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Welcome, everyone.

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Before we get started, I need to do a roll call
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So I'll just run -- unmic -- unmute yourself.

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Please go to the numbers and I will
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Doug Miller.

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>> Don Johnston.

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>> Annalisa Peace.

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Beth Parker.

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>> Pantalion, OK.

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>> Did I say your name correctly?

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>> Metzen, OK.

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>> John, J-O-H-N.

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>> OK. Thank you.

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Ronald Fieseler.

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>> Joseph McDaniel.

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>> Present.

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>> We have nine folks present with the
quorum, so we can begin the meeting.

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During the meeting, and welcome everyone.

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My name is Matt Nelson [assumed
spelling] with Texas Water Board.

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We will continue with a welcome here.

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Next slide, please.

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I'm also, I'm also going to
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for the non-voting folks now real quick.

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>> Natalie Johnson.

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>> Jami McCool.

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>> I'm here.

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>> Thank you.

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Again, I'm Matt Nelson with Texas Water
Board, and this is the inaugural meeting

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of the Guadalupe Regional Flood Planning group.

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Thanks to the voting members for
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and all the public who are in attendance.

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So thank you for coming.

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Thank you for your time.

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We do have a pretty full agenda.

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And I -- it's mostly organizational,
but it's quite a bit to do today.

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And I don't believe we have anybody else
welcoming you today, so I'm the welcome wagon.

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>> Hey, Matt.

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>> Oh, sorry.

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>> Oh, it's all right.

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No, my video per 20/20, I'm
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>> -- my camera isn't working.

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But I am -- [inaudible] I am here.

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This is Director Paup.

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I just wanted to welcome you all to the
first Region 11 Flood Planning Meeting.

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You guys have a really long agenda today.

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So I'm not going to take too long, but it's
always nice to see Chairman Miller in the crowd.

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I don't know if he remembers this, but
then I take I want to say 07 or 09,

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he carried one of my very first
bills for me and passed it.

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So thank you for doing that,
for Governor Abbott as well.

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But I just wanted to welcome you all.

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And thank you for volunteering
to serve right now.

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I know you all have jobs
and real lives and dealing

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with COVID, so everything is twice as hard.

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And this is going to be a very
heavy lift for all of us to try

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to get this the first state
flood plan done and done well.

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So I know we're asking a lot of you all but
I have an excellent flood team available.

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Matt and James and Rim are really some of
the best and brightest, lucky to have them.

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And if you need anything, please contact them.

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We've, you know, we're asking from --
for a lot of deliverables from you all.

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So we want to make it as easy as possible.

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Other than that, you know, give it back to Matt,
but I am just speaking with a lot of gratitude

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and thanking you all for helping us
fulfill the mission of SB7 and SB8.

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It's going to be great, and
protect lives and property.

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So, thanks, guys.

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>> Thank you, Director Paup.

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I'd also like to ask remade to say a
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of the Regional Flood Planning Division.

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And we all are taking turns
running these meetings today.

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You'd like to say a few words?

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>> Thank you, Matt.

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Thank you all for being here.

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We're excited about this.

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There is a lot to do in the coming year.

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So but we -- you may have heard, you
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over 600 nomination for this 177 position.

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So that's true, the energy and interest
in this regional flood planning group.

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They're much needed, the bottom up local
level collaborative and public process

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to come up with this flood class.

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We're grateful to have you here today.

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We'll be here to support you, the entire flood
planning key team is here to support you.

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And we'll see how this good
luck to your meeting today.

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There are three key tasks that you'll have
to accomplish in a certain amount of time.

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Thanks, Matt.

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I'll pass it back to you.

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>> All right.

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She's my backup, probably
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And she might interrupt with
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OK, so next slide, please.

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So you see the agenda is
a publicly posted meeting.

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This is a summary of the agenda.

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There are actually some sub items.

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But this, this is just a quick
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We're going to have self
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Some of you all haven't met.

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It's getting to know, a chance to get
to know each other a little bit more.

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Bios are sent out to you
all about all the members.

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There'll be a short presentation
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little more background Regional Water
Planning, Regional Flood Planning, excuse me,

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that's my back post, a sort of planning.

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Discussion of bylaws.

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That's a big one.

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You have the three big decision, bylaws
chair, and then selecting a local subdivision.

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So that's the big ones coming from.

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Five, six, and seven, next slide please.

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And you have several other items about
notice and they're in order of sort

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of when you need to make the decisions.

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For example, you need to consider the potential,

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additional public notice requirements
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That's why the agenda is structured this way.

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You'll begin discussions with some
membership, but that's not an action item.

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And as a general public comment at the
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public comment opportunities and previous items.

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Next slide, please.

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OK, so I'm going to be facilitating this
meeting on your behalf until you have a chair.

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Obviously the board is acting as your political
subdivision today, we're convening the meeting

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about it, we provided the notice, the agenda.

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Once you select a chair, the chair will
take over, and we also put the chair.

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However, they would like we can introduce items
that will keep taking the minutes and all that.

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Since I will try to follow
Robert's Rules of Order today

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for the items, discussions and decisions.

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Some of you are, I think everyone's on
the screen -- is anyone on the phone?

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I didn't notice.

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Is there anyone just on audio?

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OK, like everyone's on screen, so I
can see -- try, try to raise your hand,

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I'll try to call on you just
to kind of keep it organized.

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If I don't call on you, speak up, obviously.

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We're going to try to have this as natural
as we can make it even though it's virtual.

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I would like folks to unmute
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try to have a conversation if you can.

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If you have audio problems, we'll let you know
in the making it to go back to meeting more.

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I'm going to call for roll call votes on
decisions because it's hard to see hands raise,

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some people off camera and things like this.

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So there's one person on the call.

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So if you're on the phone, obviously speak
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I can't see you, so that's an obvious thing.

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So I'm going to do roll call votes, roll
calls just to keep it organized and keep track

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of decisions you make, just a little
easier on this venue, or we're doing this.

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My job is to manage your time and
get you to successful meetings.

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So I may push along on items.

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And that's only -- the only reason is

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to help you get successful on
getting through your agenda.

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You don't have to get to
every single item today.

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But there are some big ones you
get that should try to get through

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and we put it up on your keep busy.

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We think about 30 minutes for bylaws is
probably a reasonable time budget, just a guess,

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it's up to you how you spend your time.

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But that's just a general idea on
that selection of chair can be --

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we have time allotted for that
because particular the other items

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who have less time have budgeted in
our general idea of holding a meeting.

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Next slide.

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Under the public comment again, we're going
to make actually a room for public comment

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for a [inaudible] of the meeting.

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OK, so, you all, welcome again.

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So I see your faces, we had
orientations where we you see anybody.

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So we're going to go on the
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We're going to go down the list and just
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name interest that you're representing,
and how did, you know, a little,

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very briefly how you ended up on
a Regional Flood Planning Group,

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put the sentences maybe we have a few people.

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And we'll go around starting with Mr. Miller.

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>> Thank you, Matt.

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It's good to see everybody.

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I've had the pleasure of
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Looking forward to this process.

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I am a small business person
in New Braunfels, Texas.

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I have a Miller & Miller Insurance Agency.

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I own the High Life branch,
Miller High Life branch.

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And that's how I come to represent
the agricultural interest.

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I'm a former mayor of New Braunfels.

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And as you heard Director Paup say,
and you were on early with Matt,

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I was in the Texas Legislature,
chairman of Special Purpose districts

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and spent three sessions on natural
resources where we had the opportunity

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to restructure the Water Development
Board as to what it is today.

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And I also was on the Regional
Water Planning group.

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And so I guess because of all those things, the
directors of the Water Development Board thought

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that I could do a good job representing
the agri business and help this process.

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So I look forward to working with everybody.

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>> Thank you.

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John Johnston.

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>> Ah, yeah.

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So, I'm John Johnston with Victoria County.

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Been here about a year, prior to that I was with
the city of Victoria, serving in different roles

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as development engineer, public works director.

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I also serve as the Texas Flood Planning
Manager Associations vice president.

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Been a Flood Planning Manager for 30 plus years.

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I was here in '98 in Victoria,
with the devastating floods we had

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and the recovery associated with it.

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So I guess that illustrates the
interest I have in this effort.

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>> Thank you.

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Annalisa.

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>> Yeah. My name is Annalisa Peace.

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Executive Director of Greater
Edwards Aquifer for Alliance.

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And we have 53 member groups throughout the
Edwards Aquifer and Trinity Aquifer region.

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So it's roughly 21 counties in Central Texas.

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And I'll tell you, flooding is a
huge concern of our constituents.

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When we have flood events where my inbox
fills up with so many pictures of muddy water.

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So I'm really pleased to be serving on this.

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I have kind of a long history
of dealing with flood.

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I actually, in the '90s, work in the city
of San Antonio's flood planning group.

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So I'm really happy to be here with you all.

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And I'm hoping that at long last, we can make
some progress on addressing these problems.

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>> Thank you, and Beth Parker,
I believe is not here.

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If you are, please speak Kevin
Stone, is also not here, I believe.

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So we'll go to Mr. Pantalion.

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>> Perfect.

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Hi. This is Joe Pantalion, I'm currently
an Assistant City Manager for the City

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of San Marcos, and I am representing
municipalities.

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Before joining San Marcos, I was an assistant
city manager for the City of Richardson

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and interim assistant city
manager for the City of Austin.

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And also I spent almost 20 years in the
Watershed Protection Department at the City

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of Austin where I was the director
for the last several years.

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Before that I spent 10 years in consulting
doing primarily flood planning management,

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hydrology, hydraulics.

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And really the focus for me at the
City of San Marcos has been working

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with our engineering staff with some of the
bond program projects they have to address a lot

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of the significant flooding problems along
the San Marcos River and Blanco River.

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So I'm just happy to be part of this group
and look forward to working with you all.

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>> Thank you.

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Kimberly Metzen.

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Metzen.

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>> Hello. Hi, thank you.

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Kimberly Metzen.

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I'm an Associate Professor with the Department
of Geography at Texas State University.

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And at Texas State I teach undergraduate courses
on river processes, environmental management,

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and graduate courses on kind of
river and society interactions.

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Much of my research involves
hydrologic and hydraulic flood modeling.

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And I lived in Central Texas during the
2002 and 2003, was on Guadalupe River.

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And that was actually one of my first kind
of research endeavors into studying floods.

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And then I have lived on the
east coast in the Carolinas

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for about 10 years before moving back to Texas.

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And then coming into back to San
Marcos, I was greeted with a flood

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in 2013, shortly after I moved back here.

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Then living in San Marcos, we've
also had the two floods in 2015

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with our spring and our fall floods.

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With both of those, I did a lot of work in
terms of kind of community outreach and working

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with the neighborhoods and
helping them with flood recovery.

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So I represent the public
interest category on this group.

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But as well, I also have interest in the
kind of environmental components as well.

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I serve on the board of the
San Marcos River Foundation.

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And I'm also co-chair of the Upper
San Marcos Watershed Protection Plan.

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And I just like to give a, you know, I'm really
happy that the Prop A passed for Hays County,

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a lot of land conservation efforts
that are going to occur through that.

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I think there's a lot of great opportunity
for kind of protecting for flood mitigation

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with some of those land protection
efforts as well.

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And so a little bit of just
background on myself,

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and I'm really happy to be a part of this group.

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This is one of the kind of first large
regional level stakeholder groups

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that I will be a part of.

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And so I'm really happy to be here.

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And I thank you all for welcoming me on board.

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And in terms of, also just in
terms of coming into this position,

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when the call for nominations was set out, Andy
Samson [assumed spelling] and myself sat down

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and met and kind of talked
about this opportunity.

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And we thought it was a good role to have
the university involved from the public,

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public interest category, and as well as
just the work, research-wise that I do,

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and a lot of the community work that I've
done with the floods here in San Marcos.

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We felt like I would be a
good fit for a nomination.

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So I was really grateful for him providing
a nomination for me for this position,

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and I'm really happy to be here, so.

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>> All right.

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Thanks, Kimberly, welcome.

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Brian.

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>> Hello. I'm Brian Perkins, I'm a
professional engineer, Austin, Texas.

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I've been with GBRA for a little over a year.

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Now, prior to that, I spent 21 years working as
a engineer and consultants throughout the state

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of Texas and other places as well.

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But almost continuously through my career,
I worked in the Guadalupe River Basin.

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My background is in water supply planning,
hydrology and hydraulics, I spent a good deal

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of time dealing with working with
regional water planning group.

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So I'm familiar with kind of
the process of the water board

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and the structure of things, I guess.

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I was nominated by our general
manager, Kevin Patterson, to serve.

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In fact, when I was being interviewed for my
position, GBRA back in September of last year,

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the subject of the flood planning
process came up and he suggested

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as a possibility and how we would be engaged.

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As river authority, we're primarily
water supply, I would say water provider,

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also water services and wastewater
services, whatnot.

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But we do deal with flooding quite often,
with several of our server customer agencies

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in 10 county districts and in
some of our own infrastructure.

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As you can imagine, we have
Thompson Pipes and watershed plants

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in low lying areas, wastewater
human plants as well.

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You know, we've been through the '98
flood and seen issues in Victoria.

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You know, we've been through the
floods that occur at the Canyon Gorge,

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and other obvious floods
throughout the history here.

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So, I'm not really from Texas, but
I got here as quick as I could.

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I moved here in '99.

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And like I said, I have a lot of
interest in the Guadalupe River Basin.

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And I'm happy to serve.

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>> Thanks, Brian.

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John.

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>> Hi, John Villarreal.

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I'm a licensed professional civil
engineer, a certified flood planning manager

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and have been working with watershed
management for about 18 years.

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Much of that has been focused on flood control
planning, design, surface water quality

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and protection, stream stabilization,
stream restoration.

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So I've really tried to focus kind

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of on the overall watershed management
and overall watershed health.

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So I bring a lot of the other aspects, I
think, into my flood planning experience.

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I have a master's degree in environmental
engineering from University of Houston,

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and my undergraduate degree was biology
from University of Texas at Austin.

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Started my career back in around '98 with the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

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But over the last 14 years or so, I've been
working for civil engineering consulting firms.

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Recently this year, right
before COVID hit, unfortunately,

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I started a small business based
here in the city of New Braunfels.

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We focus on project management and engineering
and consulting for water resources projects.

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I am also the co-chair for the
Stormwater Watershed Management Committee

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for the Water Environment Association
of Texas, and also the co chair

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for the Stream Restoration Committee of
TFMA, if folks are familiar with that,

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Texas Floodplain Managers Association.

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I do live here in the region in the city
of New Braunfels just a few blocks away

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from the Guadalupe River here in Gruene.

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And I've been recreating on rivers and
camping and kayaking and even surfing.

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I grew up in Corpus, so I've been in the
water pretty much my whole life here in Texas.

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I'm born and raised pretty much here in Texas.

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And I'm very honored to be part of this
team and very excited to be a representative

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for small businesses and hope to work with a
lot of the small businesses in the community

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to make sure that their concerns
are being addressed and considered.

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And so I would, any folks
that have any thoughts,

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any connections to the small business community,
I definitely welcome that information.

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Thank you.

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>> Thank you, John.

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Ronald Fieseler.

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>> Hi. My name is Ronald Fieseler.

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I've been working in groundwater
management since 1989.

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About 12 years with the Barton Springs
ever start for conservation district.

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And since January of 2002

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with the Blanco-Pedernales
Groundwater Conservation District,

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I'm the general manager here.

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I'm also the chairman of
Groundwater Management Area 9.

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I'm on the executive committee of the
Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts.

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So I've got a lot of history and
involvement with groundwater.

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As time went by, I got involved in
surface water to a voting member

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of Region K. I'm the Region K's liaison
with Region L is a non-voting member.

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We've had Blanco River, major flooding in 2015
and occasional flooding in the Pedernales River.

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And when the flood planning group
began to get organized, my county judge

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and county commissioners came to me and said
that they would really like to have somebody

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from Blanco County on some of
the flood planning efforts,

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and my board of directors get
to groundwater district degrees.

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So here I am, part of working with everybody.

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>> Well, welcome to another group.

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>> Exactly [laughs].

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>> Mr. McDaniel.

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>> Hi, I'm Joseph McDaniel,
land water utilities.

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I work for Aqua America.

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My office takes care of 41 water systems
up and down the loopy river basins.

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So it's an important aspect of what we do.

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If something does hit the fan, we
got to make sure our utilities is --

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are running and we want to try to help out
with a flood group and see what we can do

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to be a part of the region and
the opportunities that there are.

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I am Florida, the Region J Water Planning Group.

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I'm liaison for Region L.
I'm on TCEQ's Committee,

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which is the Water Utility Operator
Licensing Advisory Committee.

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I have a degree in technology management.

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Been in the business since I was 18.

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I do hold a water license of the wastewater,
customer service inspection license,

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a backflow license, certified through
takes with a certified water professional.

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So I've been around for a while.

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And I know the water utility side of the
world and I'm looking forward to getting

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to know a little bit more about
the flood planning side of things.

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So wherever I can be of help, let me know
and the more I can learn, the better.

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Thank you.

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>> All right, thank you.

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All this note that you all have one position,
it's not failed that you'll have a discussion

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in my agenda to talk about soliciting
to fill that lexical generating spot.

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So for the non-voting members, could you all --

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let us know your, say your name and
how you're plugged into this process.

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So we'll begin with Kris Robles.

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>> Good afternoon everyone.

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My name is Kris Robles.

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I am with the Texas General Land Office as part

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of the community development
and revitalization team.

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I work here as a community outreach specialist,
which includes most of central Texas 12 counties

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and counting, I say counting because we have
some areas that are not covered technically

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by members, and I think they
grow a county every day.

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So we are here to help out in any way possible.

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I want to also mention that we currently
have a flood study within combiners

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or river basins going on that will evaluate
mitigation and pavement strategies in an effort

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to reduce disaster impacts and
increase community resiliency.

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So I hope to work with you soon guys.

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Thank you.

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>> Thanks.

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Joel Klumpp.

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>> Good afternoon.

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This is Joel Klumpp.

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I work in TC Hughes Water Supply Division.

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I'm a section manager there.

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I've been with TC Hughes for about 18 years, and
in addition to working in water supply division,

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have also worked with our Water Quality
Division and our Water Rights Program.

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And I'm happy to be part of this group and will
do my best to address any and all questions

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that the group might have regarding TC Hughes.

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Thank you.

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>> Thanks, Jami McCool.

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>> Good afternoon.

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My name is Jami McCool.

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I'm a regional field representative with
the Texas Department of Agriculture.

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My Region number 7 covers 23 counties from
Southeast to South to Southwest Texas.

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We work with promoting -- we promote
Texas agriculture within our region.

468
00:29:35,536 --> 00:29:38,936
We work with small businesses
and communities within.

469
00:29:38,936 --> 00:29:45,716
We have different, various different programs
under the TDA umbrella, CDBG grant program

470
00:29:45,716 --> 00:29:50,226
and then we work with small businesses and
associate members of the Go Texan Program.

471
00:29:50,226 --> 00:29:51,136
Happy to be here.

472
00:29:51,196 --> 00:29:51,706
Thank you.

473
00:29:54,076 --> 00:29:54,816
>> Thanks.

474
00:29:54,816 --> 00:29:55,826
Natalie Johnson.

475
00:29:57,476 --> 00:29:59,226
>> Hello, I'm Natalie Johnson.

476
00:29:59,226 --> 00:30:03,976
I'm a Hazard Mitigation Planner for the
Texas Division of Emergency Management.

477
00:30:04,046 --> 00:30:05,856
So I help local jurisdictions,

478
00:30:05,856 --> 00:30:10,216
develop FEMA-approved hazard
mitigation plans for all hazards.

479
00:30:10,456 --> 00:30:12,446
So happy to be here and learn more

480
00:30:12,446 --> 00:30:15,896
about regional flood planning
and be any help that I can.

481
00:30:15,896 --> 00:30:17,546
Thanks.

482
00:30:17,736 --> 00:30:18,996
>> All right, Sue Reilly.

483
00:30:20,056 --> 00:30:21,946
>> Hello, my name is Sue Reilly.

484
00:30:21,946 --> 00:30:25,806
I'm a biologist in Inland Fisheries
division at Texas Parks and Wildlife.

485
00:30:25,806 --> 00:30:27,196
I've been there about six years.

486
00:30:27,866 --> 00:30:33,706
I primarily review for permits and
mitigation banks in my position.

487
00:30:33,706 --> 00:30:39,686
And for parks and wildlife, we're
interested in ecosystem effects of flooding,

488
00:30:39,686 --> 00:30:44,146
as well as the effects on our
properties, and other issues as well.

489
00:30:44,146 --> 00:30:45,116
And I'm happy to be here.

490
00:30:45,246 --> 00:30:45,646
Thank you,

491
00:30:46,696 --> 00:30:47,476
>> Thank you.

492
00:30:47,816 --> 00:30:50,366
I don't believe Allen Nash was here earlier.

493
00:30:50,366 --> 00:30:51,456
Is Allen Nash here now?

494
00:30:51,566 --> 00:30:53,096
Are you here?

495
00:30:53,096 --> 00:30:53,706
>> Yes, I am.

496
00:30:53,846 --> 00:30:55,106
Good afternoon.

497
00:30:55,106 --> 00:30:59,316
My name is Allen Nash, I'm the engineer for the
Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board.

498
00:30:59,906 --> 00:31:05,196
I've been working for them for just over a
year now with my background as three years

499
00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:08,436
for the City of Killeen in
the waterworks engineering,

500
00:31:08,546 --> 00:31:12,326
and also eight years in private
engineering sector.

501
00:31:12,326 --> 00:31:18,036
So, I enjoy looking at different
aspects of the flood mitigation aspects,

502
00:31:18,036 --> 00:31:20,606
which would be here and happy
to help in any way.

503
00:31:20,976 --> 00:31:21,676
>> Thank you.

504
00:31:22,446 --> 00:31:23,286
And Morgan White.

505
00:31:24,816 --> 00:31:25,976
>> Hi, everybody.

506
00:31:25,976 --> 00:31:29,296
I'm Morgan White, I'm the team
lead for Regional Flood Planning,

507
00:31:29,586 --> 00:31:32,946
and also the Regional 11
dedicated project manager.

508
00:31:32,946 --> 00:31:35,046
So looking forward to working with you all.

509
00:31:35,046 --> 00:31:40,936
I have a background -- I've worked at a few
different places and in a few different areas.

510
00:31:40,936 --> 00:31:46,606
But most applicable to this effort
is my past work in the next --

511
00:31:46,606 --> 00:31:49,786
interest in public policy, and also flooding.

512
00:31:49,846 --> 00:31:54,786
I've previously worked for this State NYP
Coordinators office here at the board.

513
00:31:54,786 --> 00:32:02,936
I'm happy to be in this position and
looking forward to working with all of you.

514
00:32:03,036 --> 00:32:03,896
>> All right, thank you.

515
00:32:03,896 --> 00:32:07,946
I'd also like to introduce James Bronikowski.

516
00:32:07,946 --> 00:32:11,246
He's the manager of the Regional
Flood Planning Program.

517
00:32:11,246 --> 00:32:13,146
He's in the background assisting.

518
00:32:13,356 --> 00:32:18,166
There's a lot of folks assisting the behind
the curtain of the electronic virtual world.

519
00:32:18,166 --> 00:32:19,096
James, you want to say hi.

520
00:32:20,796 --> 00:32:22,066
>> Hello, everyone.

521
00:32:24,296 --> 00:32:25,776
Thank you, Matt.

522
00:32:25,916 --> 00:32:26,126
>> OK.

523
00:32:26,126 --> 00:32:34,016
>> By the joining on this, look forward to
working with the group and, thank you, Matt.

524
00:32:34,016 --> 00:32:39,056
>> So he's the next contact sort of, him and
Morgan after planning around the same group,

525
00:32:39,306 --> 00:32:42,126
and so you'll be hearing
a lot from James as well.

526
00:32:42,126 --> 00:32:44,276
So he's also running some of these meetings.

527
00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:45,496
Thanks, James.

528
00:32:46,036 --> 00:32:46,566
>> OK.

529
00:32:46,566 --> 00:32:47,606
>> Next slide, please.

530
00:32:47,606 --> 00:32:55,406
So this is the presentations about 10 to 15
minutes, I'll go through relatively quickly.

531
00:32:55,746 --> 00:32:59,386
And Rain's [assumed spelling] going
to help me out a couple slides.

532
00:33:00,166 --> 00:33:01,036
There's your basin.

533
00:33:01,036 --> 00:33:03,576
As you know, the board had
to determine boundaries,

534
00:33:03,576 --> 00:33:06,156
the boundaries are based on river basins.

535
00:33:06,516 --> 00:33:11,886
And you are the number 11, the dark blue
on there, for anyone watching in public.

536
00:33:12,306 --> 00:33:14,806
That's up to 15 regions.

537
00:33:14,806 --> 00:33:15,556
Next slide.

538
00:33:19,036 --> 00:33:21,566
A little visual statistics on your region.

539
00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:25,166
This is just some background,
this interests you have.

540
00:33:26,086 --> 00:33:30,216
No full counties, the farm,
so it's all partial counties.

541
00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:35,366
So, yeah, river valleys don't -- watersheds
don't follow, boundaries as you all know.

542
00:33:35,836 --> 00:33:41,546
Populations are little over 600,000,
6000 square miles and about 5000,

543
00:33:41,546 --> 00:33:43,976
five-and-a-half thousand stream miles.

544
00:33:44,506 --> 00:33:51,276
You've had in your region about a quarter
of a billion dollars in NFIP claims in '75.

545
00:33:51,276 --> 00:33:53,246
I mean, obviously have some shoreline.

546
00:33:53,726 --> 00:33:55,736
So that's just a little background slide.

547
00:33:55,736 --> 00:33:56,846
Next slide, please.

548
00:33:59,396 --> 00:34:02,936
Again, we are facilitating
this meeting on your behalf.

549
00:34:02,936 --> 00:34:04,806
You don't put the subdivision to do so yet.

550
00:34:04,806 --> 00:34:08,346
It's -- we have a three-hour
window [inaudible] that.

551
00:34:08,346 --> 00:34:14,766
We can go a little past that we really think we
can get it done before that but we don't want

552
00:34:14,766 --> 00:34:16,556
to go too far past, the connections due

553
00:34:16,556 --> 00:34:21,346
to public comment towards the
end to, you know, what the time.

554
00:34:21,346 --> 00:34:23,576
Next slide.

555
00:34:23,836 --> 00:34:26,906
Again, you've heard this before
and I won't emphasize it too much

556
00:34:26,906 --> 00:34:28,586
but you get through the decisions.

557
00:34:28,586 --> 00:34:32,036
If you can get through the day, you'll be
well on your way to developing your plans.

558
00:34:32,036 --> 00:34:32,616
Next slide.

559
00:34:38,046 --> 00:34:42,876
So we've -- just a little background
on what's in your bylaws now.

560
00:34:42,876 --> 00:34:46,546
So as far as officers go,
the model bylaws we provided

561
00:34:46,546 --> 00:34:49,576
to you are just model bylaws we
provide to you, not your bylaws.

562
00:34:49,986 --> 00:34:54,796
But just so you know that the bylaws have
officer responsibilities to find there

563
00:34:54,796 --> 00:34:57,916
and just wanted to touch on that.

564
00:34:58,476 --> 00:35:03,746
You have a Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and
Executive Committee if you adopted those bylaws

565
00:35:03,746 --> 00:35:05,906
as you see in that, as far as officers.

566
00:35:06,586 --> 00:35:10,316
The chair, obviously, the executive
officer presides over the meetings.

567
00:35:10,596 --> 00:35:14,636
In the event the chair can't do so, is not in
attendance, then it would be the Vice Chair.

568
00:35:14,836 --> 00:35:20,286
You also have the Secretary who maintains
the minutes, it takes attendance at meetings.

569
00:35:20,656 --> 00:35:25,726
And then there's a -- an at large membership
for the, in addition to the officers

570
00:35:25,726 --> 00:35:31,486
for the Executive Committee, there's --
there'll be two at large members from the group

571
00:35:31,486 --> 00:35:32,746
in addition, the officers for that.

