BOARD01848

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1998
• Description: Directors' Reports
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
721 Centennial Building
1 31 3 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone, [phone]
FA)" 13031 866.4474

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STATE OF COLOMDO

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MEMORANDUM

Roy Romer
Governor

TO:

J;lmes S. locnhe;ld
Executive Director, DNR
DMiesC. Lile,P.E.
Director, ewes

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

FROM:

Peter Evans

DATE:

9 March, 1998

RE:

Agenda Item 3(b), March 10-11, 1998 Board Meeting--
CWCB Director's Report

Pursuant to the memorandum dated February 18, 1997 from Jim Lochhead, I
continue to serve as Acting Director of your staff and offices during Chuck Lile's
absence. Chuck's recovery and well being are of great importance to all of us, and we
hope he and Jim Lochhead will be able to clarify their plans soon. However, based upon
discussions at our January 1998 meeting, I have initiated a careful review of all senior
staff workload priorities in conjunction with the reassignment of key responsibilities. All
Section Chiefs have been very supportive in this review, and the process is a healthy one,
but it will take awhile to complete.

Jim Lochhead has agreed to assume Chuck's responsibilities for all major
Colorado River activities including the Animas-La Plata reconciliation initiative but
excluding the Salinity Forum, which I will plan to cover with assistance from CWCB
staff, David Robins and David Holm. With assistance from Hal Simpson and our staff, I
will also pick up Chuck's responsibilities for the SB 96-74 investigations concerning the
Denver Basin and the South Platte River, meetings of the Arkansas River Compact
Administration, the Colorado Ground Water Commission, the Water Congress, the
Western States Water Council and the General Assembly. I was unsuccessful in
convincing the DNR to resume responsibilities for coordinating our efforts in the
Recovery Programs with the division of Wildlife and the Department of Agriculture, but
Randy Seaholm has assumed many San Juan River Recovery Program functions. Randy
and Larry Lang have agreed to help get the MWSI/Chatfield Reservoir efforts going
again. Dan Merriman and Greg Espegren will assume more ofthe Recovery Program
flow protection responsibilities, and Bill Stanton is helping extensively with the water
resource planning initiatives and legislative coordination.

At this point, we are still scrambling to respond to budgetary and other legislative
inquiries while we keep up with our ongoing programmatic responsibilities. We are also
managing to stay involved in the salary survey for the state job classification covering 'I.
of our employees (the State Auditor's Office is investigating the possibility this class is
substantially overpaid!), the development of a "pay for performance" plan required by the
General Assembly to be implemented in the next 2 Yz years, the review and improvement