Water Advisory Board – February 2024

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Water Advisory Board – February 2024

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Unknown Speaker 0:00
call the meeting to order. Roll Call.

Speaker 1 0:08
Scott willowick Roger lane. Renee Davis your Dan Wolford. You can use him. Yeah, Wes Lowry here. Kevin voted your vote Bartlett here. Alex, Mark Klein. Christopher, your price halfway here. Miles Churchill. And Chelsea What’s your last name? Wilson. All right.

Speaker 2 0:29
Joseph Wilson. Antenna McIntyre is here and obviously councilmember Barton yet but Cheerio. Thank you.

Speaker 3 0:38
So approved previous months. Anybody have any questions or comments? And the motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Okay. Give me Give us a status of the water.

Speaker 4 1:01
Sure. flow at the SEC rain this morning line stage was 90.7. CFS, the 125 year historical average is approximately 14.5 CFS for this day. The call on the same rain this morning was rockin Creek Ranch, California. Which has priority data from 19 to 1505. Wade Amex. Currently there are no calls in the South Platte rail process worried about my relation to 63 9.5 which is approximately 10 and a half feet down or 13,000

Unknown Speaker 1:50
acre feet.

Speaker 4 1:52
This is about 2200 acre feet pratfall unit reservoir is currently at a gage height of 23.8 or 9873 acre feet, which is down approximately 4800 acre feet in the fall. Select st reinvent basin storage reservoirs at the end of the summer where 75% of full this time last year, the same at basin reservoirs for a 69% fall. So we’re doing a little bit better than last year. In terms of snowpack level, the Colorado River headwaters is currently at 95% On average, in the same range right now it’s 81%. So we’re taking it took a little dip on the sand

Unknown Speaker 3:03
I’m assuming it was for maintenance purposes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 3:05
We have a hole in the bottom of the spillages and the outlet and bringing it all the way down basically what we’re currently working on a fix for that repaired with love again, yes. Cause

Unknown Speaker 3:36
might be her gender revision.

Speaker 1 3:43
Just wanted to know, we received the annual sustainability and climate action report just Barb’s information. I’ll pass that out at the end of the meeting. And then if the board actually wants a presentation on the sustainability group, let us know and we’ll pass by to a future. Just want to put on the record that I’ll hand out at the end of the meeting.

Speaker 1 4:16
Worse no development all right. I know people on staff. Can you talk about war? Yeah, I wanted to upload a quick PowerPoint here for you to take a look at today’s one on the Lower Colorado River. The first is we attended the city council’s retreat they had asked for a presentation on the Colorado River and what its potential impacts might be on Lola switch water supply. And then also I had an opportunity to go down with Northern Colorado water Conservancy District Board of Directors staff, a few other northern Colorado water providers to the lower Colorado River in Arizona and meet with water providers down there in the central Arizona project the local water districts down there to kind of try to bridge between the upper and lower rivers and I wanted to give a quick report on that Well, I French owner

Speaker 1 5:55
Zara just gonna go real quick. waterboard pretty much knows all this. I’ve seen it all. But I want to let you know what we talked to council about. The first thing we did was just tried to ground them a little bit. And everything that waterboard has looked at, reviewed and worked out over the years. We first talked to you about our guiding water principles, which we’ve had for well over 20 years, and went through those and explained them. And then we explained that most of our water supply is based upon two really founding documents, the raw water master plan, we’ve talked about a little bit about that is in that plan. And then the future water demand analysis, that document you may recall is we’ve updated about every five years we have the actual demands are have been added added in the last five years data and use that project or future water demand. And then after that, we talk about the Colorado River Basin. One of the things that was of interest, really I probably get asked quite a bit about it lately, is that fact that CSU came out there was a study that said it could be up to a 30% decrease in flows on the Colorado River, you know, that hit the news media and got people talking very quickly. So talked about wanted to talk about that. So to ground that we talked a little bit about the not only the Colorado River Compact, but also how the basically the federal government had operates the main center of the Colorado River. We talked a little bit about those projections a little bit about the current quarter river flow data. I always like to point out that we have yet and the below 100%. Delivery of water to the lower basement actually, long term averages about 10 to 12%. Delivery. So it’s hard for me to locate a personal it’s harder for me to fasten for mortgage insurance. Yeah, 100. devas said what you’re supposed to have. So sorry about the covenant there. But then we talked a little bit about Palamedes conditions. And the upper and lower basin use, you know, kind of comparing, really, honestly, in the last four or five, six years upper basin is varies between three and a half, four and a half million acre feet and seven and a half. So well below. Otherwise, could be and then for reasons way or so that there’s a discrepancy that we went down and talked about that way. So just wanted to just put that in grief Council on the future unknowns of our project that’s really in water demand evaluation, we call our variability, assumptions, everything from climate to density to future planning, projection. So there’s quite a quite a bit of that documented. And then we talked a little bit about the impacts of the CPP versus when you get out, especially when you look at, well, two priorities and those two projects, and then its potential future impact on long enough. Well, they always like to point out is that you go back to the start value on principles on 1/3 of our water supply is coming from the west slope, two thirds from the native bases and rain. So even a 30% west slope is only a temporary impact on long runs water supply because it’s only 1/3 of our lives. So that’s good news for us. Now, there will be impacts on the far side, but it won’t be clean. So that’s really kind of wanted to let Council know. We talked about what the best options are going to summarize it with. If, if there is an impact, so great, we didn’t anticipate, really, these are our options. Our number one option is water conservation will close to our 10% savings. But to put it in perspective, I tried to perspective, I’m going to use real round numbers here 30,000 acre feet of future demand. And below that 10% savings is about 3000 acre feet. So if we were to get another 10 to 15% savings was 3000 to 45. Already, right there really, water conservation as potential is any future shortage we might have. But we still have a lot of projects in their union reservoir pump back pipeline, and especially when combined with combination of viewers or largement. Those projects really are next, next in line to projects if we would need them, especially the pump pipeline, because it needs this water directly right up to a system by exchange system. And then button rock large measure and then we have a number of others. Try not to go into too in depth on actual projects, because the real crux of that. Council retreat items to talk about where are we at the Colorado River? I feel it will really well translate some really great questions and confusion. So we’re happy. Hopefully I don’t know. On the spot, hopefully, we got crossover. You did it citizens were Yeah, that was

Speaker 2 12:13
that was an applicable and informative piece of the retreat to some other interesting parts of the country retreat the second day. So

Unknown Speaker 12:27
yeah, well, we tried to get to

Unknown Speaker 12:32
know can you talk about build out? How far down that list would have to go. To build on or to we need to build up needs somewhere on that

Speaker 1 12:50
list. Yeah, actually right now we’re waterboard advice counselor participate in Alinea from a project windy affirming project was a little bit of water conservation should bring us about to build. If all the assumptions we made are proof, you know, we did crystal ball a little bit. So we’re really hopeful that we don’t have to go very far down this mess. Obviously keeping it all.