572
00:35:32,746 --> 00:35:34,126
So that's just a little background.

573
00:35:34,126 --> 00:35:37,786
So you have familiarity in case you
haven't had a chance to look at the bylaws,

574
00:35:37,786 --> 00:35:40,776
which hopefully you all have
read in detail already.

575
00:35:40,776 --> 00:35:41,266
So that's good.

576
00:35:41,266 --> 00:35:42,206
Next slide.

577
00:35:42,206 --> 00:35:48,196
Planning group sponsor responsibilities.

578
00:35:48,196 --> 00:35:51,256
You may talking about selecting a
political subdivision to support you.

579
00:35:51,716 --> 00:35:53,256
That's a significant role.

580
00:35:53,256 --> 00:35:56,776
You know, they apply for the grant funding,
you've seen some of this in orientation,

581
00:35:56,776 --> 00:35:59,986
I'll repeat it not everyone in
attendance in the public has heard this.

582
00:36:00,106 --> 00:36:06,546
You may apply for grant funding on behalf of the
planning group, with a contract with the board,

583
00:36:06,966 --> 00:36:10,726
they manage that contract with us, your project
manager, Morgan, will manage that contract

584
00:36:10,726 --> 00:36:13,636
in this case and attend all your meetings.

585
00:36:13,696 --> 00:36:15,856
You know that that's you serves
as the administrative agent,

586
00:36:16,116 --> 00:36:20,886
doing all the administrative things to organize
meeting spaces, virtual space like this,

587
00:36:21,186 --> 00:36:24,276
taking minutes on behalf of the
group, if that's what you desire,

588
00:36:24,276 --> 00:36:27,896
and doing all your public
notices, which are not trivial.

589
00:36:28,106 --> 00:36:31,786
They also deliver the plan technically
under the contracts of the board,

590
00:36:31,916 --> 00:36:34,796
because they're under contract
with us to the, to the work.

591
00:36:35,216 --> 00:36:36,566
Next slide, please.

592
00:36:39,356 --> 00:36:42,056
This is just a brief reminder
for those who aren't --

593
00:36:42,346 --> 00:36:46,766
don't deal with law and code
every day and rules.

594
00:36:47,266 --> 00:36:49,306
There's a hierarchy to these things.

595
00:36:49,306 --> 00:36:53,856
Senate Bill 8 is the legislature passed that
created this new program, created the framework

596
00:36:53,856 --> 00:36:56,976
at a high level, the framework
was further fleshed out with a lot

597
00:36:56,976 --> 00:36:58,706
of public input through the rulemaking process.

598
00:36:58,706 --> 00:37:01,586
That's 361.11, that's Texas Administrative Code.

599
00:37:01,586 --> 00:37:02,746
That's our agency rules.

600
00:37:03,206 --> 00:37:04,546
That's a lot more detail.

601
00:37:04,546 --> 00:37:06,136
It gives you much better sense of the process.

602
00:37:06,136 --> 00:37:08,046
In fact, that lays out the process largely.

603
00:37:08,536 --> 00:37:11,466
Under that we have a grant
contract that we'll be writing.

604
00:37:11,836 --> 00:37:15,446
And we've already got draft, scope
of work, standard scope of work

605
00:37:15,446 --> 00:37:16,776
that you're all going to be under.

606
00:37:17,166 --> 00:37:21,226
And then that's sort of has guidance
documents to further support that.

607
00:37:21,226 --> 00:37:24,236
And that all is just the order by font size,

608
00:37:24,236 --> 00:37:27,976
and then an order of hierarchy,
just a reminder, folks.

609
00:37:27,976 --> 00:37:28,666
Next slide, please.

610
00:37:30,976 --> 00:37:34,306
So Rene's [assumed spelling] going to
present these next two slides on more detail

611
00:37:34,306 --> 00:37:37,816
about the planning process,
what you're going to be doing.

612
00:37:37,816 --> 00:37:38,346
Rene, thanks.

613
00:37:38,346 --> 00:37:40,226
>> All right, thank you, Matt.

614
00:37:40,546 --> 00:37:46,656
I'm going to go over some of the technical
components that the plan is going to include.

615
00:37:46,656 --> 00:37:49,626
I -- we received a lot of
questions during the orientation

616
00:37:49,626 --> 00:37:51,966
about the components of the
regional flood plans.

617
00:37:52,066 --> 00:37:55,426
So these are some of the key
components of the regional flood plans.

618
00:37:55,426 --> 00:37:57,566
It's not everything, but these
are some of the key ones.

619
00:37:57,566 --> 00:38:01,996
The first item is to identify
specific flood risk.

620
00:38:02,076 --> 00:38:06,856
This should include known flood risk, areas
with identified existing FEMA flood maps,

621
00:38:07,336 --> 00:38:09,006
areas with better available maps,

622
00:38:09,006 --> 00:38:12,836
sometimes regular regions have better
available maps than the FEMA maps.

623
00:38:13,626 --> 00:38:17,506
So it would be best available
data, best available information.

624
00:38:17,996 --> 00:38:21,326
They should include the date,
say if it's 1970s paper --

625
00:38:21,326 --> 00:38:26,676
best paper map, that should be identified
in the flood plan as 1970's FEMA flood map.

626
00:38:27,996 --> 00:38:31,466
It should also include areas
with historic flooding.

627
00:38:31,656 --> 00:38:36,176
So these are areas that you'll learn
about possibly from public meetings,

628
00:38:36,176 --> 00:38:42,036
members of public report that had flooded for
example, in November of 2015 in the region,

629
00:38:42,426 --> 00:38:46,696
and that should be identified and
included with the information of when

630
00:38:46,696 --> 00:38:48,746
and where this was identified by from.

631
00:38:48,746 --> 00:38:52,526
For example, if it's in public
meeting, the public meeting date.

632
00:38:53,076 --> 00:38:56,786
So those areas should be identified
for the type of the flood risk.

633
00:38:57,196 --> 00:39:02,606
It should also identify stream segments
that doesn't have H&H model or mapping

634
00:39:02,606 --> 00:39:05,746
down if there is some as a potential purpose.

635
00:39:05,746 --> 00:39:10,846
We -- a lot of us are aware of the
localized flood risk or the urban flood risk.

636
00:39:10,846 --> 00:39:14,746
A lot of those as we know
are not as flow model or map

637
00:39:14,886 --> 00:39:17,906
or does not often have regulatory requirements.

638
00:39:18,286 --> 00:39:22,866
Those areas should be identified,
identified and what type of flood risk it is.

639
00:39:23,416 --> 00:39:28,416
Once that is done, a gap analysis will
be done, which will identify areas

640
00:39:28,416 --> 00:39:30,946
that does not have any modeling or mapping.

641
00:39:31,246 --> 00:39:33,776
So that's of identification flood risk.

642
00:39:34,206 --> 00:39:38,096
The next piece is the existing condition
flood risk analysis, which is they --

643
00:39:38,096 --> 00:39:40,076
which is going to be a three-step process.

644
00:39:40,556 --> 00:39:45,656
It will include flood hazard analysis, flood
exposure analysis, and vulnerability analysis.

645
00:39:45,686 --> 00:39:50,776
Flood hazard analysis determines the
location, magnitude and frequency of flooding,

646
00:39:50,776 --> 00:39:55,046
which is where a largest might
be and how often it might happen.

647
00:39:55,556 --> 00:39:58,626
Once that's identified or
the hazard is functioning,

648
00:39:58,626 --> 00:40:00,976
the next step is a flood exposure analysis.

649
00:40:01,486 --> 00:40:05,566
This would identify who and what
might be harmed within the region.

650
00:40:05,696 --> 00:40:09,486
They should identify every single
building footprint including commercial

651
00:40:09,486 --> 00:40:14,146
and residential building, low water
crossing, water waste for treatment plant.

652
00:40:14,636 --> 00:40:20,816
Any critical infrastructure that are located
within that flood -- identified flood risk area.

653
00:40:21,596 --> 00:40:25,656
Last step is a vulnerability analysis
which is a little bit of extension

654
00:40:25,656 --> 00:40:27,416
of the exposure analysis, if you will.

655
00:40:27,416 --> 00:40:32,746
It focuses on two things, one is
identification of critical facility.

656
00:40:32,986 --> 00:40:38,596
If there is any police station, power stations,
schools, hospitals, water treatment plants

657
00:40:38,796 --> 00:40:44,026
within those flood risk area, we hope there
is none in your region, but if there is any,

658
00:40:44,026 --> 00:40:46,806
that should be identified and
included in the flood plan.

659
00:40:46,806 --> 00:40:52,206
And the other piece of vulnerability analysis is
resilience, which is the ability of a community

660
00:40:52,206 --> 00:40:54,786
to bounce back after disaster happens.

661
00:40:55,256 --> 00:41:01,626
So, each item that was identified in
the flood exposure analysis that are

662
00:41:01,626 --> 00:41:07,686
in flood risk area should have their
vulnerability index identified with that.

663
00:41:09,066 --> 00:41:11,856
So once the existing condition
flood risk analysis is done,

664
00:41:11,856 --> 00:41:15,916
the next step is future condition
analysis, that is looking to the future

665
00:41:15,916 --> 00:41:19,776
and see how this risk might look
like 50 years down the line,

666
00:41:19,776 --> 00:41:23,536
and then doing those next two steps
as well, the flood exposure analysis

667
00:41:23,536 --> 00:41:28,186
and vulnerability analysis are their
initial or their initial entities

668
00:41:28,186 --> 00:41:31,456
that are put in risk if there's on the line.

669
00:41:31,456 --> 00:41:33,256
Next slide, please.

670
00:41:36,146 --> 00:41:40,576
So the first bullet point here is slight
-- is set flood risk management goals.

671
00:41:40,576 --> 00:41:42,746
You will hear us mentioning this often,

672
00:41:43,026 --> 00:41:46,866
the Regional Flood Planning
Groups are self-governing.

673
00:41:46,956 --> 00:41:49,816
You all will decide your
flood risk management goals.

674
00:41:50,426 --> 00:41:54,226
However, in our guidance document we'll
provide some best management practices

675
00:41:54,226 --> 00:42:01,176
that you can refer to, some examples would be
do you want future developments happening in 1%

676
00:42:01,176 --> 00:42:03,366
but in old chance flood risk area?

677
00:42:03,726 --> 00:42:06,036
Or do you want freeboard for your structures

678
00:42:06,116 --> 00:42:10,066
that are near the flood risk
area or in the flood risk area?

679
00:42:10,066 --> 00:42:13,646
How much -- what side of storm
should pass at low water crossing?

680
00:42:13,976 --> 00:42:16,926
So those are some of the goals that
you'll set for your own region.

681
00:42:16,926 --> 00:42:21,926
Again, we'll provide in our guidance document
some of the best management practices based

682
00:42:21,926 --> 00:42:25,796
on keeping and other information
that's out there.

683
00:42:26,986 --> 00:42:32,146
The next three bullet points identify and
recommend flood management evaluations,

684
00:42:32,146 --> 00:42:37,456
flood management strategies and flood management
projects will be both obviously on that plans.

685
00:42:38,116 --> 00:42:42,016
The first bullet point of those three,
the flood management evaluations

686
00:42:42,016 --> 00:42:44,736
or FMEs are fairly straightforward.

687
00:42:45,146 --> 00:42:49,486
Those are the areas that was
identified during flood risk analysis

688
00:42:49,486 --> 00:42:54,606
as potential flood prone areas, but
do not have up-to-date analysis.

689
00:42:54,826 --> 00:42:59,256
So this will just identify those
areas as they need analysis

690
00:42:59,256 --> 00:43:02,366
and this kind of analysis is needed.

691
00:43:02,366 --> 00:43:05,996
Again, this could be stream segments
that doesn't have any H&H model or map.

692
00:43:06,506 --> 00:43:10,246
This could be areas with
1970s FEMA map, paper maps.

693
00:43:10,666 --> 00:43:16,906
So all those areas would be identified here
as needing flood management evaluation.

694
00:43:17,896 --> 00:43:21,536
The next one is identify and
recommend flood management strategies.

695
00:43:21,736 --> 00:43:24,466
These are long term solution ideas.

696
00:43:24,466 --> 00:43:26,806
They still need to be formulated.

697
00:43:26,806 --> 00:43:31,656
They're similar to what's happening
in -- happened in flood planning.

698
00:43:32,206 --> 00:43:35,496
They could be, for example,
regulatory enhancements,

699
00:43:35,826 --> 00:43:39,366
they may or may not have
construction associated with it.

700
00:43:39,366 --> 00:43:42,626
So those are flood management
strategies, as long on the strategy.

701
00:43:43,146 --> 00:43:47,786
And then the last of those three, identify
and recommend flood mitigation projects.

702
00:43:47,886 --> 00:43:51,696
That will really be the bulk
of those recommendation

703
00:43:51,696 --> 00:43:54,116
that the Regional Flood Planning
groups will come up with.

704
00:43:54,686 --> 00:44:00,676
These are all the flood risk reduction projects
in your region, that will reduce the risk

705
00:44:00,676 --> 00:44:03,426
of flooding in your entire region.

706
00:44:03,426 --> 00:44:08,496
They could be structural and non -- they will
be structural and/or non-structural both.

707
00:44:09,456 --> 00:44:12,836
They should be permittable,
constructible, and implementable.

708
00:44:13,236 --> 00:44:16,686
Permittable and constructible
are pretty self-explanatory.

709
00:44:16,876 --> 00:44:21,326
The implementable is that there are
piece which is, the community piece.

710
00:44:21,326 --> 00:44:25,886
I'm an engineer by profession as well,
we can come up with brilliant solutions

711
00:44:25,886 --> 00:44:29,076
to solve problems, but it's
very important to make sure

712
00:44:29,076 --> 00:44:31,466
that they are acceptable to the community.

713
00:44:31,786 --> 00:44:35,096
So that's the implementable -- that's
what the implementable piece covers that,

714
00:44:35,096 --> 00:44:36,946
that is it acceptable to the community?

715
00:44:37,206 --> 00:44:40,936
Is it, is it actually implementable
in that community?

716
00:44:40,936 --> 00:44:42,306
Does it work for that community?

717
00:44:42,716 --> 00:44:47,896
So those are three key pieces to look at
for each of the flood mitigation project.

718
00:44:48,196 --> 00:44:50,206
You'll have a technical consultant
to help you with this.

719
00:44:50,206 --> 00:44:55,106
It will have identified project area,
project costs, what are the benefits,

720
00:44:55,106 --> 00:44:58,096
and there are several other
items that we are identifying

721
00:44:58,096 --> 00:45:01,086
in our -- the submittal guidance document.

722
00:45:01,546 --> 00:45:05,986
Lastly, this flood plan will
focus on both reducing the --

723
00:45:05,986 --> 00:45:10,646
existing flood risk to life and property,
which is what the risk that we already have

724
00:45:10,646 --> 00:45:15,486
at hand is we know, or we're going
to do future projects to find out,

725
00:45:15,556 --> 00:45:20,136
so reducing those existing risk,
doing flood risk reduction project.

726
00:45:20,726 --> 00:45:24,506
But the other really important piece
is floodplain management in general

727
00:45:24,506 --> 00:45:27,326
to avoid increasing flood risk in the future

728
00:45:27,326 --> 00:45:30,666
by keeping feature populations
out of the way of flood flows.

729
00:45:31,186 --> 00:45:35,076
This is to make sure that we're not
creating flood risk in the future,

730
00:45:35,076 --> 00:45:38,006
we're not putting people
or structure in harm's way.

731
00:45:38,286 --> 00:45:40,186
So we're not creating new flood risk.

732
00:45:40,266 --> 00:45:42,886
So those are the two focus on the flood plan.

733
00:45:43,016 --> 00:45:47,896
So that, that concludes that key
technical components of the flood plan.

734
00:45:47,896 --> 00:45:50,496
And I'm going to pass this back to Matt.

735
00:45:51,896 --> 00:45:52,336
>> Thank you, Rene.

736
00:45:52,336 --> 00:45:54,136
Next slide, please.

737
00:45:57,566 --> 00:46:02,426
So real briefly, what are we going to do
as far as technical and financial support,

738
00:46:02,426 --> 00:46:07,446
which is our responsibility, we're going
to do things like convene this meeting.

739
00:46:07,446 --> 00:46:11,476
We're going to be passing this roll
off when you have local subdivision.

740
00:46:11,866 --> 00:46:16,486
But we're going to have a non-voting member
at the meetings that Morgan, for example,

741
00:46:16,486 --> 00:46:18,306
will be there to help assist you

742
00:46:18,346 --> 00:46:23,226
in understanding requirements,
guidance, get questions.

743
00:46:23,226 --> 00:46:26,596
We're going to try to stay ahead of you so
that when you have questions, we have answers,

744
00:46:26,596 --> 00:46:29,286
we want to get back to you
on some of the things we do.

745
00:46:29,286 --> 00:46:33,906
We're going to provide appropriations,
as I mentioned through a grant contract,

746
00:46:33,906 --> 00:46:35,746
for you to hire a technical consultant.

747
00:46:35,746 --> 00:46:40,816
We're going to provide guidance documents,
templates, things like develop your plan.

748
00:46:41,246 --> 00:46:44,336
We're going to organize regular conference
calls, for example, with your Chairs,

749
00:46:44,336 --> 00:46:47,936
do things like that, to support you,
and communicating between regions to see

750
00:46:47,936 --> 00:46:51,166
where things are, learned from other
regions, and anything else you think of.

751
00:46:51,166 --> 00:46:55,156
If you have things that you need from us,
presentations information, let us know,

752
00:46:55,156 --> 00:46:58,836
and we'll try to -- we'll do what we
can in the time we have and resources.

753
00:46:59,236 --> 00:47:02,586
But if you let us know, we can actually
get ahead, provide things for you.

754
00:47:02,586 --> 00:47:04,236
But we need to know if there's
something missing.

755
00:47:04,236 --> 00:47:09,296
We're going to support the local
subdivisions, we have best practices that we use

756
00:47:09,296 --> 00:47:13,186
for regional water planning, that
will apply similarly to flood.

757
00:47:13,406 --> 00:47:18,436
And we're just going to provide orientations and
presentations as you need, and along the way.

758
00:47:18,436 --> 00:47:19,256
Next slide.

759
00:47:19,256 --> 00:47:24,546
This is a little about your
general responsibilities.

760
00:47:25,066 --> 00:47:29,696
But before I get into that, I just want
to remind folks that I talked about this

761
00:47:29,696 --> 00:47:32,036
at the orientation, you know,
that you all have --

762
00:47:32,036 --> 00:47:35,746
you represented an interest
category for your entire region.

763
00:47:36,196 --> 00:47:39,416
So, if you're, for example, the
industry representative and you work for,

764
00:47:39,416 --> 00:47:44,226
I used as an example, cement plants, you don't
just represent your cement plant on the group,

765
00:47:44,646 --> 00:47:49,216
you don't just represent your cement
company, or all cement companies,

766
00:47:49,216 --> 00:47:51,926
you represent all industry in the whole region.

767
00:47:51,926 --> 00:47:55,086
And that can mean reaching out and
finding out about other industries

768
00:47:55,086 --> 00:47:57,666
and what their interests
are, their concerns are.

769
00:47:57,666 --> 00:48:01,646
So just a reminder, you know,
you represent the entire region.

770
00:48:01,646 --> 00:48:04,326
And as a group, you represent
everyone in the region.

771
00:48:04,326 --> 00:48:07,616
So obviously, it's a lot of
cooperation and working together.

772
00:48:07,616 --> 00:48:13,616
So just a reminder that if you aren't familiar
with some of the folks that you representing,

773
00:48:13,926 --> 00:48:16,486
you know, go ahead and reach out, and
they should be reaching out to you too.

774
00:48:16,486 --> 00:48:18,616
They should feel comfortable
reaching out to you to let you know,

775
00:48:18,686 --> 00:48:21,686
they have a lot to share and concerns.

776
00:48:21,936 --> 00:48:33,526
So with that said, you all know, [inaudible]
open meetings, training as requirement.

777
00:48:34,746 --> 00:48:38,426
Follow that including the
statute and all the rules.

778
00:48:38,426 --> 00:48:44,266
You have your own bylaws, you're going to
adopt, you're going to govern yourselves,

779
00:48:44,486 --> 00:48:48,046
conduct your own business, you're going
to consider adding representatives

780
00:48:48,046 --> 00:48:52,686
if necessary [inaudible] to that too that, you
know, you already have a lot of representation.

781
00:48:52,996 --> 00:48:56,736
And I caution groups against adding
too many voting members too quickly,

782
00:48:56,736 --> 00:49:00,946
if you anticipate that, think holistically,
strategically and carefully about it.

783
00:49:00,946 --> 00:49:03,626
Co-logistic and other reasons,
other folks here notice as well,

784
00:49:03,626 --> 00:49:08,106
from experience of water planning what ifs
are like, and that's just my own personal take

785
00:49:08,106 --> 00:49:10,866
on having seen a lot of water
planning groups grow.

786
00:49:11,366 --> 00:49:16,006
You would designate a flood subdivision to act
on your behalf, unless you can change some days.

787
00:49:16,106 --> 00:49:18,626
It's not a fixed entity forever.

788
00:49:18,696 --> 00:49:23,766
You hold less public meetings, very transparent
process, we expect a lot of public input.

789
00:49:23,766 --> 00:49:26,186
And you have to consider that
input when you're making decisions.

790
00:49:26,186 --> 00:49:29,356
You're going to select the technical
consultants who you're going to direct them,

791
00:49:29,356 --> 00:49:33,026
so that means you to be engaged,
you need to know enough what's going

792
00:49:33,026 --> 00:49:36,816
on to give directions to the consultant.

793
00:49:36,816 --> 00:49:39,106
And then there's a lot of
things, like maintaining websites,

794
00:49:39,276 --> 00:49:41,436
political division should
be probably doing that.

795
00:49:41,826 --> 00:49:44,646
But there's a lot of things you're
responsible for making sure that the notices

796
00:49:44,646 --> 00:49:46,496
and things are out there as well.

797
00:49:46,656 --> 00:49:48,536
All right, next slide.

798
00:49:50,676 --> 00:49:51,646
Thank you.

799
00:49:52,146 --> 00:49:56,416
This is a kind of a high level
summary of what I mostly talked about.

800
00:49:56,416 --> 00:49:59,646
You know, it's really, you're making
a lot of big decisions for the region.

801
00:49:59,646 --> 00:50:02,576
You're developing a regional water
plan is going to roll into a state plan

802
00:50:02,576 --> 00:50:04,976
under a common framework,
but it's your own plan.

803
00:50:05,406 --> 00:50:06,706
It's collaborative.

804
00:50:06,836 --> 00:50:09,266
Its five-year cycle.

805
00:50:09,266 --> 00:50:12,266
Per cycle is about half as long and
it's getting shorter by the day.

806
00:50:12,396 --> 00:50:16,356
And then after that it's
a five-year cycle similar.

807
00:50:16,356 --> 00:50:20,136
Next slide, please.

808
00:50:20,476 --> 00:50:23,326
I'm not going to go into the timeline.

809
00:50:23,326 --> 00:50:26,276
But the bottom line is the two red dots.

810
00:50:26,276 --> 00:50:31,226
The last ones on the right are
unmovable, those are in statute.

811
00:50:31,896 --> 00:50:35,306
You have first regional flood
plan is due in January of 2023.

812
00:50:36,146 --> 00:50:41,626
We anticipate having the draft
under the contract in August,

813
00:50:41,766 --> 00:50:46,156
to give time to public comments, and have
us review it and have some time for you all

814
00:50:46,216 --> 00:50:54,556
to take consideration public comment final plan,
final state flood plan due in September of 2024.

815
00:50:54,556 --> 00:50:57,406
And we'll have more details
coming out to you all

816
00:50:57,476 --> 00:50:59,896
to help you understand the process and steps.

817
00:50:59,896 --> 00:51:04,286
Next slide, please.

818
00:51:04,286 --> 00:51:09,596
OK, so we're on the agenda item five, I
hear some feedback, but it's not too bad.

819
00:51:09,836 --> 00:51:18,536
So discussion of group bylaws and
consider, again, we provided bylaws,

820
00:51:18,536 --> 00:51:22,366
model bylaws to you all to consider to look at.

821
00:51:22,366 --> 00:51:24,176
Hopefully you've looked at [inaudible].

822
00:51:24,176 --> 00:51:26,826
We go to the next slide.

823
00:51:27,516 --> 00:51:33,906
We have -- I'm not an expert on there,
going to be one or more meetings,

824
00:51:33,906 --> 00:51:36,686
got 12 on these meetings and
help groups go through this.

825
00:51:36,686 --> 00:51:37,946
I think someone has some feedback.

826
00:51:38,026 --> 00:51:39,186
Brian, maybe that's yours.

827
00:51:39,186 --> 00:51:39,866
That's on your side.

828
00:51:39,866 --> 00:51:40,086
>> Yeah, fine.

829
00:51:40,776 --> 00:51:41,366
Can you mute?

830
00:51:42,766 --> 00:51:43,156
>> Sure, yeah.

831
00:51:43,316 --> 00:51:43,936
>> Thank you.

832
00:51:43,936 --> 00:51:44,516
>> Yeah, thank you.

833
00:51:44,556 --> 00:51:46,376
I think I saw that.

834
00:51:46,486 --> 00:51:53,296
Sorry. So I can suggest a process, but first,
I want to just remind folks that in the rule,

835
00:51:53,296 --> 00:51:57,126
those items there that are listed on the
slide, I'm not going to go through them,

836
00:51:57,376 --> 00:51:59,806
those are the rule, they're
required to be in bylaw.

837
00:51:59,806 --> 00:52:02,226
So the bylaws address all those things.

838
00:52:02,366 --> 00:52:04,676
But I just want you to know that,
you know, there are some things

839
00:52:04,676 --> 00:52:06,016
that do have to be in the bylaws.

840
00:52:06,016 --> 00:52:09,706
And we've got a model at least to work on.

841
00:52:10,026 --> 00:52:11,176
So next slide.

842
00:52:13,256 --> 00:52:16,886
This slide is out there, it's posted along
with all the other meeting materials for you.

843
00:52:16,886 --> 00:52:19,396
I need to zoom in on, you can
look at the poster material.

844
00:52:19,396 --> 00:52:25,826
But this is just a summary of, it's a sort of
show how you make decisions as far as votes.

845
00:52:26,306 --> 00:52:30,756
So the column on the right, for example,
where there's a blue box and the check,

846
00:52:31,296 --> 00:52:34,816
those are all those rows, all those
types of decisions in those rows.

847
00:52:35,296 --> 00:52:40,416
All the ones that have a check in the blue
box on the right are decided by 51% majority

848
00:52:40,416 --> 00:52:44,416
of present members, voting members, for
example, that's just a summary to sort

849
00:52:44,416 --> 00:52:48,476
of help folks understand how the decision-making
would be made under the model bylaws.

850
00:52:49,366 --> 00:52:53,746
The first one on there is, the
first row is to adopt your bylaws.

851
00:52:53,746 --> 00:52:55,496
And that's an -- that's actually a rule.

852
00:52:55,746 --> 00:52:57,766
But we put a couple of rule
things in your bylaws,

853
00:52:57,766 --> 00:53:00,226
in the model bylaws, so folks not forget them.

854
00:53:00,826 --> 00:53:05,686
And you have to have a two-thirds vote of the
present of voting members to pass your bylaws.

855
00:53:05,686 --> 00:53:06,646
That's one of the first things.

856
00:53:07,066 --> 00:53:13,416
The other, the most stringent
thing for voting is the check box

857
00:53:13,416 --> 00:53:16,206
on the left represents a rule requirement.

858
00:53:16,586 --> 00:53:21,856
That's to add, keep voting, that's a
Chair of the table, not the individual,

859
00:53:21,856 --> 00:53:26,546
just the Chair to add an additional voting
person or position requires two-thirds

860
00:53:26,826 --> 00:53:29,786
of the voting members, including
those not present.

