BOARD01726

• Board Meeting Date: 3/22/2005
• Description: Current State Legislative Issues
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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37-75-104. Basin roundtables. (1) To FACILITATE CONTINUED
DISCUSSIONS WITHIN AND BETWEEN BASINS ON WATER MANAGEMENT
ISSUES, AND TO ENCOURAGE LOCALLY DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS
TO WATER SUPPLY CHALLENGES, PERMANENT BASIN ROUNDTABLES ARE
HEREBY CREATED IN COLORADO'S SEVEN WATER BASINS AND IN
DEMOGRAPIDCALL Y UNIQUE SUBREGIONS WITHIN WATER DIVISIONS I AND
II AS SPECIFIED IN SUBSECTION (3) OF TillS SECTION.
(2) EACH BASIN ROUNDTABLE SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING
POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
(a) As SOON AS PRACTICABLE FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THIS ARTICLE, EACH BASIN ROUNDTABLE CREATED PURSUANT TO THE
STATEWIDE WATER SUPPLY INITIATIVE AUTHORIZED BY SECTION 14 OF
SENATE BILL 03-110, ENACTED AT THE FIRST REGULAR SESSION OF THE
SIXTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SHALL ESTABLISH BYLAWS,
OPERATING PROCEDURES, AND MEMBERSHIP GUIDELINES TO GOVERN THE
ACTIONS AND DECISIONS OFTHEAPPLICABLE ROUNDTABLE. THE DIRECTOR
OF COMPACT NEGOTIATIONS SHALL WORK WITH APPLICABLE LOCAL
ELECTED OFFICIALS AND STAKEHOLDERS IN THE SOUTH AND NORTH METRO
ROUNDTABLES IN ESTABLISHING BYLAWS, OPERATING PROCEDURES, AND
MEMBERSHIP GUIDELINES FOR THOSE ROUNDTABLES. EACH COUNTY AND
CITY AND COUNTY WITHIN A ROUNDTABLE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO AT
LEAST ONE MEMBER ON THE BASIN ROUNDTABLE AS SELECTED BY THAT
COUNTY OR CITY AND COUNTY'S BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OR
OTHER SIMILAR GOVERNING BODY FOR TIiAT COUNTY OR CITY AND
COUNTY.
(b) SELECT TWO BASIN REPRESENTATIVES TO REPRESENT THE
VIEWS AND INTERESTS OF THE BASIN ON THE INTERBASIN COMPACT

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HB05-1177