Unknown Speaker 13:24
First available. I know.

Speaker 5 13:28
You said water conservation was the top option. Or the other four projects listed there in order of priority, according to legal staff are counting directly. So I’ll say sort of

Speaker 1 13:39
Yes, I think water conservation will be our first go to. But the pipeline, we’ve actually part of that is already built. It can be phased in I think about that project before April phases. So we can build the first phase. You have to know the union enlargement before version, our union. So at some point, but come back pipeline, we could get that going pretty quickly. The advantage is that there’s a lot of water down here at the bottom end that we have available couldn’t be made made available. If we just get back up into the system. First phase is really just up to you Creek Golf core to the Rough and Ready ditch that gets you up golf course, number of parts, free schools and Fox Hill golf course. For really a fairly short project. That will give us a lot. So yeah, I would, I would say, you know, obviously we’re going to look hard to talk about fish that are backed by by would be the first one. And then it also allows us to do a number of other things associated with returning.

Speaker 2 14:57
So what you just said makes me understand that I never quite understood what the back project is, I always thought that it popped back all the way to the water treatment plant so that you could make the non potable water in the reservoir of old water. But it sounds like you’d have some interim steps where we just make the raw water more usable for things for irrigation and stuff.

Speaker 1 15:26
That’s exactly spot on. An example is right now we irrigate fox, fox hills here nice Fox Hills with pleasant valuers work CareLink Northtown is the senior the senior water right winger and also an irrigates, you’ve created arrogates number of parks and three schools. So you got you got a lot of irrigation went on coming up plus about previously changed was Valley talked about rock. So we can take that water in the winter into our treatment plants. And now you got to you want to irrigate, you got a lot of land areas, so then we would use the pipeline here and it’s very phase one second phase would take it up to the side of Loma like Macintosh. And then you have that water available to huge waste, oligarchy ditch and all of the parts of the north half, almost two thirds of Longmont. All of that is available, we can also move it on up to the hiring manager, rough and ready. So we can put water in there ditch and take a like amount of water. And so that’d be the second phase that opens up a whole bunch more water availability. The third would be to take it up to virtuallink. And get more, you get just a little bit more capacity there, then the fourth phase is third advice. Highly unlikely would ever take it that far. I think there’s enough exchange capacity between here and there. To use that,

Speaker 3 17:05
would you do those some of those initial steps before you would even large. Usually,

Speaker 1 17:11
we do at least the first phase, I think there’s enough water we build just after reservoir it’s going to be lower levels and so that does have an impact on the patient. Yeah, we would utilize more water out of union residents. We also utilize the same grant Creek Fire Station Number one, which pumps out at the same rate creek just downstream of Main Street and we take the exchange we exchange water that comes out of the wastewater plant put that out there but also we have a lot of lower ditches that after the fourth of July we can’t move up to bedrock is around return flow and that’s everything from North 75th So all those ditches currently the only use we can make is in the same very great but if we could put those ended up put back are the same grade pump station number one wastewater popped up the union move it up to the parks it opens up a whole nother avenue for all of those waters. We just did change a bunch of bonus ditch water Costco all the wall lands arrogated orders now Costco that water is now available to us but again it’s it’s current out here. We do use it for rearing clothes. We use it for exchanges, so we have will use it but it just makes the availability of that use much So yeah, that that’s short in the order but not exactly yeah.

Speaker 2 19:01
And this is not going to be in the letters with me probably but do you have like kilowatt energy consumption for the plant pumps available?

Unknown Speaker 19:14
I don’t know.

Unknown Speaker 19:17
The summary is the project is partially planned

Speaker 1 19:24
I would have to pull information out I obviously we do safer three pump station number two because this bill that we’ve been using,

Unknown Speaker 19:35
whoo. So I’ll send you a note saying I’m curious to hear that too. So oh good then I don’t have to send it

Unknown Speaker 19:52
we can we can pull that

Speaker 6 19:59
sorry. But yeah, nice to know this desirability of projects. I’ve

Speaker 1 20:04
always kind of wished when I see the contact part of my hope was that interview.

Speaker 6 20:10
Yeah, but I think it would be lower treated water, which is also an energy savings to write the raw water. So there’s a good energy savings there. Well, that’s

Speaker 2 20:20
right now, if we consume that energy that we have that energy, then it’s energy that we can curtail when you need to give us a better deal with leverage.

Speaker 1 20:31
Especially the pump station. Yeah. Which is

Unknown Speaker 20:35
already there. And I hadn’t thought about Well,

Speaker 1 20:37
yeah. Introverts out of the creek into a pot, the large spent gravel pit. So we have up to 72 hours. We always divert into the pond, and then we can pump when we should, we should? Yes. And that’s, that’s that’s a much better way. Yeah, that’s easily doable. Alright. So anyway, that was that was our presentation. Just wanted to do do that. Then the second half, I just wanted to report back room briefly on our trip down to Arizona, obviously, you know, consolidating for me personally, after having done this, and then come back, you know, when I, for years, and what before I went down there, I was dorsal score. Basically, people need to get their act together and put us in so much water is a way exceed their allocation. And I was pretty strong about that. Now that I’ve done the tour, I still feel that they’re changing me, but I have a little more empathy for them. I have more understanding of of what their challenges are. It’s it’s very difficult for the lower basin, because they have developed over under Well, we’re under years on storage, and they’re knowing that God doesn’t mean anything to him down there. Because it was a huge storage device up here. prior appropriation, Hey, your disk gets called out, your disk gets called up. You know, we it’s normal for us to have a ditch get called out. But that doesn’t happen in the lower basin. And there are but there are some some big challenges. Why now, we flew into Phoenix to meet everybody turns out a little bit more rock there than I would like. I don’t know that heat island effects gonna be interesting things. We’ll see asphalt roof topper long. So that’s, that’s interesting. So just to kind of because what I’m going to talk about, if you don’t know exactly the kind of the map, we flew into Phoenix we met here. First day was so just this area, the Gila River starts in Arizona, those current through, excuse me, New Mexico, those clear through the south side of Arizona, all the way through here. So you’ve probably heard this area when I think he’s called the Valley of the Sun, but really, literally is this big, huge valley was the Gila River. years ago, the Gila River comes down to here taskings, that was all the way down. And I say Gila River, there is no river there. Even even east of Phoenix, there’s, I’m sure flows in sometimes whatever rainstorm, although they thanked us for bringing water to them. Because in the three days, a couple days before that one day or there, they got two and a half inches of moisture, which is their average yearly precipitation. entire year precipitation, the three days were here. So the pictures actually are probably better than you imagine. And this maps a little deceiving because for some reason they showed this whole southwest area of Arizona and green, California

Unknown Speaker 24:38
dropped off.

