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<br />Water Availability Task Force Meeting <br />May 23, 2002 1 :00 - 3:00 <br /> <br />Welcome, Introductions, Special Announcements, <br /> <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", <br /> <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, <br /> <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, <br /> <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, <br /> <br />- He's trying to reduce the request for the declarations, which was turned down, <br /> <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, <br /> <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 <br />