861
00:53:29,786 --> 00:53:33,426
So everybody who's on the group already is a
voting member, so two-thirds of those votes.

862
00:53:34,206 --> 00:53:35,856
So that's this is a quick summary of that.

863
00:53:35,916 --> 00:53:41,636
So just to help folks understand what's
in there and consumer information.

864
00:53:41,796 --> 00:53:46,516
So at this point, like I said,
I'm not necessarily an expert,

865
00:53:46,516 --> 00:53:48,436
but I've seen 12 groups go through this.

866
00:53:48,526 --> 00:53:51,616
I have a suggestion, and then you guys,
you all can tell me what you think

867
00:53:51,616 --> 00:53:53,256
of the suggestion, how to proceed.

868
00:53:53,916 --> 00:53:59,166
What we've done is we go through and we can
quickly go through kind of article [inaudible].

869
00:53:59,166 --> 00:54:01,066
Can you go to the next --
can you go to bylaws, please?

870
00:54:01,066 --> 00:54:05,236
We have the bylaws in a Word document, so we can
make edits on the fly to make an edit to see it.

871
00:54:05,806 --> 00:54:08,796
But we can run through the article by article.

872
00:54:09,156 --> 00:54:10,566
We have a few things we want to highlight.

873
00:54:10,816 --> 00:54:13,936
We have a couple things that we've learned
by watching 12 other regions deal with this,

874
00:54:14,146 --> 00:54:18,916
couple things we're going to suggest you
consider to not too restrictive bylaw.

875
00:54:18,916 --> 00:54:26,336
And we can go article by article and as we
go through that, you all can bring up issues

876
00:54:26,336 --> 00:54:29,866
or things you'd like to talk about, you can
discuss those one by one and get some try

877
00:54:29,866 --> 00:54:31,566
to get some agreement for you to the next item.

878
00:54:32,186 --> 00:54:34,696
Does that sound like a fair way to go?

879
00:54:34,696 --> 00:54:36,726
Is that -- has another idea or approach?

880
00:54:36,926 --> 00:54:39,016
I'll go as quickly as we can
so that you're comfortable.

881
00:54:39,426 --> 00:54:40,616
So it makes sense?

882
00:54:40,616 --> 00:54:43,876
I don't see any objection.

883
00:54:43,876 --> 00:54:49,946
OK, so can you -- so that's the -- so
the first thing is, it's -- if you did --

884
00:54:49,946 --> 00:54:53,026
if you were to adopt this document as
your model bylaws after discussion,

885
00:54:53,176 --> 00:54:57,026
we would change everywhere it says model
that's just placeholders like template, right?

886
00:54:57,436 --> 00:55:00,336
We replace it with the name of
this regional flood planning group,

887
00:55:00,336 --> 00:55:05,146
the official name the board is using
just -- that just a note throughout.

888
00:55:05,196 --> 00:55:09,926
So if you were to adopt these, that's what --
we will do that and throughout the document.

889
00:55:10,106 --> 00:55:14,236
We have a couple yellow highlights that
are just things we just want to point out.

890
00:55:14,236 --> 00:55:16,876
You don't have to discuss them,
but just want to point them out.

891
00:55:17,266 --> 00:55:20,676
And then some gray, the gray, the
gray highlight is just something we --

892
00:55:21,096 --> 00:55:23,696
it's from rule that we think
is worth having in your bylaws.

893
00:55:23,696 --> 00:55:24,376
So you don't forget.

894
00:55:24,486 --> 00:55:26,906
That doesn't mean it has to be in the bylaws,

895
00:55:26,906 --> 00:55:28,916
you still have to follow rule
whether it's in your bylaw or not.

896
00:55:29,286 --> 00:55:32,156
So I'll -- we'll -- scroll down, please.

897
00:55:34,236 --> 00:55:38,206
So this table of contents, well, those
are the articles, for example, you know,

898
00:55:38,206 --> 00:55:41,286
responsibilities, voting membership,
we'll just kind of go article by article,

899
00:55:41,496 --> 00:55:43,856
and I'll talk about the highlights
and things we've learned

900
00:55:43,856 --> 00:55:45,136
that you might want to consider changing.

901
00:55:45,526 --> 00:55:50,056
There's only a couple, and then you all can
speak up on anything if you already have ideas

902
00:55:50,056 --> 00:55:53,266
about something that you'd like to discuss or
you don't understand, we can talk about it.

903
00:55:53,866 --> 00:55:57,076
So the first thing I want to talk
about changing the world model.

904
00:55:57,076 --> 00:55:59,566
Its names, this is just kind of background.

905
00:55:59,916 --> 00:56:03,256
Article 3 is really just to
establish the political subdivision,

906
00:56:03,256 --> 00:56:09,606
that's the name in the bylaws,
go ahead and scroll down.

907
00:56:10,856 --> 00:56:13,626
You know, it really, the first highlights
we have as in voting membership.

908
00:56:14,416 --> 00:56:19,476
We have some content in there that's
just to remind about what's required.

909
00:56:19,476 --> 00:56:23,616
And in rule about maintaining
a list with the list,

910
00:56:23,616 --> 00:56:29,906
we also have to know your voting membership
is just as a matter of business practice.

911
00:56:30,286 --> 00:56:32,676
We do have the yellow highlight
in the end of Section 1.

912
00:56:33,016 --> 00:56:37,746
That's -- it's a [inaudible]
setting in the bylaws,

913
00:56:37,746 --> 00:56:41,486
not to exceed 18 voting member number in there.

914
00:56:42,426 --> 00:56:47,756
That is just a number that we thought, based on
everything we've learned from water planning,

915
00:56:48,096 --> 00:56:51,146
talking to folks and giving some
flexibility, but not, you know,

916
00:56:51,146 --> 00:56:55,576
not having a very large number, you know, that
would leave you with your original 12 numbers

917
00:56:55,576 --> 00:56:59,906
as two-thirds of the 18, for
example, percent of the proportion.

918
00:57:00,426 --> 00:57:04,126
And that's really just the
default that's in there.

919
00:57:04,126 --> 00:57:05,706
And you don't have to change it.

920
00:57:05,776 --> 00:57:07,296
But that's what, that's what that is.

921
00:57:07,816 --> 00:57:12,426
You don't fill it all 18, it's just
a maximum sort of a starting point.

922
00:57:13,626 --> 00:57:17,776
And I'll say, also say before, you know,
whatever decisions you make, you can go back

923
00:57:17,776 --> 00:57:19,276
and you can revisit your bylaws later.

924
00:57:19,696 --> 00:57:23,996
So it's not the last chance
to talk about bylaws.

925
00:57:25,446 --> 00:57:26,666
>> Matt?

926
00:57:26,766 --> 00:57:26,996
>> Yes.

927
00:57:27,246 --> 00:57:36,116
>> So the, the other groups like to talk
about it being an odd number, like 17,

928
00:57:36,116 --> 00:57:43,256
as opposed to 18, because that
way you avoid having a typo.

929
00:57:44,086 --> 00:57:48,446
>> Of course if you brought it up, I don't
think too many changed it because you don't have

930
00:57:48,446 --> 00:57:50,356
to fill all 18, you can stop at 17.

931
00:57:52,696 --> 00:57:54,086
But it's up to the group.

932
00:57:55,316 --> 00:57:55,976
We have 12 now.

933
00:58:03,346 --> 00:58:05,626
Terms of office, unless there's
more discussion questions.

934
00:58:06,696 --> 00:58:07,506
Let's keep going, to go.

935
00:58:07,506 --> 00:58:10,246
And you go, then we go back to the -- while
we can bounce around to and I'll just kind

936
00:58:10,436 --> 00:58:11,866
of keep it flowing just for time.

937
00:58:12,066 --> 00:58:17,376
And you stopped me raise your hand and I'll
try to pause if there's anything that comes up.

938
00:58:17,376 --> 00:58:24,076
In terms of office, the idea of the
July 2023 date for having the trigger

939
00:58:24,076 --> 00:58:28,116
for expiring initial terms
was we thought six months

940
00:58:28,116 --> 00:58:35,526
after your first regional flood plan is
due gives you a window to, for example,

941
00:58:35,706 --> 00:58:40,516
after the first plan is done
before you have change of numbers.

942
00:58:40,876 --> 00:58:41,506
That's all that is.

943
00:58:41,506 --> 00:58:46,166
And then the five in two years staggering, it's
just, just a stagger your membership, I think.

944
00:58:46,366 --> 00:58:49,746
You folks are probably familiar with the
concept of staggering and ownerships,

945
00:58:49,746 --> 00:58:51,986
you know, how to turnover all the folks.

946
00:58:52,496 --> 00:58:56,636
There's no limit to terms, but
you do have a vote that's required

947
00:58:56,636 --> 00:58:59,346
to maintain a member's space on the group.

948
00:58:59,346 --> 00:59:03,156
So it's not an automatic, just rolling terms.

949
00:59:03,156 --> 00:59:05,026
You have to vote to keep a member.

950
00:59:05,796 --> 00:59:12,836
Next, continue to -- continue down, please.

951
00:59:12,836 --> 00:59:13,776
Can you scroll down, please?

952
00:59:13,776 --> 00:59:14,376
Thank you.

953
00:59:15,966 --> 00:59:19,586
We love people helping, and
doing a really great job.

954
00:59:19,776 --> 00:59:26,056
Code of conducts, attendance, keep going.

955
00:59:26,056 --> 00:59:27,846
And if you have anything along
the way, please bring it up.

956
00:59:27,846 --> 00:59:29,596
I'm just going to -- I'm
hitting the highlights for now.

957
00:59:29,596 --> 00:59:33,886
But we -- there's some, there's some
special rules that were in there.

958
00:59:33,886 --> 00:59:35,206
This is one where we have learned.

959
00:59:35,206 --> 00:59:37,716
I will kind of save you some
time here if you're interested.

960
00:59:38,646 --> 00:59:42,506
The name of the groups have decided that 30
days is a really tight schedule to fill the rest

961
00:59:42,506 --> 00:59:47,236
of your officers because today you're only
electing your Chair, potentially, hopefully.

962
00:59:47,846 --> 00:59:52,206
The other officers would have to be elected
under this default bylaw within 30 days.

963
00:59:52,516 --> 00:59:54,906
We probably should have given you
more flexibility with more time maybe.

964
00:59:55,276 --> 01:00:01,946
So you could, you know, some groups changed
that to, by the next meeting after introduction

965
01:00:01,946 --> 01:00:03,976
of the bylaws, you will elect your membership.

966
01:00:04,066 --> 01:00:07,006
That gives you the guarantees of whenever
your next meeting is then you do it,

967
01:00:07,386 --> 01:00:11,986
then at least some have added
it to made it 60 or 90 days.

968
01:00:11,986 --> 01:00:14,356
So I think it's worth considering.

969
01:00:14,766 --> 01:00:17,096
So that otherwise you have to meet
within 30 days, and that's OK.

970
01:00:17,096 --> 01:00:18,256
You can meet in 30 days.

971
01:00:18,256 --> 01:00:21,576
So if you want to -- do you want

972
01:00:21,656 --> 01:00:25,736
to give yourself more flexibility then we give
you a progress, I don't think it's a bad idea.

973
01:00:25,736 --> 01:00:29,236
Any suggestions or --

974
01:00:29,236 --> 01:00:29,896
>> This is Brian.

975
01:00:30,586 --> 01:00:33,686
When I first looked at the server,
I thought 30 days was too tight.

976
01:00:33,686 --> 01:00:35,566
I was going to suggest 45.

977
01:00:35,566 --> 01:00:38,206
I'm open to something longer as well, so.

978
01:00:40,706 --> 01:00:41,136
>> So --

979
01:00:41,136 --> 01:00:42,496
>> Yeah, and I agree.

980
01:00:42,496 --> 01:00:46,446
And I think the language that you suggested

981
01:00:46,586 --> 01:00:51,086
about within the next meeting
would be OK for 45 days.

982
01:00:51,086 --> 01:00:54,026
>> I'm good, I'm good with that as well.

983
01:00:55,476 --> 01:00:57,536
>> OK, I've got two ideas on the table.

984
01:00:57,536 --> 01:01:03,196
So I want to break the tie on that.

985
01:01:03,196 --> 01:01:04,716
>> I can agree with --

986
01:01:04,716 --> 01:01:07,096
>> I choose your suggestion
Matt at the next meeting.

987
01:01:07,796 --> 01:01:11,696
>> That's Annalisa, I will
credit her with that choice.

988
01:01:12,206 --> 01:01:15,166
So no later than the next meeting.

989
01:01:15,166 --> 01:01:19,326
So that that allows you to adopt your bylaws and
make and choose your officers at that meeting,

990
01:01:19,656 --> 01:01:22,936
but it also gives you one more meeting to finish
the job, like you're going to have to do here.

991
01:01:22,936 --> 01:01:27,256
So let's -- that's, I think, taking care of
any other discussion, questions about why

992
01:01:27,256 --> 01:01:28,886
that makes more sense than 30 days.

993
01:01:30,016 --> 01:01:32,466
OK, so can we scroll down some more, please?

994
01:01:32,946 --> 01:01:35,186
And again, anybody has any
questions, just stop me.

995
01:01:35,186 --> 01:01:37,186
I don't want to -- I want to go too fast,

996
01:01:37,186 --> 01:01:41,926
I'll make sure your questions
are answered and I think --

997
01:01:41,926 --> 01:01:48,036
>> Do you want to bring up the stock
suggestion about the starting January 2022?

998
01:01:48,036 --> 01:01:50,746
They don't have to elect again.

999
01:01:50,746 --> 01:01:50,966
>> All right.

1000
01:01:50,966 --> 01:01:56,506
Another thing that we overlooked,
we, we didn't really think,

1001
01:01:56,506 --> 01:02:00,886
realized that if you choose a Chair now, you'll
be choosing a chair again January next year.

1002
01:02:00,886 --> 01:02:06,476
So this other regions I've
added said, starting in 2022,

1003
01:02:07,376 --> 01:02:09,946
you choose your officers beginning in January.

1004
01:02:09,946 --> 01:02:12,936
In that way, you don't have
to reelect your Chair

1005
01:02:13,096 --> 01:02:16,156
for that you just elected in another two months.

1006
01:02:16,446 --> 01:02:21,416
That seems sensible and efficient, and I
think it's sensible and efficient in process.

1007
01:02:21,416 --> 01:02:25,366
So does anyone object to that?

1008
01:02:25,366 --> 01:02:26,406
And ask that as could you --

1009
01:02:26,406 --> 01:02:26,756
>> No.

1010
01:02:26,986 --> 01:02:30,476
>> -- probably we can get with that [inaudible].

1011
01:02:30,986 --> 01:02:32,426
OK. Thank you, Morgan.

1012
01:02:33,576 --> 01:02:34,826
We can still --

1013
01:02:35,046 --> 01:02:36,296
>> Matt, can you --

1014
01:02:36,296 --> 01:02:36,916
>> Yes, I can hear you.

1015
01:02:37,066 --> 01:02:37,426
Please.

1016
01:02:38,206 --> 01:02:43,296
>> Under the selection of the initial officers,
instead of saying at the next meeting should --

1017
01:02:43,296 --> 01:02:45,036
shouldn't be at the second meeting.

1018
01:02:45,036 --> 01:02:50,286
The next meeting doesn't really have a reference
point but being the first, second and third.

1019
01:02:50,996 --> 01:02:52,326
>> Let me explain that.

1020
01:02:52,326 --> 01:02:55,776
What I'm reading of it is, not later
than the next meeting after that,

1021
01:02:55,776 --> 01:02:57,986
after that bypass meeting that gives you,

1022
01:02:58,096 --> 01:03:00,306
I think that is clear enough
for the next meeting or --

1023
01:03:00,306 --> 01:03:01,366
>> Got it.

1024
01:03:01,366 --> 01:03:01,433
Yeah.

1025
01:03:01,466 --> 01:03:03,216
>> That makes sense.

1026
01:03:03,216 --> 01:03:05,316
I don't know if you can see,
sorry, I know you're --

1027
01:03:06,626 --> 01:03:07,516
>> I'm good.

1028
01:03:07,786 --> 01:03:09,976
>> OK. No, you're right.

1029
01:03:10,086 --> 01:03:10,356
You're right.

1030
01:03:10,356 --> 01:03:11,206
It needs to be clear.

1031
01:03:11,246 --> 01:03:13,536
And we clarify anything else in here?

1032
01:03:13,536 --> 01:03:17,326
There's a couple more things that will
clarify that will suggest to you as well.

1033
01:03:17,326 --> 01:03:18,606
So continue, please.

1034
01:03:18,606 --> 01:03:19,216
Thank you.

1035
01:03:19,216 --> 01:03:25,916
>> As for the last yellow highlight,
although there is the staff recommendation

1036
01:03:25,916 --> 01:03:28,296
about the amending the bylaws yeah.

1037
01:03:28,836 --> 01:03:30,976
>> Right. So there's a section
here, that's another thing we kind

1038
01:03:30,976 --> 01:03:34,436
of overlooked when we did a lot of bylaws.

1039
01:03:34,436 --> 01:03:39,276
We didn't include the amending word
in the body of that Article 15.

1040
01:03:39,996 --> 01:03:43,066
So in other words, it says adopting and
amending bylaws, but then in the body

1041
01:03:43,066 --> 01:03:45,296
of that didn't, it didn't refer to amend.

1042
01:03:45,736 --> 01:03:53,206
So this change, if you approve or agree
to it, this change would just say treat,

1043
01:03:53,406 --> 01:03:58,076
amend and adopt the same or require
the two-thirds voting membership.

1044
01:03:58,076 --> 01:04:01,586
And it would be in line with a
consistent language that's used

1045
01:04:01,586 --> 01:04:04,406
in the Article 15 title,
which includes adopting.

1046
01:04:04,406 --> 01:04:06,216
Does that make sense to everybody?

1047
01:04:07,326 --> 01:04:09,356
>> Yeah. In fact, you beat me to it.

1048
01:04:10,036 --> 01:04:12,616
>> Oh, sorry, Ron, I will credit you with that.

1049
01:04:12,616 --> 01:04:13,996
>> I was, I was -- I'm happy with it.

1050
01:04:13,996 --> 01:04:16,466
I was going to make that
same recommendation, so good.

1051
01:04:17,196 --> 01:04:17,656
>> Thank you.

1052
01:04:17,756 --> 01:04:21,166
Well, we've learned after
a few meetings, we try.

1053
01:04:21,166 --> 01:04:28,966
Anything else, Ron, that
you have noted besides that?

1054
01:04:29,406 --> 01:04:34,826
Anybody? Anything else like right now that you'd
like to, or you had a suggestion for changing

1055
01:04:34,936 --> 01:04:37,576
that you would like to discuss some more?

1056
01:04:37,576 --> 01:04:38,636
>> I'll just jump in.

1057
01:04:38,636 --> 01:04:41,836
I was going to go back to the voting membership.

1058
01:04:41,836 --> 01:04:43,686
I know we kind of talked
about that being 18 members.

1059
01:04:43,846 --> 01:04:49,106
You know, I kind of agree with what Doug
said about maybe making that an odd number.

1060
01:04:49,246 --> 01:04:52,176
You know and I realize we don't
have to fill it all the way to 18.

1061
01:04:52,176 --> 01:04:56,486
But, yeah, I think 17 was my notes here.

1062
01:04:56,486 --> 01:05:03,756
So, started out there as
an idea and 17 is the top.

1063
01:05:03,756 --> 01:05:05,256
>> I would agree with that.

1064
01:05:05,566 --> 01:05:11,956
And in addition to that, when we add new
members, I don't think we should add members

1065
01:05:12,146 --> 01:05:16,976
that create an even number, between 12.

1066
01:05:17,136 --> 01:05:24,226
Like right now from the initial appointment of
12 that we're currently in, if we appoint one,

1067
01:05:24,226 --> 01:05:32,596
that'll give us odd but we
can appoint two to give us 14

1068
01:05:33,606 --> 01:05:41,506
or I think anybody that's added there
should be an odd number of members

1069
01:05:41,506 --> 01:05:47,896
after the initial appointment done
by the Texas Water Development Board.

1070
01:05:48,386 --> 01:05:52,576
>> Yes, you could add, you can answer that today
in a sentence there something's come up such

1071
01:05:52,576 --> 01:05:55,856
that there's always an odd at
there, there's always an odd number

1072
01:05:55,856 --> 01:05:59,856
of members, or something I don't know.

1073
01:05:59,856 --> 01:06:06,996
>> So something like beginning, and shall
not be made an even number to the addition

1074
01:06:06,996 --> 01:06:09,366
of additional members beyond
statute or something like that.

1075
01:06:09,796 --> 01:06:11,316
Because you have 12, you have to have it.

1076
01:06:11,766 --> 01:06:12,166
>> Right.

1077
01:06:12,426 --> 01:06:13,026
>> Right.

1078
01:06:13,176 --> 01:06:15,506
>> We need -- and we tell you some I'd
like to throw in there and we can --

1079
01:06:16,326 --> 01:06:18,816
>> Well, that's suggest -- well,
I suggest we just leave it alone

1080
01:06:18,816 --> 01:06:20,866
in a minute at a later date if we need to.

1081
01:06:26,476 --> 01:06:31,796
>> Yeah, I agree, because I mean, at times, you
might have people having to recuse themselves

1082
01:06:31,826 --> 01:06:38,536
from voting because of conflicts and all and
I guess I've served on a number of bodies

1083
01:06:38,536 --> 01:06:43,936
that where an even number of
members hasn't been a problem.

1084
01:06:43,936 --> 01:06:47,416
I don't object to this reducing it to 17.

1085
01:06:47,416 --> 01:06:54,056
But I think then having to add members
in pairs might be problematic, you know.

1086
01:06:54,106 --> 01:06:59,516
I would like to see a flexible so we can
add members as appropriate one at a time.

1087
01:07:05,646 --> 01:07:07,436
>> Well, any other or any
of the thoughts you have?

1088
01:07:07,436 --> 01:07:09,896
What are -- the sounds like folks
who are OK with the 17 part.

1089
01:07:09,896 --> 01:07:10,006
>> Right.

1090
01:07:10,896 --> 01:07:13,466
>> Actually, that's in -- actually the 17.

1091
01:07:14,326 --> 01:07:15,956
So what about -- what do you want

1092
01:07:16,026 --> 01:07:20,606
to further discuss how you had
them to try to have an odd number.

1093
01:07:20,606 --> 01:07:21,966
Would you like to do that for later?

1094
01:07:21,966 --> 01:07:27,246
Do you have some other ideas about,
how do you like to address this?

1095
01:07:27,246 --> 01:07:27,726
Anybody?

1096
01:07:30,006 --> 01:07:36,196
>> I'm personally fine with delaying it the
discussion of future amendment if needed.

1097
01:07:36,636 --> 01:07:36,996
>> OK.

1098
01:07:36,996 --> 01:07:44,696
>> This is Kim -- this is Kimberly Metzen, can
we look at that first table that you showed

1099
01:07:44,696 --> 01:07:52,526
with regards to the different components of the
bylaws and whether it was majority or two-thirds

1100
01:07:52,526 --> 01:07:57,246
or consensus in terms of the voting
for the different components?

1101
01:07:57,246 --> 01:08:02,416
Because I'm just curious how many
relate to being a majority or 50% vote?

1102
01:08:02,746 --> 01:08:08,726
The table that we looked at right
before we looked at the bylaws.

1103
01:08:09,076 --> 01:08:10,826
>> Yeah, Morgan's, bringing that table back up.

1104
01:08:10,826 --> 01:08:11,616
And then maybe --

1105
01:08:11,616 --> 01:08:14,256
>> I think that might just be helpful
in terms of thinking about that.

1106
01:08:14,256 --> 01:08:20,716
But I think the 17 is fine, but I didn't
see that there are too many that the --

1107
01:08:20,716 --> 01:08:20,783
>> Yeah.

1108
01:08:20,783 --> 01:08:24,646
>> No, the majority are simple majority.

1109
01:08:24,696 --> 01:08:26,886
But it's also who's at attendance too, right?

1110
01:08:26,886 --> 01:08:27,266
So you might --

1111
01:08:27,266 --> 01:08:27,686
>> That's true.

1112
01:08:27,686 --> 01:08:29,396
>> -- that your attendance could be different.

1113
01:08:29,816 --> 01:08:30,516
>> That's true.

1114
01:08:31,326 --> 01:08:32,696
>> So there's the, there's the --

1115
01:08:32,696 --> 01:08:35,226
>> We can send out a larger
version of this table.

1116
01:08:35,226 --> 01:08:35,946
I apologize.

1117
01:08:35,946 --> 01:08:41,566
>> It's posted for anyone who wants to grab
it off the website to without needing appears.

1118
01:08:41,566 --> 01:08:45,416
So you can see most of its
majority of present members.

1119
01:08:45,416 --> 01:08:48,376
So that's, you know, you already
have a bit of a wild card,

1120
01:08:48,376 --> 01:08:50,936
which is actually a few attendance that day.

1121
01:08:55,926 --> 01:08:58,136
Can you read it?

1122
01:08:58,336 --> 01:09:01,456
>> Yes. Thank you.

1123
01:09:01,456 --> 01:09:02,896
>> And again, it's posted on the web.

1124
01:09:02,896 --> 01:09:05,216
You can always go -- you can look
at it separately, if you want,

1125
01:09:05,216 --> 01:09:08,276
just go look at it during
the meeting to see in it.

1126
01:09:08,276 --> 01:09:12,326
Is there anything else you want,
is there long enough, Kimberly?

1127
01:09:12,616 --> 01:09:14,066
Would you like to back it up?

1128
01:09:14,066 --> 01:09:14,416
>> No, thank you.

1129
01:09:14,416 --> 01:09:15,156
That was helpful.

1130
01:09:15,156 --> 01:09:19,976
I was, I was just curious to look at
which of the on the rules kind of tell

1131
01:09:19,976 --> 01:09:22,226
under that majority of voting members present.

1132
01:09:22,476 --> 01:09:24,066
>> Right. OK.

1133
01:09:24,526 --> 01:09:27,636
So Maureen, can you get back to the bylaw?

1134
01:09:34,516 --> 01:09:38,456
>> So is there other themes or anything
that you're not sure about what was

1135
01:09:38,456 --> 01:09:40,486
in there or that you'd like to discuss?

1136
01:09:40,486 --> 01:09:42,686
It can be anywhere in the bylaws that --

1137
01:09:42,876 --> 01:09:45,406
>> I had a question about the alternates.

1138
01:09:45,776 --> 01:09:52,056
Now, I've been serving for years as an alternate
on Region L for environmental interest.

1139
01:09:52,106 --> 01:09:58,346
For the alternates, I just want to clarify
that I'm understanding your rights.

1140
01:09:58,346 --> 01:10:05,306
So if we, if somebody knows they're not going
to be able to attend, they can submit the name

1141
01:10:05,356 --> 01:10:10,956
of an alternate 48 hours to the chair,
nothing more is required, is that correct?

1142
01:10:13,596 --> 01:10:15,056
>> I believe so, yes.

1143
01:10:15,056 --> 01:10:18,426
And generally, I think the way that
folks interpret that's in, and, you know,

1144
01:10:18,606 --> 01:10:22,106
just one person, but I think
that a lot of reasons they sort

1145
01:10:22,226 --> 01:10:26,096
of have that, something like that.

1146
01:10:26,416 --> 01:10:34,346
But people, then can tell their Chair who
their alternate is, well, before any meeting.

1147
01:10:34,346 --> 01:10:36,526
So that's just on the books, right?

1148
01:10:41,336 --> 01:10:44,436
So is there something you like that you
have a question about, you'd like to change,

1149
01:10:44,436 --> 01:10:49,726
or several groups talk about this, and it's
simple stuff at 48 hours, maybe it was longer

1150
01:10:49,726 --> 01:10:53,776
than some might expect in these days where
you'd like some [inaudible] about that part?

1151
01:10:53,776 --> 01:10:57,136
I think if the alternate is if the
Chair knows who the alternate is,

1152
01:10:57,136 --> 01:10:58,876
then that's operational process [inaudible].

