BOARD02064

• Board Meeting Date: 3/21/2002
• Description: OWC Section - Drought and Water Supply Assessment
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Section 3
ReferencesjExperience (RFP Section 4.5)

City and County of Denver/The Greenway Foundation

Mr. Bouvette was responsible for program development and
management with respect to water resources projects in the Colorado Front Range. In one
example of program development, Mr. Bouvette directed a team in the pursuit of natural
resources projects in and along the South Platte River corridor and facilitated the relationship
between the City and County of Denver, the Greenway Foundation (a local non-profit), the US
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and, Ur):>an Drainage and Flood Control District for
purposes of forwarding a series of river restoration projects in the Central Platte Valley.
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This project required that Mr. Bouvette and his team provide project administration to the
local, non-federal sponsors; maintain and promote communications between the various
public entities especially in situations where communications breakdowns occurred and
threatened project progress; and provide guidance and leadership in the development and
marketing of federal programs funding leveraging bipartisan support to, among other things,
sway public policy related to USACE progran:tS and program administration.

Pertinent Project Attributes: Project management and administration; natural resources policy;
'communications; public policy.

Bar Chadwick
Parks and Recreation
City and County of Denver
303-964-2497

Jeff Shoemaker
Executive Director
The Greenway Foundation
303-455-71 09

Scott Tucker
Executive Director
UOFCD
303-455-6277

The Stead Funding Parties

Mr. Bouvette managed a project team responsible fot the plannillg and
implementation of a groundwater management progra1ll adjacent to water
supply production facilities in Lemmon Valley, Stead, Nevada. The project
required that Mr. Bbuvetle provide guidance and facilitation of a multi-
organizational client group (consisting of the City of Reno, Airport Authority of Washoe
County (AAWC), Lear Family Trust and theUSACE) in negotiating with the Nevada Division
of Environmental Protection, Sierra Pacific Power Company (the local water purveyor), and the
State Attorney General's Office. Over the eight years of this project, Mr. Bouvette helped shape
the State's regulatory policies and statutory authorities, through the focused and deliberate
facilitation of the involved entities and project stakeholders. Mr. Bouvette was also responsible
for the development and implementation of a community relations plan for the client group,
which entailed the coordination of public education and information dissemination activities to
inform and engage the local community. As a result of Mr. Bouvette's efforts, the client group
and the State entered into the first ever Record of Decision executed in the State of Nevada.
This project waS a National Finalist in the Engineering Excellence Awards Competition
conducted by the American Consulting Engineers Council in March 2001.
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Pertinent Project Attributes: Project administration; natural resources policy; communications;
public policy

Mr. Randy Bowling
Randy Bowling Consulting
775-825-2000

Ms. Linda Bowman
Attorney at Law (representing AAWC)
775-335-1700

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