Speaker 1 24:41
There’s no greener. So anyway, we went from Phoenix one, all the way down here to Yuma to look at the interesting part of the systems out there is the Southern Southeastern part, especially radula is all pre compact ditch water, there’s a number of dig ditches that predate that I keep going to the north, you know, throughout Phoenix and up in that area. There’s there’s a lot of native water from coming out of the hills or out, you know, from Flagstaff and East, but but their main supplies like Absu, up here, and the central Arizona project. So, so basically, we were, we were down here in the Bay Area that we’re up here on the central Arizona project and then what Eastern to the healing Indian reservation to look at some of the issues there. So our first stop was meeting with the well Mohawk irrigation drainage district. That very interesting. This is the actual canal. Again, this is pre pre compact, water, the two ditches, main ditches around Liam Arizona area. The area down there was very, it basically is red vegetable farm farms for all of America. I mean, they this time of year, they’re growing most of our lettuce and all around the Trump firm is down there and shipping clerk in the candidate to the northeast, United States all over the country for this. So while they need to take care of water issues down there, that also is our our water, lifeline, bread butter. It’s our food. So this is the actual canal in the Baltimore canal. This is a little bit better view of history now that Kevin told me he all of our ditches of this route here. Interesting thing about this niche is a lot of their ditches are lying down there. So as you can imagine, they needed to prevent infiltration. A large part of this one was not lying. And it wouldn’t fly here in Colorado, the interest the reason it’s not flying, is because the water comes out of the river and goes down the canal, but the canals actually flowing from west to east up the valley. And so I’ll show you in a second they lift the water that flows, and then they lifted again, the flows can move into the East to move from the Colorado River up into the valley for use. But because of that the ditch, the niche has to go downhill. So it goes down. A lot of these places like this, it’s actually lower than the Gila River. And so there actually is is water coming from the Gila River, groundwater and either going into their ditch, so they did Alliance so they can get that one. Like I say, I wouldn’t float here, Colorado. But it was it was interesting to me that that was one of the things that I do. Very well on cable this at this point, you’re the far west end of the Gila River work, come ready for those of Otter river. And their problem there is needles to harvest and so it actually pump water out of the ground. So they don’t have salt in their fields. But fields are amazing. So this is one of the pump stations where it reminds you a little bit of sump pump stations you’ll see on our large irrigation projects. Those are little bit shorter, smaller units. But what’s amazing is only about a 12 to 15 foot lift. They lifted up about 15 feet. Next one station, so pretty, pretty large pump station to pump out water. Then there’s just a broccoli field that you’re actively harvesting you can see manual labor going on. It’s amazing. One thing I learned about these, they they camp out because their produce, they can’t have anything contaminating it because basically, it’s pick process champions. They actually have inspectors that go out and put little flags that they look If there’s a coyote or any foot, any print of any animal, they find that they can’t harvest the photos for like 10 or 15 feet around that. So there’s a lot of the fields, you’d see the rest of the field was harvested, and they weren’t. But suddenly they don’t use the brain and they can’t use the brain. They just they have to, you know, they’re the processing that most of their fields are formed three times a year. So they’re, they’re growing it. The entire process, I got lucky enough to be one of the like one of the first, if we were going down there in the topia, a bunch of the stuff that I do, it’s amazing. He says, I’m not a farmer. I remember ours because they grow the crop. But once they’ve grown it then they they turn it over to sugar, and stuff their crop anymore. They shipper also drop in the field, harvested transported to the processing ships it to all over the country. So they really also do is strong. This is one of the plants so after we after we met with two or three different irrigation groups back way back we got an opportunity to tour a plant. This particular one you can see different types of lettuce going up here you see here in the back that oranges carrots, mix it in, in there, but this plant is products come in and it’s washed. These are subtropical spinners that is in the case of moisture that have to take the moisture to below but it was picked out otherwise it will keep the ship comes in here goes up these conveyors and that is was put into plants. Just it was amazing to me. This particular plant what you’re looking at right now and processed about half a million pounds of lettuce a day. And there’s so there’s like 20 of these plants in the area and the package enough produce their unary all winter long, they send out a fully loaded, semi completely full 319 seconds. Just amazing the product leaves just just necessary. So what it does is let you understand how important that ale is not as easy as just saying let’s shut all this all this down. You know it’s our is. So then then we got a chance to sit down with the Central Arizona Project folks and talk to them and see what they are doing. The amazing thing to me, I guess I should have known this. I didn’t know this but the Arizona’s allocation of Carver water California got the biggest about 400 acre feet suddenly happening in Arizona. Nevada. Good luck out there with that 20,000 acre feet. But there’s only about three little over 3 million acre feet of the seven and a half. But over 40 I can’t remember Deborah about 45% There’s zone as allocation actually goes to the various Indian reservations. So the rest of Arizona has about 55% their allocation to work with a lot of reasons why that I won’t bore you with those details. But one of the areas were able to go to is called Lake Pleasant. If you think of it’s just north of the Phoenix area, and this is where I can get get a little jealous. The dam on this thing is much bigger than the dam we’re building up the chimney at all right now 400,000 acre reservoir about the same size it down that 250,000 acre feet. So for a very small town they got a really nice reservoir i i am very jealous about that. But it’s essentially a call to equalization on the central Arizona project. They pump

Speaker 1 34:52
when the power because they have power, power and a number of other factors. But it’s popped into a closet, the closet, which is by Phoenix, and then the rest of the system is littered out there. This is the day where there you can see the north and basically Phoenix is up up in the mountains here. They’re not fine. Love here, you can see that we actually have pretty good snow