1153
01:10:58,926 --> 01:10:59,406
So --

1154
01:10:59,766 --> 01:11:09,796
>> OK, it's just to clarify, so it doesn't
have to be selecting one alternate and sticking

1155
01:11:09,796 --> 01:11:14,576
with that person, we can find
somebody as needed, correct?

1156
01:11:14,576 --> 01:11:17,746
>> Right. But it only allows
you to in a calendar year.

1157
01:11:18,046 --> 01:11:21,776
So, you have too many alternates, because
too many alternates as you know, people are,

1158
01:11:21,776 --> 01:11:24,066
you know, you need people to take a
look and make decisions and are aware

1159
01:11:24,066 --> 01:11:26,546
and hopefully attending a lot of
meetings even as an alternate,

1160
01:11:26,586 --> 01:11:29,796
even if they don't have to attend technically.

1161
01:11:29,866 --> 01:11:33,776
>> Fine. And one other question,
and this isn't for the bylaws,

1162
01:11:33,876 --> 01:11:42,436
but are you able to share the list of people
who put in nominations for say, for my category,

1163
01:11:42,436 --> 01:11:46,716
environmental, so I could look
at those as potential alternates?

1164
01:11:47,026 --> 01:11:50,776
>> We will find -- we will -- we're
going to figure out what we can share.

1165
01:11:50,776 --> 01:11:53,156
Because some of the informations
about sharing --

1166
01:11:53,156 --> 01:11:56,776
we can't share personal information
sort of things.

1167
01:11:57,066 --> 01:12:00,166
So we're going to share that
with you if we can, OK.

1168
01:12:00,166 --> 01:12:06,706
We're look into that, gets you what we can.

1169
01:12:06,706 --> 01:12:08,776
But also, I would say alternates are important.

1170
01:12:08,906 --> 01:12:12,566
We need to get a quorum, get your business
done, but you don't want too many alternates,

1171
01:12:12,566 --> 01:12:15,686
because then you dilute them the
knowledge and it makes it harder to make

1172
01:12:15,686 --> 01:12:17,166
that stuff and make a decision, too.

1173
01:12:17,536 --> 01:12:22,596
You have other people here know this better than
I do that's look got to be, and speak to that.

1174
01:12:22,596 --> 01:12:24,746
>> Yeah, I'm fine with the language as it is,

1175
01:12:24,746 --> 01:12:27,626
I just wanted to make sure
that I was reading it right.

1176
01:12:27,626 --> 01:12:29,536
>> Yeah. That's my understanding.

1177
01:12:29,836 --> 01:12:32,906
I'm not being corrected by my legal stuff.

1178
01:12:33,056 --> 01:12:36,636
OK, so. OK, so anything else?

1179
01:12:36,636 --> 01:12:40,916
What other topics?

1180
01:12:40,916 --> 01:12:43,436
Anything and you have suggestions?

1181
01:12:43,616 --> 01:12:46,816
Again, you can read this at these bylaws.

1182
01:12:47,096 --> 01:12:51,126
But is there anything you'd
like to change now or concern?

1183
01:12:52,236 --> 01:12:56,726
>> Do we need to pick a name for
planning group, instead of model?

1184
01:12:56,726 --> 01:12:59,576
>> We -- what I was suggesting
was we replace it with the name

1185
01:12:59,576 --> 01:13:02,946
that the board designated for all the regions.

1186
01:13:02,946 --> 01:13:03,396
>> OK.

1187
01:13:04,166 --> 01:13:06,896
>> In the spirit of using language
consistently in terms, we thought we would --

1188
01:13:06,896 --> 01:13:07,006
>> OK.

1189
01:13:07,166 --> 01:13:09,116
>> -- that if you have a different
name, I guess you could use that.

1190
01:13:09,116 --> 01:13:10,346
>> That's fine.

1191
01:13:10,396 --> 01:13:14,796
But, I just want to make sure
something has been chosen.

1192
01:13:15,366 --> 01:13:15,656
That's all.

1193
01:13:15,826 --> 01:13:16,256
>> Good point.

1194
01:13:16,876 --> 01:13:17,366
Thanks Brian.

1195
01:13:18,446 --> 01:13:24,636
So other than that, and we'll make
the changes and then send it out.

1196
01:13:24,636 --> 01:13:28,316
So you know you'll have what's been
decided, what you have decided about that.

1197
01:13:28,316 --> 01:13:32,926
Anymore discussion, anybody
questions, any motions?

1198
01:13:33,566 --> 01:13:38,406
>> And when we approved the
bylaws as suggested in amendment.

1199
01:13:38,976 --> 01:13:40,286
>> Second.

1200
01:13:40,936 --> 01:13:42,206
I second.

1201
01:13:42,206 --> 01:13:45,606
>> So Mr. Miller made a motion
to adopt the bylaws

1202
01:13:45,606 --> 01:13:48,836
as amended with the proper name and Ron --

1203
01:13:48,976 --> 01:13:51,036
>> Fieseler.

1204
01:13:51,386 --> 01:13:56,466
>> Yes, Fieseler, second to
that, and second to that.

1205
01:13:56,466 --> 01:13:57,606
>> You get used to it.

1206
01:13:57,606 --> 01:14:03,786
>> Yeah. The -- seconded that motion
and any more discussion, any questions?

1207
01:14:03,956 --> 01:14:09,106
Again, you need two-thirds of voting
members present to vote bylaws.

1208
01:14:09,106 --> 01:14:12,416
That's within, in the bylaws as well.

1209
01:14:12,546 --> 01:14:15,276
Any other discussion?

1210
01:14:15,276 --> 01:14:19,916
I'll just do a quick roll call
vote to submit yourself and ask you

1211
01:14:19,916 --> 01:14:24,276
to for adopting these bylaws as amended.

1212
01:14:24,626 --> 01:14:25,976
Doug Miller?

1213
01:14:26,796 --> 01:14:26,996
>> Aye.

1214
01:14:28,646 --> 01:14:29,486
>> John Johnston?

1215
01:14:30,286 --> 01:14:30,506
>> Aye.

1216
01:14:32,006 --> 01:14:34,936
>> Annalisa Peace?

1217
01:14:36,446 --> 01:14:36,513
>> Aye.

1218
01:14:36,746 --> 01:14:38,946
>> Beth Parker, still absent I believe.

1219
01:14:39,136 --> 01:14:40,706
>> Kevin Stone, I believe still absent.

1220
01:14:42,326 --> 01:14:43,806
>> Joe Pantalion?

1221
01:14:45,096 --> 01:14:45,346
>> Aye.

1222
01:14:47,066 --> 01:14:49,206
>> Kimberly Metzen?

1223
01:14:49,206 --> 01:14:49,416
>> Aye.

1224
01:14:50,446 --> 01:14:51,616
>> Brian Perkins?

1225
01:14:52,096 --> 01:14:52,326
>> Aye.

1226
01:14:53,516 --> 01:14:54,626
>> John Villarreal?

1227
01:14:56,026 --> 01:14:56,286
>> Aye.

1228
01:14:57,206 --> 01:14:57,956
>> Ron Fieseler?

1229
01:14:59,426 --> 01:14:59,986
>> Aye.

1230
01:15:01,216 --> 01:15:02,116
>> Joseph McDaniel?

1231
01:15:02,766 --> 01:15:02,976
>> Aye.

1232
01:15:07,506 --> 01:15:08,746
>> Unanimous aye.

1233
01:15:08,746 --> 01:15:12,426
You have made your first big decision.

1234
01:15:12,776 --> 01:15:17,866
Well, then, and again, you can revisit
these as you, as the need rights.

1235
01:15:17,866 --> 01:15:20,026
So, we'll go back to the slides, and well done.

1236
01:15:20,256 --> 01:15:23,456
And I think we're doing fine on time.

1237
01:15:23,516 --> 01:15:26,866
And so we're not, we're not doing things yet.

1238
01:15:27,036 --> 01:15:29,856
I'm going to explain the process for nominating.

1239
01:15:29,856 --> 01:15:31,236
We're on agenda item six, everyone.

1240
01:15:31,236 --> 01:15:36,666
So we're going to -- I'm going to describe the
process through which you do the nominating

1241
01:15:36,666 --> 01:15:40,586
and electing process for your Chair, I will
describe that then I will open the floor

1242
01:15:40,586 --> 01:15:43,386
to nominations, but first I will describe it.

1243
01:15:43,386 --> 01:15:51,616
So the basic process is, I will
open it when the time to --

1244
01:15:51,876 --> 01:15:56,796
for nominations, I will acknowledge
you, try to raise your hand.

1245
01:15:56,796 --> 01:16:02,756
If you on the phone, please, I will
acknowledge you and take a nomination.

1246
01:16:02,756 --> 01:16:03,996
I will confirm the nomination.

1247
01:16:04,236 --> 01:16:07,056
We don't need seconds, you
can self-nominate as well.

1248
01:16:07,616 --> 01:16:11,166
And I will continue to take nominations
as long as there are nominations.

1249
01:16:11,166 --> 01:16:15,436
And then once the nominations, we have
the nominations and there are no more,

1250
01:16:15,436 --> 01:16:21,076
I will close the nominations, then I
will recognize folks who were nominated

1251
01:16:21,076 --> 01:16:25,346
and nominated anyone else like to speak
to the group or talk about it, discuss,

1252
01:16:25,886 --> 01:16:28,886
and then I will close the session.

1253
01:16:28,886 --> 01:16:34,776
And then I will, we will take a roll call vote
in the order that the nominations were received.

1254
01:16:35,536 --> 01:16:43,876
And the first one person who receives a majority
because that's the bylaws for electing a Chair,

1255
01:16:44,336 --> 01:16:46,976
first person to get a majority
of the voting members present.

1256
01:16:47,276 --> 01:16:48,856
That person will be the Chair.

1257
01:16:50,086 --> 01:16:55,446
Does anyone have any questions
about that process?

1258
01:16:55,446 --> 01:16:58,876
OK, so I suggest you unmute to
have discussion on nominates.

1259
01:16:58,876 --> 01:17:00,886
So I will open the floor to nominations.

1260
01:17:01,746 --> 01:17:03,066
>> I nominate Doug Miller.

1261
01:17:03,276 --> 01:17:05,726
>> Who, who spoke?

1262
01:17:06,246 --> 01:17:07,446
>> Joseph.

1263
01:17:08,236 --> 01:17:08,846
>> Joseph.

1264
01:17:09,326 --> 01:17:10,056
>> McDaniel.

1265
01:17:11,546 --> 01:17:12,166
>> Yeah, thank you.

1266
01:17:12,166 --> 01:17:12,716
Sorry --

1267
01:17:12,716 --> 01:17:14,036
>> You beat me to it?

1268
01:17:14,386 --> 01:17:16,746
>> OK. OK.

1269
01:17:16,746 --> 01:17:19,886
So Joseph nominated Doug Miller for Chair.

1270
01:17:20,816 --> 01:17:21,116
>> Hope [inaudible].

1271
01:17:21,116 --> 01:17:24,196
>> Yeah, that's -- I get that one.

1272
01:17:24,196 --> 01:17:25,636
Any other nominations?

1273
01:17:34,706 --> 01:17:37,156
Any other nominations for Chair?

1274
01:17:42,616 --> 01:17:44,806
OK. Last to make nominations.

1275
01:17:44,806 --> 01:17:45,976
I don't hear any nominations.

1276
01:17:45,976 --> 01:17:49,646
So, I will close the nominations.

1277
01:17:50,846 --> 01:17:51,996
Nominations are closed.

1278
01:17:52,536 --> 01:17:55,766
Just to know if you'd like to speak to the group

1279
01:17:55,766 --> 01:17:58,976
or would anyone else like
to discuss safety words?

1280
01:18:03,506 --> 01:18:04,666
Do I see hand?

1281
01:18:05,276 --> 01:18:07,306
Kimberly, or was that -- you adjust your camera?

1282
01:18:07,306 --> 01:18:12,696
>> No, I support the nomination of Doug Miller.

1283
01:18:13,056 --> 01:18:13,756
>> Oh, OK.

1284
01:18:14,086 --> 01:18:15,616
Any other -- any discussion?

1285
01:18:15,616 --> 01:18:16,456
Anyone wants to talk?

1286
01:18:16,896 --> 01:18:18,056
Say a few words, nothing?

1287
01:18:18,056 --> 01:18:21,086
OK. Discussion is closed.

1288
01:18:22,066 --> 01:18:27,636
I will pick a roll call for practical purposes.

1289
01:18:27,636 --> 01:18:30,466
And I will go quickly as I can.

1290
01:18:30,466 --> 01:18:31,396
Unmute, please.

1291
01:18:31,936 --> 01:18:35,316
Those in favor of Doug Miller
for Chair of the group,

1292
01:18:35,316 --> 01:18:37,016
this is not interim Chair,
this is chair, correct?

1293
01:18:37,016 --> 01:18:38,916
That was a nomination, right?

1294
01:18:39,026 --> 01:18:39,616
>> Yes.

1295
01:18:39,616 --> 01:18:41,996
>> So, Doug Miller.

1296
01:18:41,996 --> 01:18:43,676
In favor?

1297
01:18:44,376 --> 01:18:44,443
>> Aye.

1298
01:18:45,426 --> 01:18:47,386
>> John Johnston?

1299
01:18:48,006 --> 01:18:48,286
>> Aye.

1300
01:18:49,766 --> 01:18:51,326
>> Annalisa Peace?

1301
01:18:51,326 --> 01:18:51,516
>> Aye.

1302
01:18:51,516 --> 01:18:53,226
>> Beth Parker?

1303
01:18:57,076 --> 01:19:04,796
Kevin Stone, still not here.

1304
01:19:04,856 --> 01:19:08,006
>> Joe Pantalion?

1305
01:19:08,006 --> 01:19:08,073
>> Aye.

1306
01:19:08,156 --> 01:19:10,156
>> Kimberly Metzen?

1307
01:19:10,156 --> 01:19:12,236
>> Aye, and thank you.

1308
01:19:12,236 --> 01:19:12,786
>> Brian Perkins?

1309
01:19:13,186 --> 01:19:13,416
>> Aye.

1310
01:19:15,376 --> 01:19:16,646
>> John Villarreal?

1311
01:19:17,996 --> 01:19:18,256
>> Aye.

1312
01:19:18,556 --> 01:19:21,426
>> Ron Fieseler?

1313
01:19:22,416 --> 01:19:22,976
>> Aye.

1314
01:19:23,706 --> 01:19:26,046
>> And Joseph McDaniel?

1315
01:19:26,836 --> 01:19:27,326
>> Aye.

1316
01:19:28,136 --> 01:19:30,526
>> It's unanimous, congratulations.

1317
01:19:30,916 --> 01:19:31,556
Chair Miller.

1318
01:19:33,936 --> 01:19:36,296
>> OK, thank you, Matt.

1319
01:19:36,466 --> 01:19:42,136
Thank you all for your confidence
and I'll do everything I can

1320
01:19:42,136 --> 01:19:46,716
to try to live up to your expectations.

1321
01:19:46,716 --> 01:19:50,596
And I look, again, like I said, I look
forward to working with all of you.

1322
01:19:50,596 --> 01:19:54,966
Sort of reminds me of the time I was at
a farm bureau meeting in Kimble County

1323
01:19:55,316 --> 01:20:00,686
and they wanted somebody to make
an opening bid for little puppy.

1324
01:20:01,266 --> 01:20:03,506
I made the opening bid and
I went home with the puppy.

1325
01:20:03,506 --> 01:20:04,456
Nobody else bid.

1326
01:20:04,456 --> 01:20:08,296
So I guess that's kind of what
we did with the Chair here.

1327
01:20:08,296 --> 01:20:13,196
So look forward to, as I said,
working with each of you,

1328
01:20:13,196 --> 01:20:17,106
and thank you for your vote of confidence.

1329
01:20:17,106 --> 01:20:17,746
So --

1330
01:20:18,486 --> 01:20:20,066
>> Mr. Chairman.

1331
01:20:20,126 --> 01:20:21,226
>> Yes, sir.

1332
01:20:21,226 --> 01:20:24,346
>> What we've trying to do, just give
folks a five-minute break at this point,

1333
01:20:24,346 --> 01:20:27,086
and then we can chat -- we bring to -- how
to run the rest of meeting to support you,

1334
01:20:27,086 --> 01:20:28,126
but it's up to you all if you want

1335
01:20:28,126 --> 01:20:31,476
to take a five-minute break,
or if you want to push through.

1336
01:20:31,476 --> 01:20:34,906
>> I think that's -- How
do y'all feel about that?

1337
01:20:35,266 --> 01:20:35,576
>> Right.

1338
01:20:35,576 --> 01:20:37,286
>> Anybody want to take a little break?

1339
01:20:37,536 --> 01:20:37,866
>> Yeah.

1340
01:20:38,186 --> 01:20:38,616
>> Yes.

1341
01:20:38,616 --> 01:20:38,996
>> Yes. OK.

1342
01:20:40,066 --> 01:20:41,886
>> OK, five-minute break?

1343
01:20:41,886 --> 01:20:43,976
>> Yeah, that sounds good.

1344
01:20:45,556 --> 01:20:50,116
>> 2:27 and if you could
stay on Mr. Miller, Chairman.

1345
01:20:50,116 --> 01:20:51,126
>> All right.

1346
01:20:51,126 --> 01:20:53,236
Let's chat real quick.

1347
01:20:53,236 --> 01:21:00,376
>> Discussion, does this mean you're
going to feed us and pet us occasionally?

1348
01:21:00,376 --> 01:21:02,536
>> German sausage, we might
come over for wordsmith.

1349
01:21:02,536 --> 01:21:05,556
>> Next year, I own you that.

1350
01:21:05,926 --> 01:21:07,646
>> Yes, sir, absolutely.

1351
01:21:07,646 --> 01:21:07,946
Yes, Matt.

1352
01:21:07,946 --> 01:21:16,106
>> Just for the rest of the meeting, we made
the agenda, we want to have things along.

1353
01:21:16,106 --> 01:21:20,656
So if you would like we can introduce each
item on the way to get the background.

1354
01:21:20,656 --> 01:21:24,176
It's probably helpful to
the group prior to getting

1355
01:21:24,466 --> 01:21:25,036
>> That's wonderful.

1356
01:21:25,036 --> 01:21:28,446
>> And if the public -- there's public input
on seven, eight and several of them first.

1357
01:21:28,446 --> 01:21:31,656
So if you introduce the other
and get us to introduce the item,

1358
01:21:31,796 --> 01:21:34,646
I can get some background here
back to you, got a public comment.

1359
01:21:35,146 --> 01:21:37,396
And then our posts, we'll run
the public comment interaction.

1360
01:21:37,396 --> 01:21:39,876
And then after that y'all --
you can run the discussion

1361
01:21:39,876 --> 01:21:42,016
that way we can give you background
before the public comments

1362
01:21:42,016 --> 01:21:44,646
and get into discussion if that helps.

1363
01:21:44,646 --> 01:21:45,816
>> It sounds wonderful.

1364
01:21:45,816 --> 01:21:48,756
And if I get off track, Matt,
you just correct me.

1365
01:21:48,756 --> 01:21:51,036
I'm used to that.

1366
01:21:51,036 --> 01:21:52,116
I mean --

1367
01:21:52,316 --> 01:21:54,336
>> Me too.

1368
01:21:54,826 --> 01:22:01,566
>> So OK, anything else before
I run to the little boy's room.

1369
01:22:01,636 --> 01:22:03,746
>> We'll see in four minutes.

1370
01:22:03,746 --> 01:22:04,186
How's that?

1371
01:22:04,966 --> 01:22:05,746
>> It sounds great.

1372
01:22:05,746 --> 01:22:06,976
I'll be right back.

1373
01:25:08,046 --> 01:25:11,626
>> Can I ask you a question?

1374
01:25:14,216 --> 01:25:15,966
>> Of course, yes.

1375
01:25:15,966 --> 01:25:22,066
>> On the Open Meetings Act, I know that I've
taken the training before for other groups,

1376
01:25:22,066 --> 01:25:25,176
but I can't find any record of certification.

1377
01:25:25,606 --> 01:25:26,756
Who do I ask?

1378
01:25:26,756 --> 01:25:31,526
Is there some agency that would
have that on file or something?

1379
01:25:32,216 --> 01:25:34,746
Wherever you take a training
is where I would ask.

1380
01:25:34,746 --> 01:25:41,326
I can't remember, Secretary of State or who
[inaudible] the training link, I can't remember.

1381
01:25:41,386 --> 01:25:44,456
My staff can probably [inaudible].

1382
01:25:44,836 --> 01:25:49,356
>> So Annalisa, I hope I'm not
the bearer of bad news with this.

1383
01:25:49,356 --> 01:25:52,556
But at the end of the training, they tell you

1384
01:25:52,556 --> 01:25:56,046
that they don't keep any
record of you having taking it.

1385
01:25:56,046 --> 01:25:58,966
At the end of the training, they give you a code

1386
01:25:58,966 --> 01:26:01,566
and you put the code in to
receive your certificate.

1387
01:26:01,566 --> 01:26:06,466
And when you accept your certificate, they
say that they don't keep any record of it.

1388
01:26:06,466 --> 01:26:06,566
>> OK.

1389
01:26:06,766 --> 01:26:09,026
>> So, you can still try it.

1390
01:26:09,406 --> 01:26:12,896
But each of the trainings
are a little over an hour.

1391
01:26:13,206 --> 01:26:20,816
So if you wanted to retake them, and they
also both include updates from recent updates,

1392
01:26:20,816 --> 01:26:26,326
so it might also be worth taking it to also
just know what the recent updates have been.

1393
01:26:26,916 --> 01:26:30,036
Just so But, yeah, I don't want
to be the bearer of bad news.

1394
01:26:30,036 --> 01:26:32,916
But they do give a disclaimer
that they will not keep a record

1395
01:26:32,916 --> 01:26:37,236
of you having requested a
certificate for taking it.

1396
01:26:37,236 --> 01:26:37,766
>> OK, thanks.

1397
01:26:37,946 --> 01:26:44,046
>> And if you have taken it, you
can speed it up to 1.5 was too hard

1398
01:26:44,046 --> 01:26:46,886
to follow, but you can speed it up to 1.25.

1399
01:26:46,886 --> 01:26:51,366
And you can you can get through
a little bit faster.

1400
01:26:51,366 --> 01:26:53,626
And that's a reasonable speed
to hear all the information.

1401
01:26:54,016 --> 01:26:55,616
>> OK. Thanks.

1402
01:26:56,176 --> 01:26:59,126
>> Mr. Chairman, you're at 2:28.

1403
01:26:59,126 --> 01:26:59,646
And you have a quorum.

1404
01:26:59,646 --> 01:27:02,026
>> All right.

1405
01:27:02,026 --> 01:27:03,836
If everyone's ready.

1406
01:27:03,836 --> 01:27:07,526
Let's get back to the meeting.

1407
01:27:07,526 --> 01:27:12,476
And, Matt, you want to introduce the next item?

1408
01:27:12,476 --> 01:27:13,126
>> Yes sir.

1409
01:27:13,126 --> 01:27:17,826
This is the item to consider selecting
planning group sponsor act on behalf.

1410
01:27:17,826 --> 01:27:21,936
There's going to be a public
comment first or discussion.

1411
01:27:22,316 --> 01:27:29,326
And we'll jump to the next slide to get some
background on who offered to support this group.

1412
01:27:29,956 --> 01:27:36,626
So initially, when we were seeking members you
all -- your nominations, we also looked for --

1413
01:27:36,626 --> 01:27:39,116
we asked for potential sponsors for each group.

1414
01:27:39,576 --> 01:27:46,026
And the two folks, two entities that submitted
support, offering support to this group

1415
01:27:46,026 --> 01:27:48,836
for the Guadalupe-Blanco River
Authority and Kerr County.

1416
01:27:49,496 --> 01:27:52,596
And so we brought that to
you simply to share that.

1417
01:27:52,596 --> 01:27:57,386
So you get a head start on public
consideration of this key role.

1418
01:27:57,936 --> 01:28:02,996
And we also when we do the public
comment, those folks who might be here

1419
01:28:02,996 --> 01:28:09,786
for political subdivision and support can speak
to all when we open up for public comment,

1420
01:28:09,786 --> 01:28:13,986
and I want to say a few words and let us know if
they're here or anything else that wants to say.

1421
01:28:13,986 --> 01:28:16,156
So I want to point that out.

1422
01:28:16,156 --> 01:28:20,936
And again, y you're not limited to this list,
you could suggest a difficult subdivision,

1423
01:28:20,936 --> 01:28:22,926
you can use whoever you all decide.

1424
01:28:23,646 --> 01:28:25,366
Going back to you Mr. Chairman.

1425
01:28:25,366 --> 01:28:33,696
>> So, Matt, just for a little logistics
here, and I don't know what to do, you know,

1426
01:28:33,696 --> 01:28:37,576
I know we have the GBRA in Kerr County.

1427
01:28:37,576 --> 01:28:44,366
So maybe we should kind of -- if they would,
if they'd like to make a presentation to this

1428
01:28:44,366 --> 01:28:48,056
or talk a little better, that we
might keep that to about 10 minutes.

1429
01:28:48,056 --> 01:28:50,846
Is that a fair way to do it, man?

1430
01:28:51,276 --> 01:28:52,126
Ten minutes each.

1431
01:28:52,126 --> 01:28:54,716
>> Can we go back on the
slide, one slide please.

1432
01:28:54,716 --> 01:28:56,726
Let's go back to actually
where we are in the agenda.

1433
01:28:56,726 --> 01:29:00,126
The public comments that --
you want to do that first.

1434
01:29:00,346 --> 01:29:00,696
>> OK.

1435
01:29:00,696 --> 01:29:05,126
>> And you -- Then you can decide if you want
to use your time for discussion, how about that?

1436
01:29:05,126 --> 01:29:10,306
>> All right, and I'm reminding everyone that
it is limited to three minutes and Matt you are

1437
01:29:10,306 --> 01:29:13,666
or somebody will keep time on it or --

1438
01:29:13,906 --> 01:29:14,216
>> Yeah.

1439
01:29:14,216 --> 01:29:14,826
>> OK.

1440
01:29:15,546 --> 01:29:17,746
>> Yep. I don't know --

1441
01:29:17,746 --> 01:29:18,626
>> Somebody can.

1442
01:29:19,266 --> 01:29:22,886
I don't have the comment cards with me, do
you have any comment cards, James and Morgan?

1443
01:29:23,306 --> 01:29:28,656
>> No, Matt, we do not have anyone signed up
with public comment cards for this meeting.

1444
01:29:29,126 --> 01:29:32,046
>> So if anyone would like to speak
to the public, now is your time.

1445
01:29:32,046 --> 01:29:35,206
If you don't have to submit a card, you
can just raise your hand on the go to app

1446
01:29:35,316 --> 01:29:40,236
and the staff will unmute you, so you can speak
but you'd have to unmute yourself as well.

1447
01:29:40,776 --> 01:29:44,736
So James, could you do and raise your hand for
the public and would like to speak on the phone?

1448
01:29:51,596 --> 01:29:54,976
It's like there are no hands raised so far Matt.

1449
01:29:54,976 --> 01:29:58,276
>> OK, we'll wait a couple more
seconds, next you have a chance.

1450
01:30:00,896 --> 01:30:02,006
I don't see any either.

1451
01:30:02,396 --> 01:30:04,976
It looks like we have --

1452
01:30:10,316 --> 01:30:13,866
Public comments, I guess this would be close on.

1453
01:30:18,146 --> 01:30:23,696
Chairman's back to you for discussion if
you want to hear from both the subdivisions.

1454
01:30:23,696 --> 01:30:29,336
>> And just asking the group is that --
does that sound like a fair situation?

1455
01:30:29,336 --> 01:30:32,246
I don't know, five minutes, 10 minutes?

1456
01:30:32,246 --> 01:30:37,826
You know, we all received some information.

