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Timeline/Calendar: Preliminary calendar established. The Colorado BRT may set certain meetings in which Basin Fund proposals are considered so there may be comparisons between applications. Process: Preliminary calendar established (see above). The Colorado BRT has developed a one-page Grant Request Summary Sheet for applicants to fill out (see Figure 2). The Colorado BRT has also established a subcommittee (led by Karl Hanlon) to develop standard procedures as follows: • Grant requests are discussed at a Colorado BRT meeting 2 months before they are due to be submitted to the CWCB. The application is prepared in the same format that is submitted to the CWCB, and it is circulated by e-mail to Colorado BRT members prior to the meeting. Colorado BRT members have an opportunity to ask questions and flesh out the proposal at the Colorado BRT meeting. • Grant requests are voted upon at the next Colorado BRT meeting, one month before they are due to be submitted to the CWCB. Presenters have a chance to report back on the questions asked at the prior meeting and to answer any additional questions. • The grant request specifies if it is to be taken from the CWCB general grant funds, or from the Colorado Basin account. • Grant requests follow guidelines that were put together by a subcommittee. • A grant review committee reviews the grant submitted and provides any additional questions. This group usually meets in the morning before the first grant presentation. • It takes a 2/3 vote by the Colorado BRT members to approve a grant request out of either account. Colorado BRT members that vote against a proposal are asked to specify their objections, and these objections are forwarded to the CWCB. Written ballots are cast. The ballots, and the responses on the nays, while not public are not secret either. Colorado BRT members write their names and affiliation on the ballot, and those are kept in the Permanent Record. • The ballots are publicly tabulated. • At each Colorado BRT meeting at which we vote on grant requests, a report on the funds previously disbursed and the funds remaining in the Colorado Basin account is provided to the members. • Successful grant recipients report on the grant progress at each Colorado BRT meeting. Communication o f Round table Approval: The results of the Colorado BRT's consideration of WSRA applications are communicated via a cover letter from the chairperson. [Project Description] Circle one or both: BASIN / STATEWIDE Cri teria Yes No I. Threshold Requirements A. Eligible Project 6. Eligible Entity C. Consistent with ~ 37-75-102 D. Meets S1NS1 Recommendations II.CWCB/IBCC Evaluation Criteria A, Promoting Collaboration &t Cooperation 1. Addresses multiple needs or issues 2. Promotes cooperation and collaboration 6. Facilitating Water Activity Implementation 1. Funding increases certainty activity will occur 2. Urgency of need for the activity 3. Time needed to implement the activity 4. Applicant has expertise to implement activity 5. Applicant is providing outside funding 6. Demonstrated need for funding C. Meeting Water Management Goals and Objectives 1. Helps complete unfinished needs assessment 2. Meets one or more of the S1NS1 objectives 3. Promotes water conservation and efficiency 4. Applicant has existing water conservation plan 5. Activity wi ll make new water avai lable 6. Involves use of existing facilities D. Activity Addresses Issues of Statewide Concern 1. Sustains agricultural/open space or environmental/recreational needs 2. Compact waters/promotes maximum utilization 3. Assists recovery of T~tE species 4. High level of benefit for funds requested 5. Assists other CWCB programs 6. Supports State's economic vitality III, Other Colorado Basin-Specific Criteria Fi~ure 2 Coforado Basin Roundtabfe Water Supp(y Reserve Account Grant Criteria __4 -, -~~~~"~ ~ a ~: yt = c~ g ~ ~ - ;a~ ~ r~ ~ k _„~ $, ~- - 4 ~~Y }i,; ; . ' 7q ii k~ i .l ~ l [ 7J::1 l ~k4 ~ ~~ 0?I.f'g:~I~i,,,f ,. , ~y I ~!,'l~~ ~ 1 ~_'L L 1~~11_ll~(:CS