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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 <br />------------------------ <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 <br />t <br />