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Method <br />• Skilled and informed facilitation methods. <br />Deliverables <br />• Successful meetings with improved understanding by all participants. <br />Personnel <br />Marylou Smith j oined Aqua Engineering, Inc. in 1978 and served as its financial officer for <br />25 years. One of the firms's founding partners; she now heads up its work facilitating <br />conflict related to water issues. She holds an MA. in educational psychology, and <br />mediation certification from CDR Associates. Marylou has extensive background in water <br />supply policy matters beginning with a twelve year tenure on the Fort Collins Water Board. <br />She has been an active observer and writer about water conflict in Colorado beginning with <br />Referendum A in 2003 and currently including the basin roundtables and the statewide <br />Interbasin Compact Committee components of the HB 1177 process. She has designed and <br />facilitated forums and meetings for clients such as Rocky Mountain Farmers' Union, Center <br />for Native Ecosystems, Colorado State University Extension Service and the Arkansas <br />Basin Roundtable. <br />Kenneth Weber, Ph.D., has graduate degrees in social/cultural anthropology as well as an <br />M.B.A. He has applied this to the Valley where he grew up, in many publications on the <br />social impacts of changes in water management, and in participation in studies of improved <br />water management through increased use of climate information with Howe and Wiener <br />and studies of research needs in improved water management with Yates and Wiener. He is <br />now resident in Pueblo, and is involved with development of a program of oral history with <br />Otero Junior College, after retirement from teaching, and service with the U. S. Department <br />of the Interior. Among many others, his publications on the Arkansas Valley specifically <br />are noted below. <br />John D. Wiener, J.D., Ph.D., is an inactive member of the Wyoming Bar. His Ph.D. is from <br />the University of Colorado. Relevant work is described elsewhere in this application. Other <br />publications include a law review article, and publications on flood policy, natural hazards <br />vulnerability, and how property rights affect management of natural resources and relate to <br />culture and social organization. He has followed the Arkansas Water Bank Pilot Program <br />development and demise, observed SWSI Phase 1 (Arkansas and South Platte Basins) with <br />many comments submitted, and served on Statewide Technical Roundtables in Phase 2 of <br />SWSI. <br />BUDGET <br />The expense of this work stems from the goal of meeting with as many affected parties as possible. <br />As well as the 7 major ditch companies, we would prefer to meet with every municipality with <br />16 <br />