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DRAFT #1 <br />Budget Goals <br />The CWCB has begun the process of revising its long -range plan. The CWCB <br />needs proactive plan that takes a business -like goal oriented approach. The plan will be <br />based, in part, on meetings board members host in their respective river basins to collect <br />information about what their constituents want the CWCB to do to address the issues it is <br />confronted with like drought planning, habitat protection and water supply availability. <br />Future budgets will be specifically designed to support the plan. In the meantime, the <br />CWCB's Fiscal Year 2000 -2001 budget proposal builds on past experience and <br />anticipates the need to continue to further the CWCB's co -equal priorities. Those <br />priorities are: <br />• To support, encourage and develop the professional staff through which the CWCB <br />will reach its goals. <br />• The production and dissemination of sound statewide water information upon which <br />thoughtful decisions can be made. <br />• The protection of Colorado's water allocations, entitlements, water rights and <br />permitting systems. <br />• The need for drought plans at a local and regional level. <br />• The need for flood protection, mitigation, planning and response. <br />• The need for infrastructure development and maintenance. <br />• The demand for effectual protection of streams and lakes <br />These priorities were developed after reviewing the CWCB's current working <br />environment. The environmental factors to be addressed are: <br />• Rapid, localized and concentrated growth; <br />• Interstate relations that require a mixture of subtle diplomacy and unwavering <br />diligence. <br />