1457
01:30:37,826 --> 01:30:42,446
But does that sound fair with everyone else?

1458
01:30:42,696 --> 01:30:47,506
If you fit, so I'm OK.

1459
01:30:47,736 --> 01:30:49,066
We'll try to hold it.

1460
01:30:49,066 --> 01:30:50,846
If you all can try to hold it to that.

1461
01:30:51,066 --> 01:30:55,276
We're not going to cut anybody off
mid sentence or anything, though.

1462
01:30:55,576 --> 01:31:02,856
All right, Matt, let's -- do we have
first if they want to make some comments?

1463
01:31:02,856 --> 01:31:05,136
>> I don't know, if we have
someone from Kerr County?

1464
01:31:05,136 --> 01:31:07,666
I know, Brian, you're here with GDRA for sure.

1465
01:31:07,736 --> 01:31:09,086
I can see you.

1466
01:31:09,086 --> 01:31:12,136
I don't -- we don't know of
Kerr County representative.

1467
01:31:12,136 --> 01:31:14,756
But if they are, they could raise
their hand now, we can unmute them.

1468
01:31:15,266 --> 01:31:17,346
We go to app.

1469
01:31:17,346 --> 01:31:22,916
So we're not aware, we were not
informed if someone attending.

1470
01:31:22,916 --> 01:31:25,466
So if they raise their hand, we'll let you know.

1471
01:31:25,466 --> 01:31:27,436
But otherwise, back to you.

1472
01:31:28,696 --> 01:31:30,276
>> Ryan, you want to say a few words.

1473
01:31:30,866 --> 01:31:31,176
Sure.

1474
01:31:31,176 --> 01:31:32,876
>> I don't know if I need 10 minutes.

1475
01:31:32,876 --> 01:31:35,736
But I've certainly kind of just talk about us.

1476
01:31:35,736 --> 01:31:39,706
Obviously, it's something we discussed
here at the River Authority, you know,

1477
01:31:39,706 --> 01:31:45,296
it's something we're interested in
doing to support the region and the,

1478
01:31:45,296 --> 01:31:47,366
you know, the entire basin as well.

1479
01:31:48,246 --> 01:31:52,246
You know, we typically you've probably
seen the information we submitted,

1480
01:31:52,246 --> 01:31:58,146
but we do typically work with a
large, diverse range of stakeholders,

1481
01:31:58,476 --> 01:32:04,666
whether that be with our customer base, with
the Regional Water Planning or with, you know,

1482
01:32:04,666 --> 01:32:10,966
some of the grants that we've helped with
FEMA and the US Army Corps of Engineers.

1483
01:32:10,966 --> 01:32:16,606
We also have extensive experience
working with Water Board and contracting.

1484
01:32:16,736 --> 01:32:18,636
We do that for some of our projects.

1485
01:32:18,666 --> 01:32:21,386
We do that with studies.

1486
01:32:21,386 --> 01:32:22,466
And other groups as well.

1487
01:32:22,466 --> 01:32:26,686
TCQ, we worked with them, we worked with, as I
mentioned, the core, the core and FEMA as well.

1488
01:32:27,056 --> 01:32:31,356
So create applications, grant
funding, contracting,

1489
01:32:31,356 --> 01:32:34,586
we have all that capability in house.

1490
01:32:34,586 --> 01:32:38,556
We manage deliverables and
choose and using state funds.

1491
01:32:38,756 --> 01:32:44,686
We participate in a variety of planning
processes, we have the legal authority

1492
01:32:44,686 --> 01:32:46,536
to procure professional services.

1493
01:32:46,536 --> 01:32:52,356
So once this planning group decides to
put out an RFQ for consultant is I think

1494
01:32:52,356 --> 01:32:58,916
that our procurement department can
handle and do without any issues.

1495
01:32:58,916 --> 01:33:02,646
We have offices that are centrally
located, and we would offer

1496
01:33:02,646 --> 01:33:08,366
up our boardroom it has the capacity
during COVID of up to 25 people in person,

1497
01:33:08,366 --> 01:33:11,976
and still be able to do social distancing.

1498
01:33:11,976 --> 01:33:15,426
Outside of COVID, we can
accommodate up to about 144.

1499
01:33:16,156 --> 01:33:22,126
And I would like to point out to that, as part
of the COVID pandemic that we're dealing with,

1500
01:33:22,126 --> 01:33:27,516
we have the technology to do combination
meetings where we have folks actually in person

1501
01:33:27,516 --> 01:33:31,716
if they want to be and include folks
who would like to attend virtually,

1502
01:33:32,006 --> 01:33:35,926
we've been running most of our board
meetings that way, with staff in-person

1503
01:33:36,156 --> 01:33:39,256
and the board members and
public participating virtually.

1504
01:33:39,256 --> 01:33:46,586
And that's include a public comment avenue as
well, where folks from the public can, you know,

1505
01:33:46,586 --> 01:33:50,486
just like this, raise their hand
and make comments to our board.

1506
01:33:50,486 --> 01:33:54,916
I checked with our IT staff, that is not
something that's difficult for us to do at all.

1507
01:33:55,256 --> 01:33:59,326
And they're perfectly capable of doing that for
other meetings outside of our board meetings.

1508
01:33:59,326 --> 01:34:03,126
So doing that for this planning
group would be not an issue.

1509
01:34:03,126 --> 01:34:05,726
We also have relationships throughout the basin.

1510
01:34:05,726 --> 01:34:10,416
So that, you know, and this is
some experience several of us have

1511
01:34:10,416 --> 01:34:13,546
with regional water planning is you don't
necessarily always meet in the same place.

1512
01:34:13,546 --> 01:34:17,016
Yeah, sometimes you want to meet
in other parts of the basin.

1513
01:34:17,016 --> 01:34:21,916
And we can utilize those
relationships to secure meeting spaces.

1514
01:34:22,436 --> 01:34:26,556
You know, should we decide to meet in Victoria
at some point or in Kerr County at some point

1515
01:34:26,846 --> 01:34:29,546
or at Hays or Caldwell County,
wherever the case may be.

1516
01:34:29,896 --> 01:34:33,606
And I think that's pretty
much why I want to say.

1517
01:34:33,606 --> 01:34:36,856
Oh, you know, we do -- yeah,
yeah, I mentioned, you know,

1518
01:34:36,856 --> 01:34:39,146
some of our -- like -- yeah, that's all.

1519
01:34:39,236 --> 01:34:41,036
I think I mentioned everything.

1520
01:34:41,036 --> 01:34:43,536
So that's all I have.

1521
01:34:43,536 --> 01:34:44,326
Thanks.

1522
01:34:44,326 --> 01:34:45,286
>> Thank you, Brian.

1523
01:34:45,286 --> 01:34:49,376
Matt, let me ask you a little question here.

1524
01:34:49,376 --> 01:34:56,366
You'd like to, we can do one or two ways we can
get a motion on the table and have discussion

1525
01:34:56,366 --> 01:35:01,306
about it or just have an open
discussion and then somebody

1526
01:35:01,346 --> 01:35:03,776
at some point to make a motion on that.

1527
01:35:03,776 --> 01:35:06,926
They may have some questions for Brian or
they may want to talk about something else.

1528
01:35:06,926 --> 01:35:10,626
So how would you suggest we do that?

1529
01:35:10,626 --> 01:35:12,226
>> I leave that to The Chair.

1530
01:35:12,226 --> 01:35:14,266
So, however, you like to take a motion.

1531
01:35:15,136 --> 01:35:15,436
>> All right.

1532
01:35:15,836 --> 01:35:18,896
Well, we have it as opposed to the item.

1533
01:35:18,896 --> 01:35:23,186
So does I guess, I open the floor.

1534
01:35:23,186 --> 01:35:23,556
>> I motion that.

1535
01:35:23,556 --> 01:35:25,456
>> Oh, never motion, who made the motion?

1536
01:35:25,456 --> 01:35:26,496
>> Joseph McDaniel.

1537
01:35:26,496 --> 01:35:31,266
And I would also like to comment on
the fact that Brian was a big part

1538
01:35:31,266 --> 01:35:34,596
of Region L. He knows how the process works.

1539
01:35:34,596 --> 01:35:37,676
I think Ms. Peace would know that.

1540
01:35:37,676 --> 01:35:39,936
I was just a liaison.

1541
01:35:39,936 --> 01:35:45,156
So I wasn't a part of Region
L. But I did see Ron in action.

1542
01:35:45,156 --> 01:35:47,186
And I do know he knows how the process works.

1543
01:35:47,186 --> 01:35:49,926
So that might be a good fit for the group.

1544
01:35:50,596 --> 01:35:51,656
>> Thank you.

1545
01:35:51,656 --> 01:35:52,526
And I appreciate that.

1546
01:35:52,526 --> 01:35:56,466
And Mr. Fieseler probably can speak to
that as well, as well as Chairman Miller.

1547
01:35:56,466 --> 01:35:58,906
I just failed to mention
earlier that we actually --

1548
01:35:59,006 --> 01:36:03,676
we have staff that we have identified internally
that will be able to support the group as well.

1549
01:36:03,676 --> 01:36:11,726
It's not just me, actually, I'll probably -- I
will probably be a guide to the River Authority

1550
01:36:11,726 --> 01:36:14,146
as the original sponsor if selected.

1551
01:36:14,446 --> 01:36:16,886
But I would not be the primary
person working with that.

1552
01:36:16,886 --> 01:36:19,136
We will have other staff that
would dedicate themselves.

1553
01:36:19,136 --> 01:36:22,846
I want to -- I'd like to keep my
membership separate from, you know,

1554
01:36:22,846 --> 01:36:25,166
the regional sponsor duties if possible.

1555
01:36:25,166 --> 01:36:31,206
But, you know, as Mr. McDaniel mentioned, you
know, I do have experience with board contracts

1556
01:36:31,206 --> 01:36:35,986
with Regional Water Planning and how all
that sequencing kind of goes and whatnot.

1557
01:36:35,986 --> 01:36:40,316
So I'm certainly going to lend
my knowledge to that here, so.

1558
01:36:40,886 --> 01:36:41,166
>> All right.

1559
01:36:41,266 --> 01:36:41,766
Let's see.

1560
01:36:41,766 --> 01:36:41,916
Yeah, Ron?

1561
01:36:41,916 --> 01:36:48,806
>> I appreciate the fact that
Kerr County was interested enough

1562
01:36:48,856 --> 01:36:51,506
into volunteering their services.

1563
01:36:51,506 --> 01:37:01,846
But the real deciding factor for me, I think,
is that the central location is so much nicer

1564
01:37:01,846 --> 01:37:06,976
for a long, drawn out district
and they settled Region K

1565
01:37:06,976 --> 01:37:09,126
and Region L you pull people from everywhere.

1566
01:37:09,656 --> 01:37:14,426
So I appreciate Kerr County and
congratulate them on volunteering,

1567
01:37:14,656 --> 01:37:19,866
but I'm going to second the motion
for going with the GBRA offer.

1568
01:37:19,866 --> 01:37:20,596
>> All right.

1569
01:37:21,506 --> 01:37:23,936
So we have a motion on the second.

1570
01:37:24,386 --> 01:37:27,986
Is there any further discussion?

1571
01:37:28,196 --> 01:37:33,516
>> You know, I had asked a couple
entities that they were interested in this.

1572
01:37:34,056 --> 01:37:38,826
One of them was but that really
hadn't gotten back to me.

1573
01:37:38,826 --> 01:37:42,546
So I have no objections with the GBRA.

1574
01:37:43,616 --> 01:37:44,926
>> OK. Thank you, Annalisa.

1575
01:37:45,436 --> 01:37:48,886
Any other comments or questions?

1576
01:37:48,886 --> 01:37:51,726
Any questions for Brian?

1577
01:37:51,726 --> 01:37:53,806
If not, Matt, you want to call roll?

1578
01:37:55,026 --> 01:37:55,506
>> Yes, sir.

1579
01:37:56,926 --> 01:37:57,416
Doug Miller.

1580
01:37:57,696 --> 01:37:57,763
>> Aye.

1581
01:37:57,763 --> 01:37:58,706
>> John Johnston.

1582
01:37:59,676 --> 01:37:59,836
>> Aye.

1583
01:38:00,876 --> 01:38:02,856
>> Annalisa Peace.

1584
01:38:03,656 --> 01:38:03,996
>> Aye.

1585
01:38:04,396 --> 01:38:08,496
>> Beth Parker, absent I believe.

1586
01:38:08,496 --> 01:38:13,466
Kevin Stone is still absent.

1587
01:38:13,576 --> 01:38:17,936
Joe Pantalion?

1588
01:38:17,936 --> 01:38:18,003
>> Aye.

1589
01:38:18,546 --> 01:38:22,206
>> Kimberly Metzen.

1590
01:38:22,646 --> 01:38:22,716
>> Aye.

1591
01:38:22,866 --> 01:38:24,736
>> Brian Perkins?

1592
01:38:24,736 --> 01:38:24,803
>> Aye.

1593
01:38:25,236 --> 01:38:27,156
>> John Villarreal?

1594
01:38:27,526 --> 01:38:27,593
>> Aye.

1595
01:38:27,593 --> 01:38:28,276
>> Ron Fieseler.

1596
01:38:28,876 --> 01:38:28,986
>> Aye.

1597
01:38:29,096 --> 01:38:31,606
>> Joseph McDaniel?

1598
01:38:32,106 --> 01:38:32,446
>> Aye.

1599
01:38:33,776 --> 01:38:35,326
>> Another unanimous vote.

1600
01:38:35,786 --> 01:38:39,126
You have a total subdivision, chair and bylaws.

1601
01:38:39,126 --> 01:38:40,516
Congratulations.

1602
01:38:40,916 --> 01:38:45,246
So we can go the next item
Mr. Chairman if you like.

1603
01:38:45,246 --> 01:38:48,236
>> Yes sir, why don't you introduce it too.

1604
01:38:48,236 --> 01:38:48,906
>> Next slide.

1605
01:38:48,906 --> 01:38:51,746
OK, this item is going to have public input.

1606
01:38:51,746 --> 01:38:54,266
But I'll tee it up a little bit
first, the background on it.

1607
01:38:54,266 --> 01:39:01,706
So this is a specific rule requirement that
the legislature wanted to see in the process.

1608
01:39:01,706 --> 01:39:06,446
And this was simply to say, if your region
has a specific need for public notice,

1609
01:39:06,446 --> 01:39:09,976
for whatever reason, that you can sit
at least considered whether you needed

1610
01:39:09,976 --> 01:39:17,286
to do something unique to your region
additional for your region to notify the public.

1611
01:39:17,756 --> 01:39:21,256
And this could be anything
from extending a timeframe.

1612
01:39:21,256 --> 01:39:24,576
Right now you have a seven-day notice for
your meeting, three days for the materials

1613
01:39:24,576 --> 01:39:29,766
to be posted, 14 days notice before you
can add a voting position to the group,

1614
01:39:30,266 --> 01:39:32,986
30 days for your plan and various other things.

1615
01:39:32,986 --> 01:39:35,776
There's three flavors, basically
seven days 14 and 30.

1616
01:39:36,056 --> 01:39:37,766
You have some other things 14 days.

1617
01:39:38,146 --> 01:39:42,436
Notice you have a lot of
notice requirements by line.

1618
01:39:42,776 --> 01:39:45,596
They go beyond just the basic Open Meetings Act.

1619
01:39:45,896 --> 01:39:47,386
And it's very similar to water planning.

1620
01:39:47,926 --> 01:39:52,796
So this is just to say your region has
some specific need because of the nature

1621
01:39:52,796 --> 01:39:56,606
of the region and population for
the targets of your interest.

1622
01:39:56,956 --> 01:40:00,906
Then you could have a different notice that
could include noticing different entities.

1623
01:40:01,046 --> 01:40:05,656
You might have certain entities, you just decide
-- you got notify them specifically extra.

1624
01:40:05,656 --> 01:40:09,696
Or like timeframe, like I said, or mode
of notice like [inaudible] you know,

1625
01:40:10,406 --> 01:40:12,966
we're not really doing paper
notices like they used to.

1626
01:40:13,396 --> 01:40:17,246
But it's a chance to think about
it, if you don't take action,

1627
01:40:17,246 --> 01:40:18,886
you've considered it and
you've met the requirement.

1628
01:40:18,886 --> 01:40:21,956
And it allows you to apply for funding, but you
need to do this before you apply for funding.

1629
01:40:21,956 --> 01:40:23,086
So you've done it.

1630
01:40:23,086 --> 01:40:27,956
And then again, you can revisit this
later, you can add additional requirements,

1631
01:40:27,956 --> 01:40:29,936
your political subdivision has
to do this, you're putting --

1632
01:40:29,936 --> 01:40:32,486
you're subjecting yourself only to this.

1633
01:40:32,486 --> 01:40:35,846
And you'd have to meet this if you commit to it.

1634
01:40:35,846 --> 01:40:40,346
And that said, it's just something
the legislature want you to consider.

1635
01:40:40,346 --> 01:40:41,256
And you don't take action.

1636
01:40:41,256 --> 01:40:45,196
If you decide not to add it.

1637
01:40:45,196 --> 01:40:52,836
>> You know, I would like to see the
meeting materials posted prior to 72 hours.

1638
01:40:53,486 --> 01:40:55,216
>> Can you -- one second.

1639
01:40:55,216 --> 01:40:56,276
Can you go to the next slide?

1640
01:40:57,396 --> 01:40:59,296
There's a public input or the --

1641
01:40:59,296 --> 01:40:59,786
>> Oh, sorry.

1642
01:40:59,786 --> 01:41:00,906
>> First -- so that's OK.

1643
01:41:00,906 --> 01:41:03,686
I'm just going to keep --
help with the agenda here.

1644
01:41:03,686 --> 01:41:05,036
That's my fault.

1645
01:41:05,186 --> 01:41:08,856
So the public comment, and then you'll
discuss and do whatever you'd like to do.

1646
01:41:09,016 --> 01:41:10,496
Public comment for now.

1647
01:41:10,956 --> 01:41:13,186
So we will call for public comments.

1648
01:41:13,186 --> 01:41:16,586
I don't think we have any public
comment cards on this item.

1649
01:41:16,586 --> 01:41:19,426
>> No, we have not received any
public comment cards for this item.

1650
01:41:19,426 --> 01:41:20,976
>> Well, I asked for the
public to raise their hand.

1651
01:41:27,096 --> 01:41:30,676
Anyone to the public would like to speak
and raise their hand and you go to app,

1652
01:41:31,206 --> 01:41:34,506
and we will unmute you and then you will
need to unmute yourself and you may speak.

1653
01:41:34,596 --> 01:41:38,786
And we will check here for
any raise hands in public?

1654
01:41:38,786 --> 01:41:41,456
I don't see any yet.

1655
01:41:44,226 --> 01:41:44,936
>> None so far.

1656
01:41:44,936 --> 01:41:50,976
>> Anyone from the public like
to speak, please raise your hand.

1657
01:41:55,156 --> 01:42:00,696
It's like we have no public comment first.

1658
01:42:00,696 --> 01:42:05,236
So if you'd like to close the
public comment, we can do that.

1659
01:42:05,356 --> 01:42:07,066
We'll close public comment, no commenters,

1660
01:42:07,066 --> 01:42:09,996
I would like to add one thing before
you begin, one more background.

1661
01:42:10,436 --> 01:42:13,706
Right now for your regular meetings,
you notify Secretary of State,

1662
01:42:14,016 --> 01:42:16,086
get the posts on the website
that you're going to maintain.

1663
01:42:16,086 --> 01:42:17,706
We've been doing it on your behalf so far.

1664
01:42:18,276 --> 01:42:21,406
And anyone who comes to you and this is
like the other clients and says we would

1665
01:42:21,406 --> 01:42:26,206
like to be notified for email, or however
they do it, you have to notify them from that

1666
01:42:26,206 --> 01:42:29,856
on about all your activities if they
asked you to do that specifically,

1667
01:42:29,856 --> 01:42:32,356
that you create a list that's maintained.

1668
01:42:32,356 --> 01:42:36,986
So that's an opportunity for this to be a
regular notice, to be on all the notices.

1669
01:42:36,986 --> 01:42:38,666
So with that, I'll pass it
back to you Mr. Chair.

1670
01:42:38,666 --> 01:42:41,316
>> All right thank you, Matt.

1671
01:42:41,316 --> 01:42:50,106
And Elisa, you had a point and an issue or
something you wanted to raise along that line

1672
01:42:50,106 --> 01:42:52,746
in reference to the 72-hour notice.

1673
01:42:53,566 --> 01:42:56,196
>> Right, you know, for posting the materials,

1674
01:42:56,196 --> 01:43:00,686
I don't think 72 hours gets
adequate time to review.

1675
01:43:01,056 --> 01:43:02,886
I know, that's the state law.

1676
01:43:02,886 --> 01:43:06,286
But I would prefer that we would do --

1677
01:43:06,286 --> 01:43:11,766
that the materials should be posted five
business days in advance of the meeting.

1678
01:43:14,476 --> 01:43:16,606
To give people time to review those.

1679
01:43:17,326 --> 01:43:27,076
>> Right. So the complexity comes up if
it did that could I'm not saying it will.

1680
01:43:27,396 --> 01:43:33,006
But that could make it where
if you have a meeting on,

1681
01:43:33,086 --> 01:43:36,566
I don't know what they will meet them.

1682
01:43:36,566 --> 01:43:41,416
But let's say we're going to
meet on a Monday or Tuesday.

1683
01:43:41,776 --> 01:43:44,146
That would mean if we extend it out.

1684
01:43:44,326 --> 01:43:52,206
It might have to be the Wednesday or
Thursday or Wednesday or maybe even before.

1685
01:43:52,206 --> 01:43:55,926
If you're doing it on a business
day of the prior week.

1686
01:43:56,186 --> 01:44:00,906
I'm not speaking for or against your suggestion.

1687
01:44:01,216 --> 01:44:06,116
I'm just pointing out maybe a
little bit of a logistics issue.

1688
01:44:06,266 --> 01:44:16,276
I certainly understand we want to
give people plenty of time to read,

1689
01:44:16,276 --> 01:44:23,566
understand digest what we're going to
be discussing and preparing any kind

1690
01:44:23,566 --> 01:44:25,146
of response that they might have.

1691
01:44:25,146 --> 01:44:28,776
So any other any other thoughts, Ron?

1692
01:44:29,736 --> 01:44:31,986
>> Yes. I thought on the previous slide, Matt,

1693
01:44:31,986 --> 01:44:35,366
you said there's a seven-day
posting requirement for meetings.

1694
01:44:35,786 --> 01:44:36,816
Is that correct?

1695
01:44:37,166 --> 01:44:41,086
>> That is for the notice with the agenda
giveaway, you're going to have a meeting

1696
01:44:41,086 --> 01:44:45,466
on this date in this location, and where
to send comments, but the actual materials

1697
01:44:45,466 --> 01:44:49,116
that we'll be discussed at the meeting will
be posted three days prior of the meeting.

1698
01:44:49,116 --> 01:44:53,806
And the seven days I longer than
the Open Meetings Act I believe.

1699
01:44:54,126 --> 01:44:59,656
>> OK. The other concern that I've got is it
thinking back on our regional planning groups,

1700
01:45:00,166 --> 01:45:04,056
we've now been forced to post
meeting notices and stuff like that

1701
01:45:04,056 --> 01:45:05,916
for subcommittee meetings and stuff.

1702
01:45:05,916 --> 01:45:10,166
And I don't know if we're going to get in that
direction or not with regional flood planning.

1703
01:45:10,166 --> 01:45:16,296
But that's -- There's an additional legitimate
logistical problem that has to be overcome to

1704
01:45:16,296 --> 01:45:19,666
and the more we complicate things, I think

1705
01:45:19,666 --> 01:45:27,446
that really helped put a heavy
load on Brian's GPRF folks.

1706
01:45:27,446 --> 01:45:34,056
>> So I'd chime in here, I agree, in principle
about having materials as early as possible,

1707
01:45:34,156 --> 01:45:39,016
give time people time to review, having been
on the other side, as the consultant before

1708
01:45:39,016 --> 01:45:43,266
for regional water planning, and trying
to get things done in time and making sure

1709
01:45:43,266 --> 01:45:48,536
that everything that needs
to be done is done correctly,

1710
01:45:48,536 --> 01:45:52,116
the 72 hours is pretty, you
know, pretty difficult.

1711
01:45:52,116 --> 01:45:59,436
And given our short kind of planning window
we have here, I would, I think I'd rather kind

1712
01:45:59,966 --> 01:46:04,986
of have an agreement amongst us that we will
strive to do five or seven days in advance,

1713
01:46:04,986 --> 01:46:09,776
but not necessarily change our
requirements longer than 72 hours.

1714
01:46:09,776 --> 01:46:13,626
And we can you know, once we have a consultant
on board, you know, we can tell them,

1715
01:46:13,626 --> 01:46:17,556
we expect things five or seven, you know,
five, seven, whatever day in a week in advance,

1716
01:46:17,616 --> 01:46:23,086
but make sure we have the flexibility
that if you know, if they don't meet that,

1717
01:46:23,696 --> 01:46:27,086
which is possible, that we still have,
you know, we definitely have it three days

1718
01:46:27,086 --> 01:46:32,486
in advance, 72 hours so, just a thought.

1719
01:46:32,486 --> 01:46:37,456
>> I think that in in order
to engage stakeholders.

1720
01:46:37,946 --> 01:46:48,466
And to be fair, the 72 hours
seems to be too short of a time.

1721
01:46:48,676 --> 01:46:51,346
>> John, you had a point?

1722
01:46:52,346 --> 01:46:54,966
>> No, I think I've just clear my throat.

1723
01:46:55,756 --> 01:46:56,376
>> Oh, OK.

1724
01:46:56,556 --> 01:46:59,686
All right, there's a green
light came up, so [laughs].

1725
01:47:00,016 --> 01:47:00,516
All right.

1726
01:47:01,166 --> 01:47:08,266
>> This is Kimberly, I had just a
question a point of clarification on that.

1727
01:47:08,406 --> 01:47:11,646
Does this also constrain the timeline

1728
01:47:11,646 --> 01:47:17,216
for which those materials are
delivered to our planning group?

1729
01:47:18,866 --> 01:47:22,976
Or is this just materials
being available for the public?

1730
01:47:27,576 --> 01:47:30,316
>> Matt, do you want to respond to that?

1731
01:47:30,316 --> 01:47:34,126
>> This is about public -- This
specifically is aimed to public notice,

1732
01:47:34,126 --> 01:47:38,616
how you operate for yourselves, if
you are looking to get things earlier

1733
01:47:38,616 --> 01:47:41,346
as a group that's not really
directly related to this.

1734
01:47:41,346 --> 01:47:43,846
So this is about public notice.

1735
01:47:43,846 --> 01:47:49,356
>> So I feel like if we have the materials,
and they're available for the group,

1736
01:47:49,356 --> 01:47:54,776
and the group is reviewing them, is
it that we might comment on them,

1737
01:47:54,776 --> 01:47:57,786
they might be modified before
they'd be available to the public?

1738
01:47:58,376 --> 01:48:03,776
Or if they're, you know, potentially going to
be available to the group prior than 72 hours,

1739
01:48:04,146 --> 01:48:10,266
then can we also, you know, for example, on,
you know, building a five-day availability

1740
01:48:10,266 --> 01:48:11,776
for the public for those materials.

1741
01:48:11,776 --> 01:48:17,396
So I guess it was one of my concerns, and then
Brian, you might be able to comment on it.

1742
01:48:17,816 --> 01:48:22,566
Because with your last comment, you'd
mentioned we try to get it to us sooner.

1743
01:48:22,566 --> 01:48:26,666
So I was concerned as to where our review
time fell within this window as well.

1744
01:48:26,956 --> 01:48:30,156
Because I'd certainly hope that we would
have more time than that with the materials.

1745
01:48:31,016 --> 01:48:35,586
>> Yeah, I'm going to speak to -- I mean
other regional work plans do it differently

1746
01:48:35,646 --> 01:48:41,006
and Region L did it a certain way, and
I'm not sure exactly how we will operate.

