South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting June 13.

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South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting: Tuesday, June 13,2006 Southwest Weld County Administrative Bldg Longmont, Colorado Chair Bill Jerke calls meeting to order at 4:10 pm --DNR provides hard copy of minutes, agenda, By-Laws, memos re: SB 179, etc. --Update of membership list; name tags, etc. I. IBCC report --Mike Shimmin: May 22 meeting: agreed on set of By-Laws for operating procedures; hard copy available at meeting; Implementation of SB 179: designates $10 million/year for next 4 years for projects approved by Roundtable Process; criteria for awarding this money discussed; CWCB will approve; more discussion to ensue at June 30 meeting to discern exactly what Senator Isgar his understanding was that the intent was to help smaller entities; not sure if this will be a controlling focal point; --Eric Wilkenson: Reminds us that DNR sent an email to roundtable members on June 12; hardcopy of these (letters from Russ George, Rick Brown, Eric Hecox) available at meeting; --Hope John Redorford, Chair of CWCB, is that IBCC will appoint a committee to work together with CWCB to identify a clear set of criteria; idea is to go to Roundtables to get feedback as to what they would like to see in the criteria; DNR has put together a set of focus questions for Roundtable; see memo to come: what role will this play in water activities; how should this money be used; needs assessment; Senate Bill provided some activities for criteria; are these sufficient; eligibility of any particular activity; Senator Isgar (Sponsor) articulates that his vision was that this money could be used by smaller entities; discussion ensued about whether or not this money could be used for a needs assessment; other roundtables are discussing how we feel whether SW ASI was good enough or do we feel a need to redo this assessment; SW ASI Phase II tackling part of this; other questions: prioritization: how does this money get spent: seems like a lot of money, but not a lot when talking about prioritize; do we use this for multi-purpose projects? Do we favor loans over grants? Is this a loan program or a grant program? --Eric Hecox: Legislation wanted to make sure flexibility is in the Act for both; --Wilkenson: Does a basin's need assessment need to be completed before money can be allocated? If so, then needs assessment must be focused upon. Must have focus questions for Roundtables; June 30 IBCC meeting; Mike and Eric would like feedback on the memo; development of the criteria will be iterative process where members will develop it, go to IBCC and CWCB then back to roundtables before adopted; thus plenty of opportunity for feedback;