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• Board Meeting Date: 3/18/2008
• Description: CF Section - Severance Tax Trust Fund Operational Account Recommendations
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Water Planning Relationship: Comprehensive water conservation planning and effective
implementation of plans by water providers is critical to the solution for meeting Colorado's
growing water supply challenges identified in SWSI. The CWCB has an important role in providing
robust and current technical assistance to water providers as they develop conservation measures to
meet their water savings goals. In addition, CWCB, in its efforts to better understand the
relationship between conservation and the 2030 and beyond water supply gap, must develop and
implement methodologies and databases to track and monitor conservation measures being
implemented and the actual realized savings from that implementation in order to better inform
decision-making and statewide water planning initiatives.
Recommendation: Staff gives a high recommendation to the funding of this project because of its
impact on water conservation and its contribution to attaining the goals of SWSI and the Water for
the 21St Century Act.
3. Water Education Projects
Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: CWCB, Various
Amount of Request: $150,000 Ranking: High
Product Produced: CWCB needs funding to meet immediate needs for water education and water
program marketing. These funds are also used for "outreach" activities and to sponsor, promote and
partner with other entities that can help CWCB accomplish its goals and implement its mission.
CWCB annually implements a wide variety of water education initiatives. These have included
participation in the State Fair, the development of displays, workshops, brochures and other
marketing tools that educate the public about CWCB activities. As CWCB trends towards thinking
of itself in terms of "resources" instead of sections, this work and the need for money is expected to
increase. The need for funds for outreach activities and to sponsor annual activities is also
increasing.
Water Planning Relationship: These funds are used for "outreach" activities and to sponsor,
promote and partner with other entities that can help CWCB accomplish its goals and implement its
mission. The funds and associated projects improve the public's understanding of the value of water
as a scarce natural resource. This will help local and regional water planning efforts where public
understanding is important.
Recommendation: Staff gives a high recommendation to the funding of this project because of its
impact to educate the public to understand the scarcity and value of our water commodity.
Flood Protection Program
L Flood Mitigation and Project Compliance
Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: CWCB, Various
Amount of Request: $100,000 Ranking: High
Product Produced: The focus of this work will be to address local requests as well as
identification and design of projects that can be implemented or upgraded to reduce the flood risk.
The funding will be used to provide a means of cost-sharing with local entities and other agencies to
accomplish the much needed work. Cost-sharing will be emphasized when practicable to leverage
the funds. In some cases, some financial assistance may be provided to smaller communities to
perform required one-time maintenance activities for regulatory purposes provided that the local
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