1747
01:48:41,006 --> 01:48:46,526
But there was usually two weeks in
advance of the planning group meeting.

1748
01:48:46,526 --> 01:48:50,116
There was a there was a call like
a technical work group meeting,

1749
01:48:50,116 --> 01:48:54,916
in which the consultant would present
what they wanted to present at the meeting

1750
01:48:55,156 --> 01:49:00,056
to a non-quorum group of individuals.

1751
01:49:00,056 --> 01:49:02,206
It could be staff members from various agencies

1752
01:49:02,206 --> 01:49:06,696
that sometimes included some planning group
members, but not certainly not a quorum worth.

1753
01:49:06,736 --> 01:49:12,796
And so that -- a lot of the times the
materials were prepared in advance and presented

1754
01:49:12,796 --> 01:49:17,976
to at least a small group of individuals
for review prior to that, and if necessary,

1755
01:49:17,976 --> 01:49:20,406
sent out to other planning group members.

1756
01:49:20,886 --> 01:49:25,486
But yeah, those materials were then
made available 72 hours in advance

1757
01:49:25,486 --> 01:49:28,666
to the full planning group
and to the public, at least.

1758
01:49:28,766 --> 01:49:35,066
So I'm not saying we have to have a technical
workgroup, although it was a nice model

1759
01:49:35,066 --> 01:49:40,076
because it also gave, in this case, San
Antonio River Authority an opportunity to kind

1760
01:49:40,076 --> 01:49:48,796
of review things and kind of step out what the
meeting might look like and finalize the agenda

1761
01:49:49,096 --> 01:49:51,206
for the actual planning group meeting.

1762
01:49:51,716 --> 01:49:59,506
Kind of orchestrate things that win -- they were
as the political subdivision regional sponsor

1763
01:49:59,506 --> 01:50:02,766
for Region L they were comfortable with the fact

1764
01:50:02,976 --> 01:50:05,026
that the consultant was providing
the information,

1765
01:50:05,026 --> 01:50:08,716
so that the planning group
members could make decisions.

1766
01:50:09,486 --> 01:50:12,846
And you know, the general rule of thumb it
didn't always do this, but the general rule

1767
01:50:12,846 --> 01:50:15,586
of thumb was that was two weeks in advance
of the actual planning group meeting.

1768
01:50:15,586 --> 01:50:18,326
So if, you know, if the plan group is
to meet the first Thursday of November,

1769
01:50:18,326 --> 01:50:22,606
it was the third week -- third Thursday of
October, this smaller group, we get together,

1770
01:50:22,946 --> 01:50:28,976
along with the region sponsor and kind of
just walk through the presentation materials

1771
01:50:28,976 --> 01:50:30,726
and make sure everything is clear.

1772
01:50:31,086 --> 01:50:35,186
So that we weren't wasting a lot of
time at a planning group meeting,

1773
01:50:35,516 --> 01:50:38,526
dwelling too tiny details,
but not too high level

1774
01:50:38,526 --> 01:50:43,226
that there wasn't enough
information to make decisions.

1775
01:50:43,226 --> 01:50:50,896
And like I said that that group would sometimes
be staff from SOL, staff from GRFP, staff from,

1776
01:50:50,896 --> 01:50:52,716
you know, Alliance Regional
Water Authority and whatnot.

1777
01:50:53,286 --> 01:50:58,066
But it also would include some planning group
members on occasion, and, you know, three, four,

1778
01:50:58,066 --> 01:51:03,056
five of them, that was a large group, they're
about 30 people I think, at this point.

1779
01:51:03,656 --> 01:51:09,356
And so you don't get near a quorum as easy as we
might, but, you know, it's something to consider

1780
01:51:09,356 --> 01:51:13,856
as a way to be informed well, in advance
and have, you know, as Ms. Peace mentioned,

1781
01:51:13,856 --> 01:51:22,036
have opportunities to talk to our
interest groups beforehand, but still --

1782
01:51:22,036 --> 01:51:27,806
but not necessarily release all the information
to the to the public prior, you know,

1783
01:51:28,296 --> 01:51:30,446
more advanced in the 72 hours, I guess.

1784
01:51:32,796 --> 01:51:35,776
Does that make sense?

1785
01:51:37,046 --> 01:51:41,526
OK. And we don't have to model
our group like that, you know,

1786
01:51:41,636 --> 01:51:44,386
but yeah, it was a system that worked.

1787
01:51:47,406 --> 01:51:55,976
>> OK, any other thoughts
or -- I'm sensing Annalisa,

1788
01:51:55,976 --> 01:52:00,726
are you wanting to make some kind of motion?

1789
01:52:01,956 --> 01:52:04,236
>> Yeah, I'd like to move that.

1790
01:52:04,606 --> 01:52:09,926
The planning that -- I mean,
the materials for the meeting,

1791
01:52:10,196 --> 01:52:16,596
he posted five business days
in advance of the meeting.

1792
01:52:16,596 --> 01:52:18,366
He posted [inaudible].

1793
01:52:18,626 --> 01:52:29,986
>> So just to clarify that whatever information
the group's going to get would be posted

1794
01:52:29,986 --> 01:52:38,226
to the public, five business days, not
five calendar days, but five business days.

1795
01:52:38,226 --> 01:52:46,136
>> If we have a problem with the business
days, we could make it seven calendar days.

1796
01:52:46,246 --> 01:52:51,286
>> Can I interject here really quick?

1797
01:52:52,496 --> 01:52:53,636
>> Sure, absolutely.

1798
01:52:53,636 --> 01:52:54,816
>> Matt, can you hear me?

1799
01:52:54,816 --> 01:52:58,696
So I just wanted to clarify that in our rules,

1800
01:52:58,926 --> 01:53:02,166
some actions required different
amounts of notice.

1801
01:53:02,166 --> 01:53:07,646
So if the action requires 14 days
notice, then the meeting materials need

1802
01:53:07,646 --> 01:53:10,076
to be online a certain amount of time.

1803
01:53:10,076 --> 01:53:14,116
And then if the action requires 30 days
notice, then the meeting materials have

1804
01:53:14,116 --> 01:53:16,006
to be online for a certain amount of time.

1805
01:53:16,036 --> 01:53:19,186
So I just want to make sure that
if you change this requirement,

1806
01:53:19,316 --> 01:53:23,246
you might want to consider
including the term at least as long

1807
01:53:23,246 --> 01:53:27,546
because I think there are some longer meeting
material posting requirements actually

1808
01:53:27,546 --> 01:53:32,486
in the rules for certain actions.

1809
01:53:32,806 --> 01:53:36,056
>> Good point.

1810
01:53:36,176 --> 01:53:37,606
OK. All right.

1811
01:53:37,726 --> 01:53:41,866
Sorry. It [inaudible] as well, just
elaborate on Morgan's point there.

1812
01:53:42,166 --> 01:53:47,086
The notice that do require
14 days, notice requirements.

1813
01:53:47,086 --> 01:53:51,866
The rule is to include a
minimum of seven days requirement

1814
01:53:51,866 --> 01:53:53,896
for the meeting materials for those meetings.

1815
01:54:00,586 --> 01:54:02,286
>> OK. So, yes -- yeah Ron.

1816
01:54:02,286 --> 01:54:14,446
>> I'm wondering if this is going
to preclude by requiring seven days,

1817
01:54:14,446 --> 01:54:21,856
at least seven days notice, is that going
to preclude their consultants handing

1818
01:54:21,856 --> 01:54:24,056
out material at the meeting itself?

1819
01:54:25,506 --> 01:54:28,276
Brian, you may be familiar with this.

1820
01:54:28,276 --> 01:54:29,106
You know, I don't know.

1821
01:54:29,106 --> 01:54:35,846
But it seems like that two things could happen,
either the consultants are going to wait

1822
01:54:35,846 --> 01:54:39,846
and hand things out at the meeting that they're
not quite done with and then we're going

1823
01:54:39,846 --> 01:54:41,496
to have to look at it right there.

1824
01:54:42,116 --> 01:54:46,756
Or we may not be able to hand stuff out at
the meeting if there's an absolute minimum

1825
01:54:46,756 --> 01:54:50,696
of seven days, making it
available for the meeting.

1826
01:54:50,956 --> 01:54:53,376
Just thinking out loud here.

1827
01:54:53,826 --> 01:54:57,676
>> Why would that be different
than 72 hour requirement?

1828
01:54:59,836 --> 01:55:05,766
I mean under the current
scenario is it, you know,

1829
01:55:05,766 --> 01:55:09,776
this meeting materials have to
be available 72 hours before.

1830
01:55:10,306 --> 01:55:14,806
So typically I haven't seen people handing
stuff out at meetings that they're --

1831
01:55:14,886 --> 01:55:16,756
that you have to consider on the spot.

1832
01:55:16,756 --> 01:55:24,376
And I don't think that's
a good way to do business.

1833
01:55:24,916 --> 01:55:31,826
>> I just think that sometimes you're going
to have last minute stuff come together.

1834
01:55:31,826 --> 01:55:36,836
And if you can, you know, give it out
within 72 hours, then that might happen.

1835
01:55:36,836 --> 01:55:39,276
If not, they're going to hold it
and handed out at the meeting.

1836
01:55:39,896 --> 01:55:43,146
So you won't even have three
extra to look at it.

1837
01:55:43,146 --> 01:55:45,496
It's just a way I sort of see it.

1838
01:55:45,606 --> 01:55:51,166
I mean, I'm just trying to think of ways

1839
01:55:51,166 --> 01:55:55,976
that there can be some unintended
consequences, I guess.

1840
01:55:58,146 --> 01:55:59,726
That's all I got.

1841
01:55:59,976 --> 01:56:02,456
>> Sure. Any other comment?

1842
01:56:02,746 --> 01:56:03,876
Any other thoughts?

1843
01:56:04,216 --> 01:56:12,736
>> But one of the other regions the considered
on this notice also, did they modify the notice?

1844
01:56:12,736 --> 01:56:18,626
>> The -- I believe unless
staff is going to correct me.

1845
01:56:18,626 --> 01:56:28,306
I believe the only real -- the only
decisions were made aware the added additional

1846
01:56:28,306 --> 01:56:34,956
requirements themselves was they
added a specific notice to notify,

1847
01:56:34,956 --> 01:56:39,406
I believe incorporated cities in
the region of their activities.

1848
01:56:39,406 --> 01:56:44,186
And so they have a list that identify
those and seasons specifically noticed them

1849
01:56:44,186 --> 01:56:49,586
so that was a targeted audience versus a time
notice requirement, and they impose themselves.

1850
01:56:49,586 --> 01:56:52,276
And that was really like an operating
procedure that the way they did it.

1851
01:56:52,276 --> 01:56:56,706
And that's up to them, how they impose
it on themselves, [inaudible] bylaws.

1852
01:56:56,956 --> 01:56:57,766
However they do it.

1853
01:56:57,926 --> 01:57:03,646
And if they decide that they need to
do -- that was the only one I'm aware.

1854
01:57:03,766 --> 01:57:09,216
Anybody -- I don't think anybody
else has added on all this.

1855
01:57:09,216 --> 01:57:12,756
I don't believe --

1856
01:57:13,376 --> 01:57:15,076
>> OK. That answer your question, John?

1857
01:57:15,556 --> 01:57:15,936
>> Yes.

1858
01:57:16,646 --> 01:57:21,006
>> Yeah. So, Annalisa is your motion five.

1859
01:57:21,006 --> 01:57:24,156
Or -- And Phil, restate it
again, would you please?

1860
01:57:24,156 --> 01:57:30,036
>> No, I'm going to go ahead and
knock it down to just five days.

1861
01:57:30,266 --> 01:57:39,396
But I mean, so I knew that the meeting
materials be posted at least five days,

1862
01:57:39,396 --> 01:57:42,936
or whenever we get those meeting materials.

1863
01:57:43,076 --> 01:57:45,376
So if that's earlier, they
could post them earlier.

1864
01:57:45,376 --> 01:57:49,666
Because I certainly don't want to be
getting materials for these meetings

1865
01:57:49,666 --> 01:57:52,676
that I have to make decisions on 72 hours.

1866
01:57:52,676 --> 01:57:57,146
And I don't see any reason why
we can't share that information

1867
01:57:57,146 --> 01:57:59,306
with the public if it's available earlier.

1868
01:58:03,136 --> 01:58:04,896
>> So your motion is five days.

1869
01:58:04,896 --> 01:58:07,186
Is there a second?

1870
01:58:07,296 --> 01:58:07,586
>> Five --

1871
01:58:07,586 --> 01:58:11,456
>> What's that?

1872
01:58:11,716 --> 01:58:14,936
Is there a second?

1873
01:58:14,936 --> 01:58:21,316
Did someone make a second?

1874
01:58:21,316 --> 01:58:25,186
OK. If there's not a second, then
it dies for lack of a second,

1875
01:58:25,346 --> 01:58:27,736
and we'll stay with the 72 hours.

1876
01:58:27,926 --> 01:58:37,366
Annalisa, I certainly think that we
should ask the GBRA and our consultants

1877
01:58:37,436 --> 01:58:40,526
to get that out as soon as possible.

1878
01:58:40,526 --> 01:58:44,236
And if it's not working, I think
we should address that issue again.

1879
01:58:44,506 --> 01:58:48,436
It's not like it's dead and buried.

1880
01:58:48,776 --> 01:58:56,416
We can go back if there's issues start to arise.

1881
01:58:56,416 --> 01:58:58,626
OK. Next item, Matt.

1882
01:59:00,896 --> 01:59:08,566
>> Yes. Next item is somewhat of a
formality, I think, to authorize the --

1883
01:59:08,566 --> 01:59:12,656
your selected flood funding group sponsor.

1884
01:59:12,656 --> 01:59:17,676
So that will include the various areas I opposed
to apply for grant funds and internal contract

1885
01:59:17,676 --> 01:59:26,116
with Texas Water Development
Board on behalf of RFPG.

1886
01:59:26,116 --> 01:59:27,506
>> Is there a motion?

1887
01:59:27,546 --> 01:59:28,186
>> I move.

1888
01:59:28,186 --> 01:59:28,706
>> I move.

1889
01:59:28,706 --> 01:59:29,866
>> Aye, Joe, thank you.

1890
01:59:29,866 --> 01:59:30,716
Second?

1891
01:59:30,846 --> 01:59:31,356
>> I second.

1892
01:59:31,356 --> 01:59:32,406
>> And second by?

1893
01:59:32,986 --> 01:59:33,556
>> McDaniel.

1894
01:59:33,556 --> 01:59:35,926
>> All right.

1895
01:59:36,276 --> 01:59:37,716
Thank you, Joe.

1896
01:59:37,716 --> 01:59:39,656
Any further discussion?

1897
01:59:39,656 --> 01:59:41,186
None. Being all in favor say aye?

1898
01:59:41,186 --> 01:59:41,253
>> [Simultaneously] Aye.

1899
01:59:41,746 --> 01:59:47,346
>> I'm sorry, Matt, do you
want to take the roll call?

1900
01:59:47,796 --> 01:59:49,776
>> Well, if you want to do it
another way it's up to you.

1901
01:59:49,776 --> 01:59:53,756
If you wanted to see if there's
any objection already, that's fine.

1902
01:59:53,846 --> 01:59:55,436
>> Yeah, is there any objection?

1903
01:59:57,456 --> 01:59:59,396
Not. Then it passes unanimously.

1904
02:00:00,746 --> 02:00:00,886
>> Yeah.

1905
02:00:00,886 --> 02:00:00,953
>> [Inaudible].

1906
02:00:00,953 --> 02:00:08,846
OK. Matt, do you want to bring up the next item?

1907
02:00:13,426 --> 02:00:20,516
>> OK. So this item is posted
for discussion only.

1908
02:00:20,846 --> 02:00:24,676
And we're doing fine on time,
you've got about an hour still.

1909
02:00:25,556 --> 02:00:30,466
This is to begin discussion on
-- if you think you're going

1910
02:00:30,916 --> 02:00:33,716
to need this hour presentation for your region.

1911
02:00:34,496 --> 02:00:39,056
And it is, again, discussion only,
this public comment in the beginning.

1912
02:00:39,366 --> 02:00:42,506
And it's -- just to give you
a chance to talk about that.

1913
02:00:42,626 --> 02:00:46,686
And if you had time at your first meeting,
if you have time to have some discussion.

1914
02:00:46,686 --> 02:00:49,966
So, with that, you want to open up the
public comment, we can do that for you.

1915
02:00:52,976 --> 02:00:55,676
>> OK. So we're open for public
comment right now, right?

1916
02:00:55,856 --> 02:00:55,966
>> Yeah.

1917
02:00:55,966 --> 02:01:00,766
>> OK. Does anyone -- Do you have any comment
cards, anybody who would like to comment

1918
02:01:00,766 --> 02:01:02,466
for the public may raise their hand.

1919
02:01:02,466 --> 02:01:05,446
At this time I will go on you in turn.

1920
02:01:07,786 --> 02:01:10,226
>> We have not received any
public comment cards.

1921
02:01:10,226 --> 02:01:14,856
>> OK. Somebody was speaking.

1922
02:01:15,436 --> 02:01:16,196
>> Joseph.

1923
02:01:17,156 --> 02:01:19,126
>> Can we comment as members?

1924
02:01:19,126 --> 02:01:21,946
Or is there going to be a
section way to make a comment?

1925
02:01:22,196 --> 02:01:22,466
>> Yeah.

1926
02:01:22,466 --> 02:01:28,086
>> Yeah. Each -- Yeah, we call
when we close the public comments.

1927
02:01:28,556 --> 02:01:31,936
Item 10B is discussion only and that's among us.

1928
02:01:33,326 --> 02:01:38,376
So, Matt, as I understand from
James there's no public comment.

1929
02:01:38,376 --> 02:01:41,016
>> And there's no hands raised what I can tell.

1930
02:01:41,016 --> 02:01:42,866
So, let's [inaudible].

1931
02:01:42,866 --> 02:01:44,536
You see the hands?

1932
02:01:44,536 --> 02:01:46,376
>> Nope. There are still no hands raised.

1933
02:01:46,376 --> 02:01:48,786
>> OK. So you can close public comment.

1934
02:01:49,566 --> 02:01:49,956
>> All right.

1935
02:01:49,956 --> 02:01:51,596
So we'll close public comment.

1936
02:01:51,596 --> 02:01:52,536
And Joseph, do you.

1937
02:01:53,216 --> 02:02:02,346
>> OK. I'm the only representative from Kerr
County, where the Guadalupe River starts.

1938
02:02:02,346 --> 02:02:13,376
I would like to say that UGRA, River Authority
to add another voting member to our group.

1939
02:02:13,376 --> 02:02:18,156
I've discussed this with some
of the members only here.

1940
02:02:18,156 --> 02:02:24,706
We don't want the group getting too
big, such as it is in a regional.

1941
02:02:25,446 --> 02:02:34,436
But we -- I feel like the River Authority
should be present during our meetings

1942
02:02:34,436 --> 02:02:35,686
and have a voting and -- in it.

1943
02:02:35,916 --> 02:02:43,406
And I know that ride back with the Upper
Guadalupe River Authority would be happy

1944
02:02:43,406 --> 02:02:49,466
to join our group when we get to that point.

1945
02:02:49,466 --> 02:02:49,786
>> OK. Yeah.

1946
02:02:49,786 --> 02:02:51,146
Ray is a good guy.

1947
02:02:51,766 --> 02:02:58,496
So, just as kind of a point on
that, you might say is when --

1948
02:02:59,076 --> 02:03:05,476
in '99, when we did the regional water planning,

1949
02:03:05,476 --> 02:03:11,736
Region L. The Nueces River Authority
was not in the original group.

1950
02:03:11,846 --> 02:03:16,866
It was just the waddling Blanco River
Authority and the San Antonio River Authority.

1951
02:03:17,266 --> 02:03:27,916
So Con Mims who later on became chairman
was added to the group because he felt

1952
02:03:27,916 --> 02:03:31,206
like it was important to have other input.

1953
02:03:31,206 --> 02:03:37,616
So that's make a good point
about the River Authority --

1954
02:03:37,616 --> 02:03:41,716
>> Kerr County has a flood planning process.

1955
02:03:41,716 --> 02:03:46,876
Already kind of impact that they've looked
at in the past already and spent money on.

1956
02:03:46,876 --> 02:03:51,366
They've given it to me for me to share
with the group that the further day.

1957
02:03:51,366 --> 02:03:56,486
But, you know, like I said, I'm
learning the flood planning process.

1958
02:03:56,486 --> 02:03:58,376
Right. I've been part of it already.

1959
02:03:58,466 --> 02:04:06,256
So to have his membership with the group
would be very helpful for Kerr County.

1960
02:04:06,256 --> 02:04:13,146
We are, you know, in the hill country, and we
do have some major floods here in Kerr County.

1961
02:04:13,146 --> 02:04:20,626
So I think that we really need to look at
adding another Kerr County group, such as UGRA.

1962
02:04:24,496 --> 02:04:34,316
>> Can I ask, Joseph, so the Upper
Guadalupe River Authority, statutorily,

1963
02:04:34,356 --> 02:04:42,796
are they just Kerr County or do they
include the watershed which goes

1964
02:04:42,796 --> 02:04:46,256
up into Kimble and Real and other counties?

1965
02:04:46,886 --> 02:04:52,426
>> My understanding is they're in Kerr
County but they do include the watershed

1966
02:04:52,426 --> 02:04:56,196
in their flood planning process
that they've already looked at.

1967
02:04:56,416 --> 02:04:56,916
That's right.

1968
02:04:56,916 --> 02:05:00,946
You know, and Ryan Bug, Jonathan Lentz, there
are several of them have been working on it.

1969
02:05:01,356 --> 02:05:06,256
But, you know, my main concern is
making sure that a river authority

1970
02:05:06,616 --> 02:05:17,306
that representing the group that
we're in should be part of the group.

1971
02:05:18,056 --> 02:05:18,786
>> Thank you.

1972
02:05:18,786 --> 02:05:20,566
Any other comments?

1973
02:05:20,566 --> 02:05:30,306
Anybody else have any other thoughts
about either specific entities

1974
02:05:30,306 --> 02:05:40,756
like the upper Guadalupe River Authority,
or, as it says, particular interest area.

1975
02:05:41,406 --> 02:05:51,636
And remember, the discussion item is both --
or could be voting or non-voting positions.

1976
02:05:52,096 --> 02:06:01,756
And I know that some Region L planning
groups, you know, not in your blood planning,

1977
02:06:01,966 --> 02:06:08,606
but in the supply planning head,
non-voting members or positions also.

1978
02:06:09,276 --> 02:06:11,956
So, any other -- any thoughts?

1979
02:06:11,956 --> 02:06:15,016
We don't have to -- this
item can be put up again.

1980
02:06:15,016 --> 02:06:16,236
We can talk about it.

1981
02:06:16,236 --> 02:06:22,016
We can, you know, obviously,
there's no action we can take today,

1982
02:06:22,016 --> 02:06:23,846
because it's not posted that way.

1983
02:06:24,516 --> 02:06:30,266
But anybody else have anything else
you'd like to discuss about this?

1984
02:06:30,746 --> 02:06:32,946
>> I have a couple just thoughts.

1985
02:06:32,946 --> 02:06:36,396
I've given this little bit of thought,

1986
02:06:36,396 --> 02:06:42,796
I'm not opposed adding the river
authority spot, [inaudible].

1987
02:06:43,386 --> 02:06:49,586
But you know, one of the previous to the
categories I thought might be beneficial,

1988
02:06:49,736 --> 02:06:53,126
add additional folks from work
counties and municipalities.

1989
02:06:53,416 --> 02:06:55,916
And I'm really thinking in
terms of those that are --

1990
02:06:55,916 --> 02:07:00,746
there that have to deal with flood issues
quite often and gets kind of settled

1991
02:07:00,746 --> 02:07:04,646
with flood planning and, you
know, welfare of individuals.

1992
02:07:04,906 --> 02:07:07,476
So, you know, counties and municipalities,

1993
02:07:07,476 --> 02:07:11,966
we might want to consider adding one
additional spot in each of those.

1994
02:07:12,126 --> 02:07:16,006
You know, public is another option too
to gives us another voice to the public.

1995
02:07:16,006 --> 02:07:22,046
And then on a non-voting side, and I
thought there was something in here.

1996
02:07:22,046 --> 02:07:27,716
But something we need to consider is, you
know, we are the Guadalupe River Basin

1997
02:07:27,716 --> 02:07:29,826
and there's the San Antonio
River Basin one as well.

1998
02:07:29,826 --> 02:07:35,226
San Antonio, you know, empties into the
Guadalupe just before the confluence just

1999
02:07:35,226 --> 02:07:40,786
above the salt water barrier in the
San Antonio Bay and [inaudible].

2000
02:07:40,786 --> 02:07:49,116
And so some of the things that that group might
do may affect some of our lower basin issues.

2001
02:07:49,116 --> 02:07:53,756
And so it might be applied to hubris to
have this sort of a liaison, you know,

2002
02:07:53,786 --> 02:07:57,466
us going to them, you know, us going
to some of their meetings and someone

2003
02:07:57,466 --> 02:07:59,766
from their planning group
coming to our meetings as well.

2004
02:07:59,766 --> 02:08:06,206
So, I think -- I thought it said saw something
about liaisons and some of the documents,

2005
02:08:06,206 --> 02:08:09,056
but I'm not exactly sure where that was, but
-- I don't know, that's something we might want

2006
02:08:09,056 --> 02:08:11,556
to consider for a nonvoting membership.

2007
02:08:11,556 --> 02:08:16,006
And now, obviously, Mr. Piecelers [assumed
spelling] and Mr. McDaniel have served

2008
02:08:16,306 --> 02:08:19,266
as liaisons Region L from
other planning regions.

2009
02:08:19,266 --> 02:08:21,626
And so that, you know, that model
has seemed to work pretty well.

2010
02:08:21,626 --> 02:08:21,966
But --

2011
02:08:25,326 --> 02:08:27,476
>> I agree with all that.

2012
02:08:27,476 --> 02:08:35,066
And I think the city of New Braunfels right
now is going through storm water management

2013
02:08:35,176 --> 02:08:40,016
and planning and have a considerable
amount of expertise to add to this.

2014
02:08:40,146 --> 02:08:48,386
So, having additional municipality and county
and public slots, that sounds good as well

2015
02:08:48,386 --> 02:08:51,356
as the liaisons as non-voting members.

2016
02:08:52,386 --> 02:08:56,876
>> OK. Thank you, Annalisa.

2017
02:08:57,936 --> 02:09:00,446
Any other thoughts, comments?

2018
02:09:05,476 --> 02:09:06,756
Well -- Yes.

2019
02:09:06,756 --> 02:09:14,636
>> With these suggestions, this would
bring us up to 16 voting members.

2020
02:09:15,246 --> 02:09:21,276
So I know that there were discussions of
possibly trying to keep an odd number.

2021
02:09:21,786 --> 02:09:27,766
Would it be -- Should we consider one
other in terms of meeting that odd number,

2022
02:09:27,766 --> 02:09:30,506
which would bring us right up to our 17 limit?

2023
02:09:31,066 --> 02:09:37,366
Or should we consider on selectively
removing one to stay to 15?

2024
02:09:37,366 --> 02:09:38,666
I know we had this discussion earlier.

2025
02:09:38,666 --> 02:09:42,696
So I'm just curious how the thoughts on that?

2026
02:09:42,696 --> 02:09:45,746
>> Well, I don't think we're making any
decisions necessarily today on this.

2027
02:09:45,746 --> 02:09:48,276
I was just kind of throwing out my thoughts.

2028
02:09:48,276 --> 02:09:51,986
I mean, we don't necessarily have to add
one from counties, one from municipalities,

2029
02:09:51,986 --> 02:09:53,456
one from river authorities, and one from public.

2030
02:09:53,496 --> 02:09:57,876
But it's just that, you know, I think
there's four categories might be ones we want

2031
02:09:57,876 --> 02:10:00,836
to consider when we actually do add slots.

