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Water Supply Reserve Account — Grant and Loan Program <br />Water Activity Summary Sheet <br />Agenda Item 25.a <br />Applicant: Colorado Foundation for Water Education <br />Water Activity Name: Solicitation of Stakeholder Input and Advice through publication of a Rio <br />Grande Edition of Headwaters Magazine <br />Water Activity Purpose: Non - structural Activity <br />County: Multiple <br />Drainage Basin: Rio Grande <br />Water Source: N/A <br />Amount Requested: $33,237 (Rio Grande Basin Account) <br />Matching Funds: $10,900 ($9,200 CFWE Committee Member In -Kind and $1,700 Graphic Design <br />In -Kind) <br />Staff Recommendation <br />Staff recommends approval of up to $33,237 from the Rio Grande Basin Account to assist in the <br />funding of the Solicitation of Stakeholder Input and Advice through publication of a Rio Grande <br />Edition of Headwaters Magazine. <br />Water Activity Summary: <br />The proposal will provide a tool for Rio Grande Basin Roundtable members to actively solicit input <br />and advice from affected local governments and stakeholders. It will also educate over 7,000 <br />Colorado residents about issues in the Rio Grande basin. The publication can be used by water <br />educators in the basin, such as the Rio Grande Watershed Conservation and Education Initiative, to <br />better reach their audience. <br />Production of this issue will assist Roundtable members and others in the community engaged in <br />water education by providing them with high quality materials needed to educate the public. The <br />Foundation will assist the Roundtable with distribution of the publication and will work with local <br />water educators to develop additional means of telling the stories in the publication, such as <br />community presentations, workshops and media stories. Production includes the writing, editing, <br />design, printing, distribution and management of the issue. The issue would be available in June <br />2013. <br />Headwaters magazine is the Foundation's most widely available and well -known educational <br />resource. Once a year, the magazine features a river basin in Colorado and discusses in detail the <br />challenges the basin faces, the agencies and people responsible for managing water resource affiliated <br />issues, and the many success stories already accomplished. The Foundation has featured the San <br />Juan, Dolores, Yampa and White, Arkansas and South Platte basins since the first basin - focused issue <br />in 2004. <br />Discussion: <br />HB 05 -1177 (37 -75 -104) indicates that each basin roundtable has powers and responsibilities that <br />include the following: <br />