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• Board Meeting Date: 11/18/2008
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

WATER INFORMATION -STREAMING AUDIO: Through funding provided by the CWCB
and the Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has
purchased equipment that will be used to stream public meetings and hearings over the Internet. The
CWCB will begin streaming their Board Meetings live over the Internet in November 2008. The Division
of Wildlife (DOW) began streaming their Wildlife Commission hearings earlier this year, and the OGCC
has been streaming their rulemaking hearings for the past several months. As more interest has been
generated, DNR decided to move forward with purchasing equipment to be used department-wide. This
"service" helps to provide access to information for those who are unable to travel to the meetings. (Susan
Lesovsky~
WATER INFORMATION -IMAGING AUDIT TRAIL: The CWCB's imaging system,
Laserfiche, has a new audit trail component that is used to look at activity in the system. Based on the
different types of users setup in the system, web activity, searches, downloads and other types of
information can be tracked and evaluated. While this tool provides statistics such as how many people
are logging in or how many documents are being added to the system, the audit trail can also help
evaluate whether the search tools are straight forward or cumbersome and if the indexinglcategorization
of documents is logical to the end user. The Water Information Section is running monthly reports with
this tool to evaluate Laserfiche activity. (Susan Lesovsky)
FEBRUARY 2009 ISF WORKSHOP: The 2009 ISF workshop will beheld on Tuesday, February
24, 2009 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at Denver's REI flagship Store. Staff selected this venue because of
easy access from I-25 and free parking. In addition, REI has waived all fees associated with this event.
The purpose of the workshop is to afford recommending entities the opportunity to present new ISF
recommendations tothe staff, Board and stakeholders. Lunch will be provided. An additional notice of
this event will be sent to the ISF Subscription Mailing List in late December or early January. (Neff
Baessler)
CWCB CLOUD SEEDING ANNUAL REPORT (~VY08): Staff has prepared an annual report
for Water Year 2008 that summarizes local expenditures, grants to project sponsors from the CWCB,
New Mexico, and Colorado River water users, proposals and contracts for new equipment, estimates of
snowfall generated, and other staff, state, and regional activities related to cloud seeding. Board members
can access the report through Laserfische or the CWCB Watershed Protection and Flood Mitigation
publications web page at:
http:l/cwcb.state.co.us/WatershedProtectionFloodMitigationlRelatedInformationlPublications/pubs.htm#
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(Joe Busto)
AVAILABILITY OF WATER EFFICIENCY GRANT FUND: A recent interpretation of
Colorado's statutes authorizing and appropriating money for water conservation planning and
implementation grants, has resulted in a determination that less than $50,000 is available to meet Water
Efficiency Grant Fund (WEGF) purposes in the current fiscal year. This means that little or no money is
available to meet the need for new grants. Therefore, the Office of Water Conservation and Drought
Planning will not be processing new grant applications until this fiscal problem is resolved. The CWCB
will be working hard to resolve this issue as soon as possible, but because legislation is required to
remedy the problem, it is likely that no money will be available before March 1, 2009 at the earliest. The
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