The Water Supply Community Work Group will meet today at 4:30 p.m. at the Pagosa Lakes Clubhouse with the goal of reaching a decision on recommendations to be presented to the PAWSD board and the BoCC.

PAWSD has scheduled a board Meeting for July 29 to determine how the process will go forward.

Following is the proposed agenda for today’s meeting, with PAWSD staff suggestions.

1. Elect a chairman for just this meeting.

2. Adopt rules for just this meeting.

Suggestions

a. Be polite

b. Attempt to reach consensus — if unable, 2/3 majority.

c. Sheila Berger has indicated that she will propose some additional rules.

3. Recommendations concerning the future Water Group.

a. Who should run Water Group Meetings? We recommend electing our own chairman

b. How many members should be in the Water Group? We believe that a group of 10 to 15 members would be the best.

i. We also believe that with past and anticipated resignations from the group that all or almost all the current members who desired to stay on the committee would be able to remain and still not result in a group that was too big.

ii. We would rather have a committee that was somewhat too big rather than tell volunteers that their service is not required.

iii. It was also our assumption that if any additions were required due to a perceived lack of technical talent in some area that the number of new members would not be substantial.

iv. We agreed that a larger group would be less of a problem if the group did most of its work in smaller groups.

c. A “conflict of interest” is a situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person’s self interest and professional interest or public interest. The majority of the undersigned agreed that the PAWSD board should adopt a policy of not allowing participation in the group from anyone who has a significant conflict of interest. The minority position is that the individual members should examine whether they have a conflict and if it is deemed by them to be serious it is hoped that the member will voluntarily resign. Our areas of concern included:

i. Past of present members of PAWSD or SJWC.

ii. Members who have taken legal action adverse to PAWSD

iii. Members who have a financial interest in the activities of PAWSD such as subcontractors. It was agreed that it was not a conflict of interest to be a Realtor in the Pagosa area.

iv. Members who do not reside in Archuleta County.

v. It was agreed that while it was not required to live in the PAWSD district to be a member of the group that such members should not be part of any subcommittee that makes recommendations on future water rates, impact fees etc. Likewise non PAWSD customers should not vote on any such recommendations.

vi. We agreed that all members of the group should openly disclose any conflicts that they might have and recuse themselves from voting on such matters.

d. Should the Water Group be divided into smaller groups? We answered this question in the affirmative. It was also agreed that all members of the Group should have timely access to the raw data being analyzed by other subcommittees and that all group members would ultimately vote on all recommendations to the PAWSD board.

e. We agreed on the following specific subcommittees (in no particular order).

i. Documenting and analyzing existing water resources, rights and demand.

ii. Projections of population and other factors that impact water use.

iii. Alternative Reservoir(s) design and planning.

iv. How to finance the expenditures recommended by the group.

v. Alternatives to additional water storage such as water conservation, acquisition of additional water rights and a significant reduction in water losses.

vi. Collaboration between area governments to facilitate long range community-wide planning.

vii. Liaison with the community.

f. Are certain skills required to be on a specific subcommittee? We agreed that the issues that the group would be examining required a certain amount of technical expertise. We believe that it is critical that at least one of the members of each subcommittee have the required technical skills as follows:

i. Subcommittee 1 — Engineering and water rights law.

ii. Subcommittee 2 — Long range planning, math and statistics.

iii. Subcommittee 3 — Engineering and water rights law.

iv. Subcommittee 4 — Municipal finance, math and statistics.

v. Subcommittee 5 — Environmental science, water rights, engineering.

vi. Subcommittee 6 — Politics and collaborative thinking.

vii. Subcommittee 7 — Public relations, writing and speaking skills.

g. Other items.

The members of the Water Group listed below support the proposed agenda but some of the members reserve the right not to agree with all of the recommendations.

Bruce Dryburgh, Jan Clinkenbeard, Cynda Green, John Huft, Will Neder, John Ramberg, Glenn Robinson and Steve Van Horn.