2032
02:10:01,196 --> 02:10:02,576
>> Oh, no, I absolutely agree with you.

2033
02:10:03,126 --> 02:10:03,256
Yeah.

2034
02:10:03,856 --> 02:10:11,576
>> And you have the request
from the UGRA also to consider.

2035
02:10:11,746 --> 02:10:18,016
>> The term of the resolution that was
sent out by the court order, it was from,

2036
02:10:18,016 --> 02:10:20,966
I think it was from the county judge, right?

2037
02:10:21,386 --> 02:10:22,676
>> Yeah. That was from the county.

2038
02:10:22,676 --> 02:10:27,626
There was this -- It looked to me like
they were voting within the county

2039
02:10:27,626 --> 02:10:29,176
who they'd like to see on the group.

2040
02:10:29,176 --> 02:10:31,656
I think they were a little upset,
and none of them made the group.

2041
02:10:32,166 --> 02:10:34,796
However, it is what it is.

2042
02:10:35,116 --> 02:10:39,916
But we definitely need, in my
opinion, somebody from Kerr County,

2043
02:10:39,916 --> 02:10:43,746
and especially from the River Authority here.

2044
02:10:43,856 --> 02:10:51,146
What are two river authorities
on the Guadalupe River Basin,

2045
02:10:51,146 --> 02:10:58,876
I think they both need to be represented.

2046
02:10:58,876 --> 02:10:59,136
>> All right.

2047
02:10:59,136 --> 02:11:03,146
>> We're still missing an electric
generating utilities, aren't we?

2048
02:11:03,146 --> 02:11:05,596
Or has that spotted too?

2049
02:11:05,596 --> 02:11:06,276
>> It has not.

2050
02:11:06,276 --> 02:11:09,836
And that's actually the next item on the agenda.

2051
02:11:10,726 --> 02:11:10,916
>> OK.

2052
02:11:10,916 --> 02:11:13,556
>> I just got kind of tip ahead.

2053
02:11:13,556 --> 02:11:16,466
But I just asked because we're
talking about the overall numbers.

2054
02:11:16,736 --> 02:11:28,636
>> Yeah. So, I think the -- it's my
impression, Matt, you can correct me, or Rain,

2055
02:11:28,636 --> 02:11:38,696
or somebody can correct me that -- maybe
Morgan, that the board really wants us

2056
02:11:38,696 --> 02:11:44,116
to make a concerted effort to try to
fill that position, is that right, Matt?

2057
02:11:44,696 --> 02:11:45,296
>> Correct.

2058
02:11:45,366 --> 02:11:47,446
It's a statutorily required.

2059
02:11:47,446 --> 02:11:52,226
So, it's not filled that you do
need to consider making the effort,

2060
02:11:52,226 --> 02:11:55,836
it may take a little while
to find somebody or not.

2061
02:11:56,036 --> 02:12:01,956
The EA did not put somebody in that spot.

2062
02:12:01,956 --> 02:12:03,606
So it's yours to fill in.

2063
02:12:04,146 --> 02:12:04,526
And --

2064
02:12:04,766 --> 02:12:05,336
>> Right.

2065
02:12:05,336 --> 02:12:07,736
>> -- it's just a process you
go through the bylaws to fill.

2066
02:12:10,346 --> 02:12:12,346
>> And we know how those legislators are.

2067
02:12:13,046 --> 02:12:20,666
So, we -- So, if there's -- I think
we got some good comments here.

2068
02:12:20,666 --> 02:12:23,096
We'll work it moving forward.

2069
02:12:23,096 --> 02:12:29,236
Thank you, Joseph, for bringing that up
and everybody, Brian, about the ideas.

2070
02:12:29,236 --> 02:12:31,506
Matt, what was your terms?

2071
02:12:31,506 --> 02:12:32,516
I don't want to get them wrong.

2072
02:12:32,516 --> 02:12:39,516
But you said we need to think
holistically, regionally and strategically.

2073
02:12:40,056 --> 02:12:41,106
Is that what you said?

2074
02:12:41,766 --> 02:12:44,716
>> As an observer of many
years of water planning

2075
02:12:44,716 --> 02:12:48,496
and large groups growing
bigger, yes, I would say that.

2076
02:12:49,246 --> 02:12:52,836
>> Yeah. So, OK.

2077
02:12:52,836 --> 02:12:57,286
We will work on that.

2078
02:12:57,586 --> 02:13:03,756
And we'll -- Like I said,
this is a discussion only.

2079
02:13:03,756 --> 02:13:06,136
And we've had a good discussion.

2080
02:13:06,136 --> 02:13:17,126
And unless somebody has something else, we
would like to we will move on from this item.

2081
02:13:17,126 --> 02:13:17,746
All right.

2082
02:13:17,836 --> 02:13:22,706
Matt, you want to bring this
item 11 on the agenda.

2083
02:13:25,756 --> 02:13:33,256
>> This is a little bit of a formality.

2084
02:13:33,296 --> 02:13:38,126
It's just part of what you do for
your statutorily required for spots,

2085
02:13:38,386 --> 02:13:41,116
you have to build them, try to build them.

2086
02:13:41,116 --> 02:13:43,716
And in that form, you should
be trying to fill it.

2087
02:13:43,716 --> 02:13:48,936
So this is something you just -- as a matter
of course going to need to do for the 12 spots.

2088
02:13:49,156 --> 02:13:55,076
And it's just, like I said, your
bylaws that had some serious notice.

2089
02:13:55,236 --> 02:14:03,866
I get 30 to 45 days, you put it out to county
to notify counties of the available spot.

2090
02:14:03,866 --> 02:14:07,246
And you can notice however else you
want to find members to fill the spot.

2091
02:14:07,476 --> 02:14:12,066
And it's the other person,
we have to call that person.

2092
02:14:12,066 --> 02:14:14,996
We can open up that if you
like, and then close that

2093
02:14:14,996 --> 02:14:17,646
and you can have your discussion,
if I can do that.

2094
02:14:18,576 --> 02:14:19,596
>> OK. Let's do that, Matt.

2095
02:14:19,596 --> 02:14:21,166
Let's go to public comment.

2096
02:14:21,646 --> 02:14:22,886
>> We don't have any public comment card.

2097
02:14:22,886 --> 02:14:27,316
So, if anyone from the public would like to
speak on this item, please raise your hand

2098
02:14:27,316 --> 02:14:30,466
and we will acknowledge you,
and [inaudible] yourself.

2099
02:14:30,466 --> 02:14:36,046
We'll see if any hands.

2100
02:14:36,646 --> 02:14:37,326
Vince?

2101
02:14:37,326 --> 02:14:40,756
>> No. Currently no hands raised for the final.

2102
02:14:42,246 --> 02:14:45,836
>> Give them a couple more seconds.

2103
02:14:46,186 --> 02:14:50,616
>> And just a reminder, there
are no public card --

2104
02:14:50,616 --> 02:14:53,306
public comment cards received
for the five meter.

2105
02:14:53,846 --> 02:14:55,106
>> All right.

2106
02:14:55,106 --> 02:15:03,306
OK. We don't see the public raise their hands
so we may close the comment, public discussion.

2107
02:15:04,396 --> 02:15:05,356
>> All right.

2108
02:15:05,356 --> 02:15:12,286
We've closed the public comment this
time and let's have a discussion.

2109
02:15:12,286 --> 02:15:13,556
Anybody have any thoughts?

2110
02:15:13,556 --> 02:15:22,036
I've asked one question, it says,
is it the electric generation?

2111
02:15:22,926 --> 02:15:28,706
Is the title -- Yeah, electric
generating utilities.

2112
02:15:29,326 --> 02:15:31,646
>> It could be a provider.

2113
02:15:31,646 --> 02:15:32,686
It doesn't have to be a generator.

2114
02:15:32,686 --> 02:15:37,996
It could expand -- It's expanded enough that it
could be a provider retail, it's the definition.

2115
02:15:38,666 --> 02:15:42,456
>> OK. So it could be a provider.

2116
02:15:42,456 --> 02:15:43,746
It could be -- All right.

2117
02:15:44,606 --> 02:15:52,816
That helps because when you're looking,
the only generation, there may be more,

2118
02:15:52,906 --> 02:15:58,126
I'm sure there's several
generators that are in our basin.

2119
02:15:58,126 --> 02:16:02,966
I was just wondering if the Water
Development Board had identified

2120
02:16:02,966 --> 02:16:06,576
and either solicited or reached
out to any of those.

2121
02:16:08,496 --> 02:16:09,396
>> There -- You're right.

2122
02:16:09,396 --> 02:16:11,136
There are several in our basin.

2123
02:16:11,136 --> 02:16:16,246
Must there in Linda Creek
power, I guess draws water

2124
02:16:16,246 --> 02:16:21,776
on the Guadalupe River although their plants
actually in the center of the river basin.

2125
02:16:21,936 --> 02:16:25,966
You have Rena Gallus [phonetic]
here in, I'm sorry, in Seguin.

2126
02:16:26,246 --> 02:16:31,796
And then you have panda over
Guadalupe County as well.

2127
02:16:31,796 --> 02:16:37,396
You've got -- There's another one in Dallas and
Marcus, I can't remember what they're called.

2128
02:16:37,396 --> 02:16:43,466
But I think that category is broad enough that,
you know, power distribution counts as well.

2129
02:16:43,466 --> 02:16:47,326
So, your GVCs of the world, NBU.

2130
02:16:47,626 --> 02:16:53,226
Actually, I think under the current
definition hydro power would count too.

2131
02:16:53,396 --> 02:16:58,206
So I guess, GBRA and city of Gonzales
would count, as far as I'm concerned there.

2132
02:16:58,206 --> 02:17:02,626
So, yeah. Anyway we have a lot
of options to reach out to try

2133
02:17:02,966 --> 02:17:06,106
to get some nominations for this slot.

2134
02:17:09,026 --> 02:17:17,626
>> Is this a -- Matt, do you know -- do we
have to go through a public posting for this?

2135
02:17:17,626 --> 02:17:19,376
Or is it --

2136
02:17:19,816 --> 02:17:21,266
>> So, it's an action item.

2137
02:17:21,266 --> 02:17:23,046
>> How do you go about this?

2138
02:17:23,046 --> 02:17:24,106
>> Yeah. It is an action item.

2139
02:17:24,226 --> 02:17:29,026
And you have a solicitation
process in your bylaws to solicit,

2140
02:17:29,026 --> 02:17:34,326
put your political subdivision
will, as far as I understand it,

2141
02:17:34,326 --> 02:17:37,666
will do the solicitation on your behalf.

2142
02:17:37,666 --> 02:17:39,176
>> OK, very good.

2143
02:17:39,576 --> 02:17:40,666
>> Days open.

2144
02:17:40,666 --> 02:17:45,616
And then you look at the --
who submitted their name.

2145
02:17:45,616 --> 02:17:48,436
And if you can get after another [inaudible] --

2146
02:17:48,436 --> 02:17:49,036
>> All right.

2147
02:17:52,236 --> 02:17:53,096
Anybody else.

2148
02:17:53,096 --> 02:17:55,016
Any comments, any thoughts?

2149
02:17:58,476 --> 02:18:09,846
I guess the motion would be to direct
GBRA to send out the solicitation

2150
02:18:09,976 --> 02:18:15,636
to fill this electrical position.

2151
02:18:17,396 --> 02:18:18,156
>> So moved.

2152
02:18:19,296 --> 02:18:23,586
>> The motion was by Brian, seconded by?

2153
02:18:24,286 --> 02:18:24,736
>> John.

2154
02:18:25,596 --> 02:18:26,576
>> OK. Thanks, John.

2155
02:18:26,576 --> 02:18:29,456
Any further discussion?

2156
02:18:30,066 --> 02:18:38,476
>> So if we identify possible
members we'll forward that to GBRA

2157
02:18:38,476 --> 02:18:40,636
so they can reach out and notify them.

2158
02:18:42,076 --> 02:18:46,556
>> Right. And if there are multiple
candidates, I imagine what we'll do is then

2159
02:18:46,966 --> 02:18:55,786
at our next meeting, or if there's a deadline
that might be beyond our next meeting

2160
02:18:55,786 --> 02:19:03,386
at some future meeting, we'll, you
know, select one of those folks

2161
02:19:03,446 --> 02:19:06,366
that are interested to fill that position.

2162
02:19:06,716 --> 02:19:08,536
Does it sound logical, John?

2163
02:19:09,006 --> 02:19:09,566
>> Yes.

2164
02:19:10,326 --> 02:19:10,536
>> Yeah.

2165
02:19:11,896 --> 02:19:16,506
>> Could we request information or would
they give a presentation at the next meeting?

2166
02:19:16,506 --> 02:19:19,476
Or how would we handle that?

2167
02:19:19,636 --> 02:19:21,876
>> Well, my personal thought would be

2168
02:19:21,876 --> 02:19:26,186
that they would do just the
same thing that each of us did.

2169
02:19:26,186 --> 02:19:32,626
And the other 600 or so folks is that
they would go back, maybe fill out that --

2170
02:19:33,006 --> 02:19:42,246
the form and tell us why they might be
interested in filling that position.

2171
02:19:42,806 --> 02:19:48,636
And then we can interview them if
that's what the group would like to do.

2172
02:19:48,636 --> 02:19:51,106
You know, we've done it.

2173
02:19:51,106 --> 02:20:01,486
When we did it in Region L, we had the executive
committee interviewed people who were interested

2174
02:20:01,486 --> 02:20:03,746
in being a part of when there was an opening.

2175
02:20:04,156 --> 02:20:08,296
And they also, as people
came up, their terms came up.

2176
02:20:08,546 --> 02:20:13,856
The executive committee reviewed those folks
and then made a recommendation to the group.

2177
02:20:14,396 --> 02:20:16,496
So those are just a couple of options we can do.

2178
02:20:16,496 --> 02:20:21,736
But I would think, starting with what
the Water Development Board asked us,

2179
02:20:21,786 --> 02:20:25,226
and all the applicants to do
would be a good place to start.

2180
02:20:28,606 --> 02:20:29,996
>> Doug, it's Ron Fieseler.

2181
02:20:29,996 --> 02:20:33,336
It's also spelled out in
Section 4.1 of the bylaws

2182
02:20:33,336 --> 02:20:36,986
on how we're supposed to
solicit for those vacancies.

2183
02:20:37,436 --> 02:20:37,556
>> OK.

2184
02:20:37,556 --> 02:20:41,516
>> And so it's pretty well established.

2185
02:20:41,516 --> 02:20:45,616
But there's some things in here
that it includes that we haven't got

2186
02:20:45,616 --> 02:20:48,746
yet like an executive committee,
and things like that.

2187
02:20:48,746 --> 02:20:56,806
So, I think we're going to have to kind of use
4.1 in the spirit of it, rather than the actual

2188
02:20:56,806 --> 02:21:01,236
if we're going to try and fill it now rather
than wait until we've had another meeting.

2189
02:21:01,596 --> 02:21:04,366
And maybe that's the question Matt had answer.

2190
02:21:04,366 --> 02:21:09,776
Is this stuff that we can wait till our second
meeting, and so we can have it as an agenda item

2191
02:21:09,776 --> 02:21:15,536
and get it maybe an executive
committee, additional officers elected

2192
02:21:15,536 --> 02:21:18,086
that sort of thing to help process this?

2193
02:21:18,086 --> 02:21:23,456
>> I think for the other reasons we are
all looking at filling their officers

2194
02:21:23,456 --> 02:21:24,766
with the second meeting in general.

2195
02:21:25,306 --> 02:21:25,716
So yeah.

2196
02:21:25,716 --> 02:21:32,136
>> I guess the way I look at this is
we would fall into the 45-day calendar

2197
02:21:32,136 --> 02:21:35,256
because it's -- I guess it's anticipate --

2198
02:21:35,256 --> 02:21:36,046
>> Forty-five.

2199
02:21:36,606 --> 02:21:40,726
>> Yeah. So, I would hope we would
have our second meeting prior to that.

2200
02:21:40,726 --> 02:21:43,756
So, probably be, you know,
we're probably talking

2201
02:21:43,756 --> 02:21:46,896
about actually taking action
on this in our third meeting.

2202
02:21:46,896 --> 02:21:52,336
And by that time, if we can fill our
executive team in our second meeting,

2203
02:21:52,756 --> 02:21:55,596
then we would have that executive team in order.

2204
02:21:56,476 --> 02:21:56,566
>> Yeah.

2205
02:21:56,686 --> 02:22:02,806
>> That's basically sound interpreting it.

2206
02:22:02,946 --> 02:22:09,516
>> There would be two fall
off track with the board,

2207
02:22:09,926 --> 02:22:12,046
with the folks in Austin if we did that, Matt?

2208
02:22:13,126 --> 02:22:16,366
>> You are now on your own path.

2209
02:22:16,586 --> 02:22:21,286
And it's all self-paced, although
we will nudge you when needed.

2210
02:22:22,356 --> 02:22:24,956
>> OK. So there's some flexibility, Ron.

2211
02:22:25,286 --> 02:22:27,956
So, I think that's a good suggestion.

2212
02:22:28,166 --> 02:22:29,726
Let's do that.

2213
02:22:29,726 --> 02:22:36,516
And it'll probably be the third meeting, when
we get a little bit more direction on that.

2214
02:22:36,816 --> 02:22:37,176
So.

2215
02:22:37,176 --> 02:22:41,336
>> It will give us a little more time
to get acclimated to our new duties

2216
02:22:41,506 --> 02:22:44,926
and get our heads more focused,
I think right now.

2217
02:22:45,416 --> 02:22:45,996
So that's good.

2218
02:22:45,996 --> 02:22:46,546
>> Absolutely.

2219
02:22:47,006 --> 02:22:48,646
We've accomplished a lot today.

2220
02:22:48,646 --> 02:22:50,186
I think Matt would agree with that.

2221
02:22:52,596 --> 02:22:53,146
So --

2222
02:22:53,146 --> 02:22:53,386
>> If --

2223
02:22:53,546 --> 02:22:54,986
>> Yes, Annalisa.

2224
02:22:54,986 --> 02:23:04,536
>> Yeah. If you're putting out this notice
for nominations for the electrical generators,

2225
02:23:05,236 --> 02:23:12,496
would it also be appropriate to put out for an
additional municipal and an additional county?

2226
02:23:12,876 --> 02:23:13,016
>> Well --

2227
02:23:13,016 --> 02:23:15,986
>> I think we can do that.

2228
02:23:16,336 --> 02:23:19,256
>> That's not the item on the agenda, currently.

2229
02:23:19,256 --> 02:23:19,336
>> Yeah.

2230
02:23:19,336 --> 02:23:19,403
>> Yeah.

2231
02:23:20,506 --> 02:23:20,816
>> Yeah.

2232
02:23:22,166 --> 02:23:26,846
>> But at some point, you're right,
we're going to need to do that.

2233
02:23:26,846 --> 02:23:31,576
>> And to be clear I'm going to add this, when
you do have a meeting at which you decide, yes,

2234
02:23:31,576 --> 02:23:35,886
you're going to add another seat at
the table, another voting position,

2235
02:23:36,346 --> 02:23:38,526
that meeting won't be posted for that action.

2236
02:23:38,836 --> 02:23:42,716
It'll have to be a 14-day notice prior
to that day that you put the notice.

2237
02:23:45,036 --> 02:23:45,166
>> OK.

2238
02:23:45,166 --> 02:23:46,176
>> Thank you, Matt.

2239
02:23:48,206 --> 02:23:51,996
>> So we had -- I think we
have a motion in a second.

2240
02:23:51,996 --> 02:23:55,916
But after hearing Ron talked, we took about
maybe tabling this until another time.

2241
02:23:55,916 --> 02:23:57,326
Are we talking about taking
action on this today?

2242
02:23:57,326 --> 02:24:04,466
>> I think after that last discussion,
it probably be better to table it.

2243
02:24:07,066 --> 02:24:07,236
>> OK.

2244
02:24:07,236 --> 02:24:07,526
>> Can I --

2245
02:24:07,526 --> 02:24:07,756
>> I can move --

2246
02:24:07,756 --> 02:24:09,056
>> Second for that?

2247
02:24:09,726 --> 02:24:10,766
>> Second.

2248
02:24:10,766 --> 02:24:14,306
>> Matt, can I clarify what the action is --

2249
02:24:14,356 --> 02:24:14,546
>> Sure.

2250
02:24:14,546 --> 02:24:15,616
>> I can withdraw my --

2251
02:24:15,616 --> 02:24:15,876
>> No, no, no.

2252
02:24:15,976 --> 02:24:16,656
You go around here.

2253
02:24:16,706 --> 02:24:17,706
>> Oh, this is Morgan.

2254
02:24:17,706 --> 02:24:28,066
I was just going to say, so the action is just
to allow your sponsor to start the process

2255
02:24:28,066 --> 02:24:35,376
of posting that notification and
starting to accept nominations.

2256
02:24:35,376 --> 02:24:43,346
It's not an action to select anyone.

2257
02:24:43,346 --> 02:24:52,606
It's just letting your sponsor move forward with
the solicitation process as set out near bylaws.

2258
02:24:52,606 --> 02:24:54,406
>> OK. Joe, did you have a point?

2259
02:24:54,406 --> 02:24:54,536
>> OK.

2260
02:24:54,536 --> 02:24:55,096
>> OK.

2261
02:24:55,096 --> 02:24:59,666
>> Like, I guess, so just on that point,
I think -- so if we took action today,

2262
02:24:59,666 --> 02:25:03,836
we're within the 45 days of
the person being not here.

2263
02:25:03,836 --> 02:25:06,426
But that just -- That allows you be
the sponsor to start that process.

2264
02:25:06,426 --> 02:25:12,046
And there's a 60-day period, 90-day
period for nominations to be out there.

2265
02:25:12,046 --> 02:25:13,316
I think I can't remember this.

2266
02:25:13,316 --> 02:25:18,426
>> It's between 30 and 45 days from
the date of the notice was published.

2267
02:25:18,926 --> 02:25:23,746
The bylaws, there's several different
requirements in the bylaws as far

2268
02:25:23,746 --> 02:25:29,256
as the contents of the notice and who
it gets sent to and where it's posted.

2269
02:25:29,256 --> 02:25:32,446
So just the action you would take
would just allow them to start

2270
02:25:32,536 --> 02:25:35,916
that process to initiate that solicitation.

2271
02:25:36,716 --> 02:25:40,136
>> I have some procedural questions
about the notice, but we can discuss just

2272
02:25:40,136 --> 02:25:42,126
with the one on board as the sponsor.

2273
02:25:42,126 --> 02:25:46,026
But I guess what I'm saying is, it's
going to take us a little bit of time

2274
02:25:46,026 --> 02:25:47,566
as the sponsor to kind of get up to speed.

2275
02:25:47,836 --> 02:25:54,566
We probably are not going to publish that notice
soon, I don't know when, but we would do it.

2276
02:25:55,046 --> 02:25:58,786
You know, no, earlier than probably
December 1st, I would think.

2277
02:25:58,786 --> 02:26:03,066
So then we're talking 30 to 45 days after
that for the nominations to come back.

2278
02:26:03,496 --> 02:26:09,126
And then there's a review time for the executive
team, which are -- it can be set up by then.

2279
02:26:09,126 --> 02:26:11,406
So I think by taking action
today, we're still, you know,

2280
02:26:11,406 --> 02:26:15,106
we can still delay the selection
to that third or fourth meeting.

2281
02:26:15,356 --> 02:26:18,666
Is that correct, Morgan?

2282
02:26:19,626 --> 02:26:20,046
Thanks.

2283
02:26:20,046 --> 02:26:22,696
>> Yeah. This was on your agenda, because
we didn't want to make sure you took it

2284
02:26:22,696 --> 02:26:24,356
up action that nothing would hold you up.

2285
02:26:24,356 --> 02:26:25,986
This just allows you to start if you can.

2286
02:26:26,016 --> 02:26:28,286
If you can't, you know, you have to wait.

2287
02:26:28,286 --> 02:26:28,826
That's OK.

2288
02:26:28,826 --> 02:26:29,986
Just allows you to get go.

2289
02:26:29,986 --> 02:26:33,186
>> OK. Thank you, Matt.

2290
02:26:33,476 --> 02:26:38,196
Appreciate that Ron, it sound
-- that sounds logical to you?

2291
02:26:38,366 --> 02:26:40,326
OK. All right.

2292
02:26:40,326 --> 02:26:42,326
So we have a motion and a second.

2293
02:26:43,536 --> 02:26:44,006
>> Yeah. I'm OK.

2294
02:26:44,006 --> 02:26:45,126
>> You're OK, good.

2295
02:26:45,126 --> 02:26:47,456
So we have a motion and a second.

2296
02:26:47,606 --> 02:26:50,086
Matt, you won't call roll?

2297
02:26:50,336 --> 02:26:58,356
>> OK, this is to authorize the GBRA to start
begin the process of soliciting before --

2298
02:26:58,356 --> 02:26:59,306
>> Yes.

2299
02:26:59,436 --> 02:27:00,126
>> OK.

2300
02:27:00,186 --> 02:27:00,296
>> Yes.

2301
02:27:00,416 --> 02:27:05,026
>> Just to clarify.

2302
02:27:06,936 --> 02:27:07,486
Doug Miller?

2303
02:27:07,486 --> 02:27:07,553
>> Aye.

2304
02:27:07,553 --> 02:27:09,766
>> John Johnston.

2305
02:27:10,426 --> 02:27:10,493
>> Aye.

2306
02:27:10,496 --> 02:27:12,176
>> Annalisa Peace.

2307
02:27:13,096 --> 02:27:13,163
>> Aye.

2308
02:27:13,806 --> 02:27:17,726
>> Beth Parker and Kevin
Stone are still not here.

2309
02:27:18,376 --> 02:27:19,456
Joe Pantalion?

2310
02:27:20,736 --> 02:27:20,946
>> Aye.

2311
02:27:20,946 --> 02:27:23,486
>> Kimberly Metzen.

2312
02:27:24,226 --> 02:27:24,416
>> Aye.

2313
02:27:25,076 --> 02:27:25,976
>> Brian Perkins?

2314
02:27:26,626 --> 02:27:26,816
>> Aye.

2315
02:27:27,596 --> 02:27:28,416
>> John Villarreal?

2316
02:27:29,726 --> 02:27:29,976
>> Aye.

2317
02:27:30,136 --> 02:27:31,336
>> Ron Fieseler.

2318
02:27:32,106 --> 02:27:32,706
>> Aye.

2319
02:27:32,776 --> 02:27:33,826
>> Joseph McDaniel?

2320
02:27:33,826 --> 02:27:33,893
>> Aye.

2321
02:27:33,893 --> 02:27:37,356
>> Unanimous approval.

2322
02:27:38,426 --> 02:27:43,826
>> We will get that process started.

2323
02:27:43,896 --> 02:27:48,466
>> You go, which first assignment.

2324
02:27:48,466 --> 02:27:51,496
>> Actually, it's our second.

2325
02:27:51,496 --> 02:27:53,386
We have to [inaudible] we're all board.

2326
02:27:53,386 --> 02:27:53,766
>> Oh, yeah.

2327
02:27:53,766 --> 02:27:55,466
I'm busy. No.

2328
02:27:55,636 --> 02:28:00,516
Matt, do you want to present the next item?

2329
02:28:00,516 --> 02:28:01,776
Public comment.

2330
02:28:03,016 --> 02:28:08,046
>> Sure. So this is the general public comment
item to make sure that public had an opportunity

2331
02:28:08,046 --> 02:28:11,556
to comment not necessarily a
particular item on the agenda.

2332
02:28:12,686 --> 02:28:15,536
So, we have no comment cards
for this item either.

2333
02:28:16,056 --> 02:28:18,596
But there may be somebody
in public who decide --

2334
02:28:18,596 --> 02:28:20,996
like to comment at this time,
they can raise their hand.

2335
02:28:20,996 --> 02:28:21,686
Please raise your hand.

2336
02:28:21,686 --> 02:28:23,666
And we will unmute you.

