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<br />Water Availability Task Force Meeting
<br />May 23, 2002 1 :00 - 3:00
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<br />Welcome, Introductions, Special Announcements,
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<br />Note: sections indicated by "_? _" or "(inaudible)" indicate areas on the tape where the
<br />speaker has turned away from the mike, dropped off the end of the sentence, mumbled, or was too
<br />far away to be clearly picked up on the recording, _ indicates an unidentified speaker, (?)
<br />behind a word or phrase represents a "best guess",
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<br />Brad Lundahl: I would like to welcome everybody, and thank you for attending, Again, this is the
<br />water availability task force, and its been a month since we met last, and things have changed a
<br />little bit, I'd like to say things have gotten a lot better, but I think we'll probably hear that that
<br />may not be the case, I'd like to thank the Division of Wildlife for providing this room, we had
<br />some last minute changes and so we were scrambling to fmd a space, and DOW jumped right up
<br />and said we have space available, and it is kind of a big room, And we are going to record this
<br />session so that our minutes can be accurate and precise, and so, if you can, when you speak, try
<br />and speak loudly and get as close to the microphone as you can,
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<br />Generally, we've had news clips that we hand out at these meetings, there has been tremendous
<br />press coverage about the drought, and we decided to forgo printing all of those and handing them
<br />out, I think I've killed enough trees lately, and unless anyone has objections, we probably will not
<br />make these available at this time, If you want or need those, let me know, and I can get copies for
<br />you, but just in the interest of saving some resources, I won't,
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<br />As most of you know, we do have some fires buming, Rich Homman is supposed to show up and
<br />give us a quick presentation, he's very busy and active on the fire lines, so as soon as he gets here
<br />we'll probably break for him and let him give us an update, and then let him get back out of here
<br />for attending the fire emergencies,
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<br />- He's trying to reduce the request for the declarations, which was turned down,
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<br />Brad: We also should have Matt Knoedler coming by in a little bit from the Governor's office, to
<br />give us an update on what the Governor is thinking, and as soon as he gets here we'll go ahead and
<br />have Matt speak as well, If you look at the agenda items at 2:20 and 2:40, we have Impact Task
<br />Force Recommendations, which some of you or most of you should be familiar with, And what
<br />we're going to is to combine 2:20 and 2:40 and have kind of a roundtable discussion to talk about
<br />where we are with recommendations, what we know, and what we can do to start implementing
<br />those recommendations, I talked to some of you about this, but haven't had a chance to get to all
<br />of you, so between now and 2:20 you might want to be thinking about how we're going to handle
<br />these recommendations, I see Matt Knoedler just came in, we'll give him a minute to get his
<br />thoughts together, he's rushing around,
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<br />Brad: Once you get your blood sugar back up, and we'll give you a minute or two, With all the
<br />talk of conservation and what we folks do, I know I've been getting calls almost daily on that, I
<br />wanted to spend a couple of minutes and kind of add something to the agenda, We have
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