Unknown Speaker 35:25
out there,

Speaker 1 35:26
shut down my tan for like three days. That was interesting, after we visited syndromes are met with would yield Indian Reservation and folks there they’re doing this is the river after they got an entire year’s worth of moisture. So it kind of interesting. I wasn’t aware of this, again, fisheries are a good way to learn this. They act, the real Indians actually farmed well before even the Spaniards came into the country. And so over the years, the irrigation in eastern Arizona and Washington, Mexico, dried up the Gila River well before them, and they basically ran out of water. So they haven’t started having a lot of pumps, pretty good groundwater table there. But obviously over the years have fallen down. So a lot of water they’re using getting is going to groundwater recharge, right here, or when there’s a large groundwater recharge project. So they’re trying to bring the groundwater back up. They also are, this is one of the canals for the Indian Reservation. And they’re going to put solar over Canal first really want of any significance in the western United States. There’s putting k signs and then they’ll put i beams across the canal. Good and bad, it’s going to be tough to do maintenance of XML are dying. But what it does is a thing of any land me shades the canal, so you have less evaporation. And they’re believing more importantly than anything else they’re in will keep their pouching growth down, as it will get the sunlight in the water. So they really feel three benefits there. That this was. So one of the problems with the large amount of groundwater withdrawal in Arizona, it is subsidence of the land. So this sign up here is where this land was in 1969. And it subsided clear down here. It just from 1969 to 2018. So they understand the issues they’re dealing with. For them. Their concern is they take less copper water pumps are going to be turned off or subsidence can increase. So it’s not as easy as just saying shut it off.

Speaker 2 38:34
So this is all down to removing groundwater

Speaker 1 38:37
from removing. That allows us basically the waters in the pores by removing the water and allows the doors to settle. And literally

Speaker 3 38:51
there was a big article on Mexico City. April the weekend. 120 inches a year.

Speaker 1 38:57
Yeah, yeah. Well, in Florida, you give a lot of some of those slips and gardens that they dissolve and then they have huge sinkholes in Mexico City. And so that was that kind of visual understanding. Then finally we got a chance to go to a desert garden area and I never knew there was a cactus called an octopus

Speaker 1 39:37
so that was really the end of it. I was lucky enough flying out of Phoenix. On the way back we just kind of climbed up to altitude yet. This is a meteorite crater, just 60 miles east east of Flagstaff supposedly the This year at greater Scrooge turned off it was kind of neat to see, especially with the snow. It really, really stuck out. So anyway, that was that was our trip. I was very interesting. And if you’re interested in Central Arizona Project organizations, Colorado summer me with a lot of work. So

Speaker 3 40:31
satellite images get a pretty good chunk of water, they add that much agriculture that they used to do there

Speaker 1 40:42
is huge and they have very, very large that’s again an area almost exclusively they’re going to use the Colorado River water to replace that groundwater balancing Yeah.

Speaker 3 41:08
So the other thing is, when it’s just issue, how many more years do we have to wait? If analogy was gonna get what long term is that near

Speaker 1 41:23
Term or Term and we don’t know there’s an inherent part of it. I don’t know if we’ll ever solve it. It’ll be interesting. The near term is to 2026 the current operational guidelines for river for the Bureau of Reclamation expire right now a lot of talk a lot of between all the states very actuation says we want all the states to our next operational guidelines. Basically they operate the car project me how the two big ones as well as going into origin makes it here in Colorado how they operate those systems make

Unknown Speaker 42:14
a big difference.

Speaker 1 42:15
I suspect they’re going to not waste quite as much tourism they they have a dual responsibility. The primary purpose of the lead and fall is water supply. So we have to prioritize that but they also generate a lot of electricity. They lead the lead below minimum powerful then they shop and a lot of generation especially the rich powers and a lot of yeah, there’s a short term. I believe there’s going to be an improvement in how it’s managed short term, but the long term is still nobody I’m an award people Arizona or us coming down from the upper basin

Unknown Speaker 43:14
Great, thanks

Speaker 3 43:20
Okay, next item is the annual button or forester update we’ll be

Speaker 7 43:33
doing sales in price. Where do you want us to sit? Well, oh wells come up here. He’s going to talk. Okay well.

Speaker 7 44:08
Everybody, that all of you at some point, your recent past a lot of you recent tour, the bud route and CDC again, nice price handling and the senior archery ranger for Longmont, and that was Churchill Camilleri full time Ranger and Missouri resident Ranger up there and he was so generous enough to come in his day off to meet with you all and share what we’ve been doing over the last year. We always enjoy this opportunity to update you on what’s going on at Blackrock what we’ve accomplished in the past year. In terms of spring water resources and protecting our forestry watershed. Do you kind of have a sneak peek at 2024? So we’ll talk about annual trends. Give you one slide recap of who we are as watershed graders learn Mission is talking about how we support water resources is there to day to day operators of button rock down, talking about the recent button rock management plan that you all had a hand in getting review and before your whole process, talking about the implementation that plan talks about some facilities projects that were completed in 2023 talked about the scaling up of the Forest Stewardship Program that we accomplished last year. Miles put together two slides and tap critters of 2023, we have some pretty fun stuff is always shared with you all. And then a sneak peek at goals for the next calendar year. And give me an opportunity to ask us any questions. So Transitway 23. I’ve got some stats on my phones, I’m not texting, do you have something for reference here? Overall, we saw decrease visitation relative to the past couple of years 2018 through 2022. You know, our best stem kind of hypothesis for this is that it’s related to post pandemic trends and recreation because we saw a myriad of the kinds of decreased public lands recreation across multiple Land Systems and Colorado, including blueprint personal space interests, our closest neighbor, it hasn’t had an unusually cool and stormy spring, I’d love to have it on again, in less flash flooding, that we think discouraged visitation, especially named June. And then very notably, we changed our dog regulations in May 2023. That was, anecdotally and still have a timeline associated with a pretty steep drop off in visitation. So that kind of by the numbers in 2023, was 61% slower than the heyday. And then in 2020 2020, we had, what I would say is unsustainable levels of visitation, we had 71,000 visitors in 2023, we said 20,000. So looking at our peak month of visitation is always July, and July 2020. Compared to July 2020 37 64% reduction, again, that’s with other park systems throughout the state. Annual visitation in 2023, was about a third and lower than 2020. And we think that that was most likely related, again to that to the rules regulation overhaul related to that as part of the bedrock management plan. So the end result of all this really is more sustainable level of visitation to your watershed list from our perspective as the people tasked with safeguarding financial resources out there in the water resources. It’s later on are preserved infrastructure. And all that said, it’s also worth noting that Rangers are actually busier with enforcement related to the management plan, I’m sure but our enforcement contacts over the last year were 75% higher than 2022. So there’s a kind of a trade off when when you overhaul regulations, there’s a learning period, we took a phased approach to an educational approach to rolling out regulations changes. Now we’ve kind of advanced to stricter enforcement and anatomy of assignment in online material and everything in place to help people become informed of the regulations before they visit. So educational and spirited, but I just want to put in there that we are actually busier even with fewer people and the enforcement piece of our job. Other trends from the last year included scaling up of the Forest Stewardship Program due to an infusion of large grants that I’ll talk about in more detail. And catching up finally, on multi year maintenance backlog to more sustainable and professionally managed or built infrastructure up there multiple different wildfire.