2337
02:28:23,666 --> 02:28:26,796
And you will need to unmute yourself to do.

2338
02:28:26,796 --> 02:28:30,726
So anyone from the public that likes to make
a comment to the last public comment item?

2339
02:28:31,726 --> 02:28:32,976
Please raise your hand and we'll go to.

2340
02:28:39,096 --> 02:28:39,776
Vince.

2341
02:28:45,266 --> 02:28:49,406
>> No public comment cards
received for this item.

2342
02:28:49,406 --> 02:28:52,386
And currently no hands are
raised from the public.

2343
02:28:52,386 --> 02:28:58,726
>> OK. Well, I think maybe you
can close the public comment.

2344
02:28:58,726 --> 02:29:02,426
It doesn't seem there are
anybody who wants to talk.

2345
02:29:02,426 --> 02:29:02,806
>> All right.

2346
02:29:02,806 --> 02:29:03,436
Thank you, Matt.

2347
02:29:03,436 --> 02:29:11,176
So we'll close public comment this
time and move on to item number 13,

2348
02:29:12,726 --> 02:29:16,966
which is considered eight agenda
items for the next meeting.

2349
02:29:16,966 --> 02:29:20,776
Matt, do you have some -- do you have
any comments about that or any thoughts

2350
02:29:20,776 --> 02:29:24,416
from the Development Board of Perspective?

2351
02:29:24,756 --> 02:29:28,816
>> So, the agenda for the next
meeting, anything that you talked

2352
02:29:28,816 --> 02:29:30,366
about today that you want to talk about?

2353
02:29:30,366 --> 02:29:33,146
You've already said you'd like to talk
about your next meeting, you've made notes.

2354
02:29:33,146 --> 02:29:39,356
So, and we're going to feed a some sort of
feedstock for agenda items to your chairman,

2355
02:29:39,356 --> 02:29:41,916
just things that he might
want to include in the agenda.

2356
02:29:41,916 --> 02:29:43,146
So you have a full agenda.

2357
02:29:43,736 --> 02:29:49,356
But it sounds like things like you already know
you probably want to look at electing your --

2358
02:29:49,736 --> 02:29:51,576
the rest of the officers, for example.

2359
02:29:51,576 --> 02:29:57,926
Things like that will help feed the agenda
on that and you do it with the chairman

2360
02:29:57,926 --> 02:30:03,416
with the sponsor for the next meeting
will support that in general, so.

2361
02:30:04,066 --> 02:30:08,206
>> Matt, is there's going to be any
kind of board presentations in terms

2362
02:30:08,206 --> 02:30:11,826
of educational materials or
anything for us at the next meeting.

2363
02:30:11,896 --> 02:30:19,106
And then kind on that note, I would
suggest to the group that we might want

2364
02:30:19,106 --> 02:30:24,406
to consider allowing some entities from around
the region maybe present what they've done

2365
02:30:24,406 --> 02:30:25,546
in terms of flood planning.

2366
02:30:25,856 --> 02:30:31,966
I know, for example, GBRA, we've spent about
three different flood initiatives in the last --

2367
02:30:32,096 --> 02:30:37,096
and in region wide ones in the
last, you know, five years or so.

2368
02:30:37,096 --> 02:30:39,916
I think we could probably -- I'm
not saying at the next meeting,

2369
02:30:39,916 --> 02:30:43,586
but it's at some future meeting we could
present what we have participated in.

2370
02:30:43,586 --> 02:30:48,886
I think that's included some of the
municipalities and counties in our region.

2371
02:30:48,886 --> 02:30:52,766
And kind of just give an overview of
what we have and what's been prepared,

2372
02:30:52,796 --> 02:30:59,286
I'm sure Clermont County, New Braunfels, Hays
County, Blanco County, St. Marcus, Kerr County,

2373
02:30:59,286 --> 02:31:03,626
I'm sure they all -- Victoria County, they
probably all have similar material as well.

2374
02:31:03,626 --> 02:31:07,946
So, we may want to have just kind of a standing
agenda item for some sort of presentation.

2375
02:31:07,946 --> 02:31:08,336
Sorry, Matt.

2376
02:31:09,036 --> 02:31:16,386
>> Well, just to respond to you, yes, we plan
on having a series of different presentations,

2377
02:31:16,386 --> 02:31:17,896
for example, scope of work and schedule.

2378
02:31:17,896 --> 02:31:22,116
You could probably do some
technical presentations.

2379
02:31:22,116 --> 02:31:22,936
There's a lot to learn.

2380
02:31:22,936 --> 02:31:24,816
Some folks don't know the idea of flood risk

2381
02:31:24,816 --> 02:31:30,376
and all the uncertainty kind
of issues around flooding.

2382
02:31:30,376 --> 02:31:32,266
And so, we're going to provide what you need.

2383
02:31:32,266 --> 02:31:37,046
And so if you have a suggestion from what you'd
like to hear from us to help you, let us know.

2384
02:31:37,436 --> 02:31:39,816
But we will always be planning
on offering something

2385
02:31:39,816 --> 02:31:41,746
that we think you're going to want to hear.

2386
02:31:41,976 --> 02:31:43,766
But we also want to know what you want you

2387
02:31:43,766 --> 02:31:45,836
to know already you'd like
to hear, just let us know.

2388
02:31:45,836 --> 02:31:47,556
And we'll try to prepare presentations.

2389
02:31:47,646 --> 02:31:51,216
We think of shorts, you know, not real
long presentation, short things that hit

2390
02:31:51,216 --> 02:31:52,846
on problems that you need to hear about.

2391
02:31:53,086 --> 02:31:57,406
So we always plan, especially in the early
meetings to have something to show and educate

2392
02:31:57,406 --> 02:32:08,726
and share and get you up to speed on
things that you're going to be doing.

2393
02:32:09,086 --> 02:32:14,146
>> OK. Any other thoughts about agenda items,
and then we'll probably get to the next --

2394
02:32:14,146 --> 02:32:19,626
the other toughest part of this issue,
which is picking a date may not be

2395
02:32:19,626 --> 02:32:23,036
that bad, but any other thoughts?

2396
02:32:23,106 --> 02:32:25,916
>> I would add that enterprise
got to get out point.

2397
02:32:25,916 --> 02:32:27,866
I think it's a good time to
have a little bit of space.

2398
02:32:27,866 --> 02:32:30,906
You don't have a technical consultant
direct yet to share information

2399
02:32:30,906 --> 02:32:33,986
like you're talking about, I
guess is useful for the group.

2400
02:32:33,986 --> 02:32:36,446
And if you're all right familiar with
something that you'd like to hear

2401
02:32:36,446 --> 02:32:39,866
about that you think we could present
to get you up to speed on, let us know.

2402
02:32:40,756 --> 02:32:42,666
Those hours later, email us.

2403
02:32:43,516 --> 02:32:47,296
We'll share it to chairman.

2404
02:32:47,296 --> 02:32:48,376
>> OK.

2405
02:32:49,456 --> 02:32:54,556
>> Make sure you put some of the agenda.

2406
02:32:54,556 --> 02:32:56,236
>> OK. All right.

2407
02:32:56,466 --> 02:32:59,246
What about a date?

2408
02:33:00,536 --> 02:33:05,466
Is anybody have any thoughts on that?

2409
02:33:05,466 --> 02:33:11,366
Or we're meeting on a Wednesday
afternoon at this time?

2410
02:33:11,366 --> 02:33:13,996
Does that date work?

2411
02:33:14,156 --> 02:33:16,476
Does the time work real?

2412
02:33:16,476 --> 02:33:18,696
This is opportunity for people.

2413
02:33:18,696 --> 02:33:30,496
And just because we do it next month at a
particular time and they -- we'll settle into --

2414
02:33:30,726 --> 02:33:37,616
my experience has been -- we'll settle into a
rhythm as Ron said once we get our head round,

2415
02:33:37,906 --> 02:33:41,126
wrapped around what we're doing here.

2416
02:33:41,126 --> 02:33:41,336
So --

2417
02:33:41,336 --> 02:33:47,866
>> I think personally Wednesday
afternoon typically are good.

2418
02:33:47,866 --> 02:33:50,516
I know, some Wednesdays I have board meetings.

2419
02:33:50,516 --> 02:33:52,926
But that's in the morning time.

2420
02:33:52,926 --> 02:33:56,646
But we typically done in the afternoon.

2421
02:33:56,646 --> 02:33:58,386
It works for rails.

2422
02:33:59,596 --> 02:34:03,556
>> Wednesday afternoon, it's been early.

2423
02:34:03,556 --> 02:34:07,036
So Thursday is better, but I can do Wednesdays.

2424
02:34:07,036 --> 02:34:13,086
>> OK. I'm just -- I'm going to jump in here.

2425
02:34:13,086 --> 02:34:20,166
Sometimes Region L meets on Thursdays
about 9:00 until 2:00 or 3:00.

2426
02:34:20,456 --> 02:34:26,366
Region K usually meets on Wednesdays
from like 10:00 until 2:00 or 3:00.

2427
02:34:26,366 --> 02:34:29,426
So, and there's other -- and I
don't even know about some of these,

2428
02:34:29,426 --> 02:34:33,386
those J and I don't know what
else down the coast but we just --

2429
02:34:33,746 --> 02:34:37,326
we may have to juggle some of that
once in a while but, you know,

2430
02:34:37,326 --> 02:34:42,976
rather than have a regular meeting day, I just
wanted to remind people that there's a lot

2431
02:34:42,976 --> 02:34:46,336
of other stuff going on and we
are approaching the holidays.

2432
02:34:46,336 --> 02:34:49,416
So, I mean, I think we just play with it

2433
02:34:49,636 --> 02:34:53,026
until we get a comfort level,
we all kind of feel good about.

2434
02:34:53,716 --> 02:34:57,466
>> And just in terms of our very next
meeting without setting any pattern, I mean,

2435
02:34:57,466 --> 02:35:00,976
this Wednesday in the second of December
possible, is that -- at afternoon?

2436
02:35:06,586 --> 02:35:07,726
>> Yeah. I'm good.

2437
02:35:07,726 --> 02:35:07,793
>> Yeah.

2438
02:35:08,166 --> 02:35:11,826
>> So, that's four weeks from now, roughly.

2439
02:35:12,636 --> 02:35:15,436
>> Well, this may another
webinar, and when are we going

2440
02:35:15,436 --> 02:35:21,036
to get the opportunity to meet each other?

2441
02:35:21,116 --> 02:35:25,496
>> Well, as I mentioned, and it's up to
the group and how they want to do it.

2442
02:35:25,496 --> 02:35:27,726
I think the board has maybe some
rules they have to abide by.

2443
02:35:27,816 --> 02:35:31,806
But, I mean, we are -- we're set up
so that if we need -- if we want --

2444
02:35:31,846 --> 02:35:36,746
wish to host an actual in-person
meeting, we can at GBRA and we can offer

2445
02:35:36,746 --> 02:35:40,016
up virtual inclusion in that in person meeting.

2446
02:35:40,016 --> 02:35:45,486
So, those who would want to attend could and
those who wants to attend virtually could.

2447
02:35:45,486 --> 02:35:49,776
So, I mean, that's -- it's up to the group,
whether you want to do that now or we want

2448
02:35:49,776 --> 02:35:51,316
to just stay virtual for the time being.

2449
02:35:56,526 --> 02:36:02,606
>> You could make, Brian, you could
make your sport room available.

2450
02:36:03,066 --> 02:36:08,466
Those people want to come that it would
be good to know that ahead of time, right?

2451
02:36:08,816 --> 02:36:10,736
>> Let me look at the second right now.

2452
02:36:10,736 --> 02:36:13,476
Give me 30 seconds here.

2453
02:36:13,506 --> 02:36:17,976
If it actually updates.

2454
02:36:22,056 --> 02:36:27,846
>> While we're on the topic, I
mean, just [inaudible] as an agency,

2455
02:36:27,846 --> 02:36:33,626
we're not allowed to be at a public meeting or
a meeting with more than 10 people, for example.

2456
02:36:33,626 --> 02:36:36,166
So I think everyone has their own limits.

2457
02:36:36,166 --> 02:36:40,406
So, I think the hybrid solution can [inaudible].

2458
02:36:40,406 --> 02:36:44,886
>> It looks like our board meeting currently
on the second is available after 1 o'clock.

2459
02:36:44,886 --> 02:36:49,236
So, we could have that start at 1:30
or 2 o'clock, something like that.

2460
02:36:49,236 --> 02:36:51,826
Again, those who would want
to be in attendance could.

2461
02:36:51,826 --> 02:36:54,156
Those who would want to be
virtually could as well.

2462
02:36:54,156 --> 02:36:55,986
And obviously the board would be virtual.

2463
02:36:57,356 --> 02:37:00,776
I'm sure that they're saying she's
got to have the same rules in place.

2464
02:37:00,806 --> 02:37:03,656
So all the non-voting members would
be in the same situation, Matt.

2465
02:37:07,266 --> 02:37:08,506
>> I'm sorry, what?

2466
02:37:08,656 --> 02:37:11,386
>> All the other non-voting
members from state agencies,

2467
02:37:11,386 --> 02:37:12,776
they're in a similar situation in their --

2468
02:37:12,776 --> 02:37:14,506
>> I would presume so.

2469
02:37:14,506 --> 02:37:14,766
>> OK.

2470
02:37:14,766 --> 02:37:23,066
>> I'll just add a quick note that we
were able to hold this meeting virtually

2471
02:37:23,066 --> 02:37:26,216
because of the governor's
disaster declaration extension

2472
02:37:26,216 --> 02:37:31,086
for COVID allowing a waiver
of the Open Meetings Act.

2473
02:37:31,436 --> 02:37:36,136
So, your ability to host future meetings
virtually will probably depend on whether

2474
02:37:36,136 --> 02:37:39,356
that disaster declaration gets renewed.

2475
02:37:39,356 --> 02:37:43,346
>> When does it expire at this point?

2476
02:37:43,346 --> 02:37:45,476
>> November 7th, I think.

2477
02:37:46,166 --> 02:37:50,306
It's been a 30-day extension every time.

2478
02:37:50,526 --> 02:37:53,026
>> It would expire right after
our 15th, one of these meetings.

2479
02:37:53,026 --> 02:38:04,516
>> Do you want to take the second at 2
o'clock at GBRA with ability to do virtual?

2480
02:38:05,336 --> 02:38:10,806
Assuming the government allows it.

2481
02:38:10,806 --> 02:38:11,736
>> Is that a motion?

2482
02:38:12,966 --> 02:38:14,966
>> Sure, that's a motion.

2483
02:38:14,966 --> 02:38:18,446
>> I'll second that.

2484
02:38:18,986 --> 02:38:19,506
>> All right.

2485
02:38:19,776 --> 02:38:24,856
Matt, do we need to vote on that?

2486
02:38:26,176 --> 02:38:26,866
>> On which?

2487
02:38:27,746 --> 02:38:30,696
>> On the date and time.

2488
02:38:30,696 --> 02:38:38,516
It's been thrown out by Brian and John
already we just asked if there's an objection.

2489
02:38:38,956 --> 02:38:41,666
>> It's up to you Mr. Chairman
however you like to run those things.

2490
02:38:41,816 --> 02:38:46,406
>> Yeah. Let me just -- I'm
not sure we need to vote on it.

2491
02:38:46,406 --> 02:38:52,466
So, is there -- Does anybody have any
objection with December 2nd at 2 o'clock?

2492
02:38:52,466 --> 02:38:58,996
If you want to be in person,
it'll be at the GBRA.

2493
02:38:59,206 --> 02:39:03,576
Brian will -- GBRA will send out that notice.

2494
02:39:03,576 --> 02:39:07,016
And or you can do it virtual.

2495
02:39:07,016 --> 02:39:08,796
Is there objection to that?

2496
02:39:10,306 --> 02:39:13,356
There's not, then that's -- it sounds good.

2497
02:39:13,546 --> 02:39:18,646
>> Our third duty, we'll make that happen.

2498
02:39:19,916 --> 02:39:30,326
>> Go. Well, does anybody else have any burning
questions or issues or while we've got Matt

2499
02:39:30,326 --> 02:39:33,896
and Rain and Morgan and James
and everybody here?

2500
02:39:33,896 --> 02:39:39,686
Plus, I guess all of our other
non-voting folks are here.

2501
02:39:39,686 --> 02:39:43,736
So anybody else have anything that
would like to bring up at this time?

2502
02:39:43,736 --> 02:39:49,576
>> I just have a quick question about
the agenda list for our next meeting.

2503
02:39:49,986 --> 02:39:53,966
I know that Matt had mentioned that
he's been taking notes on what we'd

2504
02:39:53,966 --> 02:39:56,406
like to include as part of that next meeting.

2505
02:39:56,466 --> 02:40:01,976
And so I was just wondering when that list for
the potential agenda items would be sent out.

2506
02:40:02,666 --> 02:40:05,766
And just so we could have a
chance to just look over that

2507
02:40:05,766 --> 02:40:09,936
if there's possibly something else we might
want to suggest if we're able to do that.

2508
02:40:09,936 --> 02:40:14,866
Or does that -- Do any suggestions have
to occur during this meeting right now?

2509
02:40:15,496 --> 02:40:19,066
Because I'm just curious as to
what that, you know, that list.

2510
02:40:21,606 --> 02:40:26,736
>> Generally, the chairman decides
what the agenda is going to be

2511
02:40:26,736 --> 02:40:31,496
and collects information that's
generally unfamiliar with.

2512
02:40:31,496 --> 02:40:34,236
And we'll provide, will let you
all know, we can let you all know,

2513
02:40:34,236 --> 02:40:36,646
if you'd like to see what we're looking

2514
02:40:36,646 --> 02:40:39,026
at as potential agenda items
coming up your next meeting.

2515
02:40:39,026 --> 02:40:40,726
And everyone's going to get on their own pace.

2516
02:40:40,726 --> 02:40:43,496
But there's certain things you're
just going to all be dealing.

2517
02:40:43,496 --> 02:40:47,326
So we'll send it out, we can let you all know
if you're interested, what that looks like.

2518
02:40:48,796 --> 02:40:50,806
>> That can be helpful.

2519
02:40:51,066 --> 02:40:53,886
That'd be helpful.

2520
02:40:54,296 --> 02:40:54,696
>> Right.

2521
02:40:54,696 --> 02:40:57,956
>> If you let the chairman know,
and then I think the chairman,

2522
02:40:58,366 --> 02:41:03,966
generally that will consider an agenda and
what's appropriate and what's [inaudible].

2523
02:41:03,966 --> 02:41:08,316
>> And just speaking as the
sponsor has right now.

2524
02:41:08,316 --> 02:41:12,006
Just, you know, when we get that from the
board, and, you know, we'll just put the --

2525
02:41:12,006 --> 02:41:17,106
typically the sponsor will work with
Chairman Miller to set that agenda

2526
02:41:17,106 --> 02:41:21,746
and get that out as early as possible.

2527
02:41:21,976 --> 02:41:22,136
>> Yes.

2528
02:41:23,586 --> 02:41:24,596
>> Yes, Matt.

2529
02:41:24,596 --> 02:41:27,286
>> I'll make one more for you while --
Listen, you're going to adjourn next, right?

2530
02:41:27,396 --> 02:41:28,246
That's the next item.

2531
02:41:28,246 --> 02:41:29,706
>> Yes, that's what the plan is.

2532
02:41:30,146 --> 02:41:33,436
>> So I'd like to say congratulations,
well done.

2533
02:41:33,496 --> 02:41:35,866
You got little extra time left.

2534
02:41:35,866 --> 02:41:37,716
You're very efficient group so far.

2535
02:41:38,236 --> 02:41:39,116
That's great.

2536
02:41:39,116 --> 02:41:41,086
And thanks for everything.

2537
02:41:41,086 --> 02:41:44,316
And again, I'm serious, if you
think you need if you already know,

2538
02:41:44,316 --> 02:41:45,866
I really would like to hear about this topic.

2539
02:41:45,866 --> 02:41:48,456
I really don't know about this, so I
would love to hear a little presentation.

2540
02:41:48,896 --> 02:41:49,536
Let us know.

2541
02:41:49,746 --> 02:41:51,656
And then we can -- we'll try to do that.

2542
02:41:51,656 --> 02:41:55,936
Because we need to get you all up to speed as
much as possible on the same page, at least,

2543
02:41:55,936 --> 02:41:58,796
to be able to do all the work for the planning.

2544
02:41:58,796 --> 02:41:59,746
So, let us know.

2545
02:42:00,186 --> 02:42:00,646
Thanks.

2546
02:42:01,526 --> 02:42:02,166
>> All right, Matt.

2547
02:42:02,166 --> 02:42:03,186
Thank you, Matt.

2548
02:42:03,456 --> 02:42:06,466
We appreciate you and all
the other staff of the --

2549
02:42:06,466 --> 02:42:12,226
all the other folks that Water
Development Board and Director Paup

2550
02:42:12,226 --> 02:42:16,016
for coming in and kicking us off.

2551
02:42:16,016 --> 02:42:25,446
Let me remind everyone of one thing that
if you weren't on when the discussion,

2552
02:42:26,036 --> 02:42:30,906
or it really wasn't a discussion, but it
was a question that Annalisa brought up.

2553
02:42:31,206 --> 02:42:40,556
If you -- There are some requirements
under the Open Meetings Act

2554
02:42:40,836 --> 02:42:45,086
that you get your Texas Open Meetings Act

2555
02:42:45,086 --> 02:42:52,846
and the Public Information Act Training
done pretty easy to sit through it.

2556
02:42:52,846 --> 02:42:55,526
I'm like Annalisa.

2557
02:42:55,526 --> 02:43:01,336
And you're right, Kimberly, or Morgan,
whoever was it said, going through it.

2558
02:43:01,336 --> 02:43:04,246
There have been some updates
when I think I took it last time.

2559
02:43:04,626 --> 02:43:10,086
There wasn't any virtual meetings or
telephonic considerations in there.

2560
02:43:10,086 --> 02:43:15,176
So, there are -- I believe
there's a timeline on that.

2561
02:43:15,176 --> 02:43:18,846
I don't know if it's 45 days, maybe.

2562
02:43:18,896 --> 02:43:25,576
And I'm not sure when the clock started running
when you were appointed, or at this meeting.

2563
02:43:25,576 --> 02:43:29,806
But I would just take a couple
hours set and go through that.

2564
02:43:29,986 --> 02:43:31,976
You're supposed to keep a copy.

2565
02:43:31,976 --> 02:43:39,216
And that maybe you or Morgan could tell
us, do we need to supply a copy to --

2566
02:43:39,216 --> 02:43:45,996
and GBRA, keep a record of that, or that we
send that to the Water Development Board?

2567
02:43:46,426 --> 02:43:48,606
>> We don't keep a record of that.

2568
02:43:48,606 --> 02:43:49,616
But GBRA might.

2569
02:43:49,616 --> 02:43:49,976
I don't know.

2570
02:43:50,916 --> 02:43:52,046
>> Right.

2571
02:43:52,046 --> 02:43:55,856
>> I think we'd prefer that probably just,
you know, central place to have everyone.

2572
02:43:55,856 --> 02:43:59,856
So, I think, I don't know if this was discussed
like that because I can't remember that.

2573
02:44:00,056 --> 02:44:02,986
But I believe this extends
to your alternate as well.

2574
02:44:02,986 --> 02:44:08,016
If you have an alternate, they need to have
the Texas Open Meetings Act training as well.

2575
02:44:08,016 --> 02:44:11,346
So any alternate you might
have make sure they've had it

2576
02:44:11,346 --> 02:44:13,226
and you can forward it to them as well.

2577
02:44:13,226 --> 02:44:15,526
I'll send you and I'll shoot.

2578
02:44:16,886 --> 02:44:19,826
Right. We -- Yeah, we'll blind
CC I guess, send you, you know,

2579
02:44:20,716 --> 02:44:23,366
address since you can for those too.

2580
02:44:23,596 --> 02:44:28,576
And I think that probably doesn't
violate Open Meetings Act, so.

2581
02:44:29,246 --> 02:44:30,826
>> If not, I'm good.

2582
02:44:31,516 --> 02:44:35,186
Brian, you did bring that up about alternate.

2583
02:44:35,186 --> 02:44:39,586
So I just suggest everybody be
thinking about that you don't need

2584
02:44:39,586 --> 02:44:42,446
to tell us or anything at this point.

2585
02:44:42,446 --> 02:44:45,176
But at some point you might think about it.

2586
02:44:45,176 --> 02:44:45,666
Yeah, Ron.

2587
02:44:45,666 --> 02:44:50,496
>> I took these training courses of all back
three or four years ago, whatever, that,

2588
02:44:50,496 --> 02:44:54,726
are those still valid or
do I need to refresh them?

2589
02:44:54,726 --> 02:44:58,776
Is there -- In other words, is there a
deadline or an expiration date on those?

2590
02:44:58,776 --> 02:45:00,756
I don't think there is any on that training.

2591
02:45:01,376 --> 02:45:08,696
You just have to take it once
for each one of them I think.

2592
02:45:08,776 --> 02:45:10,276
>> Yeah. I think you're right.

2593
02:45:10,276 --> 02:45:14,816
I think the main thing would be
if you still have certificate, so.

2594
02:45:14,816 --> 02:45:15,136
>> I do.

2595
02:45:15,136 --> 02:45:16,126
>> Yeah. I'm sure you do.

2596
02:45:16,126 --> 02:45:21,876
>> OK. There are no further discussion then.

2597
02:45:21,876 --> 02:45:26,976
Is there a motion to adjourn?

2598
02:45:27,386 --> 02:45:28,266
>> I will move.

2599
02:45:28,756 --> 02:45:29,446
>> Second.

2600
02:45:29,446 --> 02:45:30,486
>> All right.

2601
02:45:30,486 --> 02:45:31,686
>> And second.

2602
02:45:31,966 --> 02:45:32,366
All right.

2603
02:45:32,836 --> 02:45:33,796
All in favor say aye.

2604
02:45:33,866 --> 02:45:33,936
>> [Simultaneously] Aye.

2605
02:45:33,936 --> 02:45:35,396
>> OK. None oppose, right?

2606
02:45:35,396 --> 02:45:38,646
All right, Matt, we didn't --

2607
02:45:38,646 --> 02:45:45,236
>> -- for the minutes who
was the second was from?

2608
02:45:47,096 --> 02:45:48,486
>> Yeah. Who was second movers?

2609
02:45:49,216 --> 02:45:51,696
>> Ron Fieseler has seconded, I thought.

2610
02:45:51,696 --> 02:45:53,186
But I didn't catch who made the motion.

2611
02:45:53,186 --> 02:45:54,106
>> Joseph McDaniel --

2612
02:45:54,106 --> 02:45:56,446
>> Joseph McDaniel make the motion, OK.

2613
02:45:56,446 --> 02:45:56,906
Thank you guys.

2614
02:45:57,006 --> 02:45:58,466
Sorry about that.

2615
02:45:58,466 --> 02:46:00,336
>> We're setting a high bar for Brian's show.

2616
02:46:00,856 --> 02:46:02,946
>> Yeah. Yeah.

2617
02:46:02,946 --> 02:46:08,166
So, those new country boys, get out
there pretty quick, Joseph and Ron.

2618
02:46:08,166 --> 02:46:08,916
That's good.

2619
02:46:08,916 --> 02:46:11,576
They're ready to go back to work.

2620
02:46:12,046 --> 02:46:12,806
All right.

2621
02:46:12,986 --> 02:46:14,646
Hey, enjoyed it, folks.

2622
02:46:14,646 --> 02:46:17,056
Looking forward to working with all of you.

2623
02:46:17,666 --> 02:46:25,466
And we will see you if or talk to you, if not,
on December the 2nd maybe, if not before that.

2624
02:46:25,466 --> 02:46:27,296
We'll see you on December the 2nd.

2625
02:46:27,296 --> 02:46:28,926
>> Goodbye.

2626
02:46:29,236 --> 02:46:30,946
>> Congratulations.

2627
02:46:31,576 --> 02:46:35,506
>> Take care.