one here from Jeff Co to see if it is worthwhile? <br />4 <br />