Speaker 5 49:27
So you compare everything to the pandemic 2020 With your enforcement context with like 23 Compared to 2020. You

Speaker 7 49:35
know, I would guess that they’re still hired because in 2020 Miles was alone up there as a sole senior seasonal learning here until October when I was hired. So the data will be hard to compare since we had met we were working on hardcopy, paper logs, and it was literally one Ranger and then release and have ad hoc team with Natural Resources staff up there’s, there’s not as easy of a number. Anecdotally having Behringer in 2020. And ping County and finishing out my year in long run. It was crazy. So I’m sure if we have the same system in place that we have now, it would have been much higher. I mean, we saw just all sorts of crazy things in 2020, across the public land systems in Colorado. But kind of post pandemic 23 One or two, compared to that were much higher on May 2023, in terms of context of the public about violin regulations is predominantly dog related. So who we are what we do, we are watershed Rangers. It’s a team of two MPs, my house and myself to temporary Rangers that we hire. This year, we have a third year returning temporary injured, Dan, and we just hired a second, Abigail, that we’re going to be training in the spring. So we’re trained in first aid, emergency response, firefighting code enforcement, as part of that resource protection and Public Safety Mission Control around 3000 acres, in addition to the surrounding area, in Marin City owned certain areas surrounding Buttner that we entered and really look after we’ve responded to search rescues, EMS calls, fires on adjacent Forest Service property, we’ve responded to accidents on private land. So we have this kind of fairly large no man’s land between Allen’s Park and mines that were involved in. But our primary duties are for miles nine, to act as operators are better at Damn, making sure that it’s secure, that it’s safe, and that its operating compliance with our water rights. Resource Protection, so protecting the natural resources and wildlife habitat and other values. And also and you know, the watershed health. And I’d put in as part of that also the built infrastructure and security of our water utility sites as Rangers which would differentiate differentiates us from straight law enforcement is we have that educational ethos so a large part of our job is public outreach and education and even when we’re doing rules enforcement, we’re coming at it from kind of the authority of the resource educational perspective. And we’re involved in emergency response and EMT miles in the wilderness first responder are both wildland firefighters so we respond in support of Boulder County Sheriff’s Office and, and their emergency services deputies as well as three different fire protection districts and the Kansas wildland fire team to help protect our watershed. Our source of majority of our drinking water and the vast majority are native water.

Unknown Speaker 53:07
What are your hours of operation?

Speaker 7 53:11
So we do our best to cover daylight hours, Dawn dusk as best as we can stretch our hours. Obviously in the winter, we have fewer hours of daylight so we work into the evenings and nights. We stagger shifts, but we cover the preserve 365 Seven days a week. Miles and I carry pagers that the sheriff’s office can use to contact us and keep them at our homes. So we can get paged after hours. So it’s kind of never ending. But we do our best to cover daylight and cover the peak times of visitation. Which is pretty variable with weather last Sunday was was the busiest shift that I’ve had in a couple months actually despite the horrible and so it’s still popular destination our parking lot is full despite the rules change and on you the wrong impression. But yeah, we do our best to cover the top or the preserve for all the times the helmet would be there in terms of that research protection enforcement that why were my costume every day and have the body camera and Maria and all the Batman bill is that maybe that compliance piece of making sure that public who visit our watershed or clients along on medical code that they’re complying with state law and other things that we help to look after coordination with color personal legend sheriff’s office, we had over 900 enforcement contacts. Last year about drug enforcement contact is anytime that I talk to you member of the public about Rules violation, we have a way of tracking it. With mobile devices where we drop a pin, we say what it was about, and what enforcement action was taken. So we have very reliable data. Additionally, now, guidance of the city attorney’s office or full time staff, but during the program are also the body cameras. So you have a lot of data. So over 914 contacts, out of about 3000 contacts for Behringer to gain overall, because we are part of that revenue division that covers everything from Union through our dozens of urban parks. I was gonna call like, up to button around. You know, overall, we average only about 3% of our enforcement context results in a ticket that we’re really good at educating people and getting clients. Right. So, big change for 2020 We only wrote eight parking tickets. I think there were some days we regret a dozen in a shift. So our parking issues have largely been resolved between signage and a massive decrease in our vehicle traffic. We wrote five summonses last year. I think we’ve learned more than that in play play for I believe that. Four of those were probably for dogs. One of them was for some riding dirt bike at Manuel’s actually got by boat. We checked 286 fishing permits and fishing licenses. As I was alluding to most common violation was dogs in the prohibited area, which wasn’t a rule until May 15 2003. We issued 135 warnings your tickets probably be 131 warnings and four tickets. Compliance increased over time following May 2023 rule change with our nearly 300 permanent checks, fishing licenses and found very high compliance and fishing regulations. Generally speaking, our anglers are awesome and very friendly and very definitely have a desire to do the right thing. We raised $10,500 through the Ralph price fishing permit program, which controls access to the stock waters between the inlet Weir and the dam itself about unwrap dam for the fishing season may 1 through Halloween. So that money goes back into management currently funding temporary Ranger staff

Speaker 8 57:41
ally price and so we do a lot of stuff. So we provide a lot of assistance to the public. The last year we responded to 20 emergency incidents, incidents and uses 370 was interrupted topics that we recorded

Speaker 8 58:05
alright 13 neighborhood resident contacts. There’s my private properties up there. It’s kind of kind of keep everybody happy. So a lot of contacts with the neighbors have supported multiple visitor volunteer projects for Castle Valley League and our trails at COVID Canada. So they work on the hummingbird switchback a reading that we worked on WR me last year while being restoration volunteers. They did North Shore trail finish. And then a native seed collection called a treasure over me putting food in himself.

Speaker 7 58:56
As one of our ranger talks, we do a handful here mostly for school groups and for our conservation corps.

