Visitors who wish to address the Board should complete a visitor registration card and either attend the meeting in person or arrange to address the Board via videoconference. The Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits visitor participation by telephone only. The visitor registration card is available and should be completed and submitted by e-mail to Customer Service no later than 8:00 a.m. on January 16, 2025, or in person at the registration desk.

1. Discussion regarding outreach efforts and activities by the Board.

2. Consider approving by resolution: (a) the issuance, sale and delivery of Texas Water Development Board State Revolving Fund Revenue Bonds, in one or more series; (b) a Preliminary Official Statement; and (c) authorization for the Executive Administrator, Chief Financial Officer, Development Fund Manager, Director of Debt & Portfolio Management, or any other authorized representative to act on behalf of the Texas Water Development Board in the sale and delivery of multiple series of such bonds. (David Duran) Board Agenda #02 Document

3. Consider amending the 2022 State Water Plan to incorporate amendments to the 2021 Regional Water Plans for Regions B, F, G, H, L and M. (Elizabeth McCoy) Board Agenda #03 Document

4. Consider approving the groundwater availabilities requested by the Region D regional water planning group for regional water planning purposes in accordance with Texas Water Code § 16.053(e)(2-a) and 31 Texas Administrative Code § 357.32(d)(2). (Elizabeth McCoy) Board Agenda #04 Document

5. Consider the approval of minor changes to boundaries of select coastal flood planning regions: Region 3 Trinity; Region 5 Neches; Region 6 San Jacinto; Region 10 Lower Colorado-Lavaca; Region 12 San Antonio; and Region 13 Nueces effective the beginning of the second flood planning cycle (2024-2028) to implement the flood planning requirements of Texas Administrative Code § 361.11. (Tressa Olsen) Board Agenda #05 Document

6. Consider authorizing the Executive Administrator to negotiate and execute two payable contracts, one with the University of Texas at Austin for a total amount not to exceed $450,000.00 and one with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not to exceed $963,503.00, in a coordinated effort to parallelize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System hydraulic modeling software. (Srikanth Koka) Board Agenda #06 Document

7. Consider authorizing the Executive Administrator to execute the State Fiscal Year 2025 Clean Water State Revolving Fund Set-Aside Contract between the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality covering regular annual appropriations. (Marvin Cole-Chaney) Board Agenda #07 Document

8. The Board will receive comments from the public on any matters within the jurisdiction of the TWDB the exception of matters which are subject to the ex parte prohibition found in Texas Government Code Section 2001.061.

9. The Board may adjourn into Executive Session to conduct a closed meeting to consider any item on this agenda if a matter is raised that is appropriate for the Board to conduct a

private consultation with its attorney on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. The Board may conduct a closed meeting to receive legal advice and discuss pending or contemplated litigation, settlement offers, or the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of specific Board employees, including the Executive Administrator and General Counsel, as permitted by Sections 551.071 and 551.074, the Texas Open Meetings Act, codified as Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. The Board may also meet in open meeting to take action on legal or personnel matters considered in the closed meeting as required by Section 551.102 of the Open Meetings Act, Chapter 551 of the Government Code. The Board may conduct a closed meeting to consider and discuss financial matters related to the investment or potential investment of the Board’s funds, as permitted by Section 6.0601(a) of the Texas Water Code. The Board may also meet in open meeting to take action on a financial matter discussed in the closed meeting as required by Section 6.0601(b) of the Texas Water Code.

The next currently scheduled meeting of the Texas Water Development Board will be held on February 13, 2025. Other meetings may be scheduled and will be posted in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act.

Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need auxiliary aids or services such as interpreters for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired, readers, large print or Braille, are requested to contact Jacque Lustig at (512) 463-8676 two (2) workdays prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

NOTICE: ENTRY TO THIS MEETING WITH A HANDGUN IS FORBIDDEN

This meeting is a public meeting under Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. Pursuant to Section 30.06, Penal Code (trespass by license holder with a concealed handgun), a person licensed under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code (handgun licensing law) may not enter this property with a concealed handgun. Pursuant to Section 30.07, Penal Code (trespass by license holder with an openly carried handgun), a person licensed under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code (handgun licensing law) may not enter this property with a handgun that is carried openly. For purposes of this notice, "property" means the room or rooms where the open meeting of the Texas Water Development Board is held.