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<br />I think our biggest goal that we're after is conservation of water, and we have a statement, plants
<br />don't waste water, people do, If you walk across bluegrass lawns, the plants not letting all that
<br />water sit there, somebody's overwatering that lawn, And we want to make sure we teach people
<br />how to water, We're in a unique position to do that, with all the people that we have, I know at
<br />Swingle I have 15,000 customers in the Denver Metro area, I'm right in the middle of putting
<br />together a piece that's going to go out to them in the next week, "How to Save Water In A
<br />Drought", In many cases, as we're writing our pieces and we're getting them out, we're realizing,
<br />you know what? This is just sound water management all the time, It doesn't necessarily have to
<br />be during a drought, you know, if we can educate people to use water wisely all the time, we may
<br />not be putting ourselves in these positions, Some of our priority projects that we've been working
<br />on since 1996, a lot of intemal connunication, you may not understand the breadth of it, but if
<br />you can imagine trying to sit down with architects, with anybody, but an architect with the
<br />maintenance folks on how we're going to maintain their things, How about setting down a sod
<br />grower with a nurseryman, You've got trees vs, lawns, And trying to get these people to
<br />connunicate on connon goals, and we've come a long ways toward getting everybody on the
<br />same page, In addition to that, and through that process, we've built a set of best management
<br />practices, and we're just coming up on the first release of those, I've got two copies ofthem here
<br />today, for people to leaf through, and whoever ends up with them are welcome to take them,
<br />We'll be putting these on the Colorado Water Conservation Board's website, around June 15 is the
<br />date we'll have them published there, There's 29 BMPs relating from everything from designing
<br />an irrigation system to how to maintain your landscape, And you'll also notice that the first two
<br />happened alphabetically are drought practices for the landscape, So if you want to take a look at
<br />those, Our big goal within the industry and from Green Industries of Colorado is to have you
<br />recognize we're a resource, If you need help, come ask us, We'll be glad to sit down, we'll
<br />educate your consumer, we'll educate your water board, we'll be glad to sit down and tell you the
<br />things you need to be aware of, And we've love to be able to help you in those areas, Again,
<br />understanding there are different stages of drought, as you guys are full aware, and there's
<br />different stages of how to address the landscape in those stages if drought, And that's all I have,
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<br />Brad: Thank you John, I've actually witnessed the creation of these BMPs and it's been very
<br />impressive, you guys have been working ahnost feverishly, and have done a great job, I really
<br />appreciate everything you've done, Again, that information will be available on our website as
<br />well as...
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<br />John - Our website will be up about the same time, it will be Greenco,org, About June 15th,
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<br />Brad - And if you have a chance to look, there's some really good information, Thank you, Next
<br />up, I have Matt Knoedler, from the Governor's office, who would like to address us for a little bit,
<br />Matt?
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<br />Matt: Thanks, Brad, On behalf of the Governor, I want to thank all of you who were chairs of the
<br />Impact Task Forces, for the quick work that you did in assembling the reconnendations for the
<br />Governor in less than., ,I think we gave 8 days for that. For that amount of time, in order to issue
<br />your reconnendations, they were excellent, In addition to that, there's also the reports, I'd like to
<br />especially point out the budget drill that should be in your handout, done by the Office of State
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