Speaker 8 59:08
So some notable EMS biology and EMS calls for injury or trail has first price responding to cyclists in town August 10, at rollover accident that we responded to in the credit property, and then search and rescue pipeline is pretty far down. You know, allow people in the pipeline to preserve

Unknown Speaker 59:46
what’s in Norco afternoons.

Speaker 8 59:47
So that’s how she fires now so every year, I’m training the National Guard. So April, they kind of get pretty much helicopter, practice bucket rose through wildfires. April.

Speaker 7 1:00:04
Can you send me get some dates on calendar so we have a MOU with the National Guard and the Department of Fire Prevention state Colorado that allows them to do this training. They basically cross trains and certifies National Guard pilots is aerial wildland firefighters so that the state’s National Guard can be deployed on wildland fires in Colorado like it’s nationally but it’d be primarily here in Colorado Do you want to come up and watch the Blackhawks and because your taxpayer dollars paid for it’s it’s you can see they have to change the window and April starts about 10 days ago scattered around from there largely dependent on little gates now story

Speaker 8 1:01:03
so we also support water resource management. We do that at reservoir elevation measurements. Put the logs on line Bailey security patrols of the dam safety inspections of the first safe and then springs our call we groundwater releases so joining us and share it either eases on so funny 24 years Yeah, Daniel’s prepared participating in the MC inspections state of Colorado City Club every year that Sandy MC inspection is supported electrolyte periods as introverts.

Speaker 8 1:02:01
So the rules change the crisis document earlier the management plan in April 2023 The council may 2023 the new rules are about to preserve the biggest John Sanford has pretty much changed her life let me close out our website ever to preserve wildlife habitat. That’s actually pretty good. So rather than actions we installed bilingual universal symbol science picture you got to look for signs in the world’s largest people so how we achieve compliance with the regulations three US enforcement so first two months we’re really education base. It’s kind of verbalizing people around or we installed gates and fences for decades with habitat conservation areas. So that’s on the west side we border forest service land closes up there that’s actually pretty good for single soldiers concentration

Unknown Speaker 1:03:27
dogs your dogs positive your opinion.

Unknown Speaker 1:03:30
I’m a dog person. But it’s it’s which is probably a good thing. So yeah, I think so. Protecting the water Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 1:03:57
Your hours operation change to any significant change.

Speaker 7 1:04:03
So previously, for the code update or hours of operation. You can walk in 24/7 but the parking lot hours was cloture from 10pm to 3am, which were largely unenforceable hours. What we revised it to was to match nature areas throughout the city on public land systems. So the preserved closes one hour after sunset or the parking lot closes one hour after sunset until wire before sunrise, which we found was a good compromise is that largely encompass the hours in which people want to be out there. And we still allow 24/7 access by walking. So if you want to backcountry camp Nicholson Gulfstream summer and walk in, you’re welcome to do that. And what that allows us to do is be good neighbors. Both of US Forest Service which is open 24/7 365, as well, and while at the same time being a good neighbor to older green parks and open space, which has multiple bordering properties, Mr. Lee Hall ranch, and they have a strict sunset to sunrise closure. And at the same time, being sensitive to our private residence, so that they want to walk out of their house, we’re not getting a summons for being on reserve after hours. And we feel if this change allowed us to really crack down on behavior that was problematic, which is, after hours, folks parked in the parking lot, doing things that they shouldn’t be doing. Often. Our main concerns people building fires. So that one hour after sunset is a lot easier for us to control living on the property when I looked at everyone in miles living there like going you know, going in and out the one access you also see what’s going on trailhead, so we’re able to catch the vast majority of after hours activity.

Speaker 8 1:06:14
So this year or last year, we protected and preserved wildfires. So every facility effect that the city owns now has fiber cement siding. The station has a metal roof, the garage was in previous years. So we also certify all buildings with overhanging wildfire. Wildfire partners, improve defensible space evacuation routes, Larimer County Conservation forestry work around the facilities, and then we addressed our electrical wiring issues at the station in the garage.

Speaker 7 1:07:11
So, in addition to management plan facilities projects, a big part of what we did last year especially, my position was focused on scaling up the Forest Stewardship Program, which exists to help protect our groundwater watershed from wildfire. Americanism that we have or that we have for achieving that is selective thinning, informed by state and national best practices. We live 880 hours of staff time this year, created more acreage than we ever had in the past, in large part due to the fact that we were able to leverage approximately $900,000 in grant funding. So to tutor nine acres and purchase forestry equipment with that money and help offset expenses. We generated $55,000 in revenue for biomass that we essentially sold to Boulder County produce biogas plants at the transportation and open space complex near our airport and their jail. As part of our this availability of funding reflects the growing emphasis nationally and insane Colorado on forest health and fire prevention. Governor Wallace, as well as other other years have made available large amount of money. The vast majority in lane and we benefited from last year’s CoastWatch grant collograph strategic welfare Action Program grant that we won jointly with Boulder County was a million dollar grant to fund multiple projects across multiple Land Systems. And that was COVID stimulus dollars that are repurposed and sent out through grant dollars to address the wildfire crisis. We did a variety of scale projects. We also distribute 62 quarts of free firewood to the public. Neither Nelson funders work for your plant. Thanks to the plant operators for allowing us to do that. We just call it was 11 days and we have to say so here’s a snapshot of that download Park project using chemical treatment. And then on the small scale and you can see what their suppliers says two cards that we’ve distributed. So we use a variety of treatment methods from hand felling and filing slash for burning to mastication chipping. In every everything in between. We had largely very, very positive feedback from the public and very human and good interactions with visitors even while this work was actively going on here, plus, the line trail

