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Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group Page 14
<br />DRAFT Minutes of March 16 -17, 2009, Meeting
<br />Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group Meeting
<br />March 16 -17, 2009
<br />Conducting: Shane Capron, Chairperson
<br />Committee Members /Alternates Present:
<br />Mary Barger, WAPA
<br />Cliff Barrett, UAMPS
<br />Charley Bulletts, Southern Paiute Consortium
<br />Kerry Christensen, Hualapai Tribe
<br />William Davis, CREDA
<br />Jay Groseclose, NM Interstate Stream Comm.
<br />Norm Henderson, NPS /GCNRA
<br />Amy Heuslein, BIA
<br />Rick Johnson, Grand Canyon Trust
<br />Robert King, UDWR
<br />Dennis Kubly, USBR
<br />March 17, 2009
<br />Convened: 8:05 a.m.
<br />Steve Mietz, NPS /GRNP
<br />John O'Brien, GCRG
<br />Don Ostler, UCRC /alternate for Wyoming
<br />Clayton Palmer, WAPA (alternate)
<br />Bill Persons, AGFD
<br />D. Randolph Seaholm, CWCB
<br />Sam Spiller, USFWS (alternate)
<br />Mark Steffen, Federation of Fly Fishers
<br />Bill Werner, ADWR
<br />Michael Yeatts, the Hopi Tribe
<br />Committee Members Absent:
<br />Christopher Harris, Colo. River Board of Calif. John Shields, WY State Engineers Office
<br />Glen Knowles, USFWS Larry Stevens, GCWC
<br />Interested Persons:
<br />Matthew Andersen, GCRMC /USGS Loretta Jackson - Kelly, Hualapai Tribe
<br />Glenn Bennett, USGS /GCMRC Leslie James, CREDA
<br />Mike Berry, USBR Andy Makinster, AGFD
<br />Jen Dierker, NPS /GRCA Barbara McKenzie, USGS /GCMRC
<br />Helen Fairley, USGS /GCMRC Emily Omana, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council
<br />David Garrrett, Science Advisors Clayton Palmer, WAPA
<br />Pamela Garrett, M3 Research Tom Ryan, USBR
<br />John Hamill, USGS /GCMRC Jason Thiriot, Colo. River Commission of Nevada
<br />Doug Hendrix, USBR
<br />IMeeting Recorder: Linda Whetton, USBR
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<br />Welcome and Administrative. The Chairman welcomed the TWG members, alternates, and interested
<br />persons. Attendance sheets were distributed.
<br />Approval of the October 15 -16, 2008 Minutes. The minutes were approved as amended.
<br />FY2010 -11 Budget Discussion. Shane distributed copies of the FY2010 -11 Preliminary Budget
<br />Recommendation to the Adaptive Management Program dated March 17, 2009 (Attachment 9a). He said
<br />' he went through what was discussed yesterday and added items 23 -31. He suggested the group consider
<br />taking off as many items as possible and figure out which ones are the most important. In doing that, he
<br />sees two ways off the list for the fate of the items: 1) the group agrees the item is important and GCMRC
<br />and BOR agrees to do it and it comes off the list and goes into the minutes; 2) the other way off the list is
<br />that there is disagreement about whether an item should be on and the group votes. If there isn't a majority
<br />vote on any one item, it doesn't stay on, and then eventually the group votes on the remaining list. Even
<br />though most of the items have been discussed by the BAHG, there were two issues on non - native and
<br />cultural issues so the group needed to hear from Bill Persons and the CRAHG. Shane clarified that if the
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