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Welcome, Introductions, and Agenda Review <br />Harris Sherman thai~lced everyone for meeting in Denver. The first piece is to work through the <br />visioning exercise. Harris also mentioned the issue of zebra mussels in Pueblo Reservoir. <br />Scheduling of next IBCC meeting. <br />Visions for Colorado's Water Supply Future <br />H. Sherman: Harris introduced the subject - if we are going to make headway in Colorado's <br />Water Future we need to find some commonality if we are going to move forward to address <br />issues. This is not to talk about individual water projects, etc., but to talk about broad themes. <br />Defining the vision will move us in a positive direction. I have been all over the state in the <br />last 18 months and have asked groups the same questions I have asked IBCC. I have asked <br />about the status quo and what the future will look like. We need to look at the eastern plains, <br />the Front Range, the headwater counties on both sides of the divide, the San Luis Valley, and <br />North Park. Water is not in isolation from other things. What, from a water perspective, will <br />or will not be happening 50 years from now? Is this vision okay, or what would we like it to <br />be in 50 years? Reading over the comments -very insightful. Don't recall this exercise ever <br />being done before and Pm excited about the prospects of this exercise. See if there is a vision <br />for the state that we can all support. <br />S: Morea: Spend about 5 minutes articulating their vision (go around the room). From lunch on - <br />we want to tall{ about common themes, conunon threads of understanding. A few people <br />have offered to kick this off. <br />P. Binney: Thii~l{ this is a valuable exercise. What are the things that tie us together? An <br />important issue when we think about 50 years out is decisions past people made. Tennessee <br />Valley Authority, CWA, interstate highway system, etc., set a path forward. We are reacting <br />but not stymied by the decisions made in the past. These decisions give us a general direction <br />that we want to go and we'll have to calibrate and deal with the consequences of our <br />decisions. Similar to the highway system we are at a similar place today. Should we do <br />something other than the status quo? Some regional decisions, shortages happening, and we <br />won't be doing things in a coordinated way. What is causing the change? Energy, population <br />growth, environmental projection - e.g., population we have created a disconnect between <br />land use planning and water planting. We need to start tlui~lcing about our coirll7luiuties from <br />a growth standpoint and from the water consunung feature of these communities. We will not <br />see spreading of communities but upward growth. Don't see his successors being able to use <br />water as they have in the past. There are a lot of intuitional things we can do within the water <br />basins to manage water better. There were a lot of common issues -what are my needs - <br />dealing with those at the roundtable level is appropriate. There were a lot of compelling <br />statements from others of the IBCC that we need to do something different. Heartened by <br />what he read in the responses. Promoting change instead of hurl{ering down. <br />T. W. Dickinson: Re-charting the IBCC? Lacking for two things -strategic enabling at the <br />macro level and how to facilitate decisionmaking. State could sanction one or two projects. <br />E. Hecox: What are the conunon themes that Peter saw? <br />3 <br />