Unknown Speaker 1:09:58
would have And we’re just get out or Oh for

Speaker 7 1:10:01
the what did we Yeah, yeah, we’re foothills Canyon and word of mouth and things like Pinewood springs, lions, some people want some guy came over from Empire out because we’d go out and check their permits, make sure that they were the people who said they were getting the firewall which periodically checking is copied over all other as locally as directly across the street journal, some planters that came over this tractor shed a lot of wood. So as part of the Forest Stewardship Program, we were able to create 20 forestry related jobs last year for youth. We partnered with Larimer County Conservation Corps, which employs certified for seniors ages 21 to 26 years of our health Triple C crew at work. And we partnered with Boulder County Youth board and they sent us our long markers. They’re all long on teens, ages 1417 So they got a really cool source tap sense of place. Some of them work. They did a really good job for us in really hard conditions because they work a lot of days in cold rain. So bullpen youth who are naturalized soon soils disturbed by machinery like you sounds, photos and tools, did a great job of grain Rajan and upgrade and restore the understory. eletrical sees salvage 21 Trees infested with its fields publice contain native pets. In addition to treating 31 acres for forest often fire mitigation, mostly in the area mall and park and both sides of the ranger station and a greater control house about an arc damage area. So they focus last year and then Granger’s we worked with wildlife restoration volunteers to collect native seeds on site and recede in areas that were the most disturbed. We adopted a five year intergovernmental agreement with Boulder County Sheriff’s Office fire management team last year. So BCSO has its own wildland fire department. And kind of the genesis of that is he owns so much land that is then taken out of the tax pool for fire protection districts that some years ago, they decided to make their own fire department to help ease that burden on local fire departments to actually have their own full time, wildland fire crew, which is responsible for fire suppression, but also prescribed fire on 100 plus 1000 acres equal to 10% and Spaceland, much of it bordering butter. So we partnered with them as IGA that allows them supervised specific specifically slash file learning at been around, they’ve developed embedded a Slack Ahlborn plan that was at once your technical review of the US Forest Service. We secured permits from the state of Colorado. And now we’re just waiting on very, very specific weather conditions to us to safely burn some small piles out in the login unit, which was cutting one about the inland also adapted five year IGA with Florida State Forest Service, which is an extension of CSU that allows us to pay them fairly nominal fee honestly, for professional forester support. So they’ll come out and help us plan projects, Mark trees and solid US forest wood products, forest tests, logistics, anything that we need from professional forestry services, and they do it very cheap. So we really appreciate their help. They’ve been great supporters of us. Here’s one of the pieces of machinery just as attachment that we were able to buy with grant funding this year. That allows us to more mainly deck and salvage wood. These are trees that were infested with IPS pine beetles that we salvaged and isolated that can be milled as boosting lumber for space or historical preservation or facilities projects. And then this is the area that we received Emily that’s miles right there. We received a strip of about one acre seeds

Speaker 7 1:14:20
so just kind of digging into the nitty gritty every year I put in this first year to program finances table and kind of look at my notes. But to give you some highlights from this, we have been very effective at leveraging grant dollars for the Forest Stewardship Program since the program started in 2004. We leverage over $1.9 million in grant funding. We raised over $9,000 in debt funding, just employee coming through one. Again this reflects that national and state attention given to force issues. Technically this means that we came out in the black last here, because we got half of the $1 million grant that we recently ordered Polk County, and that paid for the cook Mountain project. So $500,000 of that grant funding was zero match for us. So it looks like our member is beaming in is blocking the total rent on top of that. area. So you can see that we technically came out about 14 and black last year before us year to program. We didn’t actually profit. But point being we were able to leverage a large amount of money, we spent about a half million $10,000. And next year, looking towards going from four to five, we’ve already leveraged $408,000 of cash grants or cash value of labor. And we’re excited to to get into that work next year. Only does that for a second in case anybody has any questions about finances for stewardship program. It’s you’ve come a long way since 2020, we had to suspend everything from due to COVID. We’ve continued to scale up and we’re able to get that work done last year despite significant inflation and logistical problems related to flush money, rebuild roads multiple times throughout our project have over a month in downtime for me. So it was a success, despite really adverse conditions.

Unknown Speaker 1:16:42
Called the repurposing.

Speaker 7 1:16:45
Goes use it or lose it. I think the federal fraud clapback States didn’t disperse it seemed like the state of Colorado are settling out really fast. So last year, the largest project was the it’s called the St. greenforest health project phase one, which was a joint project between Boulder County near acting as the fiscal agent, City of Long run our local NRCS Conservation District, Boulder, Longmont, Boulder Valley landmark Conservation District, and it was multiple project sites across public. So both municipal, county land and private, three different grant funding sources, we were able to put them all into one RFP, so we didn’t compete against each other and get one contractor to do all the work, which was good for them and really good for us ultimately much more cost effective and logistically efficient. For us here at City, what that looks like is large areas. So you can see Jason Pumas on West Hall and East Hall ranch on Boulder County directly ordering our treatments at Animal Park, which is air cycling trail. That was a forward state grant funded project and part of that same project also helped to fund the North Shore project which was which was focused on reducing welfare risk directly against developers reservoir. And I cook Mountain was our large CoastWatch project was 132 acre units we had 23 Correct 24 acre 22 acre and 32 and three unit that we treat in Boulder County treated I believe a couple 100 acres and haul ranch. And then you can see this far right, those parcels down it’s Eagle Eagle Ridge neighborhood of lions. We’re proud as a public private partnership using a federal grant to do partner integration work on private land that we didn’t pay into but we partnered with to be able to do a joint RFP in Boulder County was instrumental Phuntsok because they fronted all the dollars to do this. And we paid them back because we do not have any money to front beyond what we’re what we’ve allocated for each year. So the counting allowed us to leverage farmer grant dollars No, we would have been able to touch on our own. So that was huge. We also had a crosswalk Workforce Development Grant that funded a project called the button on cargo protection project and Larimer County Conservation Corps it was an 18 week field season, so they went back into the third entry treatment in Woodland Park. Area Ranger residents complementing a planned treatment on private land to our Northwest. Then they moved down desert treatment option that were on control pastures and defensible space around Buttercup games, pro house, and then he spent the rest of the season focused on these two units of wings on either side of the Rangers Session looking at protecting infrastructure and reservoir from environments. Okay, any questions about cloud law or about forestry before you move on to wildlife?

Unknown Speaker 1:20:15
Pretty impressive amount of work is

Speaker 7 1:20:17
it was a lot of work. I mean, we definitely couldn’t have done it without the partnership with Boulder County, they basically gave us one of their senior foresters Scott Bolden for the entire field season, he was managing the whole post rock project, but the vast amount of the acreage was on our property. So we basically got her own forester for the entire summer to drive up and over from haul rancher UTV every day and go scout in our sights at four in the morning or whatever he had to do in his schedule was fantastic

Speaker 8 1:20:56
bottleneck so this is we found that deer that have been dead for like a day or so and so if you’re a camera that this kind of cool little jokes just

Unknown Speaker 1:21:17
one person that we see a lot of tracks is like car mouse’s house again

Speaker 8 1:21:45
these are some pictures of both from our wildlife camera earlier animals Yeah, we got some loose loose couple inches it’s the first time I’ve gotten a lot of their their pictures are from Alberta causing this kind of recap what’s been out there a lot of the pictures on the left side of the country.

Speaker 7 1:22:18
I think as Cassidy said like anecdotally rangers have seen more wildlife since the real change doggerel changes visitation has gone down. I’d say definitely more like obvious. on left side we had an outline walk down the lower road of the main road below city Line Trail cut out at like 11am to read like one Ranger drove down the road I drove up there fresh, large tracts or a town mine

Unknown Speaker 1:22:49
will not surprise you.

Speaker 7 1:22:51
I think I mentioned ano but good indicator that we’re going to do a sneak peek at next year. As I mentioned, we have already secured three grants in over $400,000 in value. Those grants include a grabbers Colorado dollars, car and Esports Association grant, which will fund eight weeks later, you’d rather work a Conservation Corps on that same green watershed protection project, which is a treatment focused on protecting Longmont reservoir, most vulnerable piece of raw water system up there. And that is at 1000 bucks. We also had another coastal awkward personality grant from the state of Colorado. They’ll fund conditional 15 weeks viler County Conservation Corps its cash value $20,000. We’re going to split that between 2024 and 25. So we’ll we’ll hold down there about seven weeks of that current and partner with them again next next year. We also recently received an application award from Boulder County’s new asset mg strategic fire mitigation grant, which was the one a tax initiative two years ago. So those dollars are being dispersed now. And that will fund a contract treatment, you know, $500,000 reimbursement after the fact for a contract treatment on what I’ve called the spilled milk project, which is the goal between the Wagner Act dam dam crest and the spillway that’s had some small kind of minor treatments, but it’s a pretty accessible area year round. That gives us a good opportunity to treat reasonable slopes in the long run reservoir watershed to help limit the potential for fire. We are hiring actively hiring for seasonal position a temporary watershed forester or forestry technician help with this work. We have additional facilities and treatments scheduled for this year. are putting demolition of a hazardous outbuilding. That’s new green for residents. Construction of a storage barn. That’s a CIP project to help protect a lot of this valuable equipment that we have up there that currently sits out in the elements and is vulnerable to vandalism. We have more workforce development partnerships requiring a Youth Corps again, the Walmart team, crew, and Limerick and Conservation Corps with more volunteer projects planned with cats, which is a volunteer, Trevor, for here’s the BLM trail or shore trail. Other areas are in discussion with older planning community analysts partner with them to help improve these short trail accesses to the various planning sites under any questions?

Speaker 7 1:26:00
Patients so we get whether that’s within the very specific parameters of our burn plan, then yes, so what what that looks like is, is at least three inches of snow cover on small pile six inches of snow cover in large files. Very light wind, and cold enough temperatures for a couple of days after to maintain that snow cover. And unfortunately, since are sensitive, jumped through the last few credit hoops on Valentine’s Day. Since then, all of our students have either been followed immediately by like 55 degree weather, or followed by a winds, Anthony February weather. So we’re hoping that that Mother Nature decides to make it winter again. And we can get rid of some of these piles that are fields on the ground for wildfires. And we’d love to have chicken out of the equation, or close to the tiki piles in the log gay marriage. But inland they’re all fairly small. They piles condensed down as they age, these piles are built six feet by six feet. Now it’s barely four feet. So it’s a very little complexity project for the professional fire team like Fullerton Sheriff’s Office. So hoping that we can we can finish that project out and hoping personnel all the reasons

Unknown Speaker 1:27:30
you’re gonna get questions.

Speaker 9 1:27:33
No, just reiterate just impressive amount of work. So yeah, really fantastic up there. It’s a special place to so.

Speaker 7 1:27:45
Is that called samknows? Negative point. I took that. No, everything just gets ice here on the outlet.

Unknown Speaker 1:27:55
We thank you for what you do.

Speaker 7 1:27:57
Thanks for letting us do what we did. A number of people so appreciate.

Unknown Speaker 1:28:03
Thanks for coming on your day off. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 1:28:15
We did one last slide.

Unknown Speaker 1:28:20
Okay. When it comes to the annual waterboard report to do that, are you going to give us some information down?

Speaker 10 1:28:32
Yeah, so I’ve done a draft that you can look at before we finalize it entirely, but much of the report is pretty much in the same format as it’s been in years past. The one of the, I guess bigger changes in the beginning of the report was additions that are brought off water requirement policy is a little section that was added it’s pretty attainable housing rebate payments for cash in lieu of water rights transfers. I made updates to the water board members that came in replace their spot in the past year. development activity in 2023, there were 41 acres review by waterboard water rights and oligarchy and on earth the extension were acquired and the only deficit so I passionately for was springs at last month. And that was entirely fulfill. Major General Business kind of just goes over everything that the board took action on last year. And kind of just keep running through this. So you know one of the items was the minor addition to the Water Board bylaws. And then there’s also various other additions major issues were reviewed by water board but did not require action are also put in there. And then the water supply and water shortage implementation plan as always is revised in every year and in 2023. We decided to maintain a sustainable conservation level and not many changes as I saw.

Speaker 10 1:30:40
So if you have any suggestions or questions about

Unknown Speaker 1:30:51
what she’s about what we accomplished last year. Good, good record

Speaker 6 1:30:58
is a good summary. And is one of the one of the items that white board is required to do each year is to record annually the water city council. So this is a nice summary document that has that and so if there are no other changes will provide this report.

Unknown Speaker 1:31:19
Any comments

Speaker 5 1:31:23
that I saw, it’s obviously Oregon’s type stuff that needs to be updated. There’s like the director of the department title. That person hasn’t been here for three years maybe that’s not our to do, but more of a city update that needs to deal with some of those issues.

Speaker 3 1:31:50
Want to approve the report? there a motion to approve the report.

Unknown Speaker 1:31:56
Adopted? Draft? Second,

Unknown Speaker 1:31:59
Second.

Speaker 3 1:32:01
All in favor say aye. All right. Last item review major projects, tentatively scheduled for future board meetings. Cash in lieu, ready to go with that in April. We have all the information you

Unknown Speaker 1:32:26
will see we will be preparing to do have in April. That’s okay. Yeah, it’s gonna be April because there’s some staff and some water board members that hit balls on spring break and we’re not going to be

Speaker 9 1:32:51
able, okay. Any other questions on the status report? What’s going on? For us? Can I just can I get clarification on something? Does that seem to suggest then that we will not have a whiteboard meeting in March or do you think it will get changed or or what?

Speaker 6 1:33:17
I it’ll know unless something requiring waterborne action comes up that we’re unaware of at this point. It will just be there won’t be any meeting in March.

Unknown Speaker 1:33:30
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 3 1:33:36
Marcia. Very quiet today. They are always nice to have you. Okay, anybody got anything else? All right with that

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