BOARD00940

• Board Meeting Date: 3/29/1999
• Description: CF Section - Long-Term Financial Projection
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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. Water Management - Objective 7 ofGoa12 is to "reduce dam spillway requirements," and
Objective 8 is to promote cooperative development of "front range water supplies." The
water management category includes nomeimbursable support for studies and investigations
such as the Extreme Precipitation Study, the Metro Study, and funding for Multi-objective
plans. Loans to well owner organizations in the Arkansas River basin to develop well
pumping augmentation plans are also in this category.

. Fish and Wildlife Mitigation - Grants for mitigation of Wolford Mountain Reservoir,
construction of a Native Aquatic Species Facility, and the Grand Valley Water Management
Project are included in this category, Mitigation expenses for CWCB funded projects will
be estimated at 5.0 percent of new storage costs beginning in 2000 and $0.1 million per year
for other projects.

. Water Information Management - Goal 6 of the Long Range Plan is to "develop and
implement a statewide water information management system." The concepts developed
through the Colorado River Decision Support System will be assumed to be applied to the
other basins in Colorado. Support for the satellite monitoring system will be estimated at
$120,000 per year.

. Administration - CWCB administrative expenses include the costs for staff salaries for 31.5
full time employees (FTEs) and other personal services, operating, travel, capital, legal
services, as well as interstate compact dues and expenses. The CWCB FY 98-99
administrative budget approved by the General Assembly in the 1998 Long Bill (HB 98-
1401) and the Construction Fund Bill (HB 98-1189) was for a total appropriation of
$3,575,214. This included a request for General Fund support of$I,126,183 (32%), up to
$1,786,928 (50%) from the Construction Fund, $578,127 (16%) from other cash funds, and
$83,976 (2%) from federal funds. Future CWCB administrative expenses will be assumed
to increase by 5.0 percent per year.