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North Platte Roundtable Meeting Minutes 02-26-08 Parks District USFS Conference Room, 3-5 p.m. Minutes submitted by Carol Amerine Members/Guests Present Mike Allnutt Jim Baller Barbara Vasquez Kent Crowder Hal Hagen David Meyring Dirk Ramsey Jolu7 Rich Pete Conovitz Amt Timberman Kincaid Waldron Mike Hohnholz Jolu1 Rich made a motion to approve the minutes of 01-16-08, Jim Baller seconded the motion and was approved by the members present. Kent opened the meeting for review of the North Platte Basin Guidelines and Criteria used in evaluating Water Supply Reserve Account Funding Applications submitted to Roundtable for approval Kent indicated that there was apparently some confusion on which specific evaluation criteria should be used to evaluate Basin Account applications and which criteria would be used to evaluate Statewide Account applications. Kent thought the North Platte Basin Roundtable had decided to use the criteria and guidelines that had been developed jointly by the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the IBCC with the addition of "Other North Platte Basin-Specific Criteria" and a rai~lcing system of 1=weak to 3=excellent. If our North Platte Basin evaluation guidelines and criteria follow the CWCB/IBCC guidelines and criteria, Basin Account applications only need to meet the Threshold Criteria and Statewide Account applications must also meet Threshold Criteria and are further evaluated utilizing the Evaluation Criteria in the CWCB/IBCC guidelines and criteria. Basin Account applicants do not have to indicate in their grant application how their proposed project would meet the CWCB/IBCC Evaluation Criteria, and for our Roundtable to use these additional Evaluation Criteria as a determining factor of whether a Basin Account application should be funded may cause problems. The additional Evaluation Criteria could probably be used as a general evaluation guide, but should not result in a drop-dead denial of an application because it did not meet one of the additional Evaluation Criteria such as "Demonstrated need for funding." Copies of the revised North Platte Basin Roundtable Water Supply Reserve Account Grant Criteria were handed out to Roundtable members for review. This draft will be further discussed at the next Roundtable meeting following members' review. The Draft of the North Platte Basin Roundtable Grant Application Deadlines was also handed out for members' review. Deb Alpe had asked on this